By CARA ANNA, NICOLAS GARRIGA and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Young rioters in France clashed with police into early Sunday and targeted a mayor’s home with a burning car, injuring members of his family, as the country saw a fifth night of unrest after the police killing of a teenager. However, overall
Continue Reading BALTIMORE (AP) — Police in Baltimore say emergency personnel and the acting police commissioner are at the scene of a mass shooting. The Baltimore Police Department confirms there has been a mass shooting in the 800 block of Gretna Avenue early Sunday morning. The number of victims was not immediately provided. Police say acting Commissioner
Continue Reading BALTIMORE (AP) — Police in Baltimore say emergency personnel and the acting police commissioner are at the scene of a mass shooting. The Baltimore Police Department confirms there has been a mass shooting in the 800 block of Gretna Avenue early Sunday morning. The number of victims was not immediately provided. Police say acting Commissioner
Continue Reading By CARA ANNA, NICOLAS GARRIGA and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Young rioters clashed with police late Saturday and early Sunday and targeted a mayor’s home with a burning car as France faced a fifth night of unrest sparked by the police killing of a teenager, but overall violence appeared to lessen compared
Continue Reading By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Fourth of July is Americana at its core: parades and cookouts and cold beer and, of course, fireworks. Those pyrotechnics also make it an especially dangerous holiday, typically resulting in more than 10,000 trips to the emergency room. Yet fireworks remain at the center of
Continue Reading Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Officials say Atlanta Police Department motorcycles have been damaged in an intentional fire caused by devices set inside the parking deck of a training facility. WANF-TV reports the Atlanta Fire and Rescue Department responded to reports of a multi-vehicle fire around 2:20 a.m. Saturday and found multiple motorcycles on fire.
Continue Reading BEIRUT (AP) — Israel carried out airstrikes on areas near the central Syrian city of Homs early Sunday causing material damage but no casualties, the Syrian military said in a statement. A Syrian anti-aircraft missile exploded over Israeli territory, the Israeli military said, prompting another round of strikes. Syrian state media quoted an unnamed military
Continue Reading By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan’s enthusiasm for beauty pageants is unparalleled, and Miss Venezuela — the crown jewel of them all — may be the only event able to unite the deeply divided country. Once a year, class, race and politics are put aside as the South American nation
Continue Reading By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Nowhere in the world has a higher rate of unsafe abortions or unintended pregnancies than sub-Saharan Africa, where women often face scorn for becoming pregnant before marriage. Efforts to legalize and make abortions safer in Africa were shaken when the U.S. Supreme Court ended the national
Continue Reading By CARA ANNA, ANGELA CHARLTON and CHRISTOPHE ENA Associated Press NANTERRE, France (AP) — Hushed and visibly anguished, hundreds of mourners from France’s Islamic community formed a solemn procession from a mosque to a hillside cemetery on Saturday to bury a 17-year-old whose killing by police has triggered days of rioting and looting across the
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — A bus carrying migrants from a Texas border city has arrived in downtown Los Angeles for the second time in less than three weeks. The migrants arrived Saturday afternoon. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ office was not formally notified but became aware on Friday of the bus dispatched from Brownsville, Texas,
Continue Reading By CARA ANNA, ANGELA CHARLTON and CHRISTOPHE ENA Associated Press NANTERRE, France (AP) — Hushed and visibly anguished, hundreds of mourners from France’s Islamic community formed a solemn procession from a mosque to a hillside cemetery on Saturday to bury a 17-year-old whose killing by police has triggered days of rioting and looting across the
Continue Reading By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is again calling on foreign governments with strong security forces to help Haiti fight a surge in gang violence. The appeal was made Saturday after Guterres met with Prime Minister Ariel Henry, civil society leaders, U.N. staff and the heads of various
Continue Reading By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press LA RUANA, Mexico (AP) — One of the last leaders of Mexico’s anti-gang citizens’ movement has been buried alongside two of his faithful followers. Any hope of reviving armed civilian resistance to drug cartels probably died with them. “Self defense” vigilante leader Hipolito Mora had long since ceased to pose
Continue Reading SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Thousands of people logged complaints about problems accessing Twitter on Saturday after owner Elon Musk limited most users to viewing 600 tweets a day — restrictions he described as an attempt to prevent unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data from the site. The crackdown began to have ripple effects early Saturday,
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Beatriz has dissipated after brushing Mexico’s southwestern Pacific coast as a hurricane, dumping heavy rain across coastal areas. Hurricane Adrian, meanwhile, also weakened into a tropical storm out in the Pacific Saturday while continuing to move farther out into the ocean far away from land. Beatriz weakened into a
Continue Reading By MEG KINNARD Associated Press PICKENS, S.C. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Saturday marked a return to the large-scale rallies of his previous presidential campaigns, speaking to thousands gathered in the streets of a small South Carolina city on a blazing day ahead of the July 4 holiday. Trump spoke for more than
Continue Reading CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina amusement park closed one of its roller coasters Friday after a crack was found on a support beam. According to news reports, Carowinds shut down Fury 325. The park’s website advertises the ride as the “tallest, fastest, longest giga coaster in North America” that crosses into both North
Continue Reading By CARA ANNA, ANGELA CHARLTON and CHRISTOPHE ENA Associated Press NANTERRE, France (AP) — Hushed and visibly anguished, hundreds of mourners from France’s Islamic community formed a solemn procession from a mosque to a hillside cemetery on Saturday to bury a 17-year-old whose killing by police has triggered days of rioting and looting across the
Continue Reading By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Airline passengers who have endured tens of thousands of weather-related flight delays this week got a welcome respite from the headaches Saturday, despite concerns about possible disruptions caused by new wireless 5G systems rolling out near major airports. The number of flight delays and cancellations declined from the spikes
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