Month: August 2021

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Temperatures are expected to reach up to 94 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday in Portland, Oregon, as an excessive heat warning…

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Lionel Messi smiled and looked transfixed as Paris Saint-Germain fans chanted his name before the…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Several thousand LGBT supporters took to the streets in the Romanian capital of…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa voting rights advocate Deidre DeJear has announced she is running for governor.…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian Foreign Ministry says it could renew a visa for a BBC journalist to let her…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A judge has ruled that part of a ballot question that will soon be before Minneapolis voters on the future of the city’s…

By BOUBCAR BENZABAT Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Thousands of people, from families to far-right sympathizers, marched in cities across France for…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A top medical center in Lebanon is warning that long power cuts and severe shortage in fuel will…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A prominent internet fact-checker has admitted to plagiarizing from dozens of news stories over several…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged authorities to strengtnen their efforts to fight…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese police have detained two men on suspicion of sexual assault in a high-profile case…

By The Associated Press The Latest developments on Afghanistan, where a weeklong Taliban offensive is now approaching the outskirts of the capital,…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, KELLI KENNEDY and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — As coronavirus infections rise among young Americans, so too…

By VANESSA GERA and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Israel is condemning Poland’s approval of a law that restricts the…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press As the United States ends the nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan and as the Taliban recapture much of the…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press HENNING, Tenn. (AP) — The life and legacy of late author and former Tennessee resident Alex Haley is being honored…

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — Gov. Ned Lamont calls Connecticut’s shoreline the Napa Valley of Oysters. A quarter…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A former accounts manager for a nonprofit affiliated with the University of South Florida’s medical school has pleaded guilty…

By TAMEEM AKHGAR and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban offensive is encircling the Afghan capital and there’s…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press At just short of 20 years, the now-ending U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan was America’s longest war.…

By EVENS SANON and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s civil protection agency says at least 304 people have been…

PERRYVILLE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S Geological Survey says a 6.9 earthquake struck off the coast of the Alaska Peninsula. Despite the size of the…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press As the United States ends the nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan and as the Taliban recapture much of the…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Two amateur Chinese computer coders are set to be released next week after more than a year…

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Hundreds of people have attended a gay pride march in Bosnia’s capital of Sarajevo. Organizers said that…