Category Archives: World

Heather Mack, convicted in Bali of killing mom and stuffing body in suitcase, pleads guilty in US
CHICAGO (AP) - The daughter of an American woman whose body was found stuffed inside a suitcase at an Indonesian resort island changed her plea to guilty in Chicago federal court on Friday on charges ...
Jun 16, 2023

Iowa high court refuses to unblock strict ban on most abortions
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa's high court refused Friday to unblock a strict ban on most abortions, rebuffing Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds and, for now, keeping the conservative state from joining oth...
Jun 16, 2023

Swiss cyclist Gino Mäder dies from injuries suffered in crash during Tour de Suisse
GENEVA (AP) - Swiss cyclist Gino Mder died Friday, one day after crashing and falling down a ravine during a descent at the Tour de Suisse, the Bahrain-Victorious team said. The 26-year-old Mder crash...
Jun 16, 2023

Pope Francis leaves Rome hospital 9 days after surgery
ROME (AP) - Pope Francis has been discharged from the Rome hospital where he had abdominal surgery nine days earlier to repair a hernia and remove painful scarring. Francis, 86, left in a wheelchair, ...
Jun 15, 2023

Tornado devastates Texas Panhandle town, killing 3 and injuring dozens
PERRYTON, Texas (AP) - A tornado ripped through the Texas Panhandle town of Perryton on Thursday, killing three people, injuring dozens more and causing widespread damage as another in a series of fie...
Jun 15, 2023

Florida man executed for 1984 killings of teenage babysitter, mother of 2 slain months apart
STARKE, Fla. (AP) - A Florida man was executed Thursday for killing a 14-year-old babysitter and a 38-year-old mother of two in separate attacks months apart in 1984 while children were sleeping in th...
Jun 15, 2023

Republicans in Oregon Senate end six-week walkout that blocked bills on abortion, trans health care
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Enough Republican members showed up in the Oregon Senate on Thursday to end a six-week walkout that halted the work of the Legislature and blocked hundreds of bills, including some ...
Jun 15, 2023

Greek coast guard arrests 9 survivors of migrant ship sinking
KALAMATA, Greece (AP) - The Greek coast guard says nine survivors from the migrant ship that sank off the country's coast have been arrested on suspicion of belonging to the smuggling ring that arrang...
Jun 15, 2023

Nathan Carman dies awaiting trial for his mother's death in 2016 fishing trip off New England
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - The man charged with killing his mother at sea during a 2016 fishing trip off the coast of New England in what prosecutors say was a scheme to inherit millions of dollars has di...
Jun 15, 2023

American arrested for assault on 2 US tourists in Germany that left one woman dead
BERLIN (AP) - An American man has been arrested after allegedly assaulting two U.S. tourists near Neuschwanstein castle in southern Germany and then pushing them down a steep slope, an attack that lef...
Jun 15, 2023