KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Foreign governments evacuated diplomats, staff and others from Sudan on Sunday as rival generals battled for a ninth day with no sign of a truce that had been declared for a major Muslim holiday. While world powers like the U.S. and Britain airlifted their diplomats from the capital of Khartoum, Sudanese
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Beech, CNN Residents and business owners in parts of Monmouth County, New Jersey, have been warned of potentially hazardous materials at a nearby former industrial site after firefighters found leaking containers and materials on fire at the location. The US Environmental Protection Agency has started overseeing the sampling and removal of around 200
Continue Reading KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In a concert Friday night in Knoxville, Tennessee, Lizzo filled the stage with drag queens in a glittery protest against the state’s legislation designed to restrict drag performances in public. While performing at Thompson-Boling Arena, the Grammy-winning “Juice” singer brought out a number of drag performers, including Aquaria, Kandy Muse, Asia
Continue Reading TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The family of an Arizona property manager who was fatally shot during an attempted eviction last year has filed a $50 million claim against Pima County and others. The Arizona Republic reports that an attorney representing Angela Fox’s family alleges county Constable Deborah Martinez-Garibay had several drugs in her system at
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess and Michelle Watson, CNN An animatronic dragon caught fire at California’s Disneyland park on Saturday evening, according to Disney officials. “During the final showing of ‘Fantasmic’ at Disneyland park on Saturday evening, the dragon caught fire,” Disney officials told CNN in an email. “Anaheim Fire & Rescue quickly responded and the fire
Continue Reading COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A bird strike sparked an engine fire on a plane shortly after it took off Sunday from an Ohio airport, and the airliner returned safely with no injuries reported, authorities said. American Airlines flight 1958 had departed from John Glenn Columbus International Airport in Columbus around 7:45 a.m. and was headed
Continue Reading NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Thirty-nine bodies have been found so far on land owned by a pastor in coastal Kenya who was arrested for telling his followers to fast to death. Malindi sub-county police chief John Kemboi said that more shallow graves have yet to be dug up on the land belonging to pastor Paul
Continue Reading By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press Janet Rice headed to the hospital Thursday night, as she routinely does when tragedy befalls her community. A barrage of gunfire had injured several young people, including a 12-year-old girl struck in the head by a stray bullet. While en route, Rice’s phone rang. She pulled over. The young
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou men’s basketball standout forward Kobe Brown took to social media Sunday afternoon announcing that he has declared for the 2023 NBA Draft. This comes after uncertainty if Brown would take his talents to the next level or use his fifth year of eligibility and stay in Columbia. Brown also said in
Continue Reading By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press METEN-MEER-ZORG, Guyana (AP) — The judges leaned in, hands clasped behind their backs. Everyone grew quiet as they stared at the two tiny black birds flitting before them, wondering which one would break the silence. “One. Two,” a judge called out softly as the bird on the right erupted into
Continue ReadingBy Mitchell McCluskey, CNN An American Airlines plane was forced to return to the airport Sunday morning in Columbus, Ohio, after a possible bird strike may have sparked an engine fire. The Boeing 737 designated Flight 1958 had departed Columbus for Phoenix before the crew reported a possible bird strike at around 8 a.m. local
Continue Reading OTTAWA, Canada (AP) — Canada has suspended its consular services in Sudan, saying a rapidly deteriorating situation has made it impossible to safeguard the safety and security of its staff in the capital city of Khartoum. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured in just 10 days after power-sharing negotiations between the country’s armed forces
Continue Reading By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Tachlowini Gabriyesos fled his native Eritrea and walked the desert to reach Israel when he was just 12 years old. He is now running for other refugees like him to send a message of hope and endurance. Gabriyesos ran a half-marathon race on Sunday at the
Continue Reading By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Around 3,000 migrants set out Sunday on what they call a mass protest procession through southern Mexico to demand the end of detention centers like the one that caught fire last month, killing 40 migrants. The migrants started from the city of Tapachula, near the
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AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday said a Jordanian lawmaker has been arrested by Israel on suspicion of smuggling weapons and gold into the occupied West Bank. The ministry’s spokesman, Sinan Majali, said Jordanian officials are following the case “to find out the merits of the situation and address it as soon
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN After a two-decade absence, at least one lion has returned to Chad’s Sena Oura National Park. An image of a “muscular female lion” in the park was captured by a remote camera in February, according to a news release from the Wildlife Conservation Society, which released the image on Thursday in
Continue Reading By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” continued to rack up coins at the box office, leading ticket sales for the third straight weekend, as the animation hit neared $1 billion after just 18 days in theaters. The weekend’s top new release, the horror reboot “Evil Dead
Continue Reading By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Members of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party have narrowly approved a local coalition deal in Berlin with Germany’s main center-right opposition party. It’s a decision that should pave the way for the capital’s first conservative mayor in more than two decades. The Social Democrats’ Berlin branch said Sunday
Continue Reading The Associated Press Armenia’s defense ministry says that one of its soldiers was killed by an Azerbaijani sniper near the border. But Azerbaijan denied the claim and separately reported that its soldiers had come under fire from Armenia in another part of the border area. Tensions further rose on Sunday when Azerbaijan announced it had
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A report of someone being shot early Sunday morning in Columbia turned out to be a false alarm, according to the Columbia Police Department.
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