Month: June 2024

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A rising political newcomer hoping to deal a blow to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has mobilized tens of thousands of supporters in the country’s capital in a final show of strength on the eve of a European Parliament election. Péter Magyar, a 43-year-old lawyer who

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says a freighter in Lake Superior has hit something underwater and started taking on water. The Coast Guard Great Lakes district received reports about 6:53 a.m. that a 689-foot-long ship called the Michipicoten had collided with something. The collision occurred in the northwest section of

MIAMI (AP) — A joint operation of the U.S. Coast Guard and the Royal Netherlands Navy recovered 4,800 pounds of cocaine worth more than $63 million this week from a vessel at a Florida port. That is according to the Coast Guard. The seizure Thursday was the second time the joint operation engaged a vessel

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press The four captives rescued by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip were abducted from a desert rave near the border during Hamas’ wide-ranging assault into Israel on Oct. 7. One had emerged as an icon of the agonizing hostage crisis that is still far from over. Noa Argamani, 26, appeared

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund operated by Norges Bank Investment Management said Saturday it will vote against Elon Musk’s hefty CEO compensation package during Tesla’s annual meeting on Thursday. It’s the latest pushback over the size of the pay package, which was recently valued by the company at $44.9 billion, but in January had a value

By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press Authorities are using boats to patrol the ocean and warning swimmers about sharks this weekend along Florida’s Gulf Coast, where a woman and two teenage girls were hurt in two separate shark attacks on Friday. The attacks off beaches in the Florida Panhandle led authorities to temporarily close several beaches

By CLAUDIA LAUER, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, RANDALL CHASE and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Pictures of President Joe Biden’s son with drug paraphernalia and bare-chested in a bubble bath. Text messages between Hunter Biden and drug dealers. Testimony from Hunter’s exes about relationships destroyed by his drug use. Hunter Biden’s trial on

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Seriously overdue credit card debt is at the highest level in more than a decade, and people 35 and under are struggling more than other age groups to pay their bills. The share of credit card debt that’s severely delinquent, defined as being more than 90

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer PARIS (AP) — Iga Swiatek has won her third consecutive French Open championship and fourth in five years by defeating Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 6-1. The top-seeded Swiatek trailed 2-1 early in Court Philippe Chatrier on Saturday before taking the next 10 games. She stretched her winning streak at Roland

By RODRIQUE NGOWI and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Rhiannan Iffland stepped to the edge of a platform nearly seven stories above Boston Harbor, thousands of cheering fans packed onto docks, roofs and sidewalks below, and soared through the air with the city’s skyline disappearing behind her as she rocketed toward the tea-brown

LAKE ZURICH, Ill. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a 77-year-old man that was found dead after a house exploded in suburban Chicago Tuesday. The Lake County Coroner’s Office identified the man Friday evening as Timothy Toczylowski. He was a resident of the home, authorities say, and he was identified through dental records.

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Political violence appears to be rising across the Europe, where societies are deeply polarized in the face of widespread migration and are badly shaken by the war in Ukraine, the largest war on the continent since World War II. Slovakia’s prime minister was shot multiple times