US says 1,500 Americans may still await Kabul evacuation
By ROBERT BURNS, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken says as many as 1,500…
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Utility completes wind power surge with Wyoming projects
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — An electric utility has completed its plan to more than double the amount of potential wind power it can send to customers in…
Continue ReadingFire damages self-described ‘birthplace’ of Harry Potter
LONDON (AP) — A cafe in Scotland’s capital where author J.K. Rowling wrote some of the Harry Potter books has been damaged in a fire. The…
Continue Reading2020 was Europe’s hottest year on record ‘by a considerable amount,’ scientists say
By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Last year was Europe’s hottest on record, according to a report published Wednesday by the American Meteorological…
Continue Reading2nd hiker dies within days in Death Valley National Park
DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Death Valley National Park rangers are reminding visitors to limit stressful activities during summer…
Continue ReadingParents recall agonizing moments before their 7-month-old twins were killed in Tennessee flooding
By Jason Hanna, CNN The nightmare was only beginning for Matthew Rigney and his partner, Danielle Hall, when floodwaters swept her away from him and…
Continue ReadingMexico welcomes 124 Afghan refugee journalists, families
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has welcomed a group of 124 Afghan media workers and their families who fled their country after the Taliban takeover.…
Continue ReadingMan protecting his baby fatally shot in Florida restaurant
By TERRY SPENCER and DAVID FISCHER MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A gunman walked into a Miami Beach restaurant and fatally shot a tourist who was…
Continue ReadingCOVID surge, vaccine mandate mean some Oregon school delays
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — With COVID-19 cases surging in Oregon, at least four school districts have delayed their start date. The Alsea School District…
Continue ReadingSpain tightens fertilizer rules after dead fish clog lagoon
MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities are expanding a ban on harmful fertilizers around a saltwater lagoon on the country’s Mediterranean coast,…
Continue ReadingColorado high school volleyball coach says school administrators asked him to denounce being gay or leave his job
By Carma Hassan and Kay Jones, CNN A volleyball coach says administrators at Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, forced him to…
Continue ReadingWomen’s rights activist recounts pain of leaving Afghanistan
By DANIEL NIEMANN Associated Press DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — A former mayor of a central Afghanistan city is in Germany after having fled her…
Continue ReadingVisualizing the stark maternal health inequities in the United States
By Priya Krishnakumar, CNN Black women in the United States are more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than any other demographic — and the…
Continue ReadingAncient DNA from a teen girl reveals previously unknown group of humans
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The bones of a teenage hunter-gatherer who died more than 7,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi tell the…
Continue ReadingReport: Most federal election security money remains unspent
By ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press A federal report finds that in the run up to the 2020 presidential election U.S. states and territories had spent…
Continue ReadingSecond beluga in failing health after move to Connecticut
By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press Mystic Aquarium says that a second of the five beluga whales it imported in May from a marine park in Canada is in…
Continue ReadingNew NY governor adds 12,000 deaths to publicized COVID tally
By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s new governor is acknowledging that the state has had nearly 12,000 more…
Continue ReadingEXPLAINER: What’s happening with Afghanistan evacuations?
By BEN FOX and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 82,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan since the Taliban…
Continue ReadingJersey Shore landmark Lucy the Elephant to get new skin
MARGATE, N.J. (AP) — The beach-side landmark, Lucy the Elephant, is having all of its metal skin replaced because more than 50% of the exterior has…
Continue ReadingExperts on WHO team say search for COVID origins has stalled
By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The international scientists dispatched to China by the World Health Organization to look for the…
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