Month: June 2022

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Canadian police said they arrested a 92-year-old retired priest for a sexual assault more than 50 years at one of Canada’s residential schools for Indigenous children. Royal Mounted Police Sgt. Paul Manaigre says police arrested retired Father Arthur Masse for indecent assault in relation to a sexual assault more than 50

BLACK JACK, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a house explosion near St. Louis early Friday that killed two people and critically injured several other people might have been caused by explosives used to make fireworks. The explosion at around 1:20 a.m. destroyed a home near the town of Black Jack. The St. Louis County Medical

By GRANT SCHULTE Associated Press GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Horse races are regularly held in only two spots in Nebraska, and the tracks in Grand Island and Columbus are usually pretty quiet apart from the rumble of thoroughbreds that stomp past the half-empty grandstands. Suddenly, though, communities throughout the state are clamoring to revive

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE and IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s president is accusing Rwanda of trying to occupy his country’s land for its vast mineral wealth. The comments from President Felix Tshisekedi come after a tense day at the border Friday. Rwanda’s military says a Congolese soldier crossed the border and began

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Naomi Kawase had more material than she knew what to do with after being commissioned by the International Olympic Committee almost four years ago to make a documentary about the Tokyo Olympics. She wound up making two films looking at the Games themselves and also looking at

LONDON (AP) — British health officials have reported another 50 cases of monkeypox across the country, for a total of 574 cases. That makes the U.K.’s outbreak the biggest to date beyond Africa. In a statement on Friday, Britain’s Health Security Agency said most of the cases have been identified in gay or bisexual men,

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm has recommended granting Moldova — a tiny, non-NATO country that borders Ukraine — EU candidate status. That marks the beginning of its path to joining the 27-nation bloc. The European Commission at the same time recommended the same status be given

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer U.S. regulators on Friday authorized the first COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers, paving the way for vaccinations to begin next week. The Food and Drug Administration’s action follows its advisory panel’s unanimous recommendation for the shots from Moderna and Pfizer. That means U.S. kids under 5 — roughly

By ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy Following a string of union victories at Amazon and Starbucks, a group of prominent progressive grantmakers is seeking to put a total of $20 million into a coalition with organized labor that will steer funds to organizing and advocacy campaigns in the South. A

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court has rejected a final appeal from sports doctor Larry Nassar, who was sentenced to decades in prison for sexually assaulting gymnasts, including Olympic medalists. The court declined to take the case Friday. Nassar says he was treated unfairly in 2018 and deserved a

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A senior Kosovo official has criticized the length of the international trial process for detained former independence fighters charged with war crimes during and after the 1998-1999 war in the Balkan country. Kosovo’s parliament speaker Glauk Konjufca left for The Hague, Netherlands, Friday to meet with five ex-leaders of the Kosovo

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Vince McMahon is stepping down as CEO and chairman of WWE during an an investigation into alleged misconduct involving the longtime leader and public face of the organization. McMahon will continue to oversee WWE’s creative content during the investigation, World Wrestling Entertainment said Friday, and named McMahon’s daughter, Stephanie,

GENEVA (AP) — The scientific lab that’s home to the world’s largest atom-smasher says it plans to terminate all cooperation with Russia and Belarus over their roles in the war in Ukraine. The announcement was made on Friday, a day after the CERN managing council made the decision. In March, CERN suspended cooperation with the

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Blas is heading out to sea off Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, but Tropical Storm Celia formed off Central America. Celia is expected to remain off the coast of El Salvador and Guatemala over the weekend. That could bring large rainfalls to the already-soaked Central American countries. The U.S. National Hurricane

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukranian authorities have introduced a visa regime for Russian citizens. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that Russians will need a visa to enter Ukraine from July 1. He said the decision was motivated by “unprecedented threats to the national security, sovereignty and territorial integrity” of his country. Russians didn’t need

By HARUKA NUGA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The head of the U.S. Marine Corps in the Pacific says his forces are committed to defending southwestern Japanese islands as the allies try to bolster their defenses amid growing threats from China and Russia. Lt. Gen. Steven Rudder said at the beginning of talks with Japanese

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania’s government is accused of using violence against Maasai herders protesting efforts to evict them from one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations. It’s the latest friction between those who see certain African landscapes as a lucrative playground and those who call them home. Witnesses

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A pilot crashed a small airplane into Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin and was helped to shore by paddleboarders, officials said. The pilot, a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game warden, was on a test flight Thursday afternoon when the crash occurred, officials said. He was taken to a hospital

ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s president says Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will visit Ankara Wednesday. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed the official visit following Friday prayers. He said they would meet Wednesday to discuss advancing Turkey-Saudi Arabia’s relations to a “much higher degree” Prince Mohammed’s visit would continue a

BEIJING (AP) — China is defending its tough “zero-COVID” policy after the U.S. ambassador said it is causing serious damage to the global economy and foreign business sentiment. A Foreign Ministry spokesperson says China’s economy is recovering from the effects of the pandemic, and the policy, which mandates lockdowns, quarantines and mass testing, is suitable

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian reporter working for an Iranian news agency was briefly abducted, beaten and threatened by Palestinian gunmen. The incident happened on Tuesday, after he covered the violent dispersal of an Islamist student demonstration in the West Bank. The Tasnim news agency, which reported the event Thursday, says the men forced the

By MIKE FEINSILBER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For half a century, every major Washington scandal started with some form of this question: Is this another Watergate? Watergate spawned an all-purpose suffix. If “gate” were appended to misdeeds it was controversy of first rank. Watergate brought down a president. It reordered American politics, at least

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — One of Pope Francis’ proposed new cardinals has bowed out of accepting the honor because of his record dealing with cases of clergy sexual abuse. The Belgian bishops conference said Ghent Bishop Luc Van Looy had asked Francis to decline the honor in order “to not harm

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The wreckage of Watergate and Jan. 6 are a half-century apart yet rooted in the same ancient thirst for power at any cost. Two presidents, wily and profane, tried an end run around democracy. Mysteries from both affairs endure as the House inquiry into the Jan. 6,

By SETH BORENSTEIN and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Equating the oil and gas industry to Big Tobacco, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday that “fossil fuel producers and financiers have humanity by the throat.” But President Joe Biden wasn’t quite itching for a fight. With both soaring energy prices and a

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary has placed price caps on fuel and some food and imposed special taxes on industries as the governments tries to ease an economic downturn and the highest inflation in nearly 25 years. But some affected companies, like budget airline Ryanair, have protested, and said they’d