By W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Pavel Buchnevich scored 38 seconds into overtime and the St. Louis Blues beat the Vegas Golden Knights 2-1. Alexey Toropchenko scored in regulation for the Blues and Jordan Binnington made 33 saves. Jack Eichel scored for the Golden Knights while Logan Thompson made 25 saves. In
Continue ReadingPESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities say a roadside bomb went off near a school in the country’s northwest on Tuesday, wounding at least three passersby and damaging windows of a nearby bank and several shops The bombing happened in the commercial center of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, a spokesman
Continue ReadingBy SIBI ARASU Associated Press KHAVDA, India (AP) — Shifting to renewable energy is a key issue at the ongoing COP28 climate summit. Some leaders have voiced support for a target of tripling renewable energy worldwide in any final agreement while curbing use of coal, oil and natural gas, which spew planet-warming gases into the
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A Texas prosecutor has dropped indictments against 17 Austin police officers who were charged with assault after being accused of injuring demonstrators during the 2020 George Floyd protests, and city officials are asking the US Justice Department to investigate possible police misconduct within the department. Travis
Continue ReadingBy LORI HINNANT and SAM McNEIL Associated Press NIR OZ, Israel (AP) — The Hamas attack on the kibbutz of Nir Oz started a little after 6:30 a.m. on Oct. 7 and lasted long into the afternoon, with dozens of fighters rampaging unopposed through the community with an apparent mission: To capture as many civilians
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN and SIBI ARASU Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — After days of shaving off the edges of key warming issues, climate negotiators Tuesday zeroed in on the tough job of dealing with the main cause of what’s overheating the planet: fossil fuels. As scientists, activists and United Nations officials repeatedly
Continue ReadingBy LORI HINNANT and SAM McNEIL Associated Press NIR OZ, Israel (AP) — The engineer and his family cowered in the safe room, dark except for a red remote-control light because they feared the gunmen outside the door would notice anything brighter. Eyal Barad had just reconfigured the settings on a homemade traffic camera from
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Tech leaders have been vocal proponents of the need to regulate artificial intelligence, but they’re also lobbying hard to make sure the new rules work in their favor. That’s not to say they all want the same thing. Facebook parent Meta and IBM on Tuesday launched a new group
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press/Report for America COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Relatives who knew or feared their loved ones were among the 190 abandoned bodies found decomposing in a Colorado funeral home watched in person for the first time as the owners of the business appeared before a judge. Jon and
Continue ReadingBy JOVANA GEC, SABINA NIKSIC and ZANA CIMILI Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A man in Bosnia killed his wife and streamed the murder live on Instagram. In neighboring Serbia, 27 women were killed in gender-based attacks this year, despite efforts to raise awareness and reverse the trend. Activists in Kosovo say violence against
Continue ReadingBy ANNIE MA of The Associated Press and MEREDITH KOLODNER of The Hechinger Report SALISBURY, Md. (AP) — Three times a week, on average, a police car pulls up to a school in Wicomico County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. A student is brought out, handcuffed and placed inside for transport to a hospital emergency room
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has told campaign donors that he isn’t sure he’d be running for reelection if Donald Trump wasn’t also in the race. Biden warned Tuesday that democracy is “more at risk in 2024” and that the former president and his allies are out to “destroy”
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed inclined to uphold a tax on foreign income while leaving questions about a broader, never-enacted tax on wealth for another day. On the first issue, conservative and liberal justices voiced concerns that ruling for a Washington state couple challenging a provision
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — More than 2,400 people connected to the fossil fuel industry registered to attend the COP28 climate summit in Dubai — a massive representation that’s nearly four times the number that signed up for last year’s climate gathering, according to an analysis published Tuesday. Fossil fuel employees and representatives outnumber
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Ronald Brownstein, CNN (CNN) — The coming special election to replace Republican former Rep. George Santos in a well-educated and affluent district outside New York City will offer important clues about the political crosscurrents shaping the suburban areas that could decide the 2024 election. Resistance to the Donald Trump-era GOP in white-collar suburban
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s grim bet that America and the West will tire of his brutal war before he does is looking better by the day. Nearly seven weeks after President Joe Biden asked Congress for $60 billion to top up Kyiv’s arms and ammunition lifeline — along
Continue ReadingBy John Miller and Sabrina Shulman, CNN (CNN) — A 16-year-old in Las Vegas was arrested after allegedly threatening a lone wolf terrorist attack in support of ISIS, authorities said, adding investigators found components and instructions to build an explosive device during a search of his home. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said it
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Fifty years after Henry Kissinger drove American foreign policy in Southeast Asia, the region continues to live with the fallout from the bombing and military campaigns backed by the former secretary of state, who died last week. In Cambodia, unexploded ordnance left over from Vietnam War-era carpet
Continue ReadingBy Shawn Nottingham, CNN (CNN) — Brian Laundrie told his parents Gabby Petito was “gone” in what is described as a frantic phone call that took place three weeks before her remains were discovered, according to an amended civil complaint filed by Petito’s parents on November 30. Joseph Petito and Nichole Schmidt are suing Laundrie’s parents and their attorney, claiming they intentionally withheld
Continue ReadingBy MARDI ROSA TANJUNG Associated Press BATU PALANO, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers searching the hazardous slopes of Indonesia’s Mount Marapi volcano found the last body of climbers who were caught by a surprise weekend eruption, raising the number of confirmed dead to 23, officials said Wednesday. About 75 climbers started their way up the nearly
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