AP National News

By CHEVEL JOHNSON Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Smoke and flames shot up the side of the Superdome’s roof after a pressure washer being used to clean the roof of the New Orleans arena caught fire. The New Orleans Fire Department says it responded to the rooftop fire shortly after 12:30 p.m. Tuesday. A

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press While there has been a decline in births in the U.S. during the pandemic, a new report suggests the drop may have turned a corner last March as births started rebounding. The report released Tuesday by the Census Bureau says the decline in births was most noticeable at the end

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The ruling emir of Qatar has urged world leaders gathered at the United Nations against turning their backs on Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers. Qatar has played a pivotal role in Afghanistan in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal. Qatar’s ruler told heads of state

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s defense minister has apologized and his ministry has suspended an official after a “significant” data breach involving the email addresses of dozens of Afghan interpreters hoping to settle in the U.K. A A Defense Ministry email to more than 250 Afghans who are eligible for relocation and still remain in Afghanistan

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Two Rutgers players have been suspended from the football team after they were charged in an incident in which three people were struck by paintballs fired from a passing vehicle. Coach Greg Schiano took the action after defensive backs Malachi “Max” Melton and Chris Long were each charged with three counts

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Filmmaker James DeMonaco remembers the day “Rocky III” hit theaters as if it were yesterday. On Staten Island in 1982, it was an all-out event. He waited four hours in line to get tickets and saw it twice in a day. It’s this memory that inspired his latest film,

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Election authorities announced Russia’s ruling party will get 324 of the 450 seats in the next national parliament. The number is less than the pro-Kremlin party, United Russia, won in the previous election but still an overwhelming majority. Retaining the party’s dominance in the State Duma was

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state prosecutor has decided not to file criminal charges against police who shot and killed an antifascist fugitive last year who was wanted in the highly publicized death of a right-wing demonstrator in Portland, Oregon. A U.S. Marshals-led task force was trying to arrest Michael Reinoehl near Olympia in

By ALEX SANZ Associated Press For weeks, the Afghanistan national girls soccer team had been waiting for word they could leave. On Sunday, the message finally came. The girls and their families boarded a charter flight from Afghanistan to Portugal, which has granted them asylum. Since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the girls, ages 14-16,

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press Six Native American tribes are suing Wisconsin to try to stop its planned wolf hunt in November. They assert that the hunt violates their treaty rights and endangers an animal they consider sacred. The Chippewa tribes say treaties give them rights to half of the wolf quota in territory they

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is a no-go for launching billionaires into space. Guterres called out billionaires for joyriding into space while millions go hungry. In July, billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos flew into space, just missing orbit, on spaceships their companies built. Billionaire Jared Isaacman and three others

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The disappearance and death of Gabby Petito and the police hunt for her boyfriend have generated a whirlwind online. A multitude of armchair detectives and others have been sharing tips, possible sightings and theories by way of TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and other sites.

By ASTRID GALVAN Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A new government report has found that Latinos are vastly underrepresented in newsrooms, Hollywood films and TV and other media industries. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus asked the U.S. Government Accountability Office to investigate last October, and the report was released Tuesday. U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, a Texas

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro issued a defense of his administration at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, rebuffing criticism of its handling of the pandemic and touting recent data indicating less Amazon deforestation. He said his government supports vaccination, but not vaccine passports or mandates,

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press Progressive lawmakers have introduced a bill that would reimpose a nationwide eviction moratorium that lapsed last month. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri say their bill would direct the secretary of Health and Human Services to implement a ban on evictions in response to COVID-19.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two United Nations agencies have requested access to asylum-seekers stranded at Belarus’s border with Poland and Lithuania after four migrants were found dead in the area. The International Organization for Migration and the U.N. Refugee Agency called Tuesday  for an investigation of the four deaths and asked for “immediate access” to

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A sheriff says no charges will be filed against a South Carolina father whose 20-month-old boys died from heat after he forgot to drop them off at daycare. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott says the father was under intense pressure as a professional at his manufacturing

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s failing national airline Alitalia is telling passengers to just bring a single piece of hand luggage when travelling. That’s because intensifying strikes and labor protests are disrupting services ahead of the airline’s planned Oct. 14 demise. In a series of tweets Tuesday, Alitalia apologized to its

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Workers have reinstalled two statues on the Wisconsin Capitol grounds that protesters damaged during a demonstration last year following George Floyd’s death. Protesters in June broke off a leg and tore the head off a statue of abolitionist Hans Christian Heg. They also dented and broke

By JOSEPH PISANI AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon, Chobani, UPS and more than 30 other companies have vowed to hire and train refugees fleeing Afghanistan for the U.S. The companies said Tuesday that they want to help the tens of thousands of Afghan refugees coming to America to integrate into the economy.