By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — With local elections across Turkey days away, legal experts are coaching thousands of volunteer election monitors on the rules they’ll need to watch for fraud and ensure a fair vote. The vote Sunday will determine who controls offices across Turkey, from major municipalities to tiny districts
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As Yemen’s Houthi rebels continue to target ships in a Mideast waterway, satellite pictures analyzed by The Associated Press show what appears to be a new airstrip being built at an entrance to that crucial maritime route. No country has publicly claimed the construction taking
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — Ukraine’s foreign minister has arrived in New Delhi for a two-day visit to boost bilateral ties between the two countries. Dmytro Kuleba will meet with his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Friday. His visit comes a week after Indian leader Narendra Modi spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Getting to see even one total solar eclipse is a rare occurrence. Photographer Stan Honda has three under his belt. His first experience took place in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, in 2015 — what he saw was a singular spectacle and chance for anyone wielding
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A Colorado Republican panel has made a surprising decision, choosing a former mayor, Greg Lopez, to be U.S. Rep. Ken Buck’s likely replacement until the November general election, a saving grace for Rep. Lauren Boebert’s bid for another term in Congress. Lopez will run as
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Cuatro personas fueron encontradas muertas y otras siete resultaron heridas en un apuñalamiento a través de múltiples áreas en Rockford, Illinois, este miércoles por la tarde, dijo la Policía. Un sospechoso está bajo custodia. Una niña de 15 años, una mujer de 63 años, un hombre de 49 años y
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN, ELLIOT SPAGAT and VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — An immigration crackdown in Mexico has hit Venezuelans especially hard. The development highlights how much the U.S. depends on Mexico to control migration. It’s a top issue for voters as President Joe Biden seeks reelection. Large numbers of Venezuelans are still
Continue ReadingSYDNEY (AP) — Taylor Swift’s father will not be charged over a paparazzi photographer’s claim that Scott Swift assaulted him on the Sydney waterfront hours after the pop star’s Australian tour ended last month. Photographer Ben McDonald had alleged that one of Swift’s security guards forced an umbrella into his face and camera and that
Continue ReadingBy CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Seventh-grade student Henry Cohen bounced side to side in time to the Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun” playing in teacher Nancy Morris’ classroom, swinging his arms open and closed across the planets pictured on his T-shirt. Henry and other classmates at Cleveland’s Riverside School were on their
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for a cryptocurrency fraud that a prosecutor has described as one of the biggest financial frauds in U.S. history. Federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan imposed the sentence Thursday in a packed
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst. But the gruesome impact Israel’s war against Hamas is having on Palestinian children still left them stunned. One toddler died from a brain injury caused by
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The charges against Donald Trump in the Georgia election interference case seek to criminalize political speech and advocacy conduct that the First Amendment protects, a lawyer for the former president said Thursday as he argued that the indictment should be dismissed. The hearing before Fulton County Superior
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press Here’s what to know about the cargo ship that crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse and leaving six construction workers presumed dead. If stood upright, the Dali would reach almost to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris or about two-thirds of the way
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, Angus Watson, Anna Coren, Su Chay and Pallabi Munsi, CNN (CNN) — The two young men are bloodied, their feet clamped in wooden stocks. “What is the PDF (People’s Defence Force)?” their tormentors yell. “Dogs,” they reply. Humiliated and dehumanized, the men are hogtied and dragged across the rough ground by their
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE L. PRICE and PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Donald Trump attended Thursday’s wake of a New York City police officer gunned down in the line of duty and called for “law and order,” as part of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s attempt to show a contrast with President Joe
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and some big names from the entertainment world have delivered a rousing New York embrace of President Joe Biden at a campaign fundraiser that hauled in a record-setting $26 million-plus for the incumbent’s reelection campaign. The mood at Radio
Continue Reading By David McKenzie and Sarah Dean, CNN Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) — For South Africans, normality is a sliding scale. Record electricity blackouts and sustained water outages have crushed businesses, and caused havoc in hospitals and schools nationwide. It’s common to see car-sized potholes in the suburbs of Johannesburg as workmen weld burst pipes. Traffic light outages are a daily
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Ronald Brownstein, CNN (CNN) — Democrats have been growing increasingly anxious about public polls showing former President Donald Trump making unprecedented inroads among Black and Hispanic voters. But there may be reasons for Republicans to feel uneasy about these polls too. Surveys now consistently show Trump leading President Joe Biden nationally and in
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Sometimes when a president needs a hand, only another president – or another two – will do. President Joe Biden’s bid for a second term and reelection campaign coffers will get a hefty boost on Thursday when he’s joined in New York by his two immediate predecessors as
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By Pau Mosquera and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Spanish prosecutors are seeking a prison term of two years and six months for former soccer chief Luis Rubiales for giving an unwanted kiss to star forward Jennifer Hermoso after Spain’s World Cup victory. The Public Ministry has formally accused Rubiales, the disgraced former president of the Royal
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