Month: June 2023

By JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press PALO ALTO, California (AP) — President Joe Biden is in California as he ramps up his reelection effort this week with four fundraisers in the San Francisco area. The Democratic president’s campaign is building up its coffers and laying strategic foundations for 2024. In the back half

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A primary candidate for Mexico’s 2024 presidential elections has proposed giving the president’s son a central role in the next administration. The proposal Monday by candidate Marcelo Ebrard raises the specter of a national political dynasty being born in Mexico, where traditionally they were frowned on. Ebrard said Monday that if

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The Nigerian presidency has announced that the president has replaced the chiefs of all the country’s security services. A statement Monday says President Bola Tinubu “approved the immediate retirement” of all the heads police and military branches and named replacements. Nigeria is struggling with deadly conflicts

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Bret formed in the central Atlantic Ocean on Monday, with forecasters saying it could pose a hurricane threat to the eastern Caribbean by Thursday and the Dominican Republic and Haiti by the weekend. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Bret had maximum sustained winds of 40

By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana officials sought to downplay a first-of-its-kind trial taking place over the state’s obligations to protect residents from climate change, saying Monday that a victory by the young plaintiffs would not change approvals for fossil fuel projects. Attorneys for Montana’s Republican attorney

Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A former student entered a school and then began shooting in Brazil’s southern Parana state Monday, killing a 16-year-old girl and severely wounding another teen, a spokesperson for the city of Cambé told The Associated Press by phone. The gunman, aged 20 or 21, entered the Professora Helena

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) — Opponents of offshore wind energy projects in New Jersey are gathering force legally and politically as they seek to snuff out the new industry. Within the last week, three residents groups sued New Jersey over a key approval of its first planned wind farm; the

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS, ED WHITE and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press Americans across the country this weekend celebrated Juneteenth, marking the relatively new national holiday with cookouts, parades and other gatherings as they commemorated the end of slavery after the Civil War. While many have treated the long holiday weekend as a reason for a

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s House of Commons on Monday resoundingly endorsed a report that found Boris Johnson lied to lawmakers about lockdown-flouting parties in his office, a humiliating censure that strips the former prime minister of his lifetime access to Parliament. Lawmakers backed the finding that Johnson was in contempt

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Four temples from ancient Rome, dating back as far as the 3rd century B.C. stand smack in the middle of one of the modern city’s busiest crossroads. But until Monday, practically the only ones getting a close-up view of the temples were the cats that prowl the

By JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press PALO ALTO, California (AP) — President Joe Biden ramps up his reelection effort this week with four fundraisers in the San Francisco area, as his campaign builds up its coffers and lays strategic foundations for 2024. In the back half of June, Biden’s campaign will have more

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations says International donors have promised Monday almost $1.5 billion in additional aid to conflict-stricken Sudan. Attending Monday’s session in Geneva were representatives from Egypt, Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the African Union and the European Union. Sudan has been rocked by fighting for over two

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say a New Jersey lawyer who faced a lengthy sentence for murdering his longtime girlfriend is dead. James Ray III was found unconscious in his Essex County jail cell on Sunday and pronounced dead at a hospital. The 60-year-old Ray was convicted last month of murdering 44-year-old Angela Bledsoe in

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press MALAKASA, Greece (AP) — The number of confirmed victims from one of the worst migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean has risen to 81 after three more bodies were found off southern Greece. Also, survivors have claimed that the battered trawler had been under tow by another vessel just before it

KELLOGG, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho State Police are investigating a shooting that left four people dead in the small city of Kellogg on Sunday. One person is in custody. The Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office said it responded Sunday around 7:30 p.m. with Kellogg police. State police said that when law enforcement arrived, they found