Quake death toll nears 48,000 in Turkey, 6,000 in Syria
ISTANBUL (AP) — The head of Turkey’s disaster and emergency management agency has raised the country’s death toll from a magnitude 7.8…
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US agencies debunk Florida surgeon general’s vaccine claims
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — U.S. health agencies have sent a letter to Florida’s surgeon general, warning him that his claims about COVID-19 vaccine…
Continue ReadingCoroner: Death of former Ohio AMBER Alert infant unexplained
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An autopsy has concluded that the death of one of two Ohio twin boys who became the center of an AMBER Alert last year was…
Continue ReadingAmericans’ fun road trip to Mexico became days of horror
By JULIE WATSON, JAMES POLLARD, and ALFREDO PEÑA Associated Press/Report for America LAKE CITY, S.C. (AP) — It was supposed to be a fun road trip…
Continue ReadingUkrainian firefighters on risky mission to save lives, homes
By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and EVGENY MALOLETKA Associated Press KOSTIANTYNIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The firefighters find thick grey smoke pouring from the…
Continue ReadingAn anti-government protest in Czech capital draws thousands
PRAGUE (AP) — Thousands of people in the Czech Republic rallied in Prague to protest high inflation and to demand an end to the country’s…
Continue ReadingLandmine blast kills 2, injures 1 in SW Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani official says a landmine explosion in the country’s southwest has killed two people and critically…
Continue ReadingGas prices surge in New Jersey, around nation
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gas prices surged in New Jersey and around the nation at large, but analysts say the increase could be short-lived amid a…
Continue ReadingThai women activists end hunger strike, vow to keep up fight
By KAWEEWIT KAEWJINDA Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Two Thai women activists have given up their hunger strike of more than seven weeks and say…
Continue ReadingOscars race: Clock ticks for buffs to binge nominated films
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A film buff from Oklahoma City, Elyssa Mann has scant time to waste, needing to cross just…
Continue ReadingUK protest backs health staff as doctors prepare to strike
LONDON (AP) — Thousands of protesters have marched through London to support health care workers, who have held a series of strikes over pay and…
Continue ReadingA major bank failed. Here’s why it’s not 2008 again
By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The financial institution best known for its relationships with high-flying world technology…
Continue ReadingFrench protests push for withdrawal of Macron’s pension plan
By ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Opponents of French President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64…
Continue ReadingItaly’s coast guard, navy, bring hundreds of migrants ashore
By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian coast guard and navy vessels are ferrying hundreds of migrants to shore after…
Continue ReadingHouston joins cities fighting potential state takeovers
By JUAN A. LOZANO and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — In four years of Houston schools being under threat of one of the biggest state…
Continue ReadingAches, rashes and fear: Trauma remains after Ohio derailment
By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Heather Bable speaks rapidly, recalling the terror of the night when a train…
Continue Reading‘It’s hard to focus’: Schools say American kids are hungry
By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY and ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — America’s schools say kids are hungry — just as pandemic-era…
Continue ReadingWill it take market crash for Congress to raise debt limit?
By JOSH BOAK and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s one way to force President Joe Biden and Congress to solve…
Continue ReadingTractor-trolley in Pakistan falls into canal, killing 10
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — An official say a tractor-pulled trolley transporting villagers to a shrine fell into an irrigation canal in eastern…
Continue ReadingTrump vs. DeSantis: Florida pastors mull conservative issues
By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press DORAL, Florida (AP) — Several of Florida’s conservative faith leaders have the ear of two early…
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