LONDON (AP) — News publisher Guardian Media Group says it is in talks to sell The Observer newspaper to “slow news” outlet Tortoise Media. Founded in 1791, the Observer is the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper. It was bought by Guardian Media Group in 1993. Tortoise was co-founded in 2019 by former BBC news executive James
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson will move ahead with a temporary spending bill that would prevent a partial government shutdown when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, despite the headwinds that prompted him to pull the bill from consideration last week. The bill includes a requirement that people registering
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office will appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court a judge’s ruling upholding the conviction and death sentence for Marcellus Williams, whose execution is one week away. A notice of appeal filed Monday night did not include any details about the appeal. Meanwhile, attorneys
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOHUMIN, Czech Republic (AP) — Torrential rains have gone and flooding waters have been receding but residents of a Czech town are no mood to celebrate. The town of Bohumin was submerged by a flood wave brought by the Oder River that was fueled by record rains in northeast Czech Republic in recent
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. court on Tuesday upheld disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction on sex trafficking charges for helping the late financier Jeffrey Epstein abuse underage girls. The ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said that Epstein’s non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors in Florida didn’t bar
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The Carolinas braced for a storm that forecasters warned could bring heavy rain — as much as 6 to 8 inches in some spots. But one narrow band got a “firehose” that dumped as much as 20 inches in a so-called 1,000-year flood that shocked many with its intensity. The storm that left
Continue ReadingAssociated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — As freight trains have grown longer, the U.S. has seen an increase in the number of a type of derailment caused by the forces of railcars pushing and pulling against each other, the National Academies of Sciences said Tuesday in a long-awaited report that urges regulators, Congress and the
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in Mexico say six people have been killed in a landslide near Mexico City. The State of Mexico government said in a statement that the landslide on Monday night in Naucalpan also affected a house and school. The community is northwest of Mexico City. The victims were four men and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe and Namibia have announced plans to slaughter hundreds of wild elephants and other animals to feed hunger-stricken residents amid severe drought conditions in the southern African countries. Zimbabwe said Monday it would allow the killing of 200 elephants so that their meat can be distributed among needy communities,
Continue ReadingLEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — An investigation by the welfare unit of horse racing’s federal oversight authority accuses the equine analytical chemistry lab at the University of Kentucky of failing to comply with testing standards and misrepresenting its ability to test for specific substances. Tuesday’s release of results from a six-month probe by the unit and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The European Union’s top diplomat is warning that every day that passes without a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war risks the lives of the hostages held by the militants and the lives of those in the Gaza Strip. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell spoke to reporters
Continue ReadingTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state media say authorities have released an Austrian citizen who was held in prison in the country’s northwest, the first time information about his imprisonment was made public. Mizanonilne.ir news agency, which is affiliated with the country’s judiciary, said Christian Weber was released based on “Islamic mercies” and handed to
Continue ReadingAP Technology Writer At what age should kids be on social media? Should they be on it at all? If they aren’t, will they be social pariahs? Should parents monitor their conversations? Do parental controls work? Navigating social media as a parent — not to mention a child — is not easy. Using social media
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — More than two decades ago, when gay men and lesbians were prohibited from serving openly in the U.S. military and no state had legalized same-sex marriages, a national LGBTQ+ rights group decided to promote change by grading corporations on their workplace policies. The Human Rights Campaign initially focused
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Writers PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Kroger and Albertsons have made their final argument in federal court in support of their proposed merger. Lawyers for the Federal Trade Commission and for the supermarket chains gave closing arguments on Tuesday at the end of a three-week hearing on the commission’s request for a temporary injunction
Continue ReadingAP Golf Writer The Masters and CBS are expanding weekend coverage by five hours from Augusta National. The club says the Saturday telecast will start an hour earlier at 2 p.m. The big change is that CBS will provide coverage from noon to 2 p.m. exclusively on its streaming service Paramount+. This is the first
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday made his first public appearance since Sunday’s second apparent assassination attempt against him, speaking to an crowd chanting “God bless Trump!” and “Fight, Fight, Fight” as U.S. Secret Service agents surrounded the stage to protect him. “It’s been a great experience,” the Republican
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Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded near-simultaneously Tuesday in Lebanon and Syria, killing at least nine people, including an 8-year-old girl, and wounding several thousand, officials said. Hezbollah and the Lebanese government blamed Israel for what appeared to be a sophisticated remote attack. An
Continue ReadingBreak-ins and thefts can happen at any small business, no matter how tight the security. In the retail sector alone, more than half of small businesses said they had been victims of shoplifting in in the prior year, according to a 2022 survey by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. And break-ins and thefts occur across
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) — Video feed issues halted the mission of a robot trying to retrieve the first sample of melted fuel debris from inside one of three damaged reactors at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. This is the second time in less than a month the mission had to be suspended.
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