Category Archives: World
Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment and declines to testify in Republican-led COVID-19 Senate hearing
WASHINGTON (AP) - Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions from senators in a Republican-led committee hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pan...
Jul 29, 2026
Southern Europe burns as 3 firefighters die and France battles blaze 4 times the size of Paris
LEGE-CAP FERRET, France (AP) - An uncontained wildfire four times the size of Paris threatened to surge again in southwest France on Wednesday - as three firefighters died in Greece and crews across s...
Jul 29, 2026
US launches strikes on Iranian targets a day after it foiled missile attack on American forces
BAGHDAD (AP) - The U.S. military said early Thursday it had completed what it described as "a heavy wave of strikes against Iran" conducted in response to an earlier Iranian missile attack on a U.S. b...
Jul 28, 2026
Rescuers search for survivors after a 7.1 quake kills 18 in southwestern Japan
KUMAMOTO, Japan (AP) - Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed ...
Jul 28, 2026
Senate confirms Jay Clayton as nation's intelligence director
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has confirmed Jay Clayton to become head of the nation's intelligence agencies, putting a permanent director in place weeks after President Donald Trump sought to delay hi...
Jul 28, 2026
Teen gets life without parole for killing 4 at Georgia’s Apalachee High School
A judge on Tuesday sentenced a teenager who killed two students and two teachers in a shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia to serve life in prison without the possibility of parole, calling hi...
Jul 28, 2026
Seattle police say 15-year-old arrested in connection with festival shooting had a ghost gun
SEATTLE (AP) - The 15-year-old arrested after a shootout at a food festival near Seattle's Space Needle over the weekend was armed with a ghost gun with an extended magazine, police said Tuesday. Poli...
Jul 28, 2026
Busiest US death chamber: Florida executes 2 men in a day, including an octogenarian
STARKE, Fla. (AP) - Florida on Tuesday became the first state in nearly a decade to carry out two executions in a single day, putting to death an 80-year-old man who was the second-oldest inmate known...
Jul 28, 2026
FIFA plan for Kushner-backed $20 billion operation to run World Cup meets fury from Europe's UEFA
GENEVA (AP) - FIFA President Gianni Infantino's plan to create a $20 billion company running the World Cup with private investors including the Kushner family was announced Tuesday - and immediately a...
Jul 28, 2026
Gunmen kill high-ranking Taliban official in Afghanistan in rare targeted attack
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Gunmen killed a high-ranking local Taliban official in Afghanistan's northwestern province of Badakhshan on Tuesday in a rare targeted killing in the country. Two gunmen shot...
Jul 28, 2026