Teenager charged in deadly 2022 school shooting in Iowa seeks to withdraw guilty plea
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — One of the 10 teenagers charged in a deadly 2022 shooting at an Iowa high school now wants to withdraw his guilty plea.…
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Former coal-fired power plant razed to make way for offshore wind electricity connection
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press UPPER TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A giant smokestack that was part of the landscape for millions of tourists heading to…
Continue Reading‘Grounded,’ a new opera about a female fighter pilot turned drone operator, prepares to take off
By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 10 years after it was first imagined as an opera, “Grounded” is ready to take…
Continue Reading2 workers at Fukushima plant hospitalized after accidentally getting sprayed with radioactive waste
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Two workers at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been hospitalized…
Continue ReadingDeSantis says Florida helped send weapons to Israel — a move that could boost him in the GOP primary
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s office says the state has arranged to send drones, weapons…
Continue ReadingFlorida’s private passenger train service plans to add stop between South Florida and Orlando
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Officials with Florida’s high speed passenger train service say that they plan to add a stop somewhere along the…
Continue ReadingMaría Corina Machado is winner of Venezuela opposition primary that the government has denounced
By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan government critic María Corina Machado has been declared the winner of…
Continue ReadingO’ahu community members raise awareness against animal cruelty
By Mika Miyashima Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — Taking a stand to help those without a voice.…
Continue ReadingFTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried testifies outside jury’s presence as judge decides what he can say
By LARRY NEUMEISTER and KEN SWEET Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried got a test run at testifying at his New York criminal trial…
Continue ReadingPolice in Illinois fatally shoot sledgehammer-wielding man after reported domestic assault
ROUND LAKE BEACH, Ill. (AP) — A man who allegedly attacked two relatives with a sledgehammer in suburban Chicago has been fatally shot by police…
Continue ReadingPakistan’s ex-leader Nawaz Sharif regains right to appeal convictions, opening a path to election
By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A federal court in Pakistan’s capital has restored the appeals of the country’s former Prime…
Continue ReadingHere’s a timeline of the mass shooting in Maine and the hunt for the suspect
By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Eighteen people were killed in a mass shooting at two locations in Lewiston, Maine, on the night of October 25,…
Continue ReadingRep. Jamaal Bowman pleads guilty to a misdemeanor for pulling a fire alarm in House office building
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic congressman Jamaal Bowman has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count for…
Continue ReadingSouth Africa begins an inquiry into a building fire that killed 76 people in Johannesburg in August
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — An inquiry has opened into an apartment building fire that killed at least 76…
Continue ReadingOhio woman indicted on murder charges in deaths of at least four men, attorney general says
By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman has been indicted on murder charges in the deaths…
Continue ReadingEuropean Union leaders seek aid access to Gaza and weigh the plight of EU citizens there
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are grappling with ways to use their combined leverage to ensure that more…
Continue ReadingChina and the U.S. appear to restart military talks despite disputes over Taiwan and South China Sea
BEIJING (AP) — China and the United States appear to be restarting dialogue between their militaries, despite continuing disputes over…
Continue Reading‘Everything is destroyed’: Civilians trickle out of Avdiivka as Russian assault leaves Ukrainian town in ruins
By Vasco Cotovio and Maria Kostenko, CNN (CNN) — A Ukrainian police officer inspects a half-destroyed building when, suddenly, he rushes to the…
Continue Reading5 found shot to death at southeast North Carolina home, sheriff says
CLINTON, N.C. (AP) — A sheriff in southeast North Carolina says five people have been found fatally shot at a home. News outlets report that…
Continue ReadingThe last new Beatles song, ‘Now And Then,’ will be released next week
By DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sixty years after the onset of Beatlemania and with two of the quartet now dead, artificial…
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