Fires in Nebraska, Iowa spur evacuations, destroy homes
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Prairie fires pushed by tinder-dry conditions and winds topping 60 mph (96 kph) led to evacuations in eastern Nebraska and…
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Abortion ruling means more and riskier births in Mississippi
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) — In Mississippi, where health officials expect 5,000 more births…
Continue Reading 1 plea, 1 alternate approach avert trial over Floyd’s death
By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Another long and painful trial over the killing of George Floyd was averted on Monday after one…
Continue Reading Prison deaths mount in El Salvador’s gang crackdown
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — On March 26, El Salvador’s street gangs had killed 62 people across the…
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Woman dies after wrong-way driver hits her on I-25
EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — A woman is dead after a man crashed into her while driving the wrong way on I-25. Sunday, Colorado State Patrol…
Continue Reading Meet Dale Haney, the White House groundskeeper for 50 years
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidents come and go, but White House grounds superintendent Dale Haney has been a…
Continue Reading Spanish man trekking to World Cup reported missing in Iran
By RAQUEL REDONDO and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A Spanish man trekking from Madrid to Doha for the 2022 FIFA World Cup has not…
Continue Reading Tropical storm quickly approaching Bangladesh’s coast
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Authorities in Bangladesh are evacuating hundreds of thousands of people across its vast coastal region as a tropical…
Continue ReadingMan who allegedly shot and killed two Dallas hospital employees was in the building to watch his child’s birth, authorities say
By Sonya Hamasaki, Elizabeth Wolfe and Tina Burnside, CNN The man who allegedly shot and killed two employees in the maternity ward of a Dallas…
Continue Reading Prison deaths mount in El Salvador’s gang crackdown
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — On March 26, El Salvador’s street gangs had killed 62 people across the…
Continue Reading Michigan teen pleads guilty to killing 4 in school shooting
By COREY WILLIAMS and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A teenager has pleaded guilty to terrorism, first-degree murder and…
Continue Reading Endangered whale’s decline slows, but population falls again
By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The decline of an endangered species of whale slowed last year, as it lost about 2% of…
Continue Reading‘Nation’s Report Card’ shows new evidence of Covid-19’s devastating impact on US children’s education
By Ray Sanchez, CNN Fourth- and eighth-graders fell behind in reading and had the largest ever decline in math, according to a national educational…
Continue Reading Brazil election: What to know about the high-stakes race
By CARLA BRIDI Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil is days from a presidential election featuring two political titans and bitter…
Continue Reading Japan Cabinet minister resigns over Unification Church ties
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s economy minister submitted his resignation Monday over ties to the Unification Church…
Continue Reading Ukraine cites success in downing drones, fixes energy sites
By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities tried to dampen public fears over Russia’s use of Iranian…
Continue Reading 2 German ex-soldiers convicted over Yemen mercenary plans
BERLIN (AP) — Two former German soldiers have been convicted of trying to form a mercenary group to intervene in Yemen’s civil war. They were…
Continue Reading Climate Questions: How do we know humans triggered warming?
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Scientists use old fashioned detective work to figure out that humans are responsible for climate change. They…
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US Border Patrol sends migrants places where no help waits
By CLAUDIA TORRENS and VANESSA A. ALVAREZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press interviewed about a dozen migrants who recently…
Continue ReadingLos Angeles officials condemn demonstrators seen in photos showing support of Kanye West’s antisemitic remarks
By Sonya Hamasaki Los Angeles officials are condemning the display of banners from a freeway overpass this weekend by a group of demonstrators seen…
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