By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and RAVI NESSMAN Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Rapidly expanding Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip killed more than 700 people in the past day as medical facilities across the territory were forced to close because of bombing damage and a lack of power, health officials said Tuesday.
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL and SARA CLINE Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Crews worked into Tuesday morning clearing the wreckage of more than 150 vehicles involved in a series of crashes the day before on Interstate 55 near New Orleans caused by a “superfog” of marsh fire smoke and dense fog that killed at least
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A new digital audio edition of Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” will have a very well known narrator: former first lady Michelle Obama. HarperCollins Publishers announced Tuesday that the audio download will go on sale Oct. 31, the 60th anniversary of the book’s original release. Michelle Obama has read
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A strike by auto workers against General Motors is expected to cut pretax earnings by $800 million this year, and another $200 million per week after that, the company’s chief financial officer said. And those figures include only factories that are on strike now with less
Continue ReadingBy JEAN-YVES KAMALE, JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Authorities in Congo say extremists with ties to the Islamic State group killed at least 26 people in the country’s east. Attackers with the Allied Democratic Forces killed people in the city of Oicha in North Kivu province on Monday. Most of the victims
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Stocks are markedly higher on Wall Street as pressure from the bond market eases, at least for the moment, and a slew of big U.S. corporations put up big quarterly numbers. Futures for the S&P 500 rose 0.6% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.5%
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and RAVI NESSMAN Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Nearly two-thirds of Gaza’s health facilities have ceased functioning amid a massive and deadly increase in Israeli airstrikes in the territory, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. A total of 46 out of 72 health care facilities — including 12
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey’s new book club pick highlights an author she has long admired, Jesmyn Ward. On Tuesday, Winfrey has selected Ward’s “Let Us Descend,” which comes out this week. “Let Us Descend” is a slave narrative set in the 19th century and follows a teenage
Continue ReadingBy LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Cruel joke for trick-or-treaters or coveted seasonal delight? The great Halloween debate over candy corn is on. In the pantheon of high-emotion candy, the shiny tricolor kernels in white, orange and yellow are way up there. Fans and foes alike point to the same attributes:
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Bobi, the world’s oldest dog ever, has died after reaching the almost inconceivable age of 31 years and 165 days, said Guinness World Records (GWR) on Monday. His death at an animal hospital on Friday was initially announced by veterinarian Dr. Karen Becker. She wrote on Facebook that “despite
Continue ReadingCNN By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — T’Yonna Major was a 9-year-old girl with an oversized heart – a ravenous reader, a generous friend, a loving daughter — and she was a fearless vaulter. Vaulting requires athletes to run full speed directly at a solid object that is often taller than they are and attempt
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan and Wayne Chang, CNN Beijing (CNN) — China’s Defense Minister Li Shangfu was fired on Tuesday two months after he disappeared from public view, becoming the second high-profile minister to lose his job recently without any official explanation. Li was also removed from his state positions as a member of the Central
Continue ReadingBy HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims that recent Ukrainian attacks have denied the Russian fleet safe bases and secure maritime corridors in the western part of the Black Sea. That area is where Kyiv’s troops are looking to squeeze the Kremlin’s occupying forces out of the Crimean
Continue ReadingBy AMY TEIBEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Eighty-five year-old Yocheved Lifschitz spoke of a “hell that we never knew before and never thought we would experience” as she described the harrowing assault on her kibbutz by Hamas militants and the terror of being taken hostage into the Gaza Strip. She spoke a day after
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Sidney Powell was present for a now-infamous December 2020 meeting at the White House where participants hatched far-fetched schemes to keep Donald Trump in power and was so tied to the then-president that he once considered naming her a special counsel to probe claims
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The head of a gold mine in South Africa says a group of miners from an unregistered, rival union are holding hundreds of colleagues underground for the second day over a union dispute. He said on Tuesday that some 15 miners are believed to
Continue ReadingLIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) — The U.S. government is suspending most financial assistance to Gabon after a military coup earlier this year. State Department spokesperson Matthew Milller said in a statement that humanitarian aid will continue. The official coup d’etat designation comes nearly two months after President Ali Bongo Ondimba’s overthrow. Ondimba had served two terms
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI. Taiwan (AP) — China has replaced Defense Minister Gen. Li Shangfu, who has been out of public view for almost two months, state media reported Tuesday. No further information was given. Li is the second senior Chinese official to disappear this year, following former Foreign Minister Qin Gang, who
Continue ReadingBy DIDI TANG Associated Press Washington (AP) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Washington for a three-day visit starting on Thursday. It’s the latest move by the two countries to keep high-level talks open as the United States contends with China’s rise as a global power. Wang is scheduled to meet with Secretary
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By Elizabeth Wolfe, Pete Muntean, Cheri Mossburg and Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — The off-duty pilot accused of trying to shut down the engines of an Alaska Airlines plane midflight on Sunday said he was having a nervous breakdown and told the flight crew he needed to be subdued, according to a federal complaint. Alaska
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