By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Activists designated Saturday a day of protest at the COP28 summit in Dubai. But the rules of the game in the tightly controlled United Arab Emirates meant sharp restrictions on what demonstrators could say, where they could walk and what their signs could portray.
Continue ReadingBy REGINA GARCIA CANO and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A century-old territorial dispute is boiling over between neighbors Guyana and Venezuela. It’s steeped in patriotism and deepened by the discovery of oil. The Venezuelan government is seizing on the disagreement to boost support ahead of a presidential election among a population
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities say 14 people are dead following a clash between gunmen from a criminal gang and residents of a small farming community in central Mexico. Police in the State of Mexico, which abuts Mexico City, say the clash occurred Friday in the hamlet of Texcaltitlan. The community is about 80
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A jury has acquitted two Indianapolis police officers of excessive force for striking two women with batons during arrests at a May 2020 protest over the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis. Officers Jonathan Horlock and Nathaniel Schauwecker had been charged with battery and official misconduct. They were
Continue ReadingBy ROB MAADDI Pro Football Writer The NFL has banned Eagles security chief Dom DiSandro from the sideline for one game for his role in an altercation with 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw, a person familiar with the details told The Associated Press. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Saturday because the
Continue ReadingBy ROB MAADDI Pro Football Writer The NFL has banned Eagles security chief Dom DiSandro from the sideline for one game for his role in an altercation with 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw, a person familiar with the details told The Associated Press. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Saturday because the
Continue ReadingBy LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer A woman whose fetus was unlikely to survive called more than a dozen abortion clinics before finding one that would take her, only to be put on weekslong waiting lists. A teen waited seven weeks for an abortion because it took her mother that long to get her an
Continue ReadingBy Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump narrowly leads President Joe Biden in a hypothetical 2024 presidential rematch, a new national Wall Street Journal poll finds, with Biden weighed down by relatively soft support among “disaffected Democrats.” Registered voters’ presidential preference differs across several other scenarios included in the survey, highlighting the
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press SIOUX CENTER, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential candidates are crossing paths again in Iowa just days after a fractious debate and with the leadoff caucuses about a month away. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy are aiming to make the campaign case Saturday
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — A week before announcing his campaign for president in May, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law a slate of bills that altered the lives of transgender people in his state. Now, with just over five weeks before Republicans begin to weigh in on the presidential nominating fight, DeSantis
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A fire broke out in a hospital on Rome’s outskirts, killing at least three people and forcing the overnight evacuation of the smoke-filled facility and its nearly 200 patients, officials said Saturday. The blaze began in the ground floor emergency room of the St. John the Evangelist
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has strongly condemned Russia’s plans to hold presidential elections on occupied Ukrainian territory in the spring. Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry called the planned elections “null and void” and pledged that any international observers sent to monitor them would “face criminal responsibility.” Lawmakers in Russia on Thursday set the country’s 2024 presidential
Continue ReadingBy Maria Kostenko, Amarachi Orie and Radina Gigova, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — Ukraine said Saturday that Russia launched nearly 100 air attacks across the country in the space of 24 hours, as its first lady warned Ukraine was in “mortal danger” without Western military aid. “The enemy launched a total of 28 missiles and 27
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli warplanes struck parts of the Gaza Strip in relentless bombardment Saturday, hitting some of the dwindling bits of land it had told Palestinians to evacuate to in the south. The strikes came a day after the United States vetoed a
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used a speech on human rights to accuse the West of “barbarism” for its stance on the Israel-Hamas war and what he alleged was its toleration of Islamophobia. Erdogan told a packed hall in Istanbul the day before the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — JuJu Watkins and Isaiah Collier made history before stepping onto the Galen Center court for their first basketball games with Southern California. Last November’s announcements by Watkins and Collier that they’d be attending USC marked the first time the top consensus men’s and women’s high
Continue ReadingBy Omar Jimenez, Alejandra Jaramillo and Alison Main, CNN Durham, New Hampshire (CNN) — Chris Christie has a message for those calling for him to exit the Republican presidential primary to help consolidate the field against front-runner Donald Trump: “I’m not going anywhere.” “If they were up here in New Hampshire and saw the crowds
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Activists designated Saturday a day of protest at the COP28 summit in Dubai. But the rules of the game in the tightly controlled United Arab Emirates meant sharp restrictions on what demonstrators could say, where they could walk and what their signs could portray.
Continue ReadingBy ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — John Littlejohn remembers the days when lots of people had a couple of dollars to spare to buy a copy of Street Sense, the local paper that covers issues related to the homeless and employs unhoused individuals as its vendors. Today, he’s finding fewer people are walking
Continue ReadingBy LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer A woman whose fetus was unlikely to survive called more than a dozen abortion clinics before finding one that would take her, only to be put on weekslong waiting lists. A teen waited seven weeks for an abortion because it took her mother that long to get her an
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