AP National News

By ZAK PODMORE The Salt Lake Tribune SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) — The second driest state in the country, Utah, doesn’t contribute much water to the Colorado River as it flows from Rocky Mountain headwaters through Canyonlands National Park to Lake Powell. Utah has a unique position in the middle of the river basin,

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A Sri Lankan court has issued a summons ordering an ex-president to appear in a case alleging he failed to prevent suicide bomb attacks in 2019 that killed nearly 270 people. The court ordered ex-President Maithripala Sirisena to appear on Oct. 14 in a complaint

By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities began unearthing bodies Friday from a mass burial site in a forest recaptured from Russian forces, including some that they said bore signs of torture. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the site was an example of “what the Russian occupation has led to.” The site,

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordanian officials say the death toll from the collapse this week of a four-story building in the Jordanian capital of Amman has climbed to 13. Rescuers were still searching for a missing woman on Friday. It’s not clear what caused the collapse of the building on Tuesday in an older district

By FANUEL MORELLI and FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press CANTIANO, Italy (AP) — Flash floods swept through several towns Friday in hilly central Italy after hours of exceptionally heavy rain, leaving 10 people dead and at least four missing, authorities said. Dozens of survivors scrambled onto rooftops or up trees to await rescue. Floods invaded garages

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer Stocks are opening broadly lower on Wall Street, putting the market on track for another week of sizable losses, as a stark warning from FedEx about rapidly worsening trends in the economy gave investors more to worry about. FedEx lost a quarter of its value early Friday after saying

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese depositors have stormed at least four banks to demand their trapped savings, signaling growing chaos amid the country’s economic meltdown. Friday’s raids were the most in a single day and the latest in a spate of bank break-ins that reflect public anger at the country’s strict

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The wave of attempted book banning and restrictions continues to intensify, the American Library Association reported Friday. Numbers for 2022 already approach last year’s totals, which were the highest levels in decades. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” says Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA’s

By DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese-born Kazakh activist is preparing to register a political party in Kazakhstan to counter Beijing’s growing influence in the region. Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited Kazakhstan this week in his first trip abroad since the pandemic, but Beijing’s brutal crackdown in its Xinjiang region has alienated

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press A bloc of Arab parties has split ahead of Israel’s fifth elections in less than four years, a move that could dilute the minority’s political influence and aid former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s return to power. The nationalist Balad party will run separately from the other two parties in the

By LINDSAY WHITEHRSUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Justice Department official has announced new incentives for companies that cooperate with corporate criminal investigations and a $250 million Congressional budget request to expand its work. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Thursday there has been a decline in the number of corporate criminal prosecutions

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer Barring an enormous rally, Wall Street is headed for another losing week as grim news from corporate bellwethers and higher-than-expected U.S. inflation data continue to weigh on markets. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 0.9% Friday and the S&P 500 tumbled 1%, compounding losses from earlier in

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Divers searched through the night for a student missing after a rowing team’s boat capsized in an Orlando lake following a nearby lightning strike, officials said. Medics took one child to a hospital and three others who were on the boat were sent home with their parents following the incident on

BEIJING (AP) — A massive fire has sent flames and black smoke pouring from a 42-story skyscraper in central China belonging to the country’s largest telecoms operator, but no casualties were immediately reported. Dozens of floors burned in the China Telecom building in the city of Changsha in central Hunan province. The city’s fire department

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A document purporting to be from the U.S. government and claiming the Treasury Department had information related to the search at Donald Trump’s Florida estate was a fabrication. But the document appeared last week on the court docket in the case involving the Mar-a-Lago search warrant. A

BEIJING (AP) — China has announced sanctions against the CEOs of American defense contractors Raytheon and Boeing Defense over a major arms sale to rival Taiwan. The Foreign Ministry did not specify what the sanctions would be against Gregory Hayes, chairman and CEO of Raytheon Technologies Corp., and Ted Colbert, president and CEO of Boeing

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has lashed out at the European parliament’s declaration that Hungary can no longer be considered a full democracy, saying that the  resolution is “a joke.” European Union lawmakers on Thursday declared that Hungary has become “a hybrid regime of electoral autocracy” under the leadership of Orban’s

By MIKE CORDER, JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A surging tide of people — ranging from London retirees to former England soccer captain David Beckham — have lined up to file past Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin as it lies in state at Parliament, so many that authorities on Friday had

By DAVID KLEPPER and ALI SWENSON Associated Press After winking at QAnon for years, Donald Trump is overtly embracing the baseless conspiracy theory, even as the number of frightening real-world events linked to it grows. On Tuesday, using his Truth Social platform, the Republican former president reposted an image of himself wearing a Q lapel

By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities began unearthing bodies Friday from a mass burial site in a forest recaptured from Russian forces — a find that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said was an example of “what the Russian occupation has led to.” The site, which police said contained 445 graves, was