Category Archives: World

Rain from Tropical Storm Hilary lashes California and Mexico, swamping roads and trapping cars
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Tropical Storm Hilary inundated streets across Mexico's arid Baja California Peninsula with deadly floodwaters Sunday before moving over Southern California, where it swamped roads an...
Sep 05, 2023

Alaska couple reunited with cat 26 days after home collapsed into river swollen by glacial outburst
ANCHORAGE, ALaska (AP) - A pair of Alaska teachers needed good news after they lost nearly all their possessions when their house collapsed into a river swollen by a glacial-outburst flood and their c...
Sep 05, 2023

Proud Boys’ Enrique Tarrio gets record 22 years in prison for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years in prison for orchestrating his far-right extremist group's attack on the U.S. Capitol in a failed bid to st...
Sep 05, 2023

Fierce storm in southern Brazil kills at least 21 people and displaces more than 1,600
SAO PAULO (AP) - At least 21 people died in southern Brazil due to a fierce storm that caused floods in several cities, authorities said Tuesday. Rio Grande do Sul Gov. Eduardo Leite said the death to...
Sep 05, 2023

Judge allows Georgia to resume enforcing ban on hormone replacement therapy for transgender youth
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia can resume enforcing a ban on hormone replacement therapy for transgender people under 18, a judge ruled Tuesday, putting her previous order blocking the ban on hold after a fed...
Sep 05, 2023

61 indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges connected to 'Stop Cop City' movement
ATLANTA (AP) - Sixty-one people have been indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges following a long-running state investigation into protests against a proposed police and training facility in the ...
Sep 05, 2023

Capitol physician says McConnell’s health episodes show 'no evidence' of being strokes or seizures
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell's health episodes show "no evidence" of being strokes or seizures, the Capitol physician said in a letter released Tuesday after a medical ev...
Sep 05, 2023

Spanish soccer federation fires women's national team coach Jorge Vilda amid Rubiales controversy
MADRID (AP) - The Spanish soccer federation fired women's national team coach Jorge Vilda on Tuesday, less than three weeks after his team won the Women's World Cup title and amid the controversy invo...
Sep 05, 2023

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw resigns, months before end of mayor's second term
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw will step down this month to take a leadership position with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the mayor said Tuesday....
Sep 05, 2023

Judges reject Alabama’s congressional lines, will draw new districts to increase Black voting power
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Federal judges said Tuesday that they will draft new congressional lines for Alabama after lawmakers refused to create a second district where Black voters at least came close ...
Sep 05, 2023