Month: February 2023

GALENA PARK, Texas (AP) — Authorities say three teenage girls, including one who was pregnant, were fatally shot by man who also sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl who later escaped then fatally shot himself. No names have been released. The killings occurred at the home of the gunman’s girlfriend in the Houston suburb of Galena

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer The Directors Guild of America handed its top prize for feature filmmaking to Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” putting them on course to win at the Academy Awards next month. The 75th annual DGA Awards denied Steven Spielberg would would been a record-extending

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — One person is dead and 10 are injured after a shooting in Tennessee. According to a news release from the Memphis Police Department posted on Twitter, officers are looking for three men they say are persons of interest. One may be injured. Police were first called to a Memphis nightclub at

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has taken a helicopter tour of one of the provinces worst-affected by the Feb. 6 earthquake in southern Turkey and northern Syria. The secretary of state is making his first trip to NATO ally Turkey since he took office. Blinken arrived

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Thousands of Japanese fans, some wiping away tears, bid farewell to a beloved Japanese-born giant panda that made her final public appearance Sunday before flying to her home country, China. The panda fans gathered at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo for one last look at Xiang Xiang, the park’s

By KARL RITTER Associated Press Munich (AP) — Estonia’s prime minister says once the war in Ukraine ends, Russia must be brought to justice for war crimes as well as for the decision to invade its neighbor if it is to have any chance of developing normal ties with the West. Kaja Kallas, whose small

BEIJING (AP) — Authorities in southern China say a man stopped for drunk driving and not having a license stabbed to death three police officers after apparently being allowed to obtain a knife and return to the police station. The statement from Shangli County in Jiangxi province says the suspect had been detained after the

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Antiwar German movie “All Quiet on the Western Front” won seven prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, building the somber drama’s momentum as awards season rolls toward its climax at next month’s Oscars. Irish tragicomedy “The Banshees of Inisherin” and rock

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian President Kais Saied has accused Europe’s top trade union official of interfering with the North African country’s “internal affairs” and ordered her to leave the country within 24 hours. Esther Lynch, the general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation was in Tunisia over the weekend in solidarity with the

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A conservative tilt on the Wisconsin Supreme Court has given Republicans victories in high-stakes cases in recent years, from voting restrictions to gerrymandered legislative districts. Voters now have a chance to tip that balance toward the left, with implications for abortion rights and perhaps the outcome

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s disaster management agency says more than 6,000 aftershocks hit the disaster region in the days following the Feb. 6 earthquake. The agency’s general manager is warning people to stay away from damaged buildings. Meanwhile, the Environment and Urbanization Ministry says nearly 106,000 buildings across the 11 Turkish provinces hit by the

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University professor Marco Díaz-Muñoz is still haunted by what he witnessed last Monday night, when a gunman entered his classroom in Berkey Hall, killing two of his students in what he describes as “12 minutes of terror.” “Those images haunt me. The images

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawsuit against YouTube from the family of an American college student who was killed by Islamic State gunmen in Paris in 2015 is at the center of a  closely watched Supreme Court case being argued Tuesday. The family of Nohemi Gonzalez claims that YouTube’s recommendations helped

By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One year ago, President Joe Biden was bracing for the worst as Russia massed troops in preparation to invade Ukraine. As many in the West and even in Ukraine doubted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intentions, the White House was adamant: War was coming and

By FIRDIA LISNAWATI Associated Press DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police said Sunday they will escort back to Italy an Italian-Australian fugitive who was arrested on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali after seven years on the run in connection with drug trafficking and organized crime. Antonio Strangio, 32, appeared on Interpol’s “red notice” list when

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The leading contenders in Nigeria’s presidential election have made their last push for support as the campaign period nears its end. The ruling party’s Bola Tinubu, the main opposition’s Atiku Abubakar and third-party candidate Peter Obi appealed for votes from the 93 million people registered to

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state media says that Israeli airstrikes have targeted a residential neighborhood in central Damascus. News agency SANA reports that at least five people were killed and 15 wounded in the early Sunday attack. Loud explosions were heard over the capital around 12:30 a.m. local time and

By COURTNEY BONNELL Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The amount of grain leaving Ukraine has dropped even as a U.N.-brokered deal works to keep food flowing to developing nations, with inspections of ships falling to half what they were four months ago and a backlog of vessels growing as Russia’s invasion nears the one-year mark.

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Moscow’s nights display few signs of a nation at war. Cheerful crowds packed restaurants and bars in the Sretenka neighborhood on a recent Saturday night, watched by officers marked as “tourist police.” Nearby, a top-hatted guide led about 40 sightseers to a 300-year-old church. There’s only

By STEFANIE DAZIO and DAMIAN DOVARGANES Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Catholic bishop in Southern California was shot and killed Saturday just blocks from a church, a slaying of a longtime priest hailed as a “peacemaker” that’s stunned the Los Angeles religious community, authorities said. Detectives are investigating the death of Bishop David

By VICTORIA MILKO and DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Since the February 2021 military takeover in Myanmar, landmines planted by all sides of the conflict have become responsible for skyrocketing civilian casualties, including children increasingly as victims. That’s according to an Associated Press analysis based on data and reports from nonprofit and humanitarian

By VICTORIA MILKO and DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The 3-year-old boy had taken only two steps from his mother’s lap when a deafening explosion rang out. The blast caught the woman in the face, blurring her vision. She forced her eyes open and searched for her son around the busy jetty where

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is scrambling to avert a diplomatic crisis over Israeli settlement activity this week at the United Nations that threatens to overshadow and perhaps derail what the U.S. hopes will be a solid five days of focus on condemning Russia’s war with Ukraine. Secretary

Please disregard AP-US–Mississippi-Shootings, 16th Ld-Writethru on the national wire. That is Friday’s story. An updated version of Saturday’s story about the Mississippi story is coming.

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP) — A Tesla driver was killed and a passenger was critically injured Saturday when the car plowed into a fire truck that was parked on a Northern California freeway to shield a crew clearing another accident, fire officials said. Four firefighters who were in the truck when it was struck on

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — One person died and one is in critical condition after a fire early Saturday at a high-rise apartment building in a suburb of Washington, D.C., the Washington Post and other local media reported. The fire in downtown Silver Spring sent more than a dozen other people, including three firefighters, to