Month: July 2023

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press IWAKI, Japan (AP) — Within weeks, the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is expected to start releasing treated radioactive wastewater into the sea, a highly contested plan facing fierce protests in and outside Japan. Residents worry that the water discharge after 12 years of recovery from the nuclear disaster

By LEAH WILLINGHAM and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A half-century ago, the nation’s top health experts urged the federal agency in charge of mine safety to adopt strict rules protecting miners from poisonous rock dust. The inaction since has contributed to the premature deaths of thousands from pneumoconiosis, or “black lung.”

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Set aside the polls, the fundraising numbers or Donald Trump’s name recognition as metrics of his early dominance of the Republican presidential contest. He has what could prove to be the most important advantage in the race: a leg up in winning the delegates needed

By VALERIE GONZALEZ and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — Wrecking ball-sized buoys on the Rio Grande. Razor wire strung across private property without permission. Bulldozers changing the very terrain of America’s southern border. For more than two years, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has escalated measures to keep migrants from entering

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include a new album from Post Malone, a movie starring Zach Galifianakis about the creation of the cute collectable Beanie Babies and a video game for the whole family with Disney Illusion Island. Thandiwe Newton plays a former New Orleans cop-turned-college professor living in a remote

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers say an overloaded passenger boat has capsized off Indonesia’s Sulawesi island with 15 people killed. Authorities said Monday that the 33 other passengers survived. A local search and rescue agency said that the vessel was traveling from Lanto village in Buton Central regency in Southeast Sulawesi province to nearby Lagili

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missile into its eastern sea, adding to a recent streak in weapons testing. It’s apparently in protest of the United States sending major naval assets to South Korea in a show of force. South

CHINO VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — A 3.8 magnitude earthquake shook a northern Arizona town Sunday afternoon but there was no immediate word on any injuries or damage, according to authorities. The United States Geological Survey said the small quake struck near Chino Valley, just north of Prescott, around 2 p.m. The Yavapai County Office of

The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis is backing away from enforcing laws that criminalize buying psychedelic plants or using them in private. Mayor Jacob Frey on Friday ordered police to stop using taxpayer dollars to enforce most laws against hallucinogenic plants. Such plants include psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca and mescaline. Psilocybin is found in what

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Authorities in Ecuador say the mayor of the country’s third largest city has been slain in a shooting that killed one other person and wounded four more, including two suspected attackers. Agustín Intriago belonged to the local Better City movement in the port city of Manta and was recently re-elected to

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas (AP) — First there was Gone Girl. Now there is Gone Goat. The search for a rodeo goat that has been missing for more than a week has the residents of a rural South Texas county enthralled as they are using horses, ATVs and even contemplating utilizing a helicopter to find the missing

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s justice minister has resigned after police filed charges against her and said she was over the legal alcohol limit when she crashed into a parked car. The incident involving Kiri Allan was the latest in a series of missteps and scandals involving government

PARIS (AP) — Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard has won the Tour de France for a second straight year as cycling’s most storied race finished on the famed Champs-Élysées. With a huge lead built up over main rival Tadej Pogačar, Vingegaard knew the victory was effectively already his again ahead of the largely ceremonial stage Sunday

STOW, Mass. (AP) — Three people were injured when a small plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in Massachusetts. A spokesperon for Stow police says officers and firefighters responding to multiple 911 calls just after 1 p.m. Sunday found the single-engine Cessna 182 in a wooded area between two homes in the town of Stow.

By AYESHA MIR Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It’s last call for New York City’s celebration of baring it all. Sunday’s Bodypainting Day will be the final edition after more than a decade of artists turning nude bodies into works of art. Organizer Andy Golub expects more than 50 people will be painted during

BEIRUT (AP) — The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has suspended the status of Sweden’s special envoy over Quran burnings that sparked mass protests in a number of Muslim countries. The 57-nation bloc said Sunday that the suspension was due to the “granting by the Swedish authorities of licenses that enabled the repeated abuse of the

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The San Antonio fire chief says three people were killed and three others have been injured in a house fire. Fire Department Chief Charles Hood says firefighters responded to the blaze around 3 a.m. Saturday after receiving a 911 call in which people could be heard screaming. Hood says police officers

MILAN (AP) — A high-profile Egyptian activist who was recently released from prison has landed in Italy, where the government championed his case. Patrick George Zaki was greeted Sunday by applause and a throng of video and still cameras as he emerged into the arrivals hall at Milan’s Malpensa Airport. He then traveled to Bologna,

By JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Officials say a soldier in northeastern Congo opened fire on family members and others who had buried his son before he could arrive home to attend the ceremony. The soldier killed 13 people, including 10 children. The attack late Saturday left the soldier’s wife, in-laws and

WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. (AP) — Search teams in Pennsylvania were focusing on one underwater area Sunday as they try to find a 9-month-old boy swept away in a flash flood. That follows confirmation from authorities that the body of his 2-year-old sister was recovered from the Delaware River. Upper Makefield Township police said Sunday that