Category Archives: World

Nebraska 6-week abortion ban fails to advance in Legislature
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - An effort to advance a bill that would ban abortion once cardiac activity can be detected - generally around the sixth week of pregnancy - fell one vote short Thursday of breaking...
Apr 27, 2023

Sudanese army, paramilitary accept 3-day extension of truce
CAIRO (AP) - Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have agreed to a three-day extension to a cease-fire in Sudan. The Sudanese military accepted the deal earlier on Thursday. The truce and its ext...
Apr 27, 2023

China welcomes Ya Ya the panda home after 20 years abroad
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Ya Ya the giant panda landed Thursday in Shanghai after departing from the Memphis Zoo in Tennessee, where she spent the past 20 years on loan. The popular panda's trip was close...
Apr 27, 2023

US sanctions Russia, Iran entities for detaining Americans
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration on Thursday sanctioned Russia's Federal Security Service and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps intelligence organization for wrongfully detaining Amer...
Apr 27, 2023

Washington state shields people seeking abortion, trans care
SEATTLE (AP) - Washington state enacted legal protections Thursday for people who travel there seeking reproductive and gender-affirming procedures and treatment, becoming the latest Democrat-led stat...
Apr 27, 2023

Carolyn Bryant Donham, at center of Emmett Till death, dies
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana, a coroner's...
Apr 27, 2023

US to open foreign centers in bid to stop migration surge
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration will open migration centers in Guatemala and Colombia for asylum seekers heading to the U.S.-Mexico border, in a bid to slow what's expected to be a surge of...
Apr 27, 2023

Kansas legislators impose sweeping anti-trans bathroom law
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Republican legislators in Kansas enacted possibly the most sweeping transgender bathroom law in the U.S. on Thursday, overriding the Democratic governor's veto of the measure witho...
Apr 27, 2023

Spain swelters in temperatures more typical of summer
MADRID (AP) - Spain's national weather service said temperatures would "reach values typical of summer" across most of the country, with a high of 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit) forecast ...
Apr 27, 2023

Guardsman spoke of 'murder,' may still possess secrets: US
The Massachusetts Air National guardsman accused of leaking highly classified military documents kept an arsenal of weapons, talked of "violence and murder" on a social media platform and an "assassin...
Apr 27, 2023