By ALI SWENSON and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press The man who bludgeoned former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer last year consumed a steady diet of right-wing conspiracy theories before an attack that took place with the midterm elections less than two weeks away. As the 2024 presidential campaign heats up, experts on
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN, BASSEM MROUE and CARA ANNA Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Patients, staff and displaced people departed Gaza’s largest hospital Saturday, health officials said, leaving behind only Israeli forces and a skeleton crew to care for those too sick to move. The exodus came the day internet and phone service
Continue ReadingTALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia’s ruling Reform Party has reelected Prime Minister Kaja Kallas as its chairperson and confirmed her staying on as the Baltic nation’s leader. Kallas was the only candidate for the party leadership post despite widespread calls by opposition parties and voters for her to resign over a scandal involving her husband’s
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Both cheers and jeers for Argentina’s right-wing presidential candidate resounded with acoustic perfection inside the country’s legendary Colón Theater, laying bare the country’s polarization. The audience had gathered for a performance of “Madama Butterfly” — but Milei soon became the main event. A group began
Continue ReadingBy Akanksha Sharma, Manveena Suri, Sania Farooqi and Vedika Sud, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — Indian authorities are exploring new ways to rescue 40 construction workers trapped underground for more than a week. The workers became stranded when a highway tunnel they were building partially collapsed in the northern state of Uttarakhand last Sunday. Although
Continue ReadingREYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — People in southwest Iceland remained on edge Saturday, waiting to see whether a volcano rumbling under the Reykjanes Peninsula will erupt. Civil protection authorities said that even if it doesn’t, it’s likely to be months before it is safe for residents evacuated from the danger zone to go home. The fishing
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Country singers, romance novelists, video game artists and voice actors are appealing to the U.S. government for relief — as soon as possible — from the threat that artificial intelligence poses to their livelihoods. “Please regulate AI. I’m scared,” wrote a podcaster concerned about his voice being replicated by
Continue ReadingBy JAMIE STENGLE, LM OTERO and KENDRIA LaFLEUR Associated Press OFF THE COAST OF GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Divers descending into azure waters far off the Texas coast dip below a horizon dotted with oil and gas platforms into an otherworldly landscape of undersea mountains crusted with yellow, orange and pink coral as far as
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated its “plant hardiness zone map” for the first time in a decade. It shows that the lowest likely winter temperature in a given region is 2.5 degrees warmer than when the map was last published in 2012. The map
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s military says its troops are working to push back Russian forces positioned on the east bank of the Dnieper River. The update given on Saturday came a day after Ukraine claimed to have secured multiple bridgeheads on that side of the river that divides the country’s partially occupied Kherson region.
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer SpaceX launched its mega rocket Starship but lost both the booster and the spacecraft in a pair of explosions minutes into Saturday’s test flight. The rocketship reached space following liftoff from South Texas, but communication suddenly was lost. SpaceX officials said it appears the ship’s self-destruct system blew it
Continue ReadingCNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s gargantuan deep-space rocket system, Starship, safely lifted off Saturday morning but ended prematurely with an explosion and a loss of signal. The Super Heavy booster and Starship spacecraft successfully separated after liftoff, as the Starship lit up its engines and pushed away. That process ended up destroying
Continue ReadingBy DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A 23-year-old Taylor Swift fan died at the singer’s Eras Tour concert in Rio de Janeiro Friday night, according to a statement from the show’s organizers in Brazil. The cause of death for Ana Clara Benevides Machado has not yet been announced. The office of
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle, CNN New York (CNN) — Donald Trump’s legal team wrapped up the first week of his defense case in the New York civil fraud trial as it continues to build the former president’s defense around experts who offered a different interpretation of the rules the attorney general says Trump and his business
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — By most accounts, Speaker Mike Johnson inherited a House Republican majority in disarray after the sudden ouster of his predecessor last month. But as Johnson, R-La., tries to rebuild that slim majority, he’s fast running into the same hard-right factions and divisions that Rep. Kevin McCarthy,
Continue ReadingBy BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Forty-one workers remained trapped in a collapsed road tunnel in northern India for a seventh day Saturday as a new drilling machine arrived on site to replace the damaged one. The nature of the exceptionally hard rock formation in the area coupled with the clearing of
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s gargantuan deep-space rocket system, Starship, safely lifted off Saturday morning but ended prematurely with an explosion and a loss of signal. The Super Heavy booster and Starship spacecraft successfully separated after liftoff, as the Starship lit up its engines and pushed away. That process ended up destroying the
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Residents in the northern Mexican state of Sonora are battling a new train line that threatens to displace their homes and cut up the local ecosystem. But they have found very little to fight against. Local, state and federal officials deny any knowledge or responsibility for
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer SpaceX’s giant new rocket blasted off from South Texas on a test flight Saturday, seven months after the first try ended in an explosion. The 397-foot (121-meter) Starship rocket thundered into the sky and arced out over the Gulf of Mexico. The goal was to separate the spaceship from
Continue ReadingBy ROB GILLIES Associated Press HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — A Canadian security forum has presented an award to the people of Israel for for 75 years of democracy following the Hamas incursion into the country that left some 1,200 people dead and 240 abducted. The Halifax International Security Forum presents the award annually in
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