Pakistan uses boats, helicopters to evacuate flood victims
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say rescuers backed by troops are using boats and helicopters to evacuate hundreds of marooned people from…
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California outlines plan for scaled back giant water tunnel
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A new plan to reroute how water moves from wetter Northern California to drier…
Continue ReadingFederal court denies Noem’s Mount Rushmore fireworks appeal
By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal from South Dakota Gov. Kristi…
Continue ReadingMotorcyclist: Truck plowed through ‘like a bowling ball’
By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The last rider in a group of Marine motorcycle club members testified Wednesday that he…
Continue ReadingSenate passes bill to boost computer chip production in US
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill designed to encourage more semiconductor companies to build chip plants in the United…
Continue ReadingAfrican nations talk climate ahead of major UN meeting
By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — African nations opened climate talks in the Mozambican capital Maputo on Wednesday…
Continue ReadingPower line kills 4 at anti-UN protest in eastern Congo
By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Officials say four people demonstrating against the United Nations peacekeeping mission…
Continue ReadingJudge tosses Kentucky student’s lawsuits over DC encounter
By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuits against five media…
Continue ReadingJail guard describes how Florida school shooter attacked him
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida jail guard says school shooter Nikolas Cruz attacked him with little…
Continue ReadingUS signs off on 800,000 more doses of monkeypox vaccine
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — After weeks of delays, nearly 800,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine will soon be available…
Continue ReadingFollowers of cleric enter Iraqi parliament in show of force
By ALI ABDUL-HASSAN and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of Iraqi protesters have breached Baghdad’s parliament, chanting…
Continue ReadingDOJ: Buffett company discriminated against Black homebuyers
By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A Pennsylvania mortgage company owned by billionaire businessman Warren Buffett’s company…
Continue ReadingDemocrat Barnes emerges as favorite in Wisconsin Senate race
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes has emerged as the clear favorite in what had been a crowded…
Continue ReadingMinister: Lebanon to build new silos to ease wheat crisis
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Cash-strapped Lebanon plans to build two new grain silos to fight its food security crisis for…
Continue ReadingClimate change and vanishing islands threaten brown pelicans
By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer CHAUVIN, La. (AP) — Sliding off the side of her small boat, seabird biologist Bonnie Slaton wades through…
Continue ReadingPolice: Boy, 6, fatally shoots sister, 5; parents arrested
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — A 6-year-old boy fatally shot his 5-year-old sister in their home in eastern Indiana and their parents have been arrested in…
Continue ReadingUSAID chief calls on China to restructure Sri Lanka’s debt
By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The head of the U.S. government aid agency has called on China to help Sri Lanka and other…
Continue ReadingJames Lovelock, creator of Gaia ecology theory, dies at 103
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British environmental scientist whose influential Gaia theory sees the Earth as a living…
Continue ReadingWestern European powers press Iran to agree to nuclear deal
BERLIN (AP) — Western European powers are pressing Iran to agree to a revival of its 2015 nuclear deal after a months-long standstill in…
Continue ReadingBiden emerges from COVID isolation, tells public: Get shots
By CHRIS MEGERIAN and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden ended his COVID-19 isolation on Wednesday, telling…
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