By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is targeting fewer people and seeks less money in its 2024 global humanitarian appeal Facing as it faces a severe funding crisis. U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths told a launch on Monday that the world body needs $46 billion to help 180
Continue ReadingCAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The World Health Organization says five countries in East and southern Africa are in the middle of outbreaks of the anthrax disease with more than 1,100 suspected cases and 20 deaths this year. A total of 1,166 suspected cases have been reported in Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A third family says they recently discovered a relative was buried in a Mississippi pauper’s cemetery without their knowledge. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump says it is the latest case in which families learned the whereabouts of a deceased loved one from news reports
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man who was recently cleared in the gruesome, fiery 1995 killing of a subway token booth clerk sued New York City and two detectives on Monday, saying that “a wanton and reckless” law enforcement culture subjected him to decades of wrongful imprisonment that left grave
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Braves filled three openings on their coaching staff Monday by promoting Matt Tuiasosopo and Tom Goodwin from the minor leagues and hiring Erick Abreu. Tuiasosopo, who spent the past three seasons managing at Triple-A Gwinnett, will replace Ron Washington as the Braves third base coach. Goodwin takes over as first
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for two Georgia election workers played audio recordings in a Washington courtroom Monday of graphic and racist threats the two women received after Rudy Giuliani falsely accused them of fraud while pushing Donald Trump’s baseless claims after the 2020 election. The recordings
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Donald Tusk, a leader of a centrist party, returned as Poland’s prime minister for the first time in nearly a decade after a vote in parliament on Monday, paving the way for a new pro-European Union government following eight years of stormy national conservative rule. Tusk,
Continue ReadingBy DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks drifted higher in afternoon trading Monday on Wall Street ahead of the Federal Reserve’s last meeting of the year. The S&P 500 was up 0.3%. The benchmark index hit its highest level in 20 months on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 114
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An asteroid in our solar system will temporarily block the light of Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, Monday evening and early Tuesday morning. The rare cosmic event will be visible to millions who live within a narrow strip that encircles half the globe and
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — The Atlanta Braves are sending $6.26 million to the White Sox along with Max Stassi, covering all of what the catcher is owed next year except for the $740,000 major league minimum salary. Stassi was traded to the White Sox on Saturday, one day after the catcher was acquired by the Braves
Continue ReadingCAIRO (AP) — Egyptians have resumed voting in a presidential election in which President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi faces no serious challenger and is certain to win another term. That will keep him in power until 2030. Polling centers are open on Monday, the second day of the three-day vote. A runoff is scheduled for Jan.
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of Harvard faculty members are urging the Ivy League university to keep its president, Claudine Gay, in command as she faces calls from some lawmakers and donors to step down over comments at a congressional hearing on antisemitism. A petition signed by more than 600
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Three decommissioned fire companies in Philadelphia have been reopened with the help of federal funding. That includes a ladder truck that would have been the closest responder to a deadly rowhouse blaze last year, which started when a Christmas tree caught fire. President Joe
Continue ReadingBy E. EDUARDO CASTILLO Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The mother of convicted drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has died in the northern state of Sinaloa, a federal official confirmed Monday. The official was not authorized to speak on the record, but President Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledged her death and offered his
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, CNN (CNN) — The Texas Supreme Court on Monday reversed a lower court’s ruling that would have allowed a woman to obtain an abortion under the state’s “medical emergency” exception, though the woman’s attorneys hours earlier said she had left the state to have the procedure. Kate Cox sought
Continue ReadingUna familia está de luto por la muerte de su ser querido quien fue atropellado el sábado pasado a las 11 de la noche mientras caminaba por la calle Vista del Norte cerca de la Dillon Road en Indio. Lamentablemente Fernando Cruz falleció en la escena, mientras que las autoridades arrestaron a un joven de
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith is asking the Supreme Court to take up and rule quickly on whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted on charges he plotted to overturn the 2020 election results. A federal judge had ruled the case could go forward,
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La policía recibió una llamada que reportaba una balacera en una casa ubicada cerca del Hwy 62 en Yucca Valley el pasado viernes, cuando los agentes llegaron el residente de la vivienda ya había salido y un sujeto se atrinchero por varias horas e incluso disparo contra los agentes hasta que finalmente se rindió. El
Continue ReadingLa ciudad de Indio realizó una ceremonia para dar a conocer un mural que pintaron en el puente de la calle Jackson. Son 16 mil pies cuadrados cubiertos de arte titulado “A todo vapor” convirtiéndolo en doceavo mural pintado en la ciudad y forma parte de los esfuerzos por embellecer la ciudad con arte que
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French opposition lawmakers have rejected an immigration bill without debating it. Monday’s move comes as a major blow to President Emmanuel Macron’s government, which had championed the proposed law as one of its flagship measures. The government has yet to decide whether to keep pushing for the adoption of the bill or
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