By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A strong overnight earthquake rattled a mountainous region of northwestern China, authorities said Tuesday, destroying homes, leaving residents out in a below-freezing winter night and killing 126 people in the nation’s deadliest quake in nine years. The magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck just before midnight on Monday, injuring
Continue ReadingBy JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s railway minister has accused the country’s main opposition party of “arson” and “sabotage” after a fire broke out on a passenger train in the capital, killing four people. The opposition party led by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia denied the charges. The railway minister accused
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration is moving to conserve groves of old-growth trees on federal land by revising management plans for national forests and grasslands across the U.S. as climate change amplifies the threats they face from wildfires, insects and disease. Agriculture Sec. Tom Vilsack said the goal
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration is moving to conserve groves of old-growth trees on federal land by revising management plans for national forests and grasslands across the U.S. as climate change amplifies the threats they face from wildfires, insects and disease. Agriculture Sec. Tom Vilsack said the goal
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is planning a nationwide series of events focused on abortion. Her first stop is Wisconsin on Jan. 22. The date would have been the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case that legalized abortion nationwide. The court overturned the
Continue ReadingBy Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — The late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will be eulogized Tuesday under the vaulted ceiling and vast stained-glass windows of the Washington National Cathedral by Chief Justice John Roberts and President Joe Biden – two men who first met O’Connor in 1981 when she was nominated to
Continue ReadingBy Sam Waldenberg and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris is launching a “reproductive freedoms tour” across the country in battleground Wisconsin next month, kicking off the 2024 election year with a focus on abortion, an issue the Biden campaign believes will be critical to mobilizing voters in November. Harris’ tour will
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court has ordered the 2021 national election to be partially repeated in the German capital because of severe glitches at many polling stations. The court ruled Tuesday that the election must be repeated in 455 of 2,256 constituencies in the state of Berlin, which is one of three German
Continue ReadingBy MARCO Di MARCO and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) — A volcano that had rumbled for weeks erupted in southwestern Iceland, spewing semi-molten rock into the air in a spectacular show of Earth’s power in the land known for fire and ice. The eruption that started Monday night occurred about 4 kilometers
Continue ReadingBy Nick Paton Walsh, Kosta Gak and Christian Streib, CNN Mala Tokmachka, Ukraine (CNN) — The front lines where Ukraine and its allies had hoped for a summer breakthrough now epitomize the bleak, dark winter ahead — of Russian resurgence and Kyiv’s mounting losses. “As we like to say in the army, the plan was
Continue ReadingCNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Kosta Gak and Christian Streib, CNN Mala Tokmachka, Ukraine (CNN) — The front lines where Ukraine and its allies had hoped for a summer breakthrough now epitomize the bleak, dark winter ahead — of Russian resurgence and Kyiv’s mounting losses. “As we like to say in the army, the plan
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — World shares were mostly higher on Tuesday after a seven-week winning streak on Wall Street cooled. Germany’s DAX gained 0.4% to 16,710.29 and in London, the FTSE 100 was up 0.3% at 7,634.05. In Paris, the CAC 40 slipped 2 points to 7,567.01. The futures for
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces raided one of the last functioning hospitals in Gaza’s north and bombarded the south with airstrikes that killed at least 28 Palestinians, pressing ahead with their offensive Tuesday with renewed backing from the United States, despite rising international alarm. The
Continue ReadingBy JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s railway minister accused the country’s main opposition party of “arson” and “sabotage” after a fire broke out on a passenger train in the capital killing four people, including a mother and child. The opposition party led by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia denied Tuesday’s accusation.
Continue ReadingBy Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — A medical examiner’s office has confirmed the wife of a Hollywood agent’s son is dead more than a month after the agent’s son was charged in his wife’s death and the deaths of her parents. Mei Li Haskell’s date of death is listed as November 8 – the
Continue ReadingBy HALELUYA HADERO and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Haven’t ordered any of your holiday gifts yet? Well, you might find solace in discovering some of America’s biggest retailers are working to increase their shipping speeds to please shoppers expecting faster and faster deliveries. Walmart, Target and Amazon are all-in on
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Tuesday after a seven-week winning streak on Wall Street cooled. U.S. futures were flat and oil prices were little changed. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index gained 1.4% to 33,219.39 after the Bank of Japan kept its ultra-lax monetary policy unchanged, as expected. The
Continue ReadingBy KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — An overnight earthquake killed at least 118 people in a cold and mountainous region in northwestern China, provincial officials said Tuesday, in the nation’s deadliest quake in 10 years. Emergency authorities in Gansu province issued an appeal for 300 additional workers to comb through collapsed buildings and
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Starting January 1, 2024, it will be unlawful for an employer to discriminate against a person in hiring, termination, or any term or condition of employment, or otherwise penalize a person, based on their use of marijuana off the job and away from the workplace. The new protections stem from an amendment to California’s Fair
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL WAGAMAN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Domantas Sabonis had his 35th career triple-double with 28 points, 13 rebounds and 12 assists as the Sacramento Kings beat the Washington Wizards 143-131 on Monday night. De’Aaron Fox scored 12 of his 30 points during Sacramento’s 46-point third quarter, and Keegan Murray added 25 on
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