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LGBTQ+ librarians grapple with attacks on books – and on themselves
By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press Idaho librarian June Meissner was closing up for the day at the downtown Boise Public Library when a man approached…
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press Idaho librarian June Meissner was closing up for the day at the downtown Boise Public Library when a man approached…
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — When the Massachusetts 911 system for emergency calls stopped working on Tuesday afternoon, Boston Police…
Continue ReadingBy Eyad Kourdi and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN (CNN) — Fifty-two people have been killed or left missing in Israeli strikes near Gaza city on Saturday,…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — A water emergency has prompted the mayor of Capri — one of Italy’s most popular islands — to order a halt to the arrival of…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A 22-year-old woman who became an abortion rights advocate after she was raped by her stepfather…
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Nigel Farage, a figurehead of the UK’s populist right, has sparked outrage from political opponents after saying…
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An investigation into a ransomware attack earlier this month on London hospitals by the Russian group…
Continue ReadingBy Parija Kavilanz, CNN New York (CNN) — Decades ago, Americans flocked to Main Street to shop. A string of small family-owned stores stood…
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — You’re getting up there in years. Maybe you haven’t thought about going to the gym and…
Continue ReadingBy ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India and Bangladesh on Saturday moved to bolster their defense relationship and signed…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Galgano and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Families were shopping at a local grocery store in a small Arkansas town on Friday when the…
Continue ReadingVIENNA (AP) — Three people are missing after massive thunderstorms and rainfall in southeastern Switzerland caused a landslide. One woman was…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Six people who were missing were found dead by rescuers in Fujian province, state media reported Saturday, adding to the extreme…
Continue ReadingBy KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia’s parliament began a two-day debate leading up to a vote…
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Nigel Farage, leader of the right-wing Reform U.K. party, is facing wide-ranging criticism over his…
Continue ReadingBy Jomana Karadsheh, Lauren Izso, Eyad Kourdi and Kareem Khadder, CNN (CNN) — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says at least…
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired 16 missiles and 13 Shahed drones at energy facilities and critical infrastructure in an overnight attack on…
Continue ReadingRAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israel’s army says an Israeli national has been found dead in a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank…
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A nuclear-powered United States aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea ahead of a…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — The Italian coast guard has recovered 14 more bodies from last week’s shipwreck in the Ionian Sea off the southern Italian…
Continue ReadingBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Heavy rain and flash flood warnings in New Mexico have prompted mandatory evacuations in Las Vegas with shelters set up for…
Continue ReadingBy MOSES SAWASAWA and MONIKA PRONCZUK Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — The Goma dance festival, the largest dance festival in Congo, has taken…
Continue Readingby HILAIRE ZON Associated Press ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast health authorities have launched mobile enrollment centers for the…
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A commercial ship traveling through the Gulf of Aden has seen explosions near…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations’ top official in Afghanistan is defending the failure to…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A three-year-old Biden administration executive order asking federal agencies to assist…
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — President Joe Biden and his allies are trying to replicate their success with suburban…
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press On Long Island, former CNN anchor John Avlon and scientist Nancy Goroff are facing off in a primary election…
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is set to speak to a group of politically influential evangelicals who…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press On a lazy summer weekend a year ago, Russia was jolted by the stunning news of an armed uprising. The swaggering chief of a…
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s new coalition government has brought a Black president and a white…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Sebastian and Olga Voitovych, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — Kateryna Serzhan says the only way to survive Ukraine’s almost daily blackout…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — A judge has paused parts of a new Washington state parental rights law derided by critics as a “forced outing” measure. King…
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Leon Draisaitl made his first major impact in the Stanley Cup Final, and the series is…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — A judge has paused parts of a new Washington state parental rights law derided by critics as a “forced outing” measure. King…
Continue ReadingBy FU TING Associated Press A 17-year-old vocational school student from rural China has become a celebrity on Chinese social media after getting…
Continue ReadingBy SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Each year from June to September, a heavy band of rain makes its way from India’s…
Continue ReadingBy MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The death toll from torrential rains and landslides in El Salvador has risen to…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. government inspections of avocados and mangoes in the Mexican state of Michoacan will “gradually” resume, U.S.…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — About two years after 13 children and teens sued Hawaii over the threat posed by…
Continue ReadingBy Josh Campbell and Jack Hannah, CNN (CNN) — A New Mexico judge denied a motion Friday from Alec Baldwin’s attorneys asking the court to…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The former CEO of a publicly traded health care company based in Nevada has been found guilty of a multi-million dollar insider…
Continue ReadingSTRATFORD, Conn. (AP) — Two Lockheed Martin subsidiaries have agreed to pay the federal government $70 million for overcharging the Navy for…
Continue ReadingBy Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — The death of an Indian migrant worker in Italy, who was reportedly abandoned on a road after his arm was…
Continue ReadingJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A man arrested in the slaying of a Louisiana woman and abduction of her two daughters and subsequent death of one of them has…
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — Reality TV star Julie Chrisley’s sentence for bank fraud and tax evasion has been thrown out by federal appeals judges, who…
Continue ReadingVandals have struck McCowan Park in Ammon, making nighttime lighting unavailable at the pickleball courts for…
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man who bludgeoned Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer and was sentenced to 30…
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — An 88-year-old Montana man has been sentenced to two years in a federal prison medical facility for his role in two bank…
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press With little warning, thousands of people were forced to flee their homes as a pair of wildfires ballooned in…
Continue ReadingBy BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A former top law enforcement official is suing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, saying he…
Continue ReadingSELDEN, N.Y. (AP) — A New York county has reached a settlement with the family of a man fatally shot by police in his home in 2011. Suffolk County…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Mitch Landrieu, national…
Continue ReadingBy Chandelis Duster and Nia Mclean, CNN (CNN) — A Massachusetts mother is suing her son’s former school district and several of its employees…
Continue ReadingBy Emma Tucker, Andy Rose and Kara Mihm, CNN (CNN) — A Texas woman has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against two Mexican resort travel…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Newly released body camera footage shows a chaotic encounter on a Minneapolis street last…
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has become the first state where judges can order offenders guilty of certain sex…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK Associated Press Days before the National Transportation Safety Board is set to explain why first responders were wrong to blow open…
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Facial recognition startup Clearview AI has reached a settlement in a lawsuit alleging its…
Continue ReadingBy ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — At least six people have died from heat-related causes this year so far in sizzling metro Phoenix,…
Continue ReadingCNN By Nick Watt, CNN Oakland, California (CNN) — Lance Clark was 9 years old when he was shot dead in a robbery. A man named Ernest Dykes was…
Continue ReadingBy Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s conviction in his criminal hush money trial last month led to the two largest single days…
Continue ReadingBy MELISSA GOLDIN and ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Republicans have shared a spate of lightly altered and out-of-context videos to…
Continue ReadingBy Merlin Delcid, CNN San Salvador (CNN) — At least 30 people have died in the heavy rains pounding Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador this…
Continue ReadingCENTERVILLE, S.D. (AP) — A former law officer who once served as a tiny South Dakota town’s mayor has pleaded not guilty in a three-person…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Homeland Security Department said Friday that the agency tasked with…
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Izso and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has spoken about preventing the occupied West Bank from…
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press CHAPIN, S.C. (AP) — The president of the Teamsters Union is set to speak at this summer’s Republican National…
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A’ja Wilson leads Caitlin Clark by just over 1,000 votes in early fan voting for the WNBA…
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has toured the home of assassinated civil…
Continue ReadingBy CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Los Angeles Olympics are heading to Oklahoma, about 1,300 miles east of the host city. In…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled against a California woman who said her rights were violated…
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press A relentless heat wave continued to bake most of the United States on Friday, with numerous areas expected to…
Continue ReadingBy JEFF MARTIN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — By the time fishermen spotted the first head bobbing above the water, the 38 dogs were exhausted and…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of Columbia University students who were arrested for occupying a campus building as…
Continue ReadingGREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislative leaders are appealing portions of a federal judge’s order this month that blocked…
Continue ReadingKATV, CNN By Taylor Galgano and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Families were shopping at a local grocery store in a small Arkansas town on Friday…
Continue ReadingBy JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer A new study finds the popular obesity drug Zepbound may help treat sleep apnea, a dangerous disorder in which…
Continue ReadingBy KEN MILLER Associated Press Capital murder charges have been filed against two men in the strangulation death of a 12-year-old Houston girl. Her…
Continue Reading“This is something that I didn’t expect.”Cleave Lewis IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — The renovated basketball court in the Idaho Falls Recreation…
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile and Justin Lear, CNN (CNN) — Three people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting at a grocery store in Fordyce, Arkansas, the…
Continue ReadingBy JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas medical panel has approved guidance for doctors working under one of the nation’s…
Continue ReadingBy KAITLYN HUAMANI Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Taylor Wily, a former sumo wrestler who became known for his role as confidential informant…
Continue ReadingFORDYCE, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas State Police say two people were killed and eight wounded in a shooting that occurred Friday at a grocery store in…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Eight employers who challenged some federal health insurance requirements cannot be forced to…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY and KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press Attorneys for a woman accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV and…
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada state court judge has dismissed a criminal indictment against six Republicans accused of submitting certificates to…
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A serial killer who admitted he was responsible for the deaths of five Alaskans,…
Continue ReadingBy Tatiana Arias and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — One of several Americans recently charged with having ammunition in Turks and Caicos is expected…
Continue ReadingBy EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Olympic team is one of a handful that will supply air conditioners for their…
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza’s Heath Ministry says Israeli strikes on a tent camp near Rafah have…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer The recreational game of cornhole wouldn’t seem to have any characteristics that would give men an inherent…
Continue ReadingCrispy Cones announced it will be opening a store in Idaho Falls.…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A single black hair could help bring clarity to the mysterious death of a 50-year-old Philadelphia woman who…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court has unsealed an arrest warrant for a Malian accused…
Continue ReadingHUTCHINSON ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a Pennsylvania couple vacationing in Florida with their six children drowned after they were caught…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Well before the celebrity superfan became a trend in the sports world, Donald Sutherland was in on the ground floor with a…
Continue ReadingBRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press (AP) — A relentless heat wave continues to bake most of the United States, with numerous areas expected to see…
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Over the course of two weeks, President Joe Biden has imposed…
Continue ReadingBy Mallika Kallingal, CNN (CNN) — A Pennsylvania couple drowned after being swept away by a rip current Thursday off the coast of Hutchinson…
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