Month: August 2023

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has unanimously authorized the U.N. political mission in Colombia to help verify implementation of the recent peace agreement between the government and its largest remaining guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army. It expressed willingness Wednesday to do the same if a

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government has reported for the first time that a body was spotted along the floating barrier that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott installed recently in the Rio Grande river, across from Eagle Pass, Texas. Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department said authorities were trying to recover the body, and did not know

SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego police have shot and killed a gunman who fatally wounded a police dog on a community college campus. Authorities say the 33-year-old man was pronounced dead at a hospital after the pre-dawn confrontation Wednesday at San Diego Mesa College. His name wasn’t immediately released. Police say they spotted a

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s warring parties have committed extensive war crimes in the ongoing conflict, including deliberate killings of civilians and sexual assault, a leading rights group said Thursday. The east African country plunged into chaos in mid-April when monthslong tensions between the military and a powerful paramilitary group, the

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A town on northern Mexico’s Pacific coast has seen its beaches littered with a carpet of dead fish, after what experts describe as a toxic algae bloom. Officials in the northern state of Sinaloa say beaches around the hamlet of El Maviri near the mouth of a coastal lagoon were carpeted

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The conservative chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is accusing her liberal colleagues of a “raw exercise of overreaching power” after they flexed their new majority and fired the director of the state’s court system. On just their second day as a majority on the

By DAVID KOENIG Associated Press Investigators say the weather was quickly getting worse when a plane crashed last month near Murrieta, California, killing all six people on board. The National Transportation Safety Board issued a preliminary report Wednesday on the crash that provides new details and adds to questions about whether the pilots could see

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For days now, newly arrived migrants have been waiting outside New York City’s Roosevelt Hotel, hoping for a bed in an overly crowded shelter system. And for weeks, Mayor Eric Adams has said the city is out of room. City officials and activists alike have

VANDALIA, Ohio (AP) — A police pursuit in Ohio eventually led to the kidnapping of a tractor-trailer driver, spurring another pursuit and a lengthy standoff that culminated in a shootout between two suspects and Ohio state troopers, leaving both suspects dead. The initial pursuit began around 1 a.m. Wednesday in London, when a police officer

By TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — After recording the warmest monthly average temperature for any U.S. city ever in July, Phoenix climbed back up to dangerously high temperatures Wednesday. That could mean trouble not just for people but for some plants, too. Residents across the sprawling metro are finding the extended extreme heat

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) — The former mayor of a Maryland college town has pleaded guilty to more than 100 counts connected to the possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material. Patrick Wojahn had been the mayor of College Park until March, when he was arrested. The city is home to the state’s flagship

By JOSH KELETY Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A northwestern Arizona county where Republican voters far outnumber Democrats has rejected a proposal to hand-count ballots in the 2024 election cycle. The Mohave County Board of Supervisors defeated the proposal 3-2 on Tuesday. County Elections Director Allen Tempert says tabulating ballots by hand would cost more