ANDERSON, Calif. (AP) — Authorities rescued eight children in California on Saturday after they were abducted by their biological mother and found roughly 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) from their foster homes in Arkansas, police said. The 36-year-old mother had lost her custodial rights, according to police in Anderson, a tiny city in a rural part
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Military-ruled Myanmar is allowing prisoners to have family visitors from outside. It’s a right that had been suspended for 3½ years because of the coronavirus pandemic. The rule allowing visitors was confirmed by the military and prison officials on Tuesday. It carries detailed conditions. But it’s the
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — The city of Atlanta has temporarily closed three of its more than 30 fire stations because of truck breakdowns and a shortage of firefighters. Atlanta Fire Rescue Chief Roderick Smith told a city council committee of the closures on Monday. Smith told the committee that the department had 17 fire trucks out
Continue ReadingBy EGILL BJARNASON Associated Press HUSAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Women across Iceland, including the prime minister, went on strike Tuesday to push for an end to unequal pay and gender-based violence. Schools and shops closed after organizers called on women and nonbinary people to refuse paid and unpaid work for 24 hours. The strike comes
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The Hungarian parliament has refused a proposal to hold a vote on Sweden’s bid to join NATO, further delaying the Nordic country’s inclusion in the military alliance. The delay on Tuesday comes as Hungary remains the main hurdle to Sweden’s admission into NATO after Turkish President
Continue ReadingBy Alta Spells and Nick Valencia, CNN (CNN) — The Georgia State Supreme Court upheld the state’s six-week abortion ban in a ruling Tuesday morning. The ruling reverses a lower court’s decision to void certain sections of the LIFE Act because it was enacted prior to the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision one year ago
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — For more than a week, Talaat Ghabayen, a citizen of Norway who spent his whole life in Oslo, has waited days and nights at the Gaza Strip’s land crossing with Egypt as his embassy advised, hoping to flee Israel’s bombardment and
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man has pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he threatened to assault and murder former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The man entered a plea during an initial appearance on Tuesday in federal court in Billings. He has been charged with threats to injure and murder a member of
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD and VANESSA GERA Associated Press ROME (AP) — The pope has accepted the resignation of a Polish bishop whose diocese has been rocked for weeks by reports of a sex party in a priest’s apartment involving a male prostitute. The Vatican didn’t give a reason for the bishop’s resignation, but his diocese
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO, STEPHEN GROVES, FARNOUSH AMIRI and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans picked Rep. Tom Emmer as their nominee for House speaker on Tuesday, as they try for a third time to fill the top leadership position and get Congress back to work. Emmer, the GOP Whip and senior-most candidate, jumped
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Dozens of US states, including California and New York, are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for harming young people’s mental health and contributing the youth mental health crisis by knowingly designing features on Instagram and Facebook that addict children to its platforms. The lawsuit filed in federal court in California
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By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Dozens of US states, including California and New York, are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for harming young people’s mental health and contributing the youth mental health crisis by knowingly designing features on Instagram and Facebook that addict children to its platforms. The lawsuit filed in federal court in California
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Dozens of US states, including California and New York, are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for harming young people’s mental health and contributing the youth mental health crisis by knowingly designing features on Instagram and Facebook that addict children to its platforms. The lawsuit filed in federal court in California
Continue ReadingBy JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press EIN BOKEK, Israel (AP) — After Hamas militants attacked Kibbutz Be’eri on Oct. 7, killing more than 100 of its 1,100 residents, the Israeli government evacuated many survivors to a hotel near the Dead Sea. On the shores of the salty lake, known for its healing powers, the survivors follow
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief is warning that the situation in the Middle East is growing more dire by the hour with the risk of the Gaza war spreading through the region increasing as societies splinter and tensions threaten to boil over. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and RAVI NESSMAN Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A barrage of Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday crushed multiple residential buildings and buried families under rubble, as health officials in the besieged territory reported hundreds killed in the past day and the closure of medical facilities
Continue ReadingBy DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Some U.S. lawmakers are demanding that seafood processed in two Chinese provinces be banned from entering the U.S. market. They also say Chinese facilities using forced labor should be banned from doing business with American companies. The request, sent by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China to the
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Caitlin Clark of Iowa is a unanimous pick for The Associated Press preseason women’s basketball All-America team for the second consecutive season. The star guard was on all 36 ballots from the national media panel that selects the AP Top 25 each week. She led the Hawkeyes to the
Continue ReadingBy FARAI MUTSAKA Asociated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A German tourist who went missing in a national park teeming with wild animals in northern Zimbabwe has been found alive and in “good health” along with his rental car three days later. A national parks agency spokesperson says the tourist had last been seen buying
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors in Berlin say they have closed their investigation into the spectacular collapse of a huge aquarium last December after an expert report failed to pin down a reason why the tank burst. The AquaDom aquarium, which stood in a hotel lobby, burst in the early hours of Dec. 16, sending 1
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