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Mexico closes melon-packing plant implicated in cantaloupe Salmonella outbreak that killed 8 people
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Health Department has ordered the temporary closure of a melon-packing plant implicated in salmonella infections…
Continue Reading Court revives lawsuit over Connecticut rule allowing trans girls to compete in school sports
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Opponents of Connecticut’s policy letting transgender girls compete in girls high school…
Continue Reading Kansas’ top court says a GOP election law is vague and revives a lawsuit against it
By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that a law making it a felony to impersonate an elections…
Continue Reading Family hopeful after FBI exhumes body from unsolved 1969 killing featured in Netflix’s ‘The Keepers’
By LEA SKENE Associated Press CENTREVILLE, Md. (AP) — The family of a woman who disappeared in 1969 after going Christmas shopping at a suburban…
Continue Reading The West supports Ukraine against Russia’s aggression. So why is funding its defense in question?
By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Hungary’s Viktor Orban’s veto of an aid package from Europe to war-torn Ukraine was…
Continue Reading Rain, gusty winds bring weekend washout to Florida before system heads up East Coast
By FREIDA FRISARO and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — It’s beginning to look at lot like … hurricane season.…
Continue Reading Shohei Ohtani’s contract with the Dodgers could come with bonus of mostly avoiding California taxes
By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — If $700 million wasn’t enough, Shohei Ohtani’s record-setting contract with the…
Continue Reading US-China relations are defined by rivalry but must include engagement, American ambassador says
By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to China says the relationship between the two countries will be defined by…
Continue Reading Court upholds $75,000 in fines against Alex Jones for missing Sandy Hook case deposition
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut appeals court has upheld $75,000 in fines against conspiracy theorist Alex…
Continue Reading Response to concerns about the Maine mass shooter’s mental health was reasonable, report says, but changes are recommended
By Jay Croft and Sabrina Souza, CNN (CNN) — Sheriff’s officials in Maine “reasonably” responded to concerns about Lewiston mass shooter…
Continue Reading New Hampshire attorney general files civil rights lawsuit against neo-Nazi group for drag story hour protest
By Melissa Alonso, Carroll Alvarado and Carma Hassan, CNN (CNN) — New Hampshire’s attorney general has filed a civil rights lawsuit against…
Continue Reading New York’s Metropolitan Museum will return stolen ancient sculptures to Cambodia and Thailand
By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will return 16 ancient pieces of…
Continue Reading A Kentucky family gets an early gift: a baby owl in their Christmas tree
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — One Kentucky family got a little something extra when they picked out their Christmas tree this year: a baby owl. Lexington…
Continue Reading Man sentenced to up to life in prison for shooting deaths of retired couple on hiking trail
By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A 27-year-old man who was living in a tent in the woods in New Hampshire has been…
Continue Reading US homelessness up 12% to highest reported level as rents soar and coronavirus pandemic aid lapses
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States experienced a dramatic 12% increase in homelessness as soaring rents and a…
Continue Reading Two-time All-Star Ja Morant knows he can only convince people he’s learned with action, not words
By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Two-time All-Star Ja Morant said Friday being suspended by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver…
Continue Reading Village council member in Ukraine sets off hand grenades during a meeting and injures 26
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A village council member in western Ukraine has critically injured himself and at least two dozen other people by detonating…
Continue Reading UNC-Chapel Hill names former state budget director as interim chancellor
By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has named a former senior staffer for former…
Continue Reading A Mississippi House candidate is charged after a Satanic Temple display is destroyed at Iowa Capitol
By SCOTT MCFETRIDGE and JIM SALTER Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Satanic Temple display inside the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines was…
Continue Reading The house where 4 University of Idaho students were stabbed to death will be demolished this month
By Andi Babineau and Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — For over a year, a three-story house near the University of Idaho campus has served as “the…
Continue Reading Why scientists want you to have a tardigrade emoji
Italian ecologist Francesco Ficetola was at a conference two years ago when it dawned on him that emojis can help power global conservation…
Continue Reading French bulldogs’ cute face shape is stopping them getting a good night’s sleep, study shows
Flat-faced dogs are all the rage – and have been for a while. With its wrinkly nose and bat-like ears, the French bulldog – which recently…
Continue Reading Man in central Illinois killed three people and wounded another before killing self, authorities say
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a man is believed to have killed three women and wounded a man before killing himself during a traffic…
Continue Reading Turkish Airlines announces order for 220 additional aircraft from Airbus
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s national carrier, Turkish Airlines, says it’s placing an order for 220 new planes from Airbus as it seeks to…
Continue Reading In a rare appearance, Melania Trump welcomes new citizens at a National Archives ceremony
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Melania Trump has welcomed new U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony at the National Archives. It was a rare…
Continue Reading Mexico’s president inaugurates first part of $20 billion tourist train project on Yucatan peninsula
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has inaugurated the first part of the pet project of his administration, a tourist train that runs in a…
Continue Reading Bryan Kohberger’s defense team given access to home where students were killed before demolition
MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — The defense team for a man accused of killing four University of Idaho students has been given access to the off-campus home…
Continue Reading Michigan State trustees approve release of Larry Nassar documents to state official
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Trustees at Michigan State University have agreed to release documents related to the school’s investigations into…
Continue Reading Middle school teacher arrested after allegedly threatening to behead Muslim student who said Israeli flag offended her
CNN By Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — A Georgia middle school teacher was arrested last week after multiple witnesses told authorities he…
Continue Reading The $10 billion charity no one has heard of
BY ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthopy Chronicle of Philanthropy A donor-advised fund devoted to supporting the United Nations Sustainable…
Continue Reading Albania returns 20 stolen icons to neighboring North Macedonia
By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania has returned 20 icons to neighboring North Macedonia, which were stolen a decade…
Continue Reading Doping law leads to two more indictments, this time against coaches who used to be elite sprinters
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a pair of former elite sprinters as part of a widening case alleging a conspiracy to supply banned…
Continue Reading ‘I didn’t change my number’: Macron still open to dialogue with Putin if it helps to bring peace
By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says he’d still consider talking with his Russian…
Continue Reading Congressional Budget Office projects lower inflation and higher unemployment into 2025
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Congressional Budget Office says it expects inflation to nearly hit the Federal…
Continue Reading With Iowa’s caucuses a month away, Trump urges voters to hand him not just a victory, but a blowout
By THOMAS BEAUMONT and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press CORALVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump was uncharacteristically serious when he implored an…
Continue Reading A Thai senator linked to a Myanmar tycoon is indicted for drug trafficking and money laundering
BANGKOK (AP) — Prosecutors in Thailand have indicted a member of the country’s Senate on six charges involving narcotics trafficking, money…
Continue Reading A Spanish official says spotter planes are helping curtail the number of West African migrant boats
MADRID (AP) — A senior Spanish official says the deployment of two Spanish surveillance planes to watch for migrant boats heading on the…
Continue Reading 2 cousins freed after spending 42 years wrongfully imprisoned – the latest in a spate of high-profile exonerations this week
By Paradise Afshar and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Two Illinois cousins who have spent most of their lives locked up for crimes they never committed…
Continue Reading Georgia election workers’ defamation case against Giuliani opens second day of damages deliberations
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jurors on Friday began their second day of deliberations to…
Continue Reading Biggest solar flare in years temporarily disrupts radio signals on Earth
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA telescope has captured the biggest solar flare in years, which temporarily…
Continue Reading Lights flicker across NYC as brief power outage affects subways, elevators
NEW YORK (AP) — A small explosion at an electrical facility caused a momentary power outage in New York City. Lights flickered, a subway line was…
Continue Reading Moldova and Georgia celebrate as their aspirations for EU membership take crucial steps forward
By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Moldova and Georgia celebrated after European Union leaders buoyed their aspirations to join the 27…
Continue Reading West African court orders Niger’s president to be released and reinstated nearly 5 months after coup
By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A court of the West African regional bloc has ordered the release and reinstatement of…
Continue Reading Lead contamination in applesauce pouches may have been ‘intentional act,’ FDA official tells Politico
Lead contamination in cinnamon applesauce pouches that sickened dozens of young children may have been an “intentional act,” a US Food and Drug…
Continue Reading Experts call for more diversity to combat bias in artificial intelligence
By Kaitlyn Schwanemann, CNN (CNN) — Calvin Lawrence has dedicated his career to artificial intelligence. But even after decades of experience…
Continue Reading International court rules against Guatemala in landmark Indigenous and environmental rights case
By DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Guatemala violated Indigenous rights by permitting a huge nickel mine on tribal land almost…
Continue Reading Prince Harry’s phone hacking victory is a landmark in the long saga of British tabloid misconduct
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry’s victory against Mirror Group Newspapers on Friday over what a British judge called…
Continue Reading Shops in 2 Dutch cities start selling legally grown cannabis in an experiment to regulate pot trade
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press BREDA, Netherlands (AP) — A paradox at the heart of the Netherlands’ permissive pot policy has gone up in smoke…
Continue Reading ‘Reacher’ star Alan Ritchson talks season two of hit show and how ‘Amazon took a risk’ on him
By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press The wandering Jack Reacher, created by novelist Lee Child, returns in a second season of “Reacher” on Prime…
Continue Reading Police officer fatally shoots 19-year-old in Mesquite, Texas, suspect in a vehicle theft
MESQUITE, Texas (AP) — Police in Mesquite, Texas, say an officer investigating a stolen vehicle fatally shot a 19-year-old man who was in another…
Continue Reading Finland reports a rush of migrant crossings hours before the reclosure of 2 border posts with Russia
By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Dozens of migrants have crossed into Finland hours before the reclosure of two southern…
Continue Reading Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says Orioles lease at Camden Yards headed to a vote
By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says a long-term agreement between the Baltimore Orioles and the…
Continue Reading The EU struggles to unify around a Gaza cease-fire call but work on peace moves continues
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A number of European Union leaders are trying to use mounting concern about civilian deaths in…
Continue Reading The title of Bill Maher’s new book promises “What This Comedian Said Will Shock You”
NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Maher has had a few second thoughts, or at least some variations on the first ones. Next June, Simon & Schuster will…
Continue Reading Companies announce partnership to release dengue-fighting mosquitoes in the Caribbean
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Two private companies have announced a partnership to release mosquitoes across the Caribbean bred with a bacterium…
Continue Reading Plane crashes and catches fire on North Carolina highway with 2 people escaping serious injuries
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say a small plane crashed on a western North Carolina highway and caught fire, but the two people on board…
Continue Reading Why have thousands of United Methodist churches in the US quit the denomination?
Associated Press The United Methodist Church has been undergoing a major upheaval as more than 7,000 congregations across the country, one quarter of…
Continue Reading US national security adviser says a negotiated outcome is the best way to end Lebanon-Israel tension
By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says he has discussed with Israeli officials the…
Continue Reading One fourth of United Methodist churches in US have left in schism over LGBTQ ban. What happens now?
By PETER SMITH Associated Press A quarter of U.S. congregations in the United Methodist Church have received permission to leave the denomination…
Continue Reading Suriname’s ex-dictator faces final verdict in 1982 killings of political opponents. Some fear unrest
By GEROLD ROZENBLAD Associated Press PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Suriname’s former dictator will face a final verdict this month in the…
Continue Reading Videos show Israeli soldiers in Gaza burning food, vandalizing a shop and ransacking private homes
By Ivana Kottasová and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli soldier looks directly into the camera, then turns around and sets a pile of…
Continue Reading Germany’s parliament approves a plan for a bigger hike in carbon price after a budget deal
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s parliament has approved plans to raise the country’s levy on carbon dioxide emissions from fuel by more than…
Continue Reading Spanish police arrest 14 airport workers after items go missing from checked-in suitcases
MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they have arrested 14 workers at one of the country’s main tourist airports on suspicion of stealing items from…
Continue Reading 5 questions that can help guide your holiday tipping
By ELIZABETH AYOOLA of NerdWallet As you plan your holiday giving, you may be thinking about adding service workers to your list of recipients. But…
Continue Reading Airbnb agrees to pay $621 million to settle a tax dispute in Italy
ROME (AP) — Short-term rental platform Airbnb has agreed to pay 576 million euros ($621 million) to settle a years-long dispute over unpaid taxes…
Continue Reading 5 Things to know for Dec. 15: Israel, Vaccines, European Union, Storms, Train collision
By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Some of America’s legacy airlines are hiring aggressively and adjusting flight schedules to accommodate…
Continue Reading 5 Things to know for Dec. 15: Israel, Vaccines, European Union, Storms, Train collision
CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Some of America’s legacy airlines are hiring aggressively and adjusting flight schedules to accommodate…
Continue Reading EU releasing 5 billion euros to Poland by year’s end as new government works to restore rule of law
BRUSSELS (AP) — The Polish prime minister and a top EU leader say that the European Union will by year’s end transfer to Poland the first 5…
Continue Reading Fighting reported to be continuing in northern Myanmar despite China saying it arranged a cease-fire
By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Reports from Myanmar say there is continuing fighting in the northeastof the country between the…
Continue Reading Texas abortion law’s wording is causing dangerous confusion over emergency medical exceptions, critics say
By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Emergency medical exceptions to the Texas abortion ban are extremely rare, and experts say the law leaves…
Continue Reading Prince Harry wins phone hacking lawsuit against British tabloid publisher, awarded 140,000 pounds
By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has won his phone hacking lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mirror and was…
Continue Reading ‘The cost of inaction far exceeds the cost of action’: WEF president on the great energy transition of our time
By Rym Bendimerad, CNN (CNN) — Money talks, but nature may have the last word if climate change continues to unfold at current rates. The World…
Continue Reading Denmark widens terror investigation that coincides with arrests of alleged Hamas members in Germany
By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A prosecutor in Denmark says authorities are holding two people in custody and four…
Continue Reading It’s time to take climate change seriously in conflict resolution, says International Crisis Group head
By Rym Bendimerad, CNN (CNN) — Conflict resolution is a skill sorely needed in the world right now. As president and CEO of global think-tank…
Continue Reading Hungary’s Orbán says he won’t hesitate to slam the brakes on Ukraine’s EU membership
By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister says he will have plenty of opportunities in the future to…
Continue Reading Hague court rejects bid to ban transfer to Israel of F-35 fighter jet parts from Dutch warehouse
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has rejected a request by a group of human rights organizations to order a halt to the transfer to…
Continue Reading UK police say they’re ‘overjoyed’ that British teen missing for 6 years has been found in France
LONDON (AP) — U.K. police say they are “relieved and overjoyed” that a teenager found walking along a road in southwestern France is a…
Continue Reading China defends bounties offered for Hong Kong dissidents abroad
BEIJING (AP) — China has defended controversial cash bounties offered for Hong Kong dissidents who have fled abroad that have been heavily…
Continue Reading Digging up rap’s roots: How African rhythms birthed American hip-hop
CNN By Lauren Lee, CNN (CNN) — Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late…
Continue Reading Digging up rap’s roots: How African rhythms birthed American hip-hop
By Lauren Lee, CNN (CNN) — Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s,…
Continue Reading 1 dead, 1 hospitalized after migrant boat crossing Channel deflates trying to reach Britain
PARIS (AP) — French maritime authorities say they rescued more than 60 migrants attempting to cross the English Channel overnight Friday but that…
Continue Reading Where is Kremlin foe Navalny? His allies say he has been moved but they still don’t know where
By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Allies of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say penitentiary…
Continue Reading Biden envoy to meet with Abbas as the US floats a possible Palestinian security role in postwar Gaza
By KARIN LAUB, NAJIB JOBAIN and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The United States national security adviser is set to meet…
Continue Reading Liberian-flagged cargo ship hit by projectile from rebel-controlled Yemen, set ablaze, official says
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Liberian-flagged cargo ship caught fire in the Red Sea on Friday after being…
Continue Reading Stock market today: Asian markets churn upward after the Dow ticks to another record high
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares powered higher on Friday after the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed to…
Continue Reading 515 injured in a Beijing rail collision as heavy snow hits the Chinese capital
BEIJING (AP) — Two subway trains have collided in heavy snow in Beijing, sending 515 people to the hospital, including 102 with broken bones.…
Continue Reading A rescue dog without paws is getting boots for Christmas
By Rhea Mogul, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Some cases are so awful that dog rescuer Catherine Lumsden doesn’t have the words to express how angry…
Continue Reading South Korea to see population plummet to 1970s levels, government says
By Brad Lendon and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korea, the country with the world’s lowest birth rate, expects it to fall…
Continue Reading Gunmen kill 11 people, injure several others in an attack on a police station in Iran, state TV says
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian state TV says suspected members of a separatist group have killed 11 people and injured several others…
Continue Reading Texas Longhorn who snarled New Jersey train service will spend his remaining days in an animal sanctuary
CNN By Elizabeth Wolfe and Jessica Moskowitz, CNN (CNN) — A rambunctious steer who wandered onto the tracks at Newark’s Penn Station and…
Continue Reading Texas Longhorn who snarled New Jersey train service will spend his remaining days in an animal sanctuary
By Elizabeth Wolfe and Jessica Moskowitz, CNN (CNN) — A rambunctious steer who wandered onto the tracks at Newark’s Penn Station and…
Continue Reading Liberals seek ouster from Wisconsin judicial ethics panel of Trump lawyer who advised fake electors
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Liberals are calling for former President Donald Trump’s Wisconsin lawyer to step down from…
Continue Reading A US pine species thrives when burnt. Southerners are rekindling a ‘fire culture’ to boost its range
By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America WEST END, N.C. (AP) — As the U.S. tries to restore a key forest ecosystem in the Southeast,…
Continue Reading Hong Kong police issue new cash bounties for self-exiled activists, including a US citizen
By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Hong Kong police on Thursday placed HK$1 million ($128,000) bounties on five more democracy activists…
Continue Reading Canadian man charged with murder in sprawling international investigation into ‘suicide kits’ sold online
By Lindsay Isaac and Paula Newton, CNN (CNN) — They live an ocean apart from one another but now share a bond of anguish and outrage over the…
Continue Reading How the US keeps funding Ukraine’s military — even as it says it’s out of money
By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has been increasingly pressuring Congress to pass stalled legislation to…
Continue Reading Shooting of Palestinian college students came amid spike in gun violence in Vermont
By LISA RATHKE Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The recent shootings of three college students of Palestinian descent in Vermont’s largest…
Continue Reading An appeals court will hear arguments over whether Meadows’ Georgia charges can move to federal court
By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal appeals court will hear arguments Friday over whether the election interference charges…
Continue Reading Why more women live in major East Coast counties while men outnumber them in the West
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Anyone who has suspected that there are more women than men where they live, or vice versa, will find fodder for…
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