Month: July 2022

By MICHAEL TARM and SARA BURNETT Associated Press HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — David Shapiro and his wife brought their two young kids to enjoy the Independence Day parade in their hometown north of Chicago, snagging a spot in front of a boutique winery. The children’s parade in downtown Highland Park had already gone by,

CUMBERLAND, Va. (AP) — A federal judge has approved a plan that calls for transferring about 4,000 dogs currently housed at a troubled Virginia breeding facility to shelters where they can be adopted. That’s according to court records filed Tuesday in the civil enforcement action the federal government filed against Envigo RMS in May. The

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal appeals court is allowing the Biden administration to implement an immigration policy that prioritized the deportation of people in the country illegally who commit the most serious crimes. The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the guidance last September. Arizona, Ohio

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The fight between Texas and New Mexico over the management of one of the longest rivers in North America could be nearing an end. New Mexico’s attorney general says Tuesday that a trial date has been put off by a special master appointed by the

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The pro-independence Polisario Front is accusing Morocco of obstructing a visit by the U.N. envoy for the disputed Western Sahara region and is calling on the United Nations to reveal the reasons why. On Friday, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric announced that the secretary-general’s personal envoy

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A prominent Pakistani TV anchorperson known for publicly supporting former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been arrested on the outskirts of the capital. It is unclear on what charges police arrested Imran Riaz Khan, who is not related to Khan. The arrest Tuesday of the TV journalist comes weeks after a court

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press Italy was enduring a prolonged heat wave before a massive piece of Alpine glacier broke off and killed hikers on Sunday and experts say climate change will make those hot, destabilizing conditions more common. Seven hikers died and several others are unaccounted for after large chunks of ice and rock

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Great Salt Lake has hit a new historic low for the second time in less than a year as the ongoing megadrought worsened by climate change continues to shrink the largest natural lake west of the Mississippi. Utah Department of Natural Resources said Monday in a news release the

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Birds tweeted — not fashionistas — the day Chanel brought its couture guests to the calm of the Bois de Boulogne forest. On Tuesday morning, bleary-eyed VIPs walked across tons of white sand through the Etrier de Paris equestrian center on the leafy outskirts of Paris,

By KATHLEEN FOODY The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — In a state with some of the country’s toughest gun regulations and a city that bans semi-automatic weapons, Dana Gordon still feared a mass shooting could happen here. Gordon, a Highland Park resident and an anti-gun violence activist, knew the familiar questions from victims of mass

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys sparked criticism on social media Tuesday after announcing a marketing agreement with a gun-themed coffee company with blends that include “AK-47 Espresso,” “Silencer Smooth” and “Murdered Out.” The partnership with the Black Rifle Coffee Co. was revealed on Twitter the day after more than a half-dozen people died

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — European Council President Charles Michel has urged North Macedonia to back a French-proposed compromise on ending a dispute with neighboring Bulgaria that’s blocking the country’s long-delayed European Union accession bid. Violent protests erupted in North Macedonia’s capital, Skopje, where demonstrators tried to storm government buildings,

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a host of actions by the Trump administration to roll back protections for endangered or threatened species, a year after the Biden administration said it was moving to strengthen such species protections. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar in Northern California

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The names might not be especially well-known today, but in the 1970s and 80s, French scientists Katia Krafft and Maurice Krafft were to volcanoes what Jacques Cousteau was to oceans. The married couple traveled the world for some 20 years in pursuit of their studies, capturing the spectacle with

By GRANT SCHULTE, CLAIRE SAVAGE and HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press Aiden McCarthy’s photo was shared across Chicago-area social media groups in the hours after the July 4 parade shooting in Highland Park, accompanied by pleas to help identify the 2-year-old who had been found at the scene bloodied and alone and to reunite him with

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is facing a fresh crisis after two of his most senior Cabinet ministers resigned within minutes of each other. Treasury chief Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid quit saying the government under Johnson’s leadership was no longer competent or “acting

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press/Report for America LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The father of the jet engine-powered semitruck driver who died during a performance at a southwestern Michigan air show says the truck burst into flames after a blown tire ruptured the fuel tank. Police say 40-year-old Chris Darnell died in the accident Saturday during

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Officials in Texas say more than half of the 53 migrants found dead or dying in a tractor-trailer last week in San Antonio have been identified. The youngest among them was 13 years old. That’s according to officials in Bexar County, where the trailer was found abandoned on a backroad. County

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has submitted a bill to end daylight saving time and end the practice of changing clocks twice a year. Health Secretary Jorge Alcocer said Tuesday that Mexico should return to “God’s clock,” arguing that setting clocks back or forward damages people’s health. The change would mean an hour less

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Supreme Court has upheld a life sentence imposed on a local man for the killing of two Czech tourists during a carjacking robbery in 2015. Sokol Mjacaj, 27, was convicted of killing the two tourists in Prekal village, some 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of the capital Tirana. Mjacaj admitted

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press The first of three Kentucky police officers killed in an ambush last week has been laid to rest. Dozens of uniformed officers attended the funeral Tuesday for Floyd County Deputy William Petry. Petry and two Prestonsburg city police officers were killed while serving a warrant at a home in the

GENEVA (AP) — The physics lab that’s home to the world’s largest atom smasher announced on Tuesday the observation of three new “exotic particles” that could provide clues about the force that binds subatomic particles together. The observation of a new type of pentaquark and the first duo of tetraquarks at CERN, the Geneva-area home

By GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department settled a decades-old lawsuit on Tuesday filed by a group of men who were rounded up by the government in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and held in a federal jail in New York in conditions the department’s own watchdog called