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By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Prosecutors in Sicily are investigating the capsizing of a boat that left 41 migrants missing in the Mediterranean Sea. Four passengers survived after finding an empty smugglers’ boat in the waters. The four young migrants, rescued by a passing merchant ship, have told authorities that waves swamped

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press The federal government is shutting down the harvest of a species of marine invertebrate in a national wildlife refuge during the spawning season to try to give the animal a chance to reproduce. Fishermen harvest horseshoe crabs so the animals can be used as bait and so their blood can

By SAM METZ Associated Press DUCHESNE, Utah (AP) — One of the United States’ biggest rail investments in more than a century could be an 88-mile line in Utah that would run through tribal lands and national forest to move oil and gas to the national rail network. State and local officials in Utah think

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A recreational vehicle blew a tire on an interstate highway in Pennsylvania, crossed the median and collided head-on with a tractor-trailer, killing four people in the RV and the truck driver, authorities said. The crash occurred around 8:50 p.m. Wednesday on northbound Interstate 81 near Chambersburg, in south-central Pennsylvania, state police

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The strike-delayed 75th Emmy Awards have a new date — one that places them directly in Hollywood’s awards season for a change. Fox announced Thursday that the Emmys will air Jan. 15 from the Peacock Theater at LA Live in downtown Los Angeles. The show will air on the Martin Luther

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits jumped last week, but not enough to cause concern about a still-strong U.S. labor market. U.S. applications for unemployment benefits rose by 21,000 to 248,000 for the week ending August 5, from 227,000 the week before, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

BANGKOK (AP) — A rescue official says a boat carrying minority Rohingya migrants from Myanmar has capsized in the Bay of Bengal, leaving at least 17 people dead and about 30 missing. He says about 55 people were on the boat when it left the western state of Rakhine last weekend and eight survived. The

NEW YORK (AP) — The Decemberists’ frontman Colin Meloy is now writing a novel for adults after already becoming a popular children’s author. G.P. Putnam’s Sons announced Thursday that Meloy’s book is scheduled for 2025 and has the working title “Cascadia.” It features a protagonist named Barnaby Chambers. He sells discarded baby membrane tissue and

NEW YORK (AP) — With apologies to Nathaniel Hawthorne and admirers of “The Scarlet Letter,” Dav Pilkey has a name for the next installment of his multi-million selling “Dog Man” children’s books series about a canine superhero. “Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder,” will be published March 19. Previous “Dog Man” titles, shameless puns all, include

By AHMED El-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Security officials and an eyewitness say they suspect an Al-Qaida attack in southern Yemen killed a military commander and three soldiers from a secessionist group. The men said the attack occurred on Thursday while the commander and soldiers were traveling in a convoy through the south

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and MARCIA DUNN Associated Press TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. (AP) — Virgin Galactic rocketed to the edge of space with its first tourists Thursday, including a former British Olympian who bought his ticket 18 years ago and a mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean. The space plane glided back to a runway

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tapestry, parent company of luxury handbag and accessories retailer Coach, is buying the owner of fashion brands including Michael Kors, Versace and Jimmy Choo, Capri Holdings. The approximately $8.5 billion deal will strengthen Tapestry’s foothold in the luxury space as it looks to take on

By CRAIG JOSEPH of NerdWallet An estimated $135 billion will be spent on back-to-school and back-to-college shopping in 2023, according to the National Retail Federation, representing the second-largest spending period of the year, behind only the holidays. But there are ways to help bring down some of those costs. Tools that can help include sales

By MARK THIESSEN and AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press KAHULUI, Hawaii (AP) — The wildfire that has brought sheer devastation to Maui is especially heartbreaking for Hawaii because it struck one of its most historic cities and the onetime capital of the former kingdom. Lahaina holds deep cultural significance for Hawaiians. The city was once the

PARIS (AP) — A prosecutor says required safety standards weren’t met at a vacation home housing adults with disabilities at which a fire killed 11 people in eastern France. The victims include 10 adults with slight intellectual disabilities and one person accompanying them. The deputy prosecutor of Colmar, Nathalie Kielwasser, said Thursday that the first

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China has accused Washington of trying to block its development after President Joe Biden stepped up a feud over technology and security by tightening controls on U.S. investments that might help Beijing develop its military. The Foreign Ministry accused the Biden administration of pursuing “technology hegemony”

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A British man has been killed amid violent protests in the South African city of Cape Town after the vehicle he was riding in drove into the midst of some of the unrest. South African police said the 40-year-old man was sitting in the