Month: August 2022

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Greenland’s rapidly melting ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10.6 inches (27 centimeters) — more than twice as much as previously forecast — according to a study published Monday. That’s because of something that could be called zombie ice. That’s doomed ice that, while

NEW YORK (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied an appeal from a New York Police Department detective who asked for an emergency injunction to keep the city from firing him over its vaccine mandate. Detective Anthony Marciano has a lawsuit pending against the city in a federal appeals court. His attorneys last

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The governments of Venezuela and Colombia have taken a step toward normalizing ties after President Nicolás Maduro hosted an event to welcome the newly appointed ambassador from the neighboring South American country, a post that had been empty since 2019 over a diplomatic impasse. Colombian

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — The Canadian government has raised the Survivors’ Flag on Parliament Hill as a way to honor Indigenous Peoples forced to attend the country’s notorious residential schools. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was joined by survivors of residential schools from across the country. More than 150,000 native children in Canada were forced to

By SETH BORENSTEIN and SIBI ARASU Associated Press The familiar ingredients of a warming world were in place: searing temperatures, hotter air holding more moisture, extreme weather getting wilder, melting glaciers, people living in harm’s way, and poverty. They combined in vulnerable Pakistan to create unrelenting rain and deadly flooding. The flooding has all the

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A jury has acquitted a former Texas police officer of criminally negligent homicide after a gunshot meant for a menacing dog instead killed the woman who owned it. The Tarrant County jury deliberated about 10 hours over two days before reaching its verdict Monday on Ravinder Singh. The former Arlington

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley is pitching herself as a bridge between law enforcement and the Democratic party in her latest appeal to moderate voters in one of the nation’s most competitive races for a seat in the narrowly divided chamber. Joined

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A new trial is set for March for a North Carolina-based insurance magnate whose previous convictions on corruption-related charges were overturned. A federal judge on Monday set a schedule for proceedings leading to a tentative trial date for Greg E. Lindberg. Cogburn released Lindberg from a minimum-security prison last month, weeks