Month: September 2022

By ANDREW SELSKY and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — People experiencing mental health crises have been being killed by police in America. But how many is unknown. Federal law requires the Department of Justice to collect and publish data on that. But the law doesn’t require police departments to tell the DOJ

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A trial date has been set for Willard Miller, the 17-year-old charged with murder in the death of an Iowa high school Spanish teacher. A judge on Thursday set the trial date for March 20. The judge had previously set the location of the trial

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s new film “Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths)” takes the Oscar-winning filmmaker back to his home country of Mexico for the first time in years. The film is a deeply personal and utterly surreal expression and interpretation of his

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Thursday put the FIFA World Cup trophy on display for the first time, part of the trophy’s global tour ahead of the tournament that kicks off in neighboring Qatar in November. The trophy display ceremony was held in Tehran’s Milad Tower hall in the capital, with hundreds of spectators

By DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — When Zumret Dawut heard that the United Nations had declared that China’s crackdown in its far-western Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity, she burst into tears. Her mind flashed back to her cellmates in the camp she was detained in, to her father who died while

LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — Three puppies in northeast Florida were saved from a burning house after a delivery driver noticed a fire in the home whose owner was away. The Amazon driver was delivering a package on Tuesday when she noticed smoke coming from the home and called 911. Firefighters rescued the pups from

By FRANCOIS MORI Associated Press BREST, France (AP) — Australia and France are drawing up plans to strengthen their defense cooperation as the two countries try to heal wounds from last year’s diplomatic breakdown over a secret submarine contract that infuriated France. With war raging in Ukraine and an increasingly ambitious China, Australian Defense Minister

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Danielle has formed Thursday in the Atlantic, but is not currently a threat to any land. The storm’s maximum sustained winds were near 40 mph. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says additional strengthening is forecast and the storm is expected to become a hurricane in two days or so. The

BY DREW COSTLEY and MATTHEW BROWN Each ton of carbon dioxide that exits a smokestack or tailpipe is doing far more damage than what governments take into account, researchers conclude in a scientific paper published Thursday. Researchers from around the United States collaborated on a new model for calculating the social cost of carbon, a

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Abortion rights advocates in San Marino say they’re pleased that lawmakers in the tiny republic have approved legislation legalizing abortion. Advocates were speaking Thursday after law’s passage by a wide margin a day earlier. The parliamentary vote is the culmination of referendum last year in which citizens

DETROIT (AP) — Ford is recalling nearly 200,000 large SUVs because the heating and cooling fan motors can fail and catch fire. The recall covers Ford Expeditions and Lincoln Navigators from the 2015 through 2017 model years. The Dearborn, Michigan, company says in government documents that it has reports of 25 fires caused by the

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — More fires burned in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest this August than in any month in nearly five years, thanks to a surge in illegal deforestation. Satellite sensors detected more than 33,000 fires according to data from the country’s national space institute. The dry season months of August and

By The Associated Press Permanently misspelled tweets might soon be a thing of the past. Twitter said Thursday it’s working on allowing users to edit their tweets, which it said is one of the most requested features to date. The social media company said in a blog post that it’s testing the “Edit Tweet” feature

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss police have arrested two people in connection with a federal investigation into their suspected support for, or participation in, the banned Islamic State group. Swiss authorities said the police operation Thursday also involved searches of four houses in the Geneva and Vaud cantons, or regions. The operation was part of a

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press With millions of followers on Instagram and TikTok, Amelie Zilber is used to sharing her life with the public. That changed last spring when she had to hold back a big secret for months. The activist, fashionista and Georgetown University student had landed her first acting job as a new

LONDON (AP) — The European Medicines Agency has recommended the authorization of two coronavirus vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Inc., tweaked to include protection against an early version of the omicron variant. In a statement on Thursday, the EU drug regulator said the two messenger RNA vaccines offered protection both against the original version

By KAY DERVISHI of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy Two biopharmaceutical companies will give $5 million and $500,000, respectively, to nonprofit organizations in the United States and abroad that are responding to the growing monkeypox outbreak. The pledges come as the early philanthropic response to the disease, which disproportionately affects LGBTQ people, has

BERLIN (AP) — The stench is gone and, slowly, the fish are returning to the Emscher, a river through western Germany’s industrial heartland that for decades was not just a blot on the landscape but officially deemed an open sewer. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz celebrated the river’s revival Thursday, hailing the 30-year effort to rewild

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A judge on Yemen’s Supreme Court was killed in the capital Sanaa this week, officials say. Gunmen abducted the judge, Mohamed Homran, from his car and killed him, according to the Interior Ministry run by Houthi rebels who control the capital and the north. The information

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s coalition government is facing a parliamentary no-confidence vote over its handling the energy crisis and a scandal involving the head of one of the country’s spy agencies. The opposition has charged the coalition doesn’t do enough for people and businesses to cope with the high prices of electricity and

BERLIN (AP) — Prices for gasoline and public transport in Germany have surged as government subsidies expired, hurting commuters already struggling with energy costs. Germany’s biggest auto club said Thursday initial estimates indicated that the average price of one liter of E10 super was about 0.25 euros higher in the morning than the previous day.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say a Pakistani court has extended former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s protection from arrest until September 12. Thursday’s development comes more than a week after police filed terrorism charges against the country’s popular opposition leader on charges of threatening police and a female judge in his speech to a rally last