Month: July 2023

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer For eight years, Donald Trump has managed to secure the support of many evangelical and conservative Christians despite behavior that often seemed at odds with teachings espoused by Christ in the Gospels. If some observers initially viewed this as an unsustainable alliance, it’s different now. Certain achievements during Trump’s

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press PAPHOS, Cyprus (AP) — A Cyprus court has found a British man who killed his ailing wife in their home guilty of manslaughter, saying that the prosecution didn’t prove beyond reasonable doubt that the 76-year-old man committed premeditated murder. In a unanimous decision, the three-judge bench said Friday that David

By JEFF AMY and KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Experts say plans for a second congressional district in Alabama that gives a voice to Black voters are unlikely to win court approval. They say the Republican-backed plans don’t include a high enough share of Black voters to give their preferred candidate a

By FELIPE DANA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia followed its withdrawal from a grain export deal by expanding its attacks from port infrastructure to farm storage buildings in Ukraine’s Odesa region on Friday, while also practicing a Black Sea blockade. Other Russian missiles damaged what officials described only as an “important infrastructure facility”

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss authorities have temporarily shut the airspace over a small part of southwestern Switzerland because recreational gliders in the area have endangered the work of emergency teams battling a persistent forest fire. The Federal Office of Civil Aviation says the restrictions in an airspace of up to 8,000 feet (2,400 meters) over

By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer The biggest professional sports leagues in the United States have dealt with hazing issues over the past decade. They range from NFL offensive lineman Richie Incognito’s bullying of a Miami teammate to Major League Baseball banning rookies from dressing up as women. Of the four major U.S. leagues, baseball

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press DIMONA, Israel (AP) — The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem made their way to Israel from the United States in the 1960s. Now, dozens of their members are facing the threat of deportation. The Hebrew Israelites, as the spiritual community’s members are commonly known, do not consider themselves Jewish,

BAGHDAD (AP) — Muslim-majority nations expressed outrage Friday at the desecration of a copy of the Quran in Sweden. Some prepared for street demonstrations following midday prayers to show their anger. In Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, protesters planned demonstrations after Swedish police permitted a protest Thursday in which an Iraqi of Christian origin — now

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro says the major multination military training exercise Talisman Sabre in Australia sends a message to China that America’s allies are cooperating to defend their security and democratic values. Talisman Sabre began in 2005 as a biennial joint exercise between the

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Defense Ministry says a U.S. military drone crashed in the woods in the southwest of the country after contact was lost during training. The ministry says no one was hurt and there was no damage from the incident on Thursday afternoon. Polish media reported that an eyewitness saw an object

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A knife-wielding man has stabbed at least four pedestrians on a street in the South Korean capital, Seoul. One person has died. Police said that a man in his 30s with a criminal record that wasn’t specified has been arrested. The motivation behind the attack wasn’t immediately clear. Min Moon-ki,

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A former principal of an Australian Jewish school will be sentenced on Aug. 24 after being convicted of sexually abusing two students. A judge set the date after submissions were made on what sentence Malka Leifer should receive. Two sisters who were students at the school

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — What will North Korea do about the first U.S. soldier in decades to flee into its territory? Its official media have yet to mention Pvt. Travis King, there’s little precedent for his situation and guesses about the country’s next steps vary widely. Unauthorized crossings across