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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has collected DNA samples from more than 200 families following last week’s sinking of an overcrowded smuggling vessel off Greece that left more than 500 migrants missing, including scores of Pakistanis. A Foreign Ministry spokesperson told reporters on Thursday that the families had approached the authorities themselves, saying they suspect their

By HOLLY RAMER, JENNIFER McDERMOTT and BEN FINLEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — About an hour and a half into its voyage, a missing submersible on an expedition to view the wreckage of the Titanic lost communications. It would take another nine hours before the Canadian research icebreaker Polar Prince, which was supporting the Titan,

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Officials say firefighters who responded to February’s fiery train derailment in Ohio struggled with communications and were unable to quickly identify the hazardous chemicals the train was hauling. The National Transportation Safety Board is holding a rare field hearing in East Palestine on the Norfolk

By BEATRICE DUPUY and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A storm pummeled concertgoers at Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Denver with golf ball-sized hail, sending them scurrying for cover, injuring dozens and forcing the cancellation of the show’s headliner, former One Direction member Louis Tomlinson. Up to 90 people were treated for non-life-threatening injuries

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina has given final legislative approval to a bill banning transgender girls from playing on the school sports teams that align with their gender identity. The GOP-controlled state House voted 62-43 Thursday to send the bill to the desk of Democratic Gov. Roy

MACON, Ga. (AP) — A doctors’ group that promotes animal rights is makin’ a fuss over the Macon Bacon baseball team. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine wrote to the president of the Georgia collegiate team urging him to change its name. Committee nutritional educator Anna Herby wrote that the team’s name amounts to a

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The desperate search for a submersible that disappeared while taking five people to view the Titanic wreckage has drawn attention to other deep-sea rescues. Those rescue efforts — from a submersible off Ireland to a submarine off the New Hampshire coast — offer some measure of hope

ASCOT, England (AP) — King Charles III has claimed his first Royal Ascot winner as the reigning monarch. The king watched the race from the Royal Enclosure alongside Queen Camilla and they saw Desert Hero win by a short head in the King George V Stakes. Desert Hero wore the royal silks and was an

By PATRICK WHITTLE and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press The search for a missing submersible with five people aboard took a bleak turn Thursday when the U.S. Coast Guard said a debris field was found at the bottom of the ocean near the Titanic, and the critical 96-hour mark passed when breathable air could have run

PARIS (AP) — French rescue workers searched Thursday for a person feared missing after a powerful blast brought down a building on Paris’ Left Bank, injuring more than 30 people, six of them critically. Investigators were working to determine the cause of Wednesday’s explosion. A possible gas leak was one of the theories under investigation.

ASCOT, England (AP) — King Charles III has claimed his first Royal Ascot winner as the reigning monarch. The king watched the race from the Royal Enclosure alongside Queen Camilla and they saw Desert Hero win by a short head in the King George V Stakes. Desert Hero wore the royal silks and was an

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A politician considered to be the mother of the modern Scottish independence movement has died at the age of 93. Winnie Ewing’s relatives announced Thursday that she died on Wednesday “surrounded by her family.” Ewing was elected to the U.K. Parliament in 1967 for the pro-independence Scottish

By PATRICK WHITTLE and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press The search for the missing submersible on an expedition to view the wreckage of the Titanic passed the critical 96-hour mark Thursday when breathable air could have run out, a grim moment in the intense effort to save the five people aboard. The Titan submersible was estimated

By DÁNICA COTO and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Attorneys for the widow of slain Haitian President Jovenel Moïse have filed a lawsuit in Florida against those accused in the assassination. The lawsuit was filed Thursday and first shared with The Associated Press. It seeks unspecified damages and a trial

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press SAN JUAN COMALAPA, Guatemala (AP) — Just days away from electing a new president, many Guatemalans remain undecided, unimpressed by the leading candidates and even considering casting a protest vote to express their disapproval. Concerns about extortion and violent crime cross class lines, and rural and urban communities, perhaps explaining

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — An eclectic crowd of thousands — podcasters, vendors, startups, seekers — swarmed a psychedelics conference in Denver this week to experience everything from a dimly lit hall packed with kaleidoscope art and a wide-ranging lineup of speakers from a former Republican governor to NFL star

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and SIBI ARASU Associated Press MIDDELBURG, South Africa (AP) — Plumes of heat-trapping pollutants last billowed from the giant stacks of South Africa’s Komati Power Station in October. That’s when the coal-fired plant was shut down to make way for a solar, wind and battery storage plant. Converting Komati to be part

By AAMER MADHANI, COLLEEN LONG and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are marking the state visit of the Indian leader on Thursday by launching new partnerships in defense, semiconductor manufacturing and more sectors as the leaders look to strengthen their countries’ crucial — albeit

By KEN MILLER and SARAH BRUMFIELD Associated Press A line of severe storms produced what a meteorologist calls a rare combination of multiple tornadoes, hurricane-force winds and softball-sized hail in west Texas, killing at least four people and causing significant damage around the town of Matador, a meteorologist said Thursday. A supercell developed about 8

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A hurricane watch has been issued for St. Lucia as Tropical Storm Bret barrels toward the eastern Caribbean at near-hurricane strength. The storm was located about 170 miles east of Barbados on Thursday morning and was moving west at 15 mph. It had maximum