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GAFFNEY, S.C. (AP) — A woman looking out the kitchen window of her South Carolina home was killed by an intoxicated neighbor shooting at targets in his backyard, authorities said. Kesha Luwan Lucille Tate, 42, heard several gunshots about 6:30 p.m. Saturday and was hit in the chest by a bullet when she went to

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Amsterdam has approved a plan to temporarily accommodate at least 1,000 migrants on a cruise ship moored in the Dutch capital’s port. The decision Tuesday comes as the Netherlands seeks ways out of a migrant accommodation crisis that last week saw hundreds of asylum seekers sleeping outside a reception center. The ship

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The top court for nine eastern Caribbean nations and territories has struck down a colonial-era law against homosexual conduct in St. Kitts and Nevis, ruling that sexual orientation is covered by the right to privacy. LGBTQ activists celebrated the ruling issued Tuesday by the

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s long-running power struggle between rival Shiite camps devolved into bloody street violence this week – the culmination of months of simmering tensions and a political vacuum. For 24 hours, loyalists of powerful cleric Muqtada al-Sadr transformed the country’s government Green Zone into a front line, trading

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court has rejected a petition for the release of a Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for nearly six months. His lawyer said Tuesday that he is in danger of “sudden death.” He is protesting being held by Israel in what’s known as administrative detention, a practice in

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — There is only so much farmland in the United States, so when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last spring prompted worries that people would go hungry as wheat remained stuck in blockaded ports, there was little U.S. farmers could do to meet the new demand. But

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time in three years, the fall movie industrial complex is lurching back into high gear. Festival red carpets are rolled out. Oscar campaigns are primed. Long-awaited blockbusters, like “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and “Avatar: The Way of Water,” are poised for big

By PAUL BYRNE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine claimed to have destroyed bridges and ammunition depots and pounded command posts in a surge of fighting in the Russian-occupied south, fueling speculation Tuesday that its long-awaited counteroffensive to try to turn the tide of war was underway. Russia said it repelled the attack and

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press TULUM, Mexico (AP) — Scraping the smelly sargassum seaweed off some beaches on Mexico’s resort-studded Caribbean coast has become not only a nightmare, but possibly a health threat, for the workers doing it — with the quantities washing ashore this year seemingly mountains not mounds. Decomposing sargassum, which is actually

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press PRAHOVO, Serbia (AP) — The worst drought in Europe in decades has not only scorched farmland and hampered river traffic, it also has exposed a part of almost forgotten World War II history: The hulks of dozens of World War II German battleships have emerged from the Danube River as

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening slightly higher on Wall Street following two days of slumps as investors worry that high interest rates aren’t going away any time soon as the Federal Reserve fights inflation. Best Buy was up sharply in the early going Tuesday after reporting results for its latest quarter that were

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — At 24, El Johnson has made up her mind that she won’t bear children, though she and her girlfriend haven’t ruled out adoption. The graduate student who works in legal services in Austin, Texas, has a list of reasons for not wanting to give birth: the

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — In Mississippi’s capital, emergency officials are going to distribute bottled water to residents, a local university is using temporary restrooms for students and people who do have water are boiling it to wash dishes as a longstanding water crisis exacerbated by recent

JERUSALEM (AP) — The independent commission investigating a deadly stampede at a religious festival in Israel last year says then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might be found partly responsible. Tuesday’s announcement could harm Netanyahu — who is already on trial for corruption — ahead of Nov. 1 elections. He hopes to become prime minister again. Netanyahu

Elon Musk and Twitter lobbed salvos at each other Tuesday in the latest round of legal filings over the billionaire Tesla CEO’s efforts to rescind his offer to buy the social media platform. Musk filed more paperwork to terminate his agreement to buy Twitter, this time based on information in a whistleblower complaint filed by

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — An American court has thrown out a lawsuit against a German museum foundation over a medieval treasure trove. The lawsuit was filed by heirs of Nazi-era Jewish art dealers. The court said the U.S. lacked jurisdiction to hear such a case. The foundation that oversees Berlin’s museums

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street was poised to rebound Tuesday after two days of widespread losses stemming from last week’s Federal Reserve pledge to fight inflation by keeping interest rates elevated. Futures for the Dow Jones industrials jumped 0.6% and futures for the benchmark S&P 500 index rose 0.7% after falling 0.7% on Monday.

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Gibraltar authorities say they have beached a cargo ship to prevent it from sinking after it collided with a liquefied natural gas carrier in the Bay of Gibraltar. A government spokesman said that the situation was under control and the cargo ship was not in danger. He

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say they have picked up a group of 30 people from a wooden boat that had lost steering and was drifting close to the rocky coast of a small islet north of Crete in the latest case of boats carrying migrants running into trouble

LONDON (AP) — Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, says that “just by existing,” she and her husband Prince Harry “upset the dynamic of the hierarchy” when they were in the U.K. The former actress made headlines in Britain on Tuesday with comments made during an interview with U.S. magazine The Cut. In the interview published