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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities say a hunter in Alaska has been hospitalized after being mauled by a brown bear and shot during an effort to fend it off. Alaska State Troopers said Monday that the bear attack occurred Saturday on the Kenai Peninsula, southwest of Anchorage. The 32-year-old hunter was seriously injured both in

Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s new finance minister says some of the proposed taxes that led to weeks of deadly protests earlier this year will be reintroduced through a tax amendment bill as the country struggles to find revenue to pay off debts. The announcement has drawn criticism from some Kenyans whose anger

Associated Press Experts meet in Bangkok this week to advance what would be the first international treaty to tackle the surging problem of plastic pollution. Final treaty negotiations take place in South Korea in November. Yet most of the people who have been closely tracking the negotiations — environmentalists, tribal leaders and residents from communities

Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Betty Jean Hall, an Appalachian attorney and federal administrative judge who paved the way for women to enter the coal mining workforce, has died. She was 78. He daughter Tiffany Olsen says Hall died Friday in Cary, N.C., where she had lived since her retirement in 2019. The Kentucky

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Black student group at a flagship Missouri university that was roiled by protests over race nearly a decade ago said it was forced to rename an upcoming barbecue the Welcome Black and Gold BBQ instead of the Welcome Black BBQ. The Legion of Black Collegians at the University of Missouri

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A U.S. soldier in North Carolina has been indicted on charges of having lied to authorities about his association with a group that advocated overthrowing the federal government and of trafficking firearms. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for eastern North Carolina said that 20-year-old Kai Liam Nix was indicted last week and

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials said Monday they were confident that Iran was responsible for the hack of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, casting the cyber intrusion as part of a brazen and broader effort by Tehran to interfere in American politics and potentially shape the outcome of the election. The assessment from

Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The federal government has issued the nation’s first floating offshore wind research lease to the state of Maine, comprising about 23 square miles in federal waters. The state requested the lease from the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management for a floating offshore wind research array with up to

Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Russian leader Vladimir Putin has held talks with his Azerbaijani counterpart as part of a two-day trip to secure Moscow’s under-pressure trade routes and shore up ties in the South Caucasus. Business links were high on the agenda as Putin and President Ilham Aliyev met in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Ruth Johnson Colvin, who founded Literacy Volunteers of America, was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame and received the nation’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, has died. She was 107 years old. Colvin died on Sunday in Syracuse, New York, according to ProLiteracy, the nonprofit organization

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors have confirmed Harvey Weinstein will remain in custody in New York while awaiting retrial on rape and sexual assault charges in Manhattan. The former movie mogul made a court appearance Monday related to California’s request to extradite him there. After the New York case is complete, he will

BOSTON (AP) — A former NFL player accused of drunkenly hitting one man and urinating on another during a flight from Boston to Dublin has been arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. The Massachusetts State Police said Gosder Cherilus was arrested early Sunday after the Delta Air Lines flight returned to Logan International Airport. Cherilus,

CHICO, Calif. (AP) — California’s largest wildfire this year has been significantly tamed as the state’s initially fierce fire season has, at least temporarily, fallen into a relative calm. The Park Fire was 53% contained Monday after scorching nearly 671 square miles in several northern counties. It destroyed 637 structures and damaged 49 as it

Associated Press YORK, Pa. (AP) — As Democrats kick off their convention in Chicago, Donald Trump is trying to regain his footing after weeks of struggling to adjust to Vice President Kamala Harris as his rival. The former president and GOP nominee delivered a speech at a factory in Pennsylvania on Monday as he attempts

ORANGE COUNTY, N.C. (AP) — The woman accused of helping an escaped prisoner in North Carolina evade police appeared in court for the first time since her arrest. Jacobia Crisp was charged with aiding and abetting a fugitive and harboring an escapee. Local outlets say she could face more than five years in prison if

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Challengers seeking to throw Robert F. Kennedy Jr. off Georgia’s presidential ballot say he must be disqualified because the New York address he used on Georgia ballot access petitions is a sham. They made the arguments Monday in a hearing before an administrative judge. It shows how a New York

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is defending and doubling down on his signature Medicaid program, the only one in the nation with a work requirement. Georgia Pathways requires all recipients to show that they performed at least 80 hours of work, volunteer activity, schooling or vocational rehabilitation in a month to

AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Many cookbooks are organized by ingredient — like pasta, chicken and veggies. Or by dish — mains, sides and desserts. But not the latest offering by Caroline Chambers. Her book is grouped by how long it takes to cook each recipe. “What to Cook When You Don’t Feel

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — More than 17,000 AT&T workers in nine states across the Southeast are on strike. The Communications Workers of America represents the striking employees and says workers walked off the job Friday in response to AT&T’s failure to bargain in good faith. The labor organization says AT&T did not send representatives to

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A Milwaukee woman who argued that she was legally allowed to a kill a man because he was sexually trafficking her has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. A Kenosha County judge sentenced 24-year-old Chrystul Kizer on Monday to 11 years of initial confinement followed by 5 years of extended

Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Registration has begun under President Joe Biden’s offer of a path to citizenship to spouses of U.S. citizens without having to first leave the country. It is one of the biggest moves to ease entry for immigrants in years, An estimated 500,000 spouses could benefit. But some are feeling left

Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Many St. Louis families faced a chaotic first day of school after three bus vendors pulled out at the last minute and left hundreds of parents scrambling to get their kids to classes. St. Louis Public Schools has been struggling to devise a plan to get kids to classes

Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Employees at Mexico’s federal courts have gone on strike over reforms that would make all judges stand for election. The employees’ union put locks on the gates at several courthouses early on Monday. They say the reforms proposed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador would threaten their working conditions,

AP College Football Writer Ohio State safety Caleb Downs, one of the second-ranked Buckeyes’ high-profile transfers, and three of his new teammates were selected for the preseason Associated Press All-America team announced Monday. Downs, who was a second-team All-American as a freshman for Alabama last season, was joined by guard Donovan Jackson, receiver Emeka Egbuka

Associated Press ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) — A mother and daughter have been fatally shot and another man injured near a Kentucky courthouse. The gunman later shot himself after a police highway pursuit on Monday. Police in Elizabethtown say Christopher Elder was in critical condition after shooting himself. Thirty-seven-year-old Erica Riley is one of the victims

Associated Press OXFORD, Conn. (AP) — Torrential rains turned streets into raging rivers in parts of Connecticut and New York’s Long Island, trapping people in cars and a restaurant, covering vehicles in mud, and sweeping two women to their deaths, authorities said. Dramatic rescues unfolded as a foot (30 centimeters) of rain fell on some

Two people who drowned off South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island where rip current warnings related to Hurricane Ernesto were posted have been identified as Ohio men. A coroner said Monday that autopsies will help determine whether 66-year-old Ralph Jamieson, of South Euclid, and 73-year-old Leonard Schenz, of Loveland, died because of Ernesto. The storm has

NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime producer Almin Karamehmedovic has been elevated to the role of ABC News president. The network made the announcement Monday. He replaces Kim Godwin, who retired in May after three years in the role. Godwin was a former CBC News executive and had faced some internal strife at ABC due to

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Officials in Mexico say that one migrant was killed and eight were wounded when unidentified assailants in northern Mexico opened fire on the vehicle they were traveling in. The dead migrant was a boy from southern Mexico, and the wounded included Mexicans and people from Ecuador and Africa. Prosecutors in the

Associated Press Phil Donahue, whose pioneering daytime talk show launched an indelible television genre that brought success to Oprah Winfrey, Montel Williams, Ellen DeGeneres and many others, has died. He was 88. NBC’s “Today” show, citing family members, said Donahue died Sunday after a long illness. Dubbed “the king of daytime talk,” Donahue was the

BOSTON (AP) — A shooting near a Boston festival has left five people injured and police are searching for those responsible. The shooting happened Sunday night in Franklin Park as a Dominican festival was ending. Police say three men and two women suffered injuries that were not life-threatening and they were transported to a hospital.

AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s late July. Lainey Wilson is somewhere in Iowa, holding a real road dog — her French bulldog named Hippie — close to her chest. She’s on her tour bus, zipping across the Midwest, just another day in her jet set lifestyle. Next month, she’ll release her fifth

Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — President Joe Biden delivered his valedictory address to the Democratic National Convention on Monday night, saying, “I gave my best to you” and basking in a long ovation that reflected the energy released by his decision to cede the stage to Vice President Kamala Harris. Biden, 81, received a hero’s

NEW YORK (AP) — The Directors Guild will pay tribute to Francis Ford Coppola at its 25th DGA Honors in October. Coppola will be honored Oct. 17 at a ceremony at the DGA Theater in New York, the guild was set to announce Monday. It will be the first such ceremony for the DGA since

BERLIN (AP) — German officials have rejected suggestions that national budget constraints could hurt weapons deliveries to Ukraine. Berlin is its biggest supplier after the United States. The German government hopes a $50 billion international loan package funded by interest on profits from frozen Russian assets will ease some of the strain of financing military

BALTIMORE (AP) — Police say a shooting at a gathering in Baltimore has left one person dead and seven others wounded. Police Commissioner Richard Worley says it appears that “multiple people opened fire” just after 8 p.m. Sunday in east Baltimore and multiple firearms were found at the scene. Worley says a 36-year-old man died

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Gilma has strengthened in the eastern Pacific Ocean and is forecast to remain away from land this week. No coastal watches or warnings were in effect Monday for the storm, which was located about 720 miles southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula of Mexico. The

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities on Monday ordered families with children to urgently evacuate the eastern city of Pokrovsk, where the Russian army is bearing down after a six-month slog across Ukraine’s Donetsk region following the capture of Avdiivka. Local authorities said Russian forces are advancing so quickly that families must leave

JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas and another Palestinian militant group have claimed responsibility for what appeared to be a failed bombing attack in Tel Aviv that killed the man carrying the bomb and wounded a bystander. The blast came as mediators were working on a cease-fire agreement in the devastating Israel-Hamas war. It was a stark

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of lawyers with deep ties to the Republican Party is scrambling to rescue a bid to get independent presidential candidate Cornel West on Arizona’s presidential ballot. The Arizona Secretary of State’s office said Monday that West did not file the paperwork needed to get on the ballot before

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An archaeology student unearthed seven “spectacular” Viking-era curled silver arm rings earlier this year north of Denmark’s second-largest city, a Danish museum said, adding the finding has ties to Russia, Ukraine and the British Isles. The Moesgaard Museum, located south of Aarhus where the relics were found, said in a statement

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have released their initial impeachment inquiry report on President Joe Biden, alleging an abuse of power and obstruction of justice in the financial dealings of his son Hunter Biden and family associates. The nearly yearlong investigation by Republicans stops short of alleging any criminal wrongdoing by the president.

Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The leaders of China and Vietnam pledged to further their economic ties and gave a nod to their shared communist ideology during the first visit by Vietnam’s new president to Beijing on Monday. To Lam, who took office in May, made China the destination of his first state visit, signaling

LONDON (AP) — Britain has taken emergency action to prevent prisons from becoming overcrowded as hundreds of people are sentenced for their roles in the civil unrest that gripped the country earlier this month. Under the measures, defendants in northern England will be held in police cells while awaiting early court appearances, and they will

BERLIN (AP) — The United Nations says that a record number of aid workers were killed in conflicts around the world last year, and this year may be on course to be even deadlier. The U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that 280 aid workers were killed in 33 countries in 2023

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas coach Becky Hammon again disputed former Aces player Dearica Hamby’s claim the Aces mistreated her and traded her because of her pregnancy. Hammon said it didn’t happen on Sunday after the Aces defeated Hamby and the Los Angeles Sparks. Hamby, traded to Los Angeles in January 2023, played for

NEW DELHI (AP) — Hundreds of doctors protested near India’s health ministry Monday as they demanded stringent laws to protect health care workers from violence and sought justice for their colleague who was raped and killed at a state-run hospital. The protesting doctors — who were holding up placards like “Justice delayed is justice denied”

ISTANBUL (AP) — Authorities in Turkey say one Israeli Arab was shot to death and two were wounded as they sat in a car on an Istanbul street. Police are conducting a large-scale investigation and authorities say the killer dropped a handgun fitted with a silencer after the shooting late Sunday. The dead businessman’s father

AP Diplomatic Writer TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that Israel has accepted a proposal to bridge differences holding up a cease-fire and hostage release in Gaza, and he called on Hamas to do the same, without saying whether concerns cited by the militant group had been addressed.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani army helicopter has rescued two Russians while one is missing after their team was hit by a pile of ice on a treacherous peak in the country’s north. Karrar Haidri, the secretary of the Alpine Club of Pakistan, said Monday that a rescue mission was underway to bring down two

Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Dozens of protesters broke through a security fence near the site of the Democratic National Convention on its opening day Monday as thousands took to the streets to voice their opposition to the war in Gaza. Families with babies in strollers, students, elected leaders and others holding signs and flags

Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Sixteen years ago, a triumphant Joe Biden addressed an adoring crowd at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, his smile radiating confidence about the country’s future and his own journey. The soon-to-be vice president hugged his son Beau. He spoke about how his own parents had endowed him with a

Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — In 1948, the Republican and Democratic parties did something unthinkable in today’s climate of ferocious political animosity: They not only held their national conventions in the same city but also shared some of the props. Both gathered in Philadelphia, largely because its Municipal Auditorium had already been fitted with the

Associated Press Tropical Storm Ernesto became a hurricane again Sunday as it churned away from Bermuda and headed further out in the northeastern Atlantic, sending powerful swells toward the U.S. East Coast, generating rip currents associated with at least one death and prompting many rescues. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Ernesto’s maximum sustained

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Every Monday evening, the Andrew and Walter Young Family YMCA basement becomes a sanctuary for men who, local leaders say, have too often been denied one. The Black Man Lab, which for nearly a decade has sought weekly to create a “safe, sacred and healing space” for Black men in

LONDON (AP) — More than 400 homes in Northern Ireland have been evacuated to remove what is suspected to be a World War II-era bomb. Police said Sunday that the removal operation could take more than five days. The device was discovered Friday in Newtownards, an area of County Down, about 9 miles east of

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The gorilla and other animals that appeared to have escaped from the London Zoo in Banksy ‘s most recent work have been taken into safekeeping. The zoo said it removed the elusive street artist’s mural on its gate Friday evening to preserve it and return its entrance to full operation

BERLIN (AP) — At least 23 people were injured when two gondolas of a Ferris wheel caught fire at a music festival near Leipzig in eastern Germany, news agency dpa reported Sunday. The fire started in one gondola and then spread to a second one on Saturday night, police said. Four people suffered burn injuries

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Tiny, oil-rich Kuwait has instituted rolling blackouts in several residential neighborhoods despite high summertime temperatures in the desert emirate. The state-run KUNA news agency blamed “a fuel supply disruption” for the blackouts Sunday, which shut down desalination plants and some power stations. The high temperature for Kuwait on Sunday