Month: September 2022

By DANICA KIRKA, JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III vowed in his first speech as monarch Friday to carry on Queen Elizabeth II’s “lifelong service” with his own modernizing stamp, as Britain entered an uncertain new age under a new sovereign. Around the world, the queen’s exceptional reign

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Senate has approved handing control of the country’s recently created National Guard over to the military. When the National Guard was created by a Constitutional reform in 2019, it was placed under civilian control. But most of its training and recruitment has been done from within the army.  President Andrés

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says the state is stepping up its polio-fighting efforts as the virus was detected in the wastewater of yet another county in the New York City area. Health officials began checking for signs of the virus in sewage water after the

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon utilities shut down power to tens of thousands of customers on Friday as dry easterly winds swept into the region in the hopes that it would lessen the risk of wildfires in extremely dry and hot conditions. Power shut-offs due to extreme fire weather, common

By AAMER MADHANI, JOSH BOAK and ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press NEW ALBANY, Ohio (AP) — President Joe Biden tried to set politics aside at the Ohio groundbreaking of a new Intel computer chip facility. But a tough Senate contest in the state and a Democratic candidate seeking to distance himself from the White House reflected

ELK MILLS, Md. (AP) — Maryland authorities say three children and two adults were identified as those found dead of gunshot wounds at northeast Maryland home on Friday. The Cecil County Sheriff’s office said the children were in the 5th through 8th grades. The five were found in the home after a man called 911