AP National News

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Huntington Beach is still reeling from last week’s underwater pipeline leak that spilled crude into the Pacific Ocean off Southern California. The spill of at least 25,000 gallons and no more than 132,000 gallons of crude has kept the ocean off limits for a week

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Pamela has formed off Mexico’s Pacific coast and is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane before hitting shore somewhere near the port of Mazatlan at midweek. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Pamela’s center was about 505 miles (810 kilometers) south of Mazatlan late Sunday, and was moving west-northwest

JULHAS ALAM and RISHABH R. JAIN Associated Press DHAKA,Bangladesh (AP) — The United Nations and the government of Bangladesh have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together in aiding protection and management of Rohingya refugees on an island in the Bay of Bengal. More than 19,000 out of 1.1 million Rohingya refugees in Southern

ALAMO, Ga. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a man suspected of gunning down a Georgia police officer during his first shift with the department. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced Sunday that 43-year-old Damien Anthony Ferguson had been taken into custody after a large manhunt. No other details were released, and authorities said they planned

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqis have voted in parliamentary elections held months ahead of schedule as a concession to a youth-led uprising against corruption and mismanagement. The voting was marked by widespread apathy and a boycott by many of the young activists. Results were expected within a day, but negotiations over

By FRANCESCA EBEL and BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Several thousand demonstrators gathered in central Tunis to protest President Kaïs Saied’s recent consolidation of power, which his critics have called a coup. The protest reflected an increasingly visible rift in Tunisian society over the president’s actions. Police presence was visibly bolstered

MOSCOW (AP) — A doctor for former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says his condition is deteriorating 10 days into a hunger strike that he started after being arrested when he returned to the country. Saakashvili, 53, left Georgia in 2014 and became a Ukrainian citizen. He faces several charges in Georgia and earlier was sentenced

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban say Washington has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to a desperately poor Afghanistan on the brink of an economic disaster, while refusing to give political recognition to the country’s new rulers. The statement from the Taliban came on Sunday at the end of the first

CHAMBLEE, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a small plane that crashed just after takeoff from a suburban airport in a northeast suburb of Atlanta, killing all four people aboard, was full of fuel and headed for Houston. Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board provided that information Sunday during an update on their investigation. Officials

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Large protests were held across Poland to show support for the country’s membership in the European Union. The nationwide rallies on Sunday follow Poland’s constitutional court ruling this week that the Polish constitution overrides some EU laws. Donald Tusk, the top opposition leader in Poland and

Associated Press CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline jumped 6 cents over the past two weeks, to $3.31 per gallon. That’s $1.07 more than a year ago. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday the rise comes as the cost of crude oil increases and demand goes

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The island of Evia, Greece’s second-largest, has been hit by floods months after devastating forest fires last summer destroyed about a third of its forest cover. There were no casualties from the heavy rains that hit the northern part of the island, but dozens of residents had to be evacuated from

By HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House’s second-ranking Republican, Rep. Steve Scalise, is refusing to say that the 2020 election wasn’t stolen. In a television interview Sunday, the Louisiana congressman stood by Donald Trump’s lie that Democrat Joe Biden won the White House because of mass voter fraud. It’s more than 11

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook, in the aftermath of damning testimony that its platforms harm children, will be introducing several features including prompting teens using its photo sharing app Instagram to take a break, and nudging them if they repeatedly look at the same content that’s not conducive to their

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan State University football player has filed a lawsuit alleging the school was wrong to suspend him from the team indefinitely while it investigates sexual assault allegations from January. The federal lawsuit filed Friday identifies the player only as John Doe. It alleges Michigan State has been unresponsive to

Austria’s president has welcomed Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s resignation and demanded that the country’s politicians work hard to restore voters’ trust after a several-day drama that brought the government to the brink of collapse. President Alexander Van der Bellen said he will swear in Alexander Schallenberg, currently Austria’s foreign minister, as chancellor on Monday. Kurz announced

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqis have voted in parliamentary elections held months ahead of schedule as a concession to a youth-led uprising against corruption and mismanagement. The voting was marked by widespread apathy and a boycott by many of the young activists. Results were expected within a day, but negotiations over

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Paul McCartney has revisited the breakup of The Beatles, disputing the suggestion that he was responsible for the group’s demise. Speaking on an episode of BBC Radio 4’s “This Cultural Life’’ that is scheduled to air Oct 23, McCartney said it was John Lennon who wanted to

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says a Navy nuclear engineer with access to military secrets has been charged with trying to pass information about the design of American nuclear-powered submarines to someone he thought was a representative of a foreign government but who turned out to be an undercover

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s King Abdullah II has promised the Lebanese prime minister that his country will stand by Lebanon and its people during its worst-ever economic crisis. Najib Mikati’s visit to Jordan Sunday is his first to an Arab country since he formed his Cabinet last month. The meeting came after the prime