By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A truck rammed into several other vehicles and market traders in western Kenya killing at least 51 people, police said. The Friday evening accident occurred at a location known for vehicle crashes near the Rift Valley town of Londiani, which is about 200 kilometers (125 miles)
Continue Reading By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has started Spain’s six-month presidency of the European Union with a lightning visit to Kyiv to underline the bloc’s support of Ukraine in the face of the invasion by Russia. Sánchez arrived in the Ukrainian capital by train from Poland early Saturday. The
Continue Reading By HALELUYA HADERO The Associated Press Social media companies are once again under scrutiny, this time in France as the country’s president blames TikTok, Snapchat and other platforms for helping fuel widespread riots over the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver. On Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron accused social media of playing a “considerable role”
Continue Reading PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s military says security forces have raided two militant hideouts in regions near the border with Afghanistan. The raids triggered intense shootouts that left six insurgents dead during the Eid holidays. A military statement said late Friday that the raids were conducted earlier that day in Tank and North Waziristan districts
Continue Reading By SOPHENG CHEANG and GRANT PECK Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Campaigning for Cambodia’s general election has officially begun. It’s an exercise that serves more as an affirmation of a nominally democratic process than a prelude to a genuine contest. Eighteen parties are contesting this year’s polls in which around 9.7 million people
Continue Reading By JOHN LEICESTER, SYLVIE CORBET and LEWIS JOLY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Rioting raged in cities around France for a fourth night despite massive police deployment, with cars and buildings set ablaze and stores looted, as family and friends prepared Saturday to bury the 17-year-old whose killing by police unleashed the unrest. The government
Continue Reading By SETH BORENSTEIN and MELINA WALLING Associated Press It was a smell that invoked a memory. Both for Emily Kuchlbauer in North Carolina and Ryan Bomba in Chicago. It was smoke from wildfires, the odor of an increasingly hot and occasionally on-fire world. Kuchlbauer had flashbacks to the surprise of soot coating her car three
Continue Reading By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Japanese newspaper has reported that a Japanese journalist was barred from entering Hong Kong without a clear reason, raising concerns over the city’s shrinking press freedoms. The Japan Times, a prominent English-language newspaper, reported Friday that a freelance journalist was being taken by officials to
Continue Reading By ED KOMENDA and SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Since last November, a library at the University of Washington has featured a different kind of vending machine. It’s stocked with ibuprofen, pregnancy tests and the morning-after pill. Such machines are increasingly popular on college campuses around the country since the U.S. Supreme Court
Continue Reading By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s auditor may face new challenges in his quest to track taxpayer dollars after a new law takes effect Saturday that allows state agencies to deny his office access to information and bars him from making an appeal in court. State Auditor Rob Sand, the
Continue Reading By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Airline passengers who have endured tens of thousands of weather-related flight delays this week could face a new source of disruptions starting Saturday, when wireless providers are expected to power up new 5G systems near major airports. Aviation groups have warned for years that 5G signals could interfere with
Continue Reading By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court just finished issuing its biggest decisions of the term, killing President Joe Biden’s $400 billion plan to cancel or reduce federal student loan debts, ending affirmative action in higher education and issuing a major decision that impacts gay rights. The decisions over the past
Continue Reading By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A fight over whether Wisconsin’s top elections official will keep her job has potential implications for the 2024 presidential contest in a perennial battleground where statewide margins are typically razor thin. Meagan Wolfe, the nonpartisan administrator of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, has been targeted
Continue Reading By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The next big fight over college admissions already has taken hold, and it centers on a different kind of minority group that gets a boost: children of alumni. In the wake of a Supreme Court decision that strikes down affirmative action in admissions, colleges are coming
Continue Reading By GEOFF MULVIHILL and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press New state laws are tackling some of the most divisive issues in the U.S., including abortion, gender and guns. Laws taking effect Saturday will limit abortion in North Carolina and gender-affirming treatments for minors in Georgia and Tennessee. Meanwhile, gun laws are being eased in Florida
Continue Reading By CLAUDIA LAUER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press A police killing caught on video. Protests and rioting fueled by long-simmering tensions over law enforcement treatment of minorities. Demands for accountability. The events in France following the death of a 17-year-old shot by police in a Paris suburb are drawing parallels to the racial reckoning
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Newly formed Hurricane Beatriz is sweeping along Mexico’s southwestern Pacific coast, threatening heavy rain for several southern states. The U.S. National Hurricane Center saysthe storm was centered 50 miles south-southeast of Manzanillo late Friday and had maximum sustained winds of 85 mph. Beatriz is moving northwest at 12 mph and is
Continue Reading By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Jeff Van Gundy, Suzy Kolber, Jalen Rose and Steve Young are among roughly 20 ESPN commentators and reporters who were laid off on Friday as part of job cuts by the network. ESPN had planned this additional round involving on-air talent to prevent further reductions to off-air staff after
Continue Reading NEW DELHI (AP) — Police in western India say a tire blowout caused a bus to lose control and crash into a road divider and burst into flames, killing 25 people. Police told the Press Trust of India news agency that 33 people were on the bus when the crash occurred around 1:30 a.m. Saturday
Continue Reading By SYLVIE CORBET, JOHN LEICESTER and LEWIS JOLY Associated Press NANTERRE, France (AP) — Young rioters clashed with police and looted stores overnight Friday in a fourth night of unrest in France triggered by the deadly police shooting of a teen, piling more pressure on President Emmanuel Macron after he appealed to parents to keep
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