Shark tourism grows on Cape Cod, 3 years after attacks
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press CHATHAM, Mass. (AP) — Cape Cod is slowly embracing its shark reputation, three summers after the popular…
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Volunteers help poorest survive Thailand’s worst COVID surge
By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — In Thailand’s worst coronavirus surge yet, lockdown measures have reduced what little Bangkok’s…
Continue ReadingClimate change pushes New Zealand to warmest recorded winter
By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The southern winter that just ended in New Zealand was the warmest ever recorded, and…
Continue ReadingLake Tahoe residents relieved homes spared from wildfire
By SAM METZ and AMY TAXIN AP/Report for America SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — People who fled South Lake Tahoe under threat of a wildfire have…
Continue ReadingPrized trout streams shrink as heat, drought grip US West
By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press SARATOGA, Wyo. (AP) — The North Platte River in southern Wyoming is flowing low, slow and warm — not great…
Continue ReadingPrized trout streams shrink as heat, drought grip US West
By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press SARATOGA, Wyo. (AP) — The North Platte River in southern Wyoming is flowing low, slow and warm — not great…
Continue ReadingGerman ambassador to China, ex-Merkel adviser, dies at 54
BERLIN (AP) — The German Foreign Ministry says the country’s new ambassador to China, who was previously a senior adviser to Chancellor…
Continue ReadingAsian stock markets rise after weak US hiring data
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are higher after weak U.S. hiring in August fueled expectations the Federal…
Continue ReadingReport: Filmmaker Kitano’s car attacked by man with pickax
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Police have arrested a man who allegedly attacked with a pickax a car carrying Japan’s…
Continue ReadingLocal health departments planning for potential Covid-19 booster rollout, but there is still ‘some confusion’
CNN By Jacqueline Howard, CNN It’s not clear if or when boosters doses of Covid-19 vaccines will be OK’d for fully vaccinated people in…
Continue ReadingFormer South African President Zuma released from prison on medical parole
By David McKenzie, CNN Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been released from prison on medical parole due to ill health, the…
Continue ReadingSouth Carolina attorney shot in the head 3 months after his wife and son were killed
By Dakin Andone and Shawn Nottingham, CNN A prominent South Carolina attorney says he was shot Saturday, according to law enforcement, about three…
Continue ReadingAt least 8 children were shot, one fatally, over the weekend in Chicago
By Carma Hassan, Alta Spells, Theresa Waldrop and Shawn Nottingham, CNN At least eight children have been shot, one fatally, so far over the Labor…
Continue ReadingDivers identify broken pipeline as source of Gulf oil spill
By MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Divers at the site of an ongoing oil spill that appeared in the Gulf of Mexico after…
Continue ReadingOfficials: Gadhafi son freed after 7-plus years in detention
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libyan officials say they have released one of Muammar Gadhafi’s sons after more than seven years of…
Continue ReadingDetroit-area Ford plant leaks 1,400 gallons of gasoline into city sewers
By Sahar Akbarzai, Theresa Waldrop and Steve Almasy, CNN A leak at a Ford Motor Company assembly plant in Flat Rock, Michigan, resulted in 1,400…
Continue ReadingRep. McCaul claims Taliban not allowing US citizens to depart Mazar-i-Sharif airport
By Daniella Diaz, Jennifer Hansler, Nicky Robertson and Sonnet Swire, CNN Rep. Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs…
Continue ReadingBrazil-Argentina qualifier suspended in coronavirus dispute
By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s World Cup qualifier against Argentina has been suspended amid chaotic scenes…
Continue ReadingCrews complete final cut of Georgia shipwreck demolition
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Salvage crews have finished cutting apart the last two sections of a cargo ship that overturned along the Georgia…
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Washington state workers union agrees to COVID vaccine mandate terms
Days after suing to block what is believed to be among the nation’s strictest COVID-19 employee vaccine mandates, Washington’s largest state…
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