SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Philippe is aiming for Bermuda on a path that would eventually take it to Atlantic Canada and eastern New England. The storm was located 470 miles (760 kilometers) south of Bermuda on Thursday. It had winds of up to 50 mph (85 kph) and was moving north
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — A grandfather who was officiating a wedding in Nebraska is facing charges after accidentally shooting his 12-year-old grandson during the ceremony, officials said. Michael Gardner, 62, was officiating the festivities at Hillcrest Events in Denton around 5 p.m. on Saturday when he attempted to shoot a Pietta Model 1860
Continue ReadingBy Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — Mourners gathered on the front steps of San Francisco City Hall Thursday to remember the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein at a funeral service. The memorial, which started after 1 p.m. PT, is closed to the public, Feinstein’s office announced Wednesday, citing “increased security.” The service had previously been relocated
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — AT&T and Gallaudet University have developed a football helmet to assist players who are Deaf or hard of hearing and communicate using American Sign Language. The innovation allows a coach to call a play on a tablet from the sideline that then shows up visually on
Continue ReadingBy MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A gala concert featuring the Argentinean pianist Martha Argerich is the opening event for the 2nd Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw. Launched in 2018, the competition is intended to promote historically informed performance of 19th century piano music, chiefly by Polish composer Frederic Chopin.
Continue ReadingCNN By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden’s 2-year-old German shepherd, Commander, has been involved in more biting incidents than previously reported at the White House, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN. While the US Secret Service has acknowledged 11 reported biting incidents involving its
Continue ReadingBy SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia targeted Ukraine with drones in another massive attack early Thursday as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to Spain to rally support from Western allies at a summit of some 50 European leaders. Ukraine’s air force said that the country’s air defenses intercepted 24 out of 29
Continue ReadingBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s president has refused a plan by her country’s caretaker government to send further military aid to Ukraine because parties that are against such help are in talks to form a new government following last week’s election. The presidential office says that the current government of technocrats has only limited powers.
Continue ReadingNICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A lawyer says five Israelis accused of gang raping a British woman in a Cyprus hotel room won’t plead to charges including rape, sexual assault and abduction until prosecutors hand over key material including DNA tests, fingerprints and eyewitness testimony. Yannis Habaris, a lawyer representing three of the five Israeli nationals,
Continue ReadingBy LEA SKENE and SARAH BRUMFIELD Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore police are asking for the public’s help identifying a group of people seen in the area of a shooting at Morgan State University that left five people injured during homecoming events. Police released surveillance video late Wednesday that shows several people walking in
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A mysterious injury suffered by a 16-year-old girl not wearing a headscarf while boarding a Metro train in Iran’s capital has reignited anger just after the one-year anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini and the nationwide protests it sparked. Likely seeking to get
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KEYTON, MIKE CORDER and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, whose work tackles birth, death, faith and the other “elemental stuff” of life in spare Nordic prose, won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for writing that prize organizers said gives “voice to the unsayable.” The novelist
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Kevin McCarthy spent years raising mountains of Republican campaign cash, flying around the country to recruit top candidates in key districts and painstakingly building political relationships as he worked his way toward becoming speaker of the House. Now that he’s been ousted from the
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — In a simply built concrete house a few yards off a dirt road in the rural town of Uthai Sawan in northeastern Thailand, Tawee Lasopha wakes up before sunrise to catch fish from his pond, then moves onto household chores with his wife, cooking breakfast
Continue ReadingBy JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Vikings had windows — usually only associated with medieval churches and castles — meaning Norsemen dignitaries sat in rooms lit up by apertures with glass. The Vikings’ glass can be dated from long before the churches and castles of the Middle Ages with which glazed
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KEYTON and MIKE CORDER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Norwegian writer Jon Fosse won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, for plays and prose that “give voice to the unsayable,” according to the Swedish Academy. One of his country’s most-performed dramatists, Fosse, 64, has written some 40 plays as well as novels,
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Fans will be able to roam from venue to venue and soak up multiple sports with day passes that are among 2.8 million tickets going on sale from Monday for the 2024 Paralympics in Paris. Paris organizers say prices for competition tickets will range from $15.80 to $105. Tickets for the Aug.
Continue ReadingCNN By Annie Grayer, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Lawmakers and aides arrived for work on Wednesday to find a House of Representatives stuck in freeze-frame, a giant blue screen declaring them “in recess” almost the entire day. The House calendar remained officially stuck on October 3 – Tuesday – the date when House Speaker
Continue ReadingBy FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has recorded 100 suspected deaths from cholera and more than 5,000 possible cases since late last month. That has prompted the government to impose restrictions to stop the spread of the disease, including limiting numbers at funerals and stopping some social gatherings in affected areas.
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press SAHY, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia has begun conducting border checks with neighboring Hungary because of what it says is a dramatic rise in migrants crossing into its territory. The inspections, which began Thursday, are part of a flurry of border measures other Central European countries have imposed in recent days.
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