Month: June 2023

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS, ED WHITE and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press Detroit (AP) — 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

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and LORI HINNANT Associated Press BERISLAV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia had the means, motive and opportunity to bring down a Ukrainian dam that collapsed earlier this month while under Russian control, according to exclusive drone photos and information obtained by The Associated Press. Images taken from above the Kakhovka Dam and shared

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula has been rattled by an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3. But the country’s civil defense office says there are no immediate reports of damage. The quake struck about 2:30 p.m. Sunday. It was centered in the Gulf of California, also known

BROADWAY, N.C. (AP) — Five people were killed in a house fire in a rural North Carolina town on Sunday, authorities said. The Harnett County Sheriff’s Office told news outlets that the cause of the fire in the Broadway community was under investigation, and it could provide few details. Three adults and two juveniles died

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Relatives of a late Black businessman who helped popularize Juneteenth in San Diego are suing a cemetery after his remains were reported missing from the family’s burial plot. Greenwood Memorial Park and Mortuary informed the family that Sidney Cooper’s body and casket were not in the plot where he was supposed

By DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek news web site has published excerpts from the depositions of two survivors of Wednesday’s deadly shipwreck off southwestern Greece. More than 500 people are feared drowned after an overcrowded boat carrying as many as 750 migrants went down in international waters, in what the

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s warring parties have begun another attempt at a cease-fire after more than two months of brutal fighting — and ahead of an international conference to raise funds for humanitarian assistance. Residents in the capital, Khartoum, and its neighboring city of Omdurman reported “relative calm” in the

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Malian voters are casting ballots on whether to approve a new constitution. The coup leader in charge of the West African country says that Sunday’s referendum is one of the steps toward holding new elections in 2024. That’s been a key demand of the international community

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press Forecasters warned people celebrating Father’s Day outdoors to take precautions as triple-digit temperatures prompted heat advisories across much of the southern U.S., triggered thunderstorms that knocked out power from Oklahoma to Mississippi and whipped up winds that raised wildfire threats in Arizona and New Mexico. A suspected tornado struck near

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man stabbed a pit bull to death following a quarrel with the dog’s owner in New York City’s Central Park, officials said. The seriously injured dog was transported to a local animal clinic, where he was euthanized after the stabbing Saturday evening, police said. According to the New