By Eric Zerkel, CNN (CNN) — A ubiquitous, resilient and seemingly harmless plant is fueling an increase in large, fast-moving and destructive wildfires in the United States. Grass is as plentiful as sunshine, and under the right weather conditions is like gasoline for wildfires: All it takes is a spark for it to explode. Planet-warming
Continue ReadingBy BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A center-right alliance led by the Social Democratic Party has won Portugal’s general election by a slender margin. It is set to form a minority government that could have a difficult term in office as a radical-right populist party that came third in the voting tries
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — The US Air Force has tested a hypersonic cruise missile in the Pacific for the first time, in what analysts say is a signal to China that Washington still competes in a weapons arena where many perceive Beijing to have a distinct advantage. On March 17, a B-52 bomber
Continue ReadingBy ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A Communist Party newspaper says Vietnam’s Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan will be acting president after the previous president’s resignation. Xuan became vice president in 2021 and she will be serving as acting president for the second time. Analysts said a permanent candidate was unlikely
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — A suicide bomber has carried out an attack at a private bank in Kandahar city in southern Afghanistan, killing at least three people and injuring 12 others. Taliban government officials say all of the victims of Thursday’s attack were people who had gathered at the branch of New Kabul Bank to collect
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks were mostly lower Friday in Asia after Wall Street tapped fresh records, led by big gains in chipmakers. Japan’s Nikkei 225 topped 41,000 for the first time early Friday but then fell back, trading 0.1% lower at 40,763.88. Chinese property and tech companies weighed on
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Un hombre de Texas fue arrestado después de abordar un vuelo de Delta Air Lines en Salt Lake City este domingo sin boleto al usar una fotografía que tomó de la tarjeta de embarque de otro pasajero mientras no miraba, según documentos judiciales. Wicliff Yves Fleurizard, de 26 años, enfrenta un
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By Fredreka Schouten, David Wright and Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s campaign saw an uptick in donations in February but failed to match the accelerating fundraising pace set by Joe Biden, whose political operation widened its already substantial financial advantage over his Republican rival as it entered March and the general election
Continue ReadingBy REZA SAIFULLAH and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press MEULABOH, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian search and rescue ship has located a capsized wooden boat that had been carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees, and began pulling survivors who had been standing on its hull to safety. An AP photographer aboard the rescue ship said Thursday
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN and ALI SWENSON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — AI fakery is quickly becoming one of the biggest problems confronting us online. Deceptive pictures, videos and audio are proliferating as a result of the rise and misuse of generative artificial intelligence tools. With AI deepfakes cropping up almost every day, depicting everyone from
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — For two weeks, Tsholofelo Moloi has been among thousands of South Africans lining up for water as the country’s largest city, Johannesburg, confronts an unprecedented collapse of its water system affecting millions of people. Residents rich and poor have never seen a shortage of this severity. While
Continue ReadingBy JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A 12-year-old boy in east Jerusalem lights the fuse of a long firework and hoists it in the air. Then, just before it explodes and illuminates the night sky with a burst of red, he is shot in the chest by Israeli police and falls to the
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has kept its main interest rate unchanged at a 16-year high even though inflation continues to drop from multi-decade peaks. Thursday’s decision to leave the key rate at 5.25% was widely anticipated in financial markets and comes a day after the U.S. Federal
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California wants to pay doctors more money to convince them to see more Medicaid patients. Medicaid is the government-funded health insurance program for people with low incomes or disabilities. Democrats have greatly increased the number of people eligible for Medicaid in California. But the rates Medicaid
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON and MARK THIESSEN Associated Press Police on Thursday arrested two white supremacist gang members — an Idaho prison inmate and the accomplice who helped him escape — following an attack on corrections officers at a Boise hospital, and investigators are looking into whether they killed two people while on the run. Skylar
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The General Assembly has approved the first United Nations resolution on artificial intelligence. The goal is ensuring the powerful new technology benefits all nations, respects human rights and is “safe, secure and trustworthy.” The resolution, sponsored by the United States, was adopted by consensus with a
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — A Texas man was arrested after boarding a Delta Air Lines flight in Salt Lake City on Sunday without a ticket by using a photo he took of another passenger’s boarding pass while they were not looking, according to court documents. Wicliff Yves Fleurizard, 26, is facing one count
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An infant whose parents and brother were killed when an SUV plowed into a San Francisco bus stop over the weekend has died. Supervisor Myrna Melgar confirmed the child’s death on Wednesday. She represents the area where the crash occurred. The baby’s father and 1-year-old brother were killed when the SUV
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers are joining fellow Republicans in other states in trying to restrict diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives on university campuses, but they’ve drafted their proposals to avoid having to agree on how to define DEI. The Kansas House planned to vote
Continue ReadingBy MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — For Democrats trying to defend the White House and Senate majority, Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania is emerging as the tip of the spear in trying to reframe the election-year narrative around inflation. It’s a key soft spot in 2024 for Democrats and President Joe
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