SPOFFORD, Texas (AP) — A Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter patrolling the state’s border with Mexico has crashed, injuring at least one person. DPS Lt. Chris Olivarez says in a statement on X, former known as Twitter, that the helicopter crashed Thursday night near Spofford in Kinney County while patrolling the Texas border near
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels vowed fierce retaliation Friday for American and British strikes against them, further raising the prospect of a wider conflict in a region already beset by Israel’s war in Gaza. The bombardment — launched in response to a recent campaign of drone
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron’s office says new Prime Minister Gabriel Attal held his first Cabinet meeting on Friday with one motto: “work, work, work.” The 34-year-old Attal leads a relatively small team of 14 ministers who gathered around Macron at the French presidential palace. The government will be reinforced within days by
Continue ReadingBy COURTNEY BONNELL and DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writers LONDON (AP) — The attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have rerouted most of the trade normally flowing through the crucial maritime artery for consumer goods and energy supplies, a shift that’s delaying shipments and raising transport costs. The
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Burberry, the London-based luxury goods fashion house, lost around 10% of its market value on Friday after it warned that profits this year would be lower than anticipated. It said wealthy shoppers, particularly in the Americas, tightened their belts during the crucial Christmas trading period. The company said its recent trading had
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By Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — The families of victims who were killed or injured in a 2022 shooting attack at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket will meet with Justice Department officials ahead of a previously scheduled status hearing, an attorney representing victims’ families says. On May 14, 2022, a White gunman killed 10 people
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s government says Anders Behring Breivik, a right-wing extremist who killed 77 people in 2011, remains dangerous and should stay in solitary confinement. Breivik is suing the government, saying his human rights are being violated. The government’s lawyer said Friday, the last day of a five-day hearing, that there is nothing
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — An investigation is underway to figure out why a US Navy helicopter crashed this week into San Diego Bay during routine training, Navy officials said. All six crew members got a medical evaluation after the incident Thursday around 6:40 p.m. – almost two hours after sunset – the military branch said in a
Continue ReadingBy ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Indonesia and Vietnam agreed to cooperate on fisheries on Friday as Indonesian President Joko Widodo met Vietnam’s President Vo Van Thuong on Friday. The two countries signed an agreement to cooperate in the fisheries sector, but the text of the agreement wasn’t made public but experts
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Russian tourists going on a ski trip will be the first international travelers to visit North Korea since the country’s borders closed in 2020 amid the global pandemic lockdown. A report on Russia’s state-run Tass news agency said an unspecified number of tourists from the
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will start canceling student loans for some borrowers in February as part of a new repayment plan that’s taking effect nearly six months ahead of schedule. Loan forgiveness was originally set to begin in July under the new SAVE repayment plan, but it’s
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S.-led airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebels in response to their attacks on Red Sea shipping pulled the world’s focus Friday back on the yearslong war raging there, even as tensions rise across a Middle East already torn by Israel’s war on Hamas in the
Continue ReadingBy Alayna Treene, Kylie Atwood, Kit Maher, Aaron Pellish, Monica Garrett and Brandon Miller, CNN (CNN) — The 2024 Republican presidential contenders are growing increasingly concerned about the dangerously frigid weather that Iowans will be confronted with when they head to the polls on caucus day, acknowledging that temperatures could negatively impact anticipated turnout. Iowa
Continue ReadingBy Kaanita Iyer and Katie Lobosco, CNN (CNN) — The White House announced Friday that some student loan borrowers enrolled in President Joe Biden’s SAVE plan may see their remaining balance wiped away starting next month. The forgiveness, originally scheduled to go into effect in July, comes ahead of schedule and applies to borrowers with
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak traveled to Kyiv on Friday to unveil a new support package for Ukraine, including an increase in military funding for its war with Russia that after 22 months shows no sign of ending. The 2.5 billion pounds ($3.2 billion) in military
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno and Daniel Strauss, CNN (CNN) — As former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley earns praise from some corners of the GOP for her willingness to tackle the financial health of Social Security, former President Donald Trump is trying to punish her for it. It’s the latest example of how the GOP’s seesawing
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Myanmar’s military said it has reached a cease-fire agreement with an alliance of three ethnic minority guerrilla groups that it has been battling in the north. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said in Beijing on Friday that the agreement had been brokered at talks mediated by China on Wednesday and Thursday in
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Tesla says it’s temporarily halting most of production at its German factory because of attacks in the Red Sea, a vital global shipping corridor. The electric vehicle maker says its factory near Berlin, which makes Model Y vehicles and batteries, will pause from Jan. 29 to Feb. 11. It says its production
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN Allentown, Pennsylvania (CNN) — When President Joe Biden visited Pennsylvania on Friday — his first official event of the year, and the 33rd time he’s been to the commonwealth since taking office — the topic was a familiar one: Bidenomics. His use of the phrase has been a source of contention among
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s domestic security agency says it arrested a Russian citizen for allegedly providing information to Poland about Moscow’s defense industry production. The Federal Security Service, the FSB, said in a statement on Friday that the person arrested is an employee of a “high-security enterprise” in the Penza region. That’s about 600 kilometers
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