CARY, Ill. (AP) — A commercial-grade firework exploded in the face of an Illinois man as he was investigating why it hadn’t detonated. Investigators in Lake County say the 58-year-old man was looking into the tube containing the firework when it launched and exploded Sunday night. He is in critical condition at a hospital. Following
Continue Reading By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A civil rights group is challenging legacy admissions at Harvard University, saying the practice discriminates against students of color by giving an unfair boost to the mostly white children of alumni. The practice of giving priority to the children of alumni has faced growing pushback in
Continue Reading Associated Press Air travel is getting a bit easier, thanks to a break in storms that have pummeled the East Coast. The number of canceled and delayed flights on Monday was running well below Sunday’s rate. Besides the better weather, airlines are running lighter schedules a day ahead of the July 4 holiday. Wednesday figures
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Saudi Arabia and Russia are extending cuts to the amount of oil they pump to the world to try to prop up prices. It shows how two of the world’s largest oil producers are scrambling to boost income from the fossil fuel even as demand has weakened with the economy. The move
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Players from Russia and Belarus are back competing at Wimbledon a year after they were barred by the All England Club because of the invasion of Ukraine. The war that began in February 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine with help from Belarus continues but the
Continue Reading By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — One of Kevin Spacey’s accusers described the actor as a “slippery, snaky, difficult person” and says his escalating sexual assaults caused him shame, anxiety and depression. The man testifying Monday at Spacey’s sexual crimes trial says he cannot bring himself to watch the Oscar-winner’s films or TV
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Actors Rose Leslie and Kit Harington have welcomed their second child. A publicist for Harington confirmed Monday that the couple have added a daughter to their family. Further details weren’t immediately available. Harington and Leslie are both 36 and famously met on the set of “Game of Thrones,” where they played star-crossed
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Leandro De Niro Rodriguez, a grandson of Robert De Niro, has died at 19. His mother, Drena De Niro, announced the news Monday in an Instagram post. “I don’t know how to live without you but I’ll try to go on and spread the love and light that you so made
Continue Reading By JULIET LINDERMAN Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — More than one person is suspected of opening fire during a holiday weekend block party in Baltimore that killed two and wounding 30 others, many of them under 18, police said Monday. The circumstances leading up to the shooting early Sunday remained under investigation after police spent
Continue Reading By NASSER NASSER and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JENIN, West Bank (AP) — Israel used drones to strike targets in a militant stronghold in the occupied West Bank early Monday and deployed hundreds of troops in an incursion that resembled the broad attacks carried out during the second Palestinian uprising two decades ago. Palestinian health
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By Kristina Sgueglia and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — A former OceanGate Expeditions employee emailed another ex-associate of the company years ago with concerns about the potential failings of its Titan submersible and an ominous warning about its CEO, who was killed last month with four others when the vessel imploded on a dive in
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By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer Maternal deaths across the U.S. more than doubled over the course of two decades, and the tragedy unfolded unequally. Black mothers died at the nation’s highest rates, while the largest increases in deaths were found in American Indian and Native Alaskan mothers. And some states — and racial or
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The Missouri State Highway Patrol has reported two boating incidents over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, both at the Lake of the Ozarks.
Continue Reading ST. LOUIS (AP) — Nearly 75,000 people are still without power Monday morning after a weekend storm that ripped through the St. Louis region, killing two people. A 5-year-old boy died Saturday afternoon when a tree fell on his house in Jennings, Missouri, and a 33-year-old woman died in her parked car when a tree
Continue Reading LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — A car crashed into a busy New Hampshire restaurant and injured more than a dozen patrons inside, authorities said. The vehicle struck the Looney Bin Bar & Grill a little after 12:40 p.m. Sunday and came to a stop well inside, pinning one man inside the bathroom, restaurant owner Michelle Watson
Continue Reading WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Roger Federer will be back on Centre Court at Wimbledon on Tuesday. Not to compete. He’ll be feted for his record-setting career at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament. Federer announced his retirement last year. He won eight of his 20 Grand Slam singles championships at the All England Club. That is
Continue Reading By CAROLYN KASTER and CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press SHAMOKIN, Pa. (AP) — In red communities across America, lawmakers are pushing to restrict drag performances and, in some cases, broader trans and gay rights. Yet deep in Pennsylvania coal country, The Associated Press followed for a year a family of drag performers who are firmly woven
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Sick of being ignored by far-away politicians, officials on Scotland’s remote Orkney Islands are mulling a drastic solution. They want to rejoin Norway, the Scandinavian country that gave them away as a royal wedding dowry more than 550 years ago. Orkney Islands Council is due to debate
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are drifting Monday as momentum slows on Wall Street following its powerful rally to start the year. The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged in morning trading, hanging close to its highest level since April 2022. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 28 points,
Continue Reading ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Michigan man accused of attacking a police officer with a flagpole during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 has been arrested in Florida. Court documents show that 28-year-old Jeremy Rodgers was arrested Friday in Orlando. He faces several felony and misdemeanor charges, including assaulting a federal
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