Category Archives: World

Dolphins rout Broncos 70-20, scoring the most points by an NFL team in a game since 1966
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) - The Miami Dolphins scored the most points in a game by an NFL team since 1966, overwhelming the Denver Broncos 70-20 on Sunday behind rookie speedster De'Von Achane's 203 ya...
Sep 24, 2023

President Macron says France will end its military presence in Niger and pull ambassador after coup
PARIS (AP) - President Emmanuel Macron announced Sunday that France will end its military presence in Niger and pull its ambassador out of the country after its democratically elected president was de...
Sep 24, 2023

NASA's first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from spacecraft
NASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule fro...
Sep 24, 2023

Flamingos in Wisconsin? Tropical birds visit Lake Michigan beach in a first for the northern state
PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. (AP) - Five flamingos that showed up in Wisconsin to wade along a Lake Michigan beach attracted a big crowd of onlookers eager to see the unusual visitors venturing far from thei...
Sep 23, 2023

Russian foreign minister lambastes the West but barely mentions Ukraine in UN speech
United Nations (AP) - Russia's top diplomat lashed out at the U.S. and the West on Saturday as self-interested defenders of a fading international order, but he didn't discuss his country's war in Ukr...
Sep 23, 2023

A black student’s family sues Texas' governor and AG over his suspension for his hairstyle
HOUSTON (AP) - The family of a Black high school student in Texas on Saturday filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state's governor and attorney general over his ongoing suspension by his ...
Sep 23, 2023

Tropical Storm Ophelia makes landfall in North Carolina as coastal areas lashed with heavy rain
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Tropical Storm Ophelia made landfall on the North Carolina coast early Saturday, lashing coastal areas with damaging winds and dangerous surges of water, the U.S. National Hurric...
Sep 23, 2023

A 9/11 defendant is ruled unfit for trial after a medical panel finds torture left him psychotic
WASHINGTON (AP) - A military judge at Guantanamo Bay has ruled one of the 9/11 defendants unfit for trial after a military medical panel found that the man's sustained abuse in CIA custody years earli...
Sep 22, 2023

Tropical Storm Ophelia forms off the US mid-Atlantic coast, expected to bring heavy rain and wind
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Ophelia has formed off the mid-Atlantic coast and is expected to bring rain, storm surge and windy conditions over the weekend, the National Hurricane Center said. Ophelia ...
Sep 22, 2023

Pope visits multicultural Marseille as some in Europe talk of fences and blockades to curb migration
MARSEILLE, France (AP) - Pope Francis arrived Friday in the French port city of Marseille, for centuries a multiethnic and multifaith melting pot, to amplify his call for the Mediterranean to be a pla...
Sep 22, 2023