Month: September 2022

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Hideko Tamura Snider was a 10-year-old girl in Hiroshima, Japan, when the United States detonated an atomic bomb over the city on Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II. On Wednesday, she described the horrors of that day as the guest of honor in a ceremony

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal investigators have taken possession of a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. utility transmission pole and attached equipment in their probe into the cause of a Northern California fire that has become the largest in the state this year. The utility said Monday in a

MOSCOW (AP) — A gunman opened fire in a school in central Russia on Monday, killing 17 people and wounding 24 others before shooting himself dead, authorities said. The shooting took place in School No. 88 in Izhevsk, a city 960 kilometers (600 miles) east of Moscow in the Udmurtia region. Russia’s Investigative Committee identified

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s defense minister says 100 soldiers have been deployed to each of three Atlantic provinces hit by former Hurricane Fiona. A navy vessel also will visit the most devastated area of Newfoundland, where 76 homes have been destroyed or structurally damaged. Defense Minister Anita Anand says HMCS

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associates Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss (AP) — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan returned to Mississippi’s capital city Monday to meet with Jackson officials about the city’s troubled water system. In a news release, the office of Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said it plans to work with the U.S Justice Department

CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese medical officials have warned that more than 1, 500 unidentified bodies piled up in Sudan’s mortuaries could lead to an outbreak of diseases. The medical officials Monday made the claim as they argued against the need for any further investigation into the causes of death. In May, more than 2,000 unidentified

WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a gun found after a weekend shooting at a western Pennsylvania amusement park that wounded three people had been reported stolen in Ohio last year. Allegheny County police said Monday that a trace of the weapon found after Saturday night’s shooting at Kennywood Park indicated that the firearm

By AAMER MADHANI and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has announced that French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Washington in early December for the first state visit of President Joe Biden’s tenure. Such visits are marked by pomp and pageantry and are designed to celebrate relations between the United

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia says it has detained a Japanese diplomat based in the eastern city of Vladivostok for soliciting “restricted” information. News agencies reported that Japanese consul Motoki Tatsunori had allegedly offered money for sensitive information regarding Moscow’s cooperation with an unnamed state in the Asia-Pacific. He also reportedly wanted information on the impact

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — It’s been more than a century since a major storm like Hurricane Ian has struck the Tampa Bay area, which blossomed from a few hundred thousand people in 1921 to more than 3 million today. Many of these people live in low-lying neighborhoods that are