By Isabel Rosales, Holly Yan, Chris Boyette and Emma Tucker, CNN A Sweet 16 party turned into a scene of carnage when four people were killed and at least 28 others were injured on Saturday night, officials said. The deadly rampage happened in downtown Dadeville around 10:34 p.m. Saturday, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said
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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s crown prince has announced the transfer of a 4% stake of the oil giant Saudi Aramco to a subsidiary of the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund. The move Sunday further boosts its coffers as the kingdom tries to expand its economy beyond oil.
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Patricia Pouncey feels numb whenever she thinks about her daughter Nikita Washington’s tragic death last December. Washington, a Black mother from Detroit, died at Harper University Hospital one day after giving birth via cesarean section to her 12th child, a boy named Nathaniel. Pouncey, who is now raising Nathaniel and
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By Ray Sanchez, CNN About half an hour before opening for business, employees at the Old National Bank branch near the Ohio River in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, gathered for a morning board meeting. There was Thomas Elliott, the bank’s 63-year-old senior vice president; Deana Eckert, a 57-year-old executive administrative assistant; and Juliana Farmer, 45, who
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer SAPPORO, Japan (AP) — So much has been invested in clean energy that there can be no rolling back of moves to end carbon emissions, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said Sunday. Kerry noted that if countries deliver on promises to phase out polluting fossil fuels, the world can
Continue Reading By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police say at least 10 people died when the bus they were traveling in left the road and rolled several times in southern Kenya. The passengers were on their way back to the coastal city of Mombasa after attending a funeral in the Mwatate area, Taita
Continue Reading ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani police say a traffic collision in the southwest killed seven officers as they were returning to their hometowns for the Eid holidays. The policemen died at the scene of the crash on a national highway in the Khuzdar area of Baluchistan province on Saturday night. In a separate incident, an intense
Continue Reading By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — A former Indian lawmaker convicted of kidnapping and facing murder and assault charges was shot dead along with his brother in a dramatic attack that was caught live on TV in northern India, officials said Sunday. Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf were under police escort
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By Nouran Salahieh and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The evacuation order in place since Tuesday for residents near a recycling plant fire in Richmond, Indiana, was lifted Sunday after officials determined it was safe for residents to return to their homes, Wayne County Emergency Management said. The agency consulted with the county’s health department and state
Continue Reading By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — In the weeks since Chinese leader Xi Jinping won a third five-year term as president, setting him on course to remain in power for life, leaders and diplomats from around the world have beaten a path to his door. None more so than those from Europe. French
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN It was only three months ago that nearly three dozen scientists and conservationists sounded the alarm that the Great Salt Lake in Utah faces “unprecedented danger” — unless the state’s lawmakers fast-tracked “emergency measures” to dramatically increase the lake’s inflow by 2024, it would likely disappear in the next five years.
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — More than 6,000 British military personnel will take part in the coronation of King Charles III, the U.K. forces’ biggest ceremonial deployment in seven decades, the government said Sunday. The Ministry of Defense said thousands of soldiers, sailors and aviators will escort the king and Camilla, the queen consort, between Buckingham Palace
Continue Reading By JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — The Sudanese military and a powerful paramilitary group battled for control of the chaos-stricken nation for a second day Sunday, signaling they were unwilling to end hostilities despite mounting diplomatic pressure to cease fire. Heavy fighting involving armored vehicles, truck-mounted machine guns and
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VICHY, Mo. (KMIZ) Hours after Mid-Missouri residents were encouraged to take shelter for Saturday’s tornado warning, reports of the weather’s damage came rolling in. Golf ball-sized hail left dents in the sides of homes, grass and trees were uprooted and a house was even completely lifted off its foundation. In Maries County, crews gathered near
Continue Reading By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Álvaro Alarcón plays out the moment when he will enter Madrid’s Las Ventas bullring for his final challenge as a “novillero,” or apprentice bullfighter. The 24-year-old has been training in the dusty countryside outside the Spanish capital, and his skintight suit, delicately woven with beads and gold
Continue Reading By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — A former Indian lawmaker convicted of kidnapping and facing murder and assault charges has been fatally shot along with his brother in a dramatic attack caught live on TV in northern India. Atiq Ahmad and his brother, Ashraf Ahmad, were under police escort on their way
Continue Reading KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan’s military and a powerful paramilitary force battled fiercely in the capital and other areas, dealing a new blow to hopes for a transition to democracy and raising fears of a wider conflict. A doctors’ syndicate said Sunday the death toll rose to 56, with at least 595 people wounded. The
Continue Reading By BILL BARROW Associated Press PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Jimmy Carter already had drawn months of media scrutiny as a devout Southern Baptist running for president. Then the 1976 Democratic nominee brought up sex and sin as he explained his religious faith to Playboy magazine. Carter was not misquoted. But he was certainly misunderstood, as
Continue Reading TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Flights out of northern Taiwan were delayed Sunday after China launched a rocket carrying a satellite that dropped debris into waters north of the capital Taipei. China had declared a 27-minute halt to flights over a section of the East China Sea, considerably shorter than the no-fly period over parts of
Continue Reading By The Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — An unidentified suspect fired a gun into a crowd of hundreds in a Kentucky park, leaving two people dead and four wounded Saturday night, police said. Police were called around 9 p.m. to Chickasaw Park in Louisville, authorities said. “Hundreds of people were in the park at
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