Category Archives: World

Houston lifts boil-water order affecting more than 2 million
HOUSTON (AP) - The city of Houston lifted an order Tuesday that had called for more than 2 million people to boil their tap water before drinking or using it. The boil order had been in effect since S...
Nov 29, 2022

Favre asks to be dismissed from Mississippi welfare lawsuit
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre is asking to be removed from a lawsuit by the state of Mississippi that seeks to recover millions of dollars in misspent welfare money that wa...
Nov 28, 2022

Pence calls on Trump to apologize for dinner with antisemite
NEW YORK (AP) - Former Vice President Mike Pence on Monday said Donald Trump "demonstrated profoundly poor judgment" and called on him to apologize after the former president had dinner last week with...
Nov 28, 2022

5 officers charged after Black man paralyzed in police van
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Five Connecticut police officers were charged with misdemeanors Monday over their treatment of a Black man after he was paralyzed from the chest down in the back of a police va...
Nov 28, 2022

'We the People' at heart of White House holiday decorations
WASHINGTON (AP) - "We the People" is Jill Biden's holiday theme with White House decorations designed for "the people" to see themselves in the tree ornaments, mantel displays, mirrors and do-it-yours...
Nov 28, 2022

Judge accepts insanity plea deal for man in face-biting case
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A judge accepted a plea deal Monday for a man who randomly killed a Florida couple in their garage six years ago and then chewed on one victim's face that will send him to...
Nov 28, 2022

Buffalo gunman pleads guilty in racist supermarket massacre
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - The white gunman who massacred 10 Black shoppers and workers at a Buffalo supermarket pleaded guilty Monday to murder and hate-motivated terrorism charges, guaranteeing that he wi...
Nov 28, 2022

Hawaii’s Mauna Loa starts to erupt, sending ash nearby
HONOLULU (AP) - Hawaii's Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, has started to erupt, prompting volcanic ash and debris to fall nearby, authorities said Monday. The eruption began late Sunday ...
Nov 28, 2022

Japan filmmaker freed from Myanmar prison vows to tell story
TOKYO (AP) - Toru Kubota, a Japanese journalist who was arrested while covering a protest in military-ruled Myanmar and detained for more than three months, said his experience made him more determine...
Nov 28, 2022

Newborn among 7 dead in landslide on Italy's Ischia island
MILAN (AP) - Search teams have recovered seven dead, including a 3-week-old infant and a pair of young siblings, buried in mud and debris that hurtled down a mountainside and through a densely populat...
Nov 27, 2022