Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Emergency services in Nigeria say two people are dead after a fire at the Canadian High Commission in the capital, Abuja. The two killed were Nigerian maintenance workers, and another two are being treated for severe burns. The emergency services say the fire broke out Monday morning while workers
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press BEAR, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden is promoting new cash for Amtrak. Biden is visiting Bear, Delaware, on Monday to announce more than $16 billion in new funding that will go toward 25 passenger rail projects between Boston and Washington. Bear is close to Wilmington, where Biden has
Continue ReadingBy AMY TEIBEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — At a time when world sentiment has begun to sour on Israel’s devastating offensive in Gaza, the vast majority of Israelis, across the political spectrum, are convinced of the justice of the war. Still under rocket and missile attacks on several fronts, they have little tolerance for
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — More than 40 years ago, Farouk El-Baz — a space scientist and geologist known for his field investigations in deserts around the world — theorized that the wind played a big hand in shaping the Great Sphinx of Giza before the ancient Egyptians added surface details to the landmark
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Senators in France have opened debate on an immigration bill intended to strengthen the country’s ability to expel foreigners considered undesirable. Advocacy organizations criticize the measure as a threat to the rights of asylum-seekers and other migrants. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin in opening remarks said French citizens are looking to authorities for
Continue ReadingBy MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Mets are hiring Yankees bench coach Carlos Mendoza as their manager, according to a person familiar with the decision. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the move had not been announced. Mendoza spent the past four
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president has tapped the current prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki of the Law and Justice party, to try to form the country’s next government. President Andrzej Duda made the announcement Monday following a national election in which the right-wing Law and Justice lost its parliamentary majority to three allied opposition parties
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Italy’s government has granted Italian citizenship to an 8-month-old terminally ill British girl, after a court in Britain upheld rulings authorizing the withdrawal of life-supporting invasive treatment. The baby’s situation is the latest in a series of cases in Britain in which doctors and parents have sparred over the treatment of terminally
Continue ReadingWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — In a story published October 7, 2023, about a planned demonstration outside a Wichita, Kansas, abortion clinic, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the clinic operated by Trust Women was founded by the late Dr. George Tiller. While the clinic is on the site of Tiller’s former clinic, it was founded
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Palm Springs city council plans to start conversations about extending its forty five day Cannabis Moratorium to ten months and fifteen days. The Council could vote Thursday to extend the moratorium for new cannabis dispensaries while considering bigger changes for an industry some council members think has become oversaturated and unsustainable. News Channel 3’s Peter
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting lower Monday as Wall Street’s wild recent moves calm a bit. The S&P 500 was 0.1% lower in its first trading after careening from months of sharp losses to its best week of the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Four men have been charged over the theft of an 18-carat gold toilet from Blenheim Palace, the sprawling English mansion where British wartime leader Winston Churchill was born. The toilet, valued at $5.95 million, was the work of Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan. It was part of
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) — Offshore wind power company Orsted is trying to get out of a $300 million guarantee it agreed to pay New Jersey in the event it failed to build its first wind farm off the state’s coast. Last Tuesday, the Danish firm scrapped its Ocean Wind
Continue ReadingBy GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — “The Family Chantel” star Pedro Jimeno, who is recently divorced from Chantel Everett, says the “damage is done” and “it’s not going to be any reconciliation in the future.” The drama will play out on the upcoming fifth and final season of the hit TLC
Continue ReadingBy BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Legislature returned to the Capitol on Monday for a special session that will allow lawmakers to express their support for Israel, while giving Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis some talking points as he campaigns for president. Lawmakers are expected to consider new sanctions against Iran,
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — U.S. regulators are warning drivers to steer clear of aftermarket decals used to embellish a car’s logo on the center of its steering wheel. Such metal or plastic emblems are typically adorned with rhinestones or other decorations and attached to the steering wheel with an adhesive back. The National Highway Traffic
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Reliever Blake Treinen’s 2024 club option was exercised Monday by the Los Angeles Dodgers. The complicated option’s price appeared to be $1 million because of shoulder surgery he had last November. The 35-year-old right-hander has been limited to five major league innings since the start of the 2022 season as the
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A trial has started for a former top Baltimore prosecutor charged with perjury. During opening statements on Monday for Marilyn Mosby’s trial, a federal prosecutor accused the former Baltimore state’s attorney of lying about the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on her finances to improperly access funds from
Continue ReadingBy BASSAM HATOUM Associated Press RMEISH, Lebanon (AP) — The military wing of Palestinian group Hamas says it fired 16 rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel, triggering Israeli airstrikes on the Lebanese side of the border. The exchange of fire came as Lebanon’s militant group Hezbollah said its fighters attacked at least three Israeli military
Continue ReadingHEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — Authorities outside of Houston are searching for the people responsible for a shooting at a large college homecoming event that left seven wounded. The Waller County Sheriff’s Office says gunfire broke out around 10 p.m. Sunday night at a Prairie View A&M University homecoming party near the school’s campus. That’s about
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