Month: December 2023

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine troops, backed by airstrikes and artillery fire, killed 11 suspected Islamic militants near a hinterland village in the country’s south, authorities said Saturday, in one of the military’s bloodiest anti-insurgency offensives this year. The military launched the offensive Friday after receiving intelligence about the whereabouts

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Ron DeSantis completed his campaign promise to visit each of Iowa’s 99 counties, crossing a symbolic but also tactical threshold by telling his audience in a central Iowa town “this should show you that I consider myself a servant, not a ruler.”

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) — When it came to the Middle East, Henry Kissinger wasn’t pushing for peace — only for what was possible. By the time Kissinger died Wednesday at 100, the agreements he negotiated as United States secretary of state between Israel, Egypt and Syria stabilized borders for nearly

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh has been jolted by an earthquake that residents dozens of miles away in Dhaka say shook buildings. No damage or injuries have been immediately reported. The United States Geological Survey said the 5.5 magnitude tremor struck the country at 9:35 a.m. Saturday and had a depth of 6 miles with

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One fall day in 2010, retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor slipped into the courtroom where she worked for nearly 25 years to take in an “amazing” sight. The first — and for 12 years, the only — woman on the high court saw three women

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is making history this year in ways that Republicans could hardly have envisioned when the party took control. First, the Republicans voted to oust their speaker, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, in October. On Friday they voted to get rid of one of their own, indicted

By GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaraguan police said Friday they want to arrest the director of the Miss Nicaragua pageant, accusing her of intentionally rigging contests so that anti-government beauty queens would win the pageants as part of a plot to overthrow the government. The charges against pageant director Karen Celebertti

By PAOLA FLORES Associated Press EL ALTO, Bolivia (AP) — When they first started climbing the Andes peaks, they could hear the ice crunching under their crampons. These days, it’s the sound of melted water running beneath their feet that they mostly listen to as they make their ascents. Dressed in colorful, multilayered skirts, a

By JAMEY KEATEN and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Countries once colonized by empires are striking back on global warming — and they have the pope’s blessing. Leaders of developing nations jumped into Saturday’s high-level speeches at the U.N. climate summit to press rich industrial countries to share their knowhow

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Navy plans to use inflatable cylinders to lift and roll a jet plane off a coral reef in Hawaii before removal from the ocean waters where the aircraft crashed. A Navy commander says they are confident the operation can be carried out without further damaging

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that Texas must move a floating barrier on the Rio Grande that drew backlash from Mexico. The decision Friday comes months after the Biden administration sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for installing the roughly 1,000-foot linked and anchored buoy barrier