MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Organizers have canceled two long-distance races in Minnesota’s two largest cities that were expected to draw up to 20,000 runners because of a forecast of record high temperatures and humidity. The organizers of the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon told race participants early Sunday by email that they, supporters and volunteers would have
Continue ReadingMADRID, Spain (AP) — At least 13 people have been killed when a fire broke out in a nightclub in the southeastern Spanish city of Murcia. Authorities say several others were injured in the fire that started around 6 a.m. Sunday in the popular Teatre nightclub and quickly tore through the venue. It’s not immediately
Continue ReadingBY KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Matt Gaetz said Sunday he will try to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a fellow Republican, from his leadership position this week after McCarthy relied on Democratic support to pass legislation that avoided a government shutdown. “Bring it on,” McCarthy responded. Gaetz, a longtime McCarthy nemesis,
Continue ReadingBY KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Matt Gaetz said Sunday he will try to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a fellow Republican, from his leadership position this week after McCarthy relied on Democratic support to pass legislation that avoided a government shutdown. “Bring it on,” McCarthy responded. Gaetz, a longtime McCarthy nemesis,
Continue ReadingBy ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal student loan borrowers will need to start making payments again this month after a three-year-plus pause due to the pandemic. If you’re a borrower, the first step is to log in to your StudentAid.gov account and check who your loan servicer is. Once you know
Continue ReadingBy GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — A reputation built over decades that European soccer body UEFA is the good guy compared to FIFA as a cartoon caricature villain is being tested in this tough season for off-field politics. The perception dates back at least 25 years. Then, UEFA president Lennart Johansson lost
Continue ReadingBY KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Matt Gaetz said Sunday he will try to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a fellow Republican, from his leadership position this week after McCarthy relied on Democratic support to pass legislation that avoided a government shutdown. Gaetz, a longtime McCarthy nemesis, said McCarthy was in “brazen,
Continue ReadingBY KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Matt Gaetz said Sunday he will try to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a fellow Republican, from his leadership position this week after McCarthy relied on Democratic support to pass legislation that avoided a government shutdown. Gaetz, a longtime McCarthy nemesis, said McCarthy was in “brazen,
Continue ReadingBy MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Opposition leader Donald Tusk is leading a march in Poland’s capital to mobilize supporters and boost his coalition’s chances of unseating the conservative government in an upcoming parliamentary election. His Civic Coalition is a few percentage points behind the governing Law and Justice party in recent
Continue ReadingBy JOHN O’CONNOR and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Authorities resumed their investigation Sunday of a central Illinois truck crash that killed five people, injured five others and prompted an evacuation for hundreds of residents after a toxic chemical leak. The tanker truck, which was carrying caustic anhydrous ammonia, was drained and
Continue ReadingNICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The president of the European Parliament says she has conveyed the legislative body’s support for the appointment of a U.N. envoy to evaluate the chances of resuming stalemated talks to reunify ethnically divided Cyprus. Roberta Metsola said she personally communicated the position of the European Union’s legislature to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio
Continue ReadingBy MOHAMED SHARUHAN Associated Press MALE, Maldives (AP) — Jailed former Maldives President Abdulla Yameen has been transferred from prison to house arrest, fulfilling the campaign promise of his party candidate who won the presidential election runoff. Yameen is serving a prison term for bribery and money laundering during his presidency from 2013 to 2018.
Continue ReadingBy AVET DEMURYAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Azerbaijan’s prosecutor general says the country has issued an arrest warrant for former Nagorno-Karabakh separatist leader Arayik Harutyunyan. Harutyunyan led the breakaway region, which is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but was largely populated by ethnic Armenians, between May 2020 and the beginning of September.
Continue ReadingBy Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — In a historic first, Harvard University inaugurated new president Claudine Gay on Friday, the first Black person and second woman to lead the university. “I stand before you on this stage with the weight and the honor of being a first,” Gay told an audience huddled under umbrellas and
Continue ReadingBy David Culver, CNN Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico (CNN) — The smell of burning wood and plastic hits us as we step out of the van. Smoke from campfires meets the cloud of dirt kicked up by our tires, stinging our eyes and leaving a scratch in our throats. In the near distance, you can hear
Continue ReadingCNN By David Culver, CNN Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico (CNN) — The smell of burning wood and plastic hits us as we step out of the van. Smoke from campfires meets the cloud of dirt kicked up by our tires, stinging our eyes and leaving a scratch in our throats. In the near distance, you can
Continue ReadingCNN By Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — Rep. Matt Gaetz is planning to attempt to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy from the role this week after the House leader worked with Democrats to avoid a government shutdown on Saturday. Speaking with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union,” the Florida Republican said he intends to
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — The Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a move a lawyer representing dozens of child sexual abuse survivors says is an attempt “to evade accountability.” The filing comes as a new law is set to take effect in Maryland October 1,
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Officials with Joshua Tree National Park announced over the weekend that seasonal fire restrictions were lifted, effective immediately. The move meant visitors were allowed to have campfires in the park’s nine campgrounds in the designated fire pits. Park officials asked visitors to protect Joshua tree forests and to follow these rules: have a shovel on handadult supervisiondon’t
Continue ReadingCNN By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Generation X, the roughly 65 million people born between 1965 and 1980, witnessed many innovations: MTV, web browsing, digital music downloads and smartphones, to name just a few. They were also the first generation to enter the workforce after the shift from employer-run pension plans
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