KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A village council member in western Ukraine has critically injured himself and at least two dozen other people by detonating three hand grenades during a meeting. A video posted on social media showed a man entering a room where the village council of Keretsky was meeting to discuss and approve the
Continue ReadingCNN By Kristen Holmes and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former first lady Melania Trump spoke in uncharacteristically personal terms Friday about her experience becoming a US citizen and the challenges she faced traversing a complicated legal system as she made a rare public appearance during a naturalization ceremony at the National Archives in Washington. The
Continue ReadingBy JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has named a former senior staffer for former Republican Gov. Pat McCrory as its interim chancellor. A Friday UNC-Chapel Hill news release says that Lee Roberts will take over for Kevin Guskiewicz. Guskiewicz is leaving in January to become the
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A panel of federal appeals court judges has heard arguments on whether charges against Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in a sprawling Georgia election case should be moved. They are expressing some skepticism that the relevant statute applies to former officials. Meadows says his
Continue ReadingASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A small plane crashed on a western North Carolina highway and caught fire Thursday night, but the two people on board escaped life-threatening injuries, authorities said. A single-engine Diamond DA-40 crashed on Interstate 26 near Asheville Regional Airport around 8:15 p.m. with two people on board, the Federal Aviation Administration reported.
Continue ReadingBy FREIDA FRISARO and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — It’s beginning to look at lot like … hurricane season. At least that’s the case across much of South Florida, where it’s been windy and rainy for two days and the forecast predicts more of the same this busy holiday season weekend.
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT MCFETRIDGE and JIM SALTER Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Satanic Temple display inside the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines was destroyed, and a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot running for a statehouse seat in Mississippi is accused of the damage. The display is permitted by rules that govern religious installations
Continue ReadingBy Andi Babineau and Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — For over a year, a three-story house near the University of Idaho campus has served as “the grim reminder” of the gruesome stabbing deaths of four beloved students there in November 2022. Now, the house on King Road is set to be torn down on December
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Dean Spanos has decided he isn’t “All In” anymore on Brandon Staley and Tom Telesco leading the Los Angeles Chargers. The Chargers owner fired Staley as coach and Telesco as general manager Friday morning after one of the worst losses in franchise history. Los Angeles made the playoffs last
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A 27-year-old man who was living in a tent in the woods in New Hampshire has been sentenced to up to life in prison in the fatal shooting deaths of a retired couple who had gone out for a walk. Logan Clegg asserted his innocence in
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s Supreme Court has overturned a lower court ruling dismissing terrorism charges against a popular separatist leader whose trial has been blamed for an outbreak of violence in the country’s southeast region. Nnamdi Kanu leads the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) separatist group that seeks the
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Chargers have fired coach Brandon Staley and general manager Tom Telesco.
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — US and coalition forces in Iraq came under attack on Thursday afternoon, as the senior general overseeing US forces in the Middle East was visiting the region to meet with American troops and key leaders. Multiple one-way attack drones were launched against Al-Asad Airbase in Iraq, on Thursday, a US
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DENVER (AP) — A federal judge has denied a request to halt the reintroduction of gray wolves in Colorado just days away from the predators’ release. Judge Regina Rodriguez sided Friday with state and federal agencies against representatives of Colorado’s cattle industry, who sued federal and state agencies over reintroducing the apex predators.
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is hanging around its record highs on Friday and on track to close out its longest weekly winning streak in six years. The S&P 500 fell 0.2% and is within 1.7% of its all-time high set early last year. It’s heading for a
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Drop by drop, Ukraine is being supplied with aid and arms from its European allies, at a time when it becomes ever clearer it would take a deluge to turn its war against Russia around. At their summit in Brussels, EU leaders sought to paper over their
Continue ReadingSPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a man is believed to have killed three women and wounded a man before killing himself during a traffic stop in central Illinois. The Springfield State Journal-Register reports that police were called to a home in rural Ashland, about 10 miles west of Springfield, in response to a report
Continue ReadingMOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — The defense team for a man accused of killing four University of Idaho students has been given access to the off-campus home where the deaths occurred so the lawyers can gather photos, measurements and other documentation before the house is demolished. Bryan Kohberger is charged with four counts of murder in
Continue ReadingEAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Trustees at Michigan State University have agreed to release documents related to the school’s investigations into now-imprisoned former sports doctor Larry Nassar to the state’s attorney general. The East Lansing school’s trustees unanimously voted Friday to finally turn over the documents which first will be reviewed by the school’s general
Continue ReadingCNN By Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — A Georgia middle school teacher was arrested last week after multiple witnesses told authorities he threatened to behead a 13-year-old Muslim student who said the Israeli flag hanging in his classroom offended her. Benjamin Reese, a 51-year-old seventh grade teacher at Warner Robins Middle School, was arrested on charges of
Continue Reading