Month: September 2021

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s national news agency says a Syrian man has died after swallowing gasoline he was siphoning out of his vehicle’s tank with a plastic tube. The agency said Saturday the young man in the northern Lebanese town of Bhannine died in the hospital where he was transferred after swallowing the gasoline from

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board says a fatal head-on crash between two towboats pushing barges in Louisiana was caused by inadequate communication and failure to broadcast their total sizes. The RC Creppel overturned and sank after the collision with the Cooperative Spirit in January 2020. Its

By JEFF AMY Associated Press PERRY, Ga. (AP) — The rewards of an early Donald Trump endorsement were on display Saturday evening in Georgia. A three-man ticket of candidates he’s backing in 2022 Republican primaries for statewide office took the stage prior to Trump’s speech. But GOP opponents of Trump-backed candidates aren’t folding in Georgia.

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press Lawyers for the man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan are scheduled to argue in court that 66-year-old John Hinckley should be freed from restrictions placed on him after he moved out of a Washington hospital. John Hinckley moved to Williamsburg, Virginia, in 2016. Since then, a federal judge

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo government officials say a public building was set on fire and another was hit by grenades that didn’t explode in what they described as criminal acts related to a protest by ethnic Serbs. Members of Kosovo’s Serb minority have blocked the roads

By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Hiring and retaining people capable of helping fend off a constant stream of cyberattacks and other online threats tops the list of concerns for state technology leaders. There’s a severe shortage of those professionals and not enough financial firepower to compete with the federal government, global companies

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — To some observers, the Supreme Court is facing the most serious threat to its legitimacy since its decision in Bush v. Gore two decades ago that split liberals and conservatives and effectively settled the disputed 2000 presidential election in favor of Republican George W.

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — China, the U.S. and Canada completed a high-stakes prisoner swap Saturday with joyous homecomings for two Canadians held by China and for an executive of Chinese global communications giant Huawei Technologies charged with fraud.  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hugged diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor after

By ANDREA ROSA and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ALGHERO, Sardinia (AP) — Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont is vowing to keep travelling throughout Europe to campaign for the region’s independence from Spain. But he is also confirming that he will appear at an Oct. 4 hearing in Sardinia to decide whether Italy will extradite him