Month: July 2022

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — The bodies of a woman and a child have been found in a rubber dinghy packed with migrants that was intercepted by authorities near Spain’s Canary Islands. It was not immediately known if the child and woman were related. Spain’s state news agency Efe cited Canary Island

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA astronauts will go back to riding Russian rockets under an agreement announced Friday, and Russian cosmonauts will catch lifts to the International Space Station with SpaceX beginning this fall. The agreement ensures that the space station will always have at least one American

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Documents say two Minneapolis police snipers fatally shot a man from the roof of an apartment building across the street from where he had been holed up in an overnight standoff. But authorities have not yet said what prompted officers to shoot 20-year-old Andrew Tekle Sundberg early Thursday after around six hours

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey took over as the leader of the nation’s nonpartisan governors’ association on Friday in a time of deep divide between the states over issues such as abortion and gun control. Murphy took the reins as chair of the National

PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) — Authorities say a 5-year-old Arkansas boy fatally shot his 8-year-old brother in what investigators believe was an accidental shooting with an unsecured gun. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says the 8-year-old was found unresponsive Thursday afternoon at a home in Pine Bluff, about 40 miles south of Little Rock. He

By DARKO BANDIC Associated Press KRMACINA, Slovenia (AP) — The Slovenian army has started removing a razor wire fence on the border with Croatia that was put up to curb migrant crossings after more than a million people fleeing violence and poverty entered Europe in a huge migration wave in 2015. Some two dozen soldiers

WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Justice Stephen Breyer is getting a different title: professor. Harvard said Friday that Breyer, who retired from the Supreme Court June 30, is re-joining its law school faculty. Breyer is a graduate of the law school and first joined the Harvard faculty in 1967. He continued to teach at Harvard after

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A leading contender to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson has accused opponents of “mudslinging” as the Conservative Party contest turns nasty. After a week of campaigning, five contenders remain in the race. Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt has surged to become the bookies’ favorite to win the contest.

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Moroccan soldiers are joining firefighters in efforts to contain three wildfires in the north of the country. Several hundred residents were being evacuated from their homes as fires ravage large swaths of pine forests in the North African country. Efforts to put out the fires have been hampered by high temperatures

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer Quick help for suicidal thoughts and other mental health emergencies will soon be as easy as 9-8-8. The United States’ first nationwide three-digit mental health crisis hotline goes live on Saturday. It’s designed to be as easy to remember and use as 911, but instead of a dispatcher sending

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After decades in prison, three men were cleared Friday in one of the most horrifying crimes of New York’s violent 1990s — the killing of a clerk who was set on fire in a subway toll booth. A judge dismissed the murder convictions of Vincent Ellerbe,

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A new tropical depression has formed in the eastern Pacific off the coast of Mexico and forecasters say it’s likely to grow into Hurricane Estelle over the weekend or early next week. But it’s not expected to threaten land. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tropical Depression Six-E was centered about

LONDON (AP) — A British aid worker detained by pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine is reported to have died in captivity. A separatist official and a U.K. charity involved with his case said Friday that 45-year-old Paul Urey died earlier this week. The British government summoned the Russian ambassador in London to demand an explanation. Foreign

By The Associated Press The U.S. House has approved a bill that would allow Native American tribes in Maine to benefit from federal laws going forward. The bill was attached to a defense bill approved Thursday and won’t change the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980 to which tribes are bound. But it would

By JANIE HAR Associated Press DALY CITY, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco Bay Area high school teacher Lisa Raskin moved out of a cramped apartment she was sharing with a roommate and into her own place this month, paying a deeply discounted $1,500 a month for a one-bedroom with expansive views within walking distance to

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The United Nations mission in Mali says that Egypt will withdraw its troops from the West African county by mid-August, citing deadly attacks against its peacekeepers. Seven Egyptian peacekeepers have been killed in Mali so far this year. Olivier Salgado, the spokesman of the U.N. mission

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Medical Association says some hospitals in Texas have reportedly refused to treat patients with major pregnancy complications for fear of violating the state’s abortion ban. The Dallas Morning News reports the association sent a letter this week to the Texas Medical Board about the issue. The association did not

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrat Beto O’Rourke has raised nearly $32 million during the first half of 2022 in his run for Texas governor. That’s according to new figures released Friday by his campaign. It puts his challenge against Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on track to be one of

By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and two of his children got their questioning postponed Friday in a New York civil investigation into their business dealings, a delay that follows the death of Trump’s ex-wife Ivana. The ex-president, son Donald Jr. and daughter Ivanka

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Met Office issued its first ever “red” warning for exceptional heat, saying record temperatures early next week will put even healthy people at risk of serious illness and death. The warning covers Monday and Tuesday, when temperatures in England may reach 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) for the first time,

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The mayor of Poland’s capital, Warsaw, said Friday he has COVID-19. Again. Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski said on Twitter the virus seems to be “even more treacherous and contagious” then before and its symptoms are far from banal. Last year he was hospitalized due to a coronavirus infection. He appealed to the

A Russian court has sentenced a top opposition figure to four years in prison, the latest move in the Kremlin’s crackdown on opposition activists, independent media and rights groups. Andrei Pivovarov, former head of the Open Russia group, was sentenced for “directing an undesirable organization,” a criminal offense under a 2015 law. He has maintained

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Seven protesters from Hong Kong are being sentenced to up to 10 months of jail. The Hong Kongers were caught at sea in August 2020 while attempting to flee the city by speedboat to Taiwan. The seven men, aged 19-32, had pleaded guilty to charges of

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Consumers picked up their spending from May to June, underscoring their resilience despite painfully higher prices at the gas pump and in grocery aisles and allaying fears that the economy might be on the verge of a recession. U.S. retail sales rose

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has reshuffled his top officials, naming a new head of the state space corporation and giving broad new powers to one of his top ministers. Putin on Friday removed Dmitry Rogozin as head of the state-controlled Roscosmos space agency that oversees rocket factories,

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An amusement park in northwestern Denmark said Friday it would scrap a roller coaster for good after a 14-year-old girl died, reportedly when the rear part of the ride came off the rails. A 13-year-old boy also suffered hand injuries on Thursday on the Cobraen roller coaster at the Tivoli Friheden

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Iran’s ambassador to Sweden has met with a Swedish Foreign Ministry official to protest the sentencing of an Iranian citizen to life by a Swedish court. Hamid Noury of Iran was convicted of committing grave war crimes and murder during the final phase of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. On Thursday,