AP National News

By DAVID RISING Associated Press UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — Thai authorities on Sunday fined two CNN journalists for working in the country on tourist visas but cleared them of wrongdoing for entering the day care center where more than 20 children were massacred, saying they had filmed inside believing they had obtained permission. Deputy

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — It’s possible Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz talked himself into a death sentence. Prosecutors played video last week at Cruz’s penalty trial of jailhouse interviews he did this year with two of their mental health experts. In frank and sometimes graphic detail, he answered their

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Five tribes on California’s coast are moving forward in their efforts to protect marine ecosystems as part of the Tribal Marine Stewards Network. The state’s Ocean Protection Council recently approved $3.6 million for the first-in-the-nation project. The network is a partnership between the tribes,

By COLLEEN BARRY and LUIGI NAVARRA Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday denounced Europe’s indifference toward migrants risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea as he elevated to sainthood an Italian bishop and Italian-born missionary whose work and life paths illustrated the difficulties faced by 19th Century Italian emigrants. Francis

The Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan has unilaterally cancelled joint military drills between the six nations comprising the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), less than a day before they were due to start on its territory. Kyrgyz defense officials did not specify a reason Sunday for cancelling the “Indestructible Brotherhood-2022” command and staff exercises,

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Julia hit Nicaragua’s central Caribbean coast and dumped torrential rains across Central America before reemerging over the Pacific as a tropical storm. It was forecast to travel parallel to the coasts of El Salvador and Guatemala on Monday. Julia hit Sunday as a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says it has reached a settlement to compensate the family of a Palestinian-American man who died earlier this year after he was detained by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank. The Defense Ministry said Sunday that it had reached an agreement with Omar Asaad’s family, which had filed a claim

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister is calling for European Union entry bans and asset freezes against those responsible for what she described as brutal repression against anti-government protesters in Iran. The most sustained protests in years against Iran’s theocracy are now in their fourth week. They erupted Sept. 17, after the burial of 22-year-old

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press/Report for America WARREN, Mich. (AP) — With voting underway in Michigan’s general election, the Republican nominee for secretary of state stepped on stage as a warm-up act for former President Donald Trump and hit hard on the main theme of her campaign. Kristina Karamo repeated unfounded assertions about the 2020

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press SUFFOLK, Va. (AP) — Whenever historic homes get flooded, building contractors often feel compelled by government regulations to rip out the water-logged wood flooring, tear down the old plaster walls and install new, flood-resistant materials. It’s a hurried approach that’s likely to occur across southwest Florida in the wake of

By STEPHEN GROVES and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — They had waited in the desert heat in a line that wrapped around the block and now the excitement was palpable when South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem took the stage in a suburban Phoenix convention hall. “She’s our governor!” someone yelled. Kari

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and DAVID RISING Associated Press UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — Families offered flowers and dolls, popcorn and juice boxes to the children massacred at a day care center in Thailand. That was part of a Buddhist ceremony held paces from where the slaughter began and was meant to guide the young souls

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police say the roof of a home made of mud and wood in northern Pakistan caved in, killing nine family members, including eight siblings. A police officer said the incident in the town of Chilas in the Gilgit Baltistan region claimed the lives of four daughters and four sons of a

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias has met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukry in Cairo. An Egyptian spokesman says the talks Sunday addressed “all aspects” of cooperation between the two countries. Dendias had said the talks would focus on the latest developments in the Aegean Sea, Libya

JUSTIN SPIKE and ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say a Russian rocket barrage pounded apartment buildings and other targets in the city of Zaporizhzhia, killing at least 17 people and wounding dozens. The blasts in the city blew out windows in adjacent buildings and left at least one high-rise apartment

By SAMYA KULLAB and SALAR SALIM Associated Press SULIMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Growing up under a repressive system, Sharo, a 35-year-old university graduate, never thought she would hear words of open rebellion spoken out loud. Now she herself chants slogans like “Death to the Dictator!” with a fury she didn’t know she had, as she

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Ilya Silchukou was a cultural icon in his native Belarus, the lead soloist at the State Opera Bolshoi who represented his nation at official government functions at home and abroad and performed at opera houses across Europe. He lived a privileged and comfortable life in his homeland.

By DAVID RISING Associated Press UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — Thai police are investigating a report that a CNN crew inappropriately entered the day care center while reporting on the aftermath of the massacre in the building that left more than 20 preschoolers dead, authorities said Sunday. Danaichok Boonsom, head of the local township administration,

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police have arrested at least three Palestinian suspects in connection with a deadly shooting at a Jerusalem checkpoint, and security forces were searching for the suspected gunman. Police said Sunday that a large force of officers, soldiers and Shin Bet security agency operatives were involved in the search. The shooter opened