Month: February 2023

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff’s deputy fatally shot an armed man who had wounded two people and set a barn on fire before barricading himself inside a house. The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office identified the gunman as 64-year-old Steve John Roosa. Deputies responded to initial reports of a fire in a barn near

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president says he thinks a two-day visit by U.S. President Joe Biden to mark the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will have global significance. Biden is set to arrive in Warsaw on Tuesday. During the trip, he plans to hold talks with the leaders of NATO’s nine eastern flank

NEW YORK (AP) — Work crews have fixed a power outage at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport that forced some flights to be canceled or diverted. Airport officials said Saturday that repairs were made overnight and full power was restored in Terminal 1, which handles some of the airport’s international flights. The outage

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For two weeks, an owl that escaped from New York’s Central Park Zoo has flown from treetop to treetop, eluding capture and amassing legions of fans worried about its ability to survive alone in the big city. Would Flaco, a majestic Eurasian eagle-owl, go hungry

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister says the European Union is partly to blame for prolonging Russia’s war in Ukraine. Speaking at an annual state-of-the-nation address in Budapest on Saturday, Viktor Orban doubled down on his government’s insistence that supporting Kyiv was a mistaken strategy for European countries. He

By KARL RITTER and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press MUNICH (AP) — The top diplomats from the United States and China met on Saturday in the first high-level contact between their countries since the U.S. shot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon two weeks ago, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken sending the message that Beijing’s

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government says “a number” of Russian diplomats will have to leave the Netherlands. The government accused Moscow of trying to smuggle spies into the country that is home to institutions including the International Criminal Court and the global chemical weapons watchdog. Saturday’s announcement is the latest development in

By DIARLEI RODRIGUES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — As Rio de Janeiro kicked off its Carnival on Saturday, about 100 dogs barked and wagged their tails to the tune of samba music as they paraded in front of pet lovers in a canine costume competition. The “Blocao” — a mixture of “bloco” which

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Relatives and allies of an opposition politician imprisoned in Russia say they haven’t heard from him in a month and are worried about his well-being. Andrei Pivovarov was pulled off a Warsaw-bound flight at St. Petersburg’s airport just before takeoff in May 2021 after Moscow said

COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Authorities in Georgia confirmed Saturday that nine people under the age of 18, including a 5 year old, were wounded after shots rang out at a gas station. Officers from the Columbus Police Department responded at about 10 p.m. Friday and found multiple gunshot victims amid a large group of people.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida Republicans have chosen Christian Ziegler to be their state party’s chairman heading into a 2024 election in which Florida could be center stage for GOP presidential politics. The vote Saturday was 126 for Ziegler, the party’s current vice chair, to 100 for Evan Power, who chairs the GOP in Leon