Month: July 2022

JACKSON, Calif. (AP) — Evacuation orders were expanded Tuesday for remote California communities near a wildfire that may have been sparked by fireworks or a barbecue on the Fourth of July in a mountainous region that’s a top tourism destination. The Electra Fire in Sierra Nevada Gold Country broke out Monday afternoon and tripled in

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press LUGANO, Switzerland (AP) — A top U.S. diplomat urged allies of Ukraine to help the war-battered country meet its “immediate and urgent” needs, as scores of countries wrapped up a two-day conference aimed to help Ukraine recover from Russia war when it ends one day. US ambassador Scott Miller added

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor, Doug Mastriano, often makes the baseless allegation that Gov. Tom Wolf’s policy of readmitting COVID-19 patients from hospitals to nursing homes caused thousands of deaths. It’s a claim for which no investigator or researcher has provided any evidence. In fact, researchers

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Bonnie has weakened a bit after several hours as the first major storm of the eastern Pacific season while off southern Mexico, though it isn’t seen as a threat to land. Bonnie was beginning to move farther away from Mexico’s Pacific coast late Tuesday, three days after crossing Central America

INEZ, Ky. (AP) — A sheriff says police in eastern Kentucky fatally shot a man who fired at officers. Martin County Sheriff John Kirk told WSAZ-TV that two Kentucky State Police troopers and a local deputy responded Monday night to a call about gunshots being fired near the Davella community. He says a man at

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and KEVIN MCGILL Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi judge has rejected a request by the state’s only abortion clinic to temporarily block a state law that would ban most abortions. Judge Debbra K. Halford rejected the request Tuesday. Attorneys argued over abortion laws in three Southern

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister says Russia’s war in Ukraine is a “turning point” in the course of Europe. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stressed Tuesday that any type of outcome that could embolden aggression by other nations on the continent must be avoided. Greece has long-standing disputes with

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Before being interviewed on Centre Court about his return to the Wimbledon quarterfinals, Nick Kyrgios traded in his all-white grass-court shoes for a red-and-white pair of basketball sneakers, and swapped out his white hat for a red one. Big deal? Not to Kyrgios. Not to

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain is increasing military spending as it works toward meeting a NATO commitment by dedicating 2% of gross domestic product to defense. Spanish government Cabinet members on Tuesday approved a one-off expenditure of almost 1 billion euros ($1 billion) that the government said was needed to

BERLIN (AP) — The German government has has drawn up a plan that would allow it to aid struggling energy companies more easily. The move comes amid efforts to shore up Uniper, Germany’s biggest importer of Russian gas. The plan approved by the Cabinet on Tuesday aims to give the government new and more flexible

By MELISSA RAYWORTH Associated Press For generations of American kids, summer camp has been a familiar rite of passage. They’d get some exercise, maybe learn a new skill, and hopefully build a few new friendships before the lazy days of summer ended. Whatever the camp’s focus might be, kids could mostly count on a predictable

By IRENE YAGÜE Associated Press PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — Dozens of animal rights activists dressed as dinosaurs were chased by fellow activists through the streets of the Spanish city of Pamplona on Tuesday to protest alleged animal cruelty in the world famous San Fermin Running of the Bulls festival. In the protest Tuesday, the dinosaurs

By MICHAEL TARM, KATHLEEN FOODY and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — A man charged Tuesday with seven counts of murder after firing off more than 70 rounds at an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago legally bought five weapons, including the high-powered rifle used in the shooting, despite authorities being called

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A Sudanese medical group says 11 people were wounded when security forces descended on their sit-in to try and disperse the anti-military protest in the capital of Khartoum. The group says that late on Monday, security forces used tear gas on protesters in the city’s neighborhoods of

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s largest cinema chain is keeping all its movie theaters closed Tuesday because a 17-year-old employee was one of the three people killed in a weekend shooting attack at a shopping mall. Nordisk Film Biografer, said on Facebook that the company made the decision out

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hackers claim to have obtained a trove of data on 1 billion Chinese from a Shanghai police database in a leak that, if confirmed, could be one of the largest data breaches in history. In a post on the online hacking forum Breach Forums last week,

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Mahalie Wilson lives in the shadow of Detroit’s massive and vacant former Packard auto plant and says she has learned to just “deal with” her foreboding brick neighbor. But after years of fighting with one owner after another, the city aims to raze part of the building

LONDON (AP) — Climate change protesters targeted a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” at London’s Royal Academy of Arts Tuesday, gluing themselves to the painting’s frame and spray-painting “No New Oil” next to it. The protest, organized by supporters of the campaign group “Just Stop Oil,” came a day after two activists

By FRANCESCA EBEL Associated Press KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — The governor of the last remaining eastern province partly under Ukraine’s control urged his more than 350,000 residents to flee as Russia escalated its offensive and air alerts were issued across nearly the entire country. Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said that getting people out of Donetsk province

By DANICA KIRKA and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was clinging to power Tuesday after two of his most senior Cabinet ministers quit, saying they had lost confidence in Johnson’s leadership amid shifting explanations about his handling of a sexual misconduct scandal. Treasury chief Rishi Sunak and Health

By LAURA MCMULLEN of NerdWallet Rising prices can feel impossible to manage if money is already tight. To stay afloat, prioritize essential expenses that enable you to live and work. If you can’t cover those bills, seek support through programs such as Findhelp.org and 211. Your neighbors, family members and other community members may be

BEIJING (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is visiting Mongolia during a trip to Asia seeking support amid his country’s diplomatic isolation by the West and punishing sanctions leveled over its invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov held talks with Mongolia’s foreign minister and paid a courtesy call on its president. Mongolia is a landlocked nation

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine army general says a land mine set by communist guerrillas has wounded seven soldiers in the central Philippines, in one of the insurgents’ first known attacks since President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took office last week. An army commander says troops were checking reports of anti-personnel mines laid by New

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni medical officials say an explosion at an arms depot has killed six people and wounded 32 in the southern province of Abyan. Tuesday’s blast took place in the town of Lawdar. Yemeni officials say many of the wounded have critical injuries and that they fear

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — A Congolese government spokesman says President Felix Tshisekedi will meet with his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame in Angola amid rising tensions between the two neighboring countries. Patrick Muyaya told The Associated Press Tuesday that the two leaders will discuss bilateral relations and the armed conflict in

By OLEG CETINIC and ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Israel’s caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Tuesday used his first trip abroad since taking office to urge world powers to step up pressure on Iran over its nuclear activities. He called the Islamic republic a threat to regional stability. Lapid met in

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA, ANDREA ROSA and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press CANAZEI, Italy (AP) — Rescuers are finding body parts and equipment as they search for hikers missing following a powerful avalanche in the Italian Dolomites. Officials initially feared 13 hikers were still missing, but the province of Trento on Tuesday reduced the number of people

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Scandinavian Airlines has filed for bankruptcy in the United States, warning the walkout by 1,000 pilots a day earlier had put the future of the carrier at risk. The group said Tuesday it had “voluntarily filed for chapter 11 in the U.S.,” It said its

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Prosecutors say that two suspects in the slaying a year ago of Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries have been arrested overseas, a day after the suspected “director” of the shocking killing was detained. The national prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that a 27-year-old man

By CARA ANNA and OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The war in Ukraine has abruptly drawn millions of dollars away from longer-running humanitarian crises. Somalia is perhaps the most vulnerable as thousands die of hunger amid the driest drought in decades. Aid funding for Somalia is less than half of last year’s

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska was named Tuesday as one of four recipients of the prestigious Fields Medal, which is often described as the Nobel Prize in mathematics. The International Mathematical Union said Viazovska, who holds the chair in number theory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s prime minister says the country’s talks with the International Monetary Fund on a bailout are proving complex and difficult since it is now a bankrupt nation. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament that recent discussions with a visiting IMF mission were fruitful but

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The 30 NATO allies signed off on the accession protocols for Sweden and Finland on Tuesday, sending the membership bids of the two nations to the alliance capitals for legislative approvals — and possible political trouble in Turkey. The move further increases Russia’s strategic isolation in the

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and DEE-ANN DURBIN The Associated Press After the U.S. Supreme Court revoked the federal right to an abortion that’s been in place for half a century, companies like Amazon, Disney, Apple and JP Morgan pledged to cover travel costs for employees who live in states where the procedure is now illegal so

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press BORODYANKA, Ukraine (AP) — Valentyna Klymenko tries to return home as late as possible to avoid the darkness of her war-damaged home outside Ukraine’s capital. She visits friends, goes to the well for water or looks for a place to charge her phone. The 70-year-old Klymenko then returns alone to

BEIJING (AP) — From the snowcapped peaks of Tibet to the tropical island of Hainan, China is sweltering under the worst heatwave in decades while rainfall hit records in June. Extreme heat is also battering Japan, and volatile weather is causing trouble for other parts of the world in what scientists say has all the