Month: August 2022

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Authorities say a man who was serving life sentences for killing four people at a North Dakota business in what authorities say was one of the state’s most gruesome crimes has killed himself in prison. The North Dakota Highway Patrol says a trooper was called to

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese officials and a U.S. envoy say Lebanon and Israel are getting closer to reaching a deal in a maritime border dispute between the two neighbors. A U.S. envoy mediating between Lebanon and Israel said after talks in Beirut on Monday that he looks forward to coming

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts lawmakers have reached a deal on a bill that would legalize betting on professional and collegiate sports, joining more than 30 other states including several neighbors. Monday’s compromise does not allow betting on in-state colleges and universities unless they are playing in a national tournament, including the NCAA basketball tournaments. The

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A veteran of Kuwait’s national oil company has taken over as secretary general of the OPEC oil cartel. Monday’s development comes just three weeks after his Nigerian predecessor died, only hours after giving a speech in defense of the energy industry. Haitham al-Ghais was

HOLDENVILLE, Okla. (AP) — Officials say a corrections officer has died after being attacked by an inmate at an Oklahoma prison. The attack on officer Alan Jay Hershberger happened Sunday at the Davis Correctional Facility, which is a privately run prison in Holdenville about 70 miles southeast of Oklahoma City. Department of Corrections officials say

By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet With high inflation and economic uncertainty, it’s easy to feel stressed out about money. But financial experts say by making steady progress toward your financial goals and aligning your spending with your values, you can feel richer regardless of how much money you actually have in your bank account. Those

By NOAH BERGER and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press YREKA, Calif. (AP) — At least two people have died from a raging California blaze that was among several menacing thousands of homes Monday in the Western U.S. Two bodies were found inside a charred vehicle Sunday in the driveway of a home near the remote community

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s ruling coalition says it has won 30 of 46 departments in Sunday’s legislative election, giving it a majority over the opposition.  The head of the ruling coalition and former Prime Minister Aminata Toure claimed the majority, affirming the information is accurate and fair. The mayor

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has appointed a caretaker government until Oct. 2 early parliamentary elections in order to stave off a political and economic crisis in the country. Radev’s move on Monday comes after the three largest political groups failed to find common ground for a

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top court says maritime authorities cannot impound ships involved in search-and-rescue work just because they think the vessels might be overloaded due to the number of migrants aboard. Monday’s European Court of Justice ruling came in response to an appeal by the German migrant aid group Sea-Watch. Two of

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — More than 80 men suspected of the gang rapes of eight women and armed robbery of a video production crew in the South African town of Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg, appeared in court on Monday. The men were arrested at an abandoned mining site following the rapes

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson was suspended for six games Monday after being accused by two dozen women in Texas of sexual misconduct during massage treatments, in what a disciplinary officer said was behavior “more egregious than any before reviewed by the NFL.” The punishment handed out by

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has arrested several members of the Baha’i faith on spying charges, the latest sign of a tightening crackdown across the Islamic Republic as it faces international pressure over its tattered nuclear deal. The Baha’i demanded their release and called their arrests part of a long pattern of persecution

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis will travel next month to Kazakhstan. It’s possible that he could meet there with Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church who has justified Moscow’s war in Ukraine. The Vatican says Francis will attend an interfaith conference in the Kazakh

CAIRO (AP) — Libyan authorities say at least nine people were killed and 76 were injured after a fuel tanker truck caught fire and exploded. The  Emergency Services says the incident took place in the central town of Bent Bayya on Monday. It says the injured were taken to the medical center in the nearby

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait says it has formed a new government to defuse a protracted political feud that has blocked economic reforms in the oil-rich state. The country’s state-run news agency reported on Monday that Kuwait’s newly-appointed prime minister, Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al Sabah, will lead the 12-member Cabinet until early elections.

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Joe Cunningham has chosen a civil litigator who flew combat missions in Iraq to be his running mate. Cunningham is trying to become South Carolina’s first Democratic governor in 20 years. He previewed his pick of Tally Parham Casey ahead of a formal announcement Monday in

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba said Monday that it would strive to maintain its listing status both in New York and Hong Kong, days after U.S. regulators included it in a list of companies facing possible delisting if they don’t meet auditing requirements. The U.S. Securities and

By MILA KOUMPILOVA and MATT BARNUM of Chalkbeat, and COLLIN BINKLEY of The Associated Press Chalkbeat and Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — On a recent morning inside Chalmers School of Excellence on Chicago’s West Side, five preschool and kindergarten students finished up drawings. Four staffers, including a teacher and a tutor, chatted with them about

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said the Western Balkans are an integral part of the European Union, repeating his country’s full support of the region’s integration into the 27-member bloc. Sanchez was in Tirana on Monday on his last leg of the Western Balkan trip that earlier took him

LONDON (AP) — A British court on Monday refused to block a hospital from ending life-support treatment for a 12-year-old boy who has suffered catastrophic brain damage. The parents of Archie Battersbee have fought unsuccessfully in the courts to prevent the Royal London Hospital from turning off the boy’s ventilator and stopping other interventions that

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s new parliament has convened for its first session, some four months after an election that reaffirmed the domination of autocratic President Aleksandar Vucic and his right-wing populists. Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party holds the majority in the 250-member assembly and is expected to run the next government. Several opposition groups also

By SAMYA KULLAB and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Thousands of Shiites gathered in Baghdad for a counter-rally called by Iran-backed groups against their rival, an influential cleric whose followers are staging a sit-in inside the Iraqi parliament, have left the area. It wasn’t immediately clear if the withdrawal Monday by supporters of

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing new regulations that would force food processors to reduce the amount of salmonella bacteria found in some raw chicken products or risk shutdowns. The proposed USDA rules announced Monday would declare salmonella an adulterant — a contaminant that

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is making more than $1 billion available to states to address flooding and extreme heat exacerbated by climate change. Vice President Kamala Harris announced the grant program Monday in Miami with the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other officials. Harris called

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan says it has detected the country’s first case of the monkeypox virus in the conflict-wrecked Darfur region. The Health Ministry said Sunday that the 16-year-old student’s case was discovered last week in West Darfur province. It did not give further details about the patient. The ministry said there were at least

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A Chinese state-owned company is negotiating to buy a forestry plantation with a deep-water port and World War II airstrip in Solomon Islands amid concerns that China wants to establish a naval foothold in the South Pacific country. Australian Broadcasting Corp. has reported a Chinese company

PARIS (AP) — French firefighters say a weekend wildfire in the southern Gard region that injured four firefighters has now been contained. Firefighter spokesman Col. Eric Agrinier told French media on Monday that 370 hectares (915 acres) were burned and two homes affected by the flames. But he highlighted that “dozens and dozens of houses

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — It’s been two years since his 3-year-old daughter, Alexandra, was killed in a massive explosion at Beirut’s port — and Paul Naggear has lost hope that outrage over the disaster will bring justice and force change in Lebanon. The investigation into one of the world’s biggest non-nuclear