By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A dozen state or county agencies have parted ways with tens of thousands of dollars in federal grants meant to help monitor teenagers’ sexual behaviors and try to lower rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. The withdrawals reflect a shift in many states
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Assocaited Press TOKYO (AP) — Three bears that snuck into a tatami mat factory and were holed up inside for nearly a day have been captured. Authorities in the town of Misato in the northern prefecture of Akita said the bears were captured in a cage and killed. The region is dealing
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s main opposition Labour Party has won an emphatic victory in a special election for a Scottish district that was watched as an indicator of the party’s rebounding popularity ahead of a national election next year. Labour took the parliamentary seat near Glasgow from the Scottish National
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL, JOHN LEICESTER and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in recognition of her tireless campaigning for women’s rights and democracy, and against the death penalty. Mohammadi, 51, has kept up her activism despite numerous arrests by Iranian authorities and spending years behind
Continue ReadingBy ALBERT AJI and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press HOMS, Syria (AP) — Family members of some of the victims of a deadly drone attack on a crowded military graduation ceremony that killed scores gathered outside a military hospital in the central city of Homs on Friday to collect the bodies of their loved ones, who
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — En esta era no tan dorada del transporte aéreo nacional, facturar una maleta gratis es un lujo reservado para pocos. Y los que facturan sus maletas a menudo se encuentran estresados durante todo el viaje, preguntándose si su equipaje llegará realmente a destino con ellos. Como resultado, más viajeros que
Continue ReadingBy SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish warplanes have carried out airstrikes on sites believed to be used by U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in northern Syria. The strikes late on Thursday came after the U.S. military shot down an armed Turkish drone that came within 500 meters of American troops in Syria. Turkey
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ Associated Press AMIZMIZ, Morocco (AP) — Moroccan authorities will start providing money to families whose homes were destroyed in an earthquake last month that took nearly 3,000 lives. The Sept. 8 earthquake wreaked havoc, particularly in the five rural mountain regions surrounding Marrakech. As nights get cooler, many people displaced by the
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — A quiet ceremony has been attended by about 200 people in a small town in northeastern Thailand marking the one-year anniversary of the country’s deadliest mass killing. Attendees at Friday’s remembrance ceremony donned colorful traditional clothes for Buddhist religious rites. On Oct. 6, 2022, a fired
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Continue ReadingBy BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Heavy rain has triggered floods and mudslides and downed trees in many parts of Sri Lanka, killing at least six people and forcing authorities to close schools in some areas. Strong monsoon rains have been pounding the Indian Ocean nation for more than a week,
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A former High Court chief justice and dozens of legal academics are rebutting key arguments used in the public campaign against Australians creating an advocacy body for the Indigenous population. Retired High Court Chief Justice Robert French used a speech to the National Press Club on
Continue ReadingBy ASHOK SHARMA and SIBI ARASU Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Hundreds of rescuers dug through slushy debris and fast-flowing, icy water Friday in a search for survivors after a glacial lake overflowed and burst through a dam in India’s Himalayan north, a disaster that many had warned was possible for years. The flood
Continue ReadingBy JOEAL CALUPITAN and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press ABOARD BRP SINDANGAN (AP) — A Chinese coast guard ship came within a meter (3 feet) of colliding with a Philippine patrol ship it was trying to block in the South China Sea, in an alarming incident that intensified fears that territorial disputes in the waters could
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Just one pic arrived this week, but a fun one. Louis Hoffman writes: “Gabriel is at it again! This time he gave Grandpa, Uncle Marlowe and Dad Joshua a chance! Fall Chinook and Coho in coastal tidewaters. We had lots of fun!” Share your catches with us for Big Ol’ Fish, from the Share tab
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — El expresidente Donald Trump respaldó el viernes la candidatura del representante de Ohio Jim Jordan a la presidencia de la Cámara de Representantes. En una publicación en Truth Social poco después de la medianoche, Trump dijo que Jordan “será un GRAN Presidente de la Cámara, ¡y tiene mi completo y
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Tetherow Resort has been named the No. 1 Resort in the Pacific Northwest in the coveted Condé Nast Traveler 2023 Readers’ Choice Awards, moving up three places from its No. 4 spot in the 2022 awards and marking the property’s sixth consecutive year of being ranked. Now in its 36th year,
Continue ReadingBy Joe Sutton and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — A man who showed up twice to the Wisconsin Capitol with a gun demanding to talk to the governor this week made a “concerning statement” during at least one of the visits and was twice detained by authorities, state officials said. The man first showed up
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Whales, dolphins and seals living in U.S. waters face major threats from warming ocean temperatures, rising sea levels and decreasing sea ice volumes associated with climate change, according to a first-of-its-kind assessment. Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration examined more than 100 stocks of
Continue ReadingBy Vasco Cotovio, Radina Gigova, Svitlana Vlasova and Helen Regan, CNN Hroza, Ukraine (CNN) — There were no military targets in the village that was hit by a Russian missile strike Thursday, a top Ukrainian police official said, in what was one of the deadliest attacks against civilians since the conflict began and which the
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