By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A former British cyberespionage agency employee who viciously stabbed an American intelligence worker has been sentenced to life in prison for attempted murder. Joshua Bowles will have to serve at least 13 years in prison. He admitted attacking the woman March 9 in the western England town
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — A man accused of murder, attempted murder and a hate crime in an attack on a Palestinian American woman and her young son pleaded not guilty Monday following his indictmen t by an Illinois grand jury. Joseph Czuba, 71, is charged in the fatal stabbing of
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is announcing it will spend $1.3 billion of new federal funding to help create three new, massive electrical transmission lines in the Southwest and New England, in an effort to improve the nation’s power grid and get more renewable energy into America’s homes and businesses. The
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson, Whitney Wild and Bill Kirkos, CNN (CNN) — The landlord accused of fatally stabbing a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy near Chicago over two weeks ago pleaded not guilty to murder and hate crime charges in an Illinois court Monday. On October 14, Wadea Al-Fayoume was stabbed 26 times at his home in Plainfield
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators are warning consumers not to use more than two dozen varieties of over-the-counter eyedrops due to the risk of infections that could lead to blindness. The advisory from the Food and Drug Administration applies to lubricating drops sold by six companies, including CVS Health, Rite Aid and Target. The
Continue ReadingBy JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Thousands of supporters of Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League party held a rally in the capital, Dhaka, to denounce what they called violence by the main opposition party as tensions soar ahead of the elections expected in January. Since Saturday, at least four people were killed and
Continue ReadingSTOCKHOLM (AP) — The Swedish Coast Guard says a ferry boat that ran aground twice off the southeastern coast of Sweden is leaking oil and has suffered “extensive damage.” The Marco Polo ferry, which was running between two Swedish ports on the Baltic Sea, touched ground on Oct. 22. It sustained damage and started leaking
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America PAGOSA SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The Republican firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert faces a tough reelection bid. She’s running damage control after being caught on tape earlier this year vaping and groping with a date in a Denver theater. She will likely face a rematch with Democrat Adam Frisch
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — German authorities say four Bulgarian construction workers died when scaffolding fell down an elevator shaft inside a building site in Hamburg. Another suffered life-threatening injuries. There was no immediate word on why the scaffolding collapsed from the eighth floor on Monday morning. Officials initially reported that five people died. Recovery workers spent
Continue ReadingBy KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China has honored two American veterans of World War II as Beijing and Washington look to past collaboration for inspiration to deal with today’s strained ties. Mel McMullen, who is in his late 90s, and Harry Moyer, who turned 103 on Monday, are among the few surviving
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The age of the dinosaurs ended 66 million years ago when a city-size asteroid struck a shallow sea off the coast of what is now Mexico. But exactly how the mass extinction of 75% of the species on Earth unfolded in the years that followed the cataclysmic impact has
Continue ReadingBy SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman who prosecutors say killed four men with lethal doses of fentanyl in order to rob them has pleaded not guilty. Authorities say 33-year-old Rebecca Auborn of Columbus killed the four men and nearly killed a fifth after meeting them for sex
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin called a meeting of security and law enforcement officials Monday, the day after a mob stormed the airport in the southern region of Dagestan after a flight from Israel landed there. Hundreds of angry men, some carrying banners with antisemitic slogans, rushed onto the tarmac of the airport
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — German officials say a British man has been extradited to Germany and charged with murder over the brutal killing of a retiree at his home in Munich nearly 45 years ago. Prosecutors said on Monday that an indictment against the Briton, now aged 70, was filed at the state court in Munich.
Continue ReadingBy JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Health officials are warning that WanaBana apple cinnamon fruit puree pouches may contain dangerous levels of lead. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says four children in North Carolina had high levels of lead in their blood linked to the products. Company officials have recalled all lots and expiration
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Efforts to use the U.S. Constitution’s “insurrection” clause to bar former President Donald Trump from running for the White House again entered a new phase Monday in a hearing focused on whether the Jan. 6 Capitol attack meets the Constitution’s definition of the word and whether Trump’s
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian think tank says Beijing has increasingly targeted its South Pacific political allies with its shrinking aid budget as interest wanes in Chinese credit and competition grows with the United States for influence in the region. Sydney’s Lowy Institute reported on Tuesday in its latest
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, Kareem Khadder, Mohammad Al Sawalhi, Abeer Salman and Sarah Diab, CNN Gaza (CNN) — Three-year-old Joudi hasn’t uttered a word in 16 days, her father says. Wearing a gray dress adorned with a picture of an ice cream cone, she stares ahead, a vacant look in her eyes, while sitting in bed at
Continue ReadingCNN By Kevin Liptak and Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s administration this weekend pressured Israel to allow more aid into Gaza and to restore internet connectivity to the enclave, a concerted effort to ease a growing humanitarian crisis that comes amid fears of a widening regional war. In Biden’s first phone
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s administration this weekend pressured Israel to allow more aid into Gaza and to restore internet connectivity to the enclave, a concerted effort to ease a growing humanitarian crisis that comes amid fears of a widening regional war. In Biden’s first phone call
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