Four women whose lives ended in a drainage ditch outside Atlantic City
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The bodies of four women were found in a drainage ditch just outside Atlantic City in November 2006.
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Breakthrough in Long Island serial killings shines light on the many unsolved murders of sex workers
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Two women out for an afternoon walk outside Atlantic City found a body in a ditch and called police, who quickly found three more. That was 17 years before police arrested Rex Heuermann in New York this month. The 59-year-old architect who commuted from Long
Continue ReadingWho’s in, who’s out, who’s boycotting: The 8 candidates expected onstage for the first GOP debate
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump won’t be on the Republican debate stage Wednesday. But the former president is driving the conversation on and off the debate stage anyway. Trump supporters including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will be in Milwaukee. There are questions about how many of his campaign surrogates
Continue ReadingMore women are aiming to become church leaders. Together, they could change American Christianity
By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — Christian leadership in the US has typically been seen as a male occupation. The right for women to be ordained and serve as faith leaders has been hard-won over decades, and in several major factions, like the Roman Catholic and Southern Baptist churches, women are barred from the highest
Continue ReadingSome renters may get relief from biggest apartment construction boom in decades, but not all
By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades. Median rent rose just 0.5% in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first
Continue ReadingExplosion at Thailand fireworks warehouse kills at least 12 people
By Kocha Olarn and Teele Rebane, CNN (CNN) — At least 12 people were killed and 121 injured in an explosion at a fireworks warehouse in southern Thailand. The incident – in the village of Mu No – reduced the warehouse and surrounding area to rubble, drone footage showed. At least two of the victims
Continue ReadingShooting wounds 5 people in Michigan with 2 victims in critical condition, police say
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Police in Michigan say an early morning shooting wounded five people, including two who were listed in critical condition. The Lansing Police Department says officers responded to reports of a shooting around 1 a.m. Sunday. The five victims transported to a hospital by the Lansing Fire Department ranged in age from
Continue ReadingAmerican nurse and her child kidnapped from their community ministry in Haiti
CNN By Heather Law and Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — An American nurse and her child have been kidnapped in Haiti, according to El Roi Haiti, the Christian humanitarian aid organization she works for. Alix Dorsainvil, wife of El Roi Haiti Director Sandro Dorsainvil, and their child were reportedly abducted Thursday morning, according to a
Continue ReadingPalestinian factions meet in Egypt seeking reconciliation as violence surges in the West Bank
CAIRO (AP) — Palestinian factions have met in Egypt to discuss reconciliation efforts amid surging violence between Israel and Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank. With the main groups, Hamas and Fatah, split since 2007 and with repeated reconciliation attempts having failed, expectations were low for the one-day meeting. Participants at the closed-door meeting
Continue ReadingConstitutional referendum to remove presidential term limits divides Central African Republic
By JEAN FERNAND KOENA and ZANE IRWIN Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — The Central African Republic went to the polls Sunday in a highly anticipated vote on a new constitution, which could remove presidential term limits. The new constitution would replace the one adopted at President Faustin Archange Touadera’s inauguration in 2016,
Continue ReadingColombian president’s son arrested in money laundering probe
By Stefano Pozzebon and Duarte Mendonca, CNN (CNN) — The son of Colombia’s president has been arrested as part of an investigation into money laundering and illicit enrichment, the Colombian attorney general’s office said in a statement. Nicolas Petro – a congressman in the Atlantico province – was placed under investigation by the attorney general’s
Continue ReadingAt least 5 dead and 7 wounded in clashes inside crowded Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Palestinian officials say at least five people have been killed and seven others wounded during clashes in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp. The officials say fighting broke out in Ein el-Hilweh on Sunday after an unknown gunman tried to kill Islamist militant Mahmoud Khalil, killing a companion
Continue ReadingSalvage crews begin towing a burning cargo ship to a new location off the Dutch coast as smoke eases
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Salvage crews have started towing a burning cargo ship loaded with thousands of new cars to a temporary anchorage location off the northern Dutch coast after smoke from the stricken vessel eased. On Saturday night, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management had said the Fremantle Highway was unlikely
Continue ReadingZelensky says war ‘returning to Russia’ after Moscow drone attack
CNN By Josh Pennington, Mariya Knight, Zahra Ullah and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that war is “gradually returning” to Russia hours after the Kremlin accused Kyiv of targeting Moscow with drones, the latest in a series of attacks. The Russian Defense Ministry said three drones were intercepted Sunday but
Continue ReadingFrench embassy in Niger is attacked as protesters waving Russian flags march through capital
By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Thousands of people backing the coup in Niger marched through the streets of the capital denouncing France, the country’s former colonial power, waving Russian flags, and setting a door at the French Embassy ablaze on Sunday before the army broke up the crowd. Demonstrators in Niger
Continue ReadingPig cooling pads and weather forecasts for cows are high-tech ways to make meat in a warming world
By MELINA WALLING Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — More than a third of the heat-trapping gases cooking the planet come from growing and raising food, but millions of cattle, pigs and other animals get to stay cool in the United States and other parts of the developed world. Many American farmers have apps to forecast
Continue ReadingCall to arms: Thousands of Revolutionary War stories are waiting to be told. A new project asks the public to help uncover them
By Carly Breland and Melissa Gray, CNN (CNN) — The National Park Service and US National Archives and Records Administration are calling on Americans to help reveal the untold stories of the United States’ first veterans to commemorate the upcoming 250th anniversary of American independence. The Revolutionary War Pension Files Transcription Project aims to transcribe
Continue Reading10 die, including 3 children, as strong winds hit a tourist camp in central Russia, officials say
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s emergencies ministry says that 10 people have died, including three children, after high winds tore through central Russia. The report Sunday came in the wake of the weekend storm. Eight of those killed were part of a group of tourists camping close to Lake Yalchik in the Mari-El region when the
Continue ReadingAfrican leaders leave Russia summit without grain deal or a path to end the war in Ukraine
By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — African leaders have left two days of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin with little to show in response to their requests to resume a deal that kept grain flowing from Ukraine and to find a way to end the war there. During a press conference
Continue ReadingFrance’s Le Maire presses China on market access and lobbies for electric car investment
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — The French finance minister said Sunday he pressed Chinese leaders to open their markets wider to foreign companies and lobbied for investment in France’s electric car industry, as the European Union’s second-largest economy followed Washington in reviving post-COVID economic talks amid tension over Beijing’s surging trade
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