Month: June 2023

By JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Fashion designers from several parts of Africa have come together for a show in eastern Congo, hoping to inspire peace and creativity in a region long affected by conflict. The 9th edition of the Liputa fashion show was held in Goma on Saturday featuring designers, models

By SEUNG MIN KIM and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On the surface, the turmoil in Russia would seem like something for the U.S. to celebrate: a powerful mercenary group engaging in a short-lived clash with Russia’s military at the very moment that Ukraine is trying to gain momentum in a critical counteroffensive.

By DREW COSTLEY, HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Zooey Zephyr and Erin Reed walk hand in hand at a Pride parade in the college town of Missoula, Montana, wearing smiles as sunny as the day is rainy. Adoring fans cheer them along the route. Reed stops and raises

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of different electronic cigarette devices sold in the U.S. has nearly tripled to over 9,000 since 2020, driven almost entirely by a wave of unauthorized disposable vapes from China, according to tightly controlled sales data obtained by The Associated Press. The surge stands in

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A suspect was arrested Monday in the weekend killings of a Boston-area husband and wife celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary and the woman’s 97-year-old mother, authorities said. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said police took Christopher Ferguson into custody and charged him with killing 73-year-old Gilda “Jill”

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The right to an abortion is back before the highest court in South Carolina as Republicans try to restore a ban that was overturned by the court earlier this year. The court’s makeup has since changed and an all-male panel will hear the matter

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — For Zainab Abdu, the holiest sites in Islam were the backdrop for her weekends growing up. Raised in Mecca, Abdu remembers roller-skating with friends near the Grand Mosque where the Kaaba is located. The desert plains and valleys that throng with pilgrims every year are

By ED KOMENDA Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Washington next month will become the first U.S. state to deduct taxes from workers’ paychecks to finance a new long-term care benefit for residents who can’t live independently due to illness, injury or aging-related conditions like dementia. Advocates say that when the benefit becomes available in 2026,

NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. judge is set to hear arguments Tuesday over President Donald Trump’s attempt to move his criminal case in New York out of the state court, where he was indicted, to a federal court where he could potentially try to get the case dismissed. Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein will listen

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Videos circulating online show a fire tearing through a high-rise residential building in the United Arab Emirates. There were no immediate reports of injuries from the blaze early Tuesday in Ajman, one of the seven emirates that makes up the UAE, which also includes the futuristic cities of Dubai

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press HOLLIS, N.H. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold dueling campaign events Tuesday in New Hampshire after some squabbling over the close timing of the appearances. DeSantis, who released an immigration and border security policy proposal on Monday, was set

By MARC LEVY and JOSH FUNK Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Spurred on by train derailments, some states with busy criss-crossing freight railroads are pursuing their own safety remedies rather than wait for federal action amid industry opposition and questions about whether they even have authority to make the changes. The activity comes after

By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press CARATINGA, Brasil (AP) — The emerald-green canopy shifts and rustles as a troop of willowy, golden-gray monkeys slides through a tropical ecosystem more threatened than the Amazon. Karen Strier started studying the biggest monkey in the Americas four decades ago, when there were just 50 of the

By SEUNG MIN KIM and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On the surface, the turmoil in Russia would seem like something for the U.S. to celebrate: a powerful mercenary group engaging in a short-lived clash with Russia’s military at the very moment that Ukraine is trying to gain momentum in a critical counteroffensive.

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press An unexpected culprit toppled beach chairs along the sand at normally calm Clearwater Beach, Florida, last Wednesday. West Coast surfers might snicker at the cause, but the National Weather Service confirms the rare 4-foot (1.2 meter) wave was caused by a kind of tsunami, just not the kind you usually