Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — A major river in the Brazilian metropolis Sao Paulo is suddenly emerald green and clear skies have turned from blue to grey. The changes suggested a fantasy world, but in fact environmental threats have transformed the reality of the city’s color palette in recent days. The state’s environmental authority
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Tyreek Hill’s teammates and coaches used words like “triggering” and a “shame” to describe body camera footage showing a police officer yanking the Miami Dolphins receiver out of his sports car and forcing him face-first onto the ground during a traffic stop. The incident outside the Dolphins’
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson vowed Tuesday to press ahead with requiring proof of citizenship for new voters as part of a bill to avoid a partial government shutdown in three weeks, though the measure appeared likely to be voted down. Democrats overwhelmingly oppose the measure. Enough Republicans were also coming
Continue ReadingALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The two opposition candidates who ran in Algeria’s election are challenging the result and calling into question President Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s landslide victory. Islamist Abdellali Hassani Cherif and socialist Youcef Aouchiche on Tuesday filed appeals with Algeria’s Constitutional Court while harshly rebuking election officials and disputing the vote count. The challenge followed
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A federal judge says two transgender girls can try out for and play on girls school sports teams as the teens challenge a New Hampshire ban. The families of Parker Tirrell, and Iris Turmelle, sued in August seeking to overturn the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act that Republican Gov.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The first U.S. troops to deploy after the 9/11 attacks are suffering from radiation exposure that the government has yet to officially recognize 23 years later. And it’s a final group that comedian Jon Stewart can’t leave behind. Troops sent to a former Soviet base in Uzbekistan found clumps of
Continue ReadingAP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s long list of National Book Awards for young people’s literature has a poetic touch. Five of the 10 nominees announced Tuesday by the National Book Foundation are novels written in verse, including Olivia A. Coles’ “Ariel Crashing a Train” and Shifa Saltagi Safadi’s “Kareem Between,” a
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Deshaun Watson is again under a spotlight away from the field. The NFL said Tuesday it is investigating the latest civil lawsuit filed against the Cleveland Browns quarterback for an alleged sexual assault that took place in 2020 while he played for Houston. On Monday, a woman in Texas
Continue ReadingAssociated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police have arrested a 14-year-old suspect following a shooting that critically injured a teenage boy at a high school in Nebraska’s largest city. Families rushed Tuesday to Omaha Northwest High School after the shooting was reported by the school resource officer during lunch. Omaha Police Deputy Chief Sherie
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Supreme Court of Maryland is considering the constitutionality of a 2023 law that ended the state’s statute of limitations for child sexual abuse lawsuits following a report that exposed widespread wrongdoing within the Archdiocese of Baltimore. The state’s highest court heard oral arguments in the case Tuesday. Most
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned a man close to the leadership of Mexico’s hyper-violent Jalisco New Generation cartel and known as “the tank.” It says he leads the cartel’s fuel theft arm, supplying it with tens of millions of dollars a year by selling stolen gasoline through a network of seemingly
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A lawsuit arguing that county election board members in Georgia have the discretion to not certify election results has been dismissed on a technicality. But the judge noted it could be refiled. Fulton County election board member Julie Adams filed a lawsuit in May asking a judge to declare that
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Miami Dolphins star wide receiver Tyreek Hill was pulled from his sports car by Miami-Dade County police officers outside Hard Rock Stadium during a traffic stop before the team’s game on Sunday, triggering a national debate on whether the treatment was justified. Hill, 30, was pushed onto the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua said Tuesday it was revoking the citizenship and seizing the property of 135 people who were expelled from the country last week after serving prison sentences in a government crackdown on dissent. The government also said it would confiscate all their assets. The prisoners were released and expelled
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s prime minister has warned that the country could be facing its toughest winter since the full-scale Russian invasion began, as airstrikes against the country’s beleaguered energy infrastructure intensify. Denys Shmyhal said Ukraine’s government, helped by European countries, is urgently developing initiatives to decentralize its power generation, to make
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military on Tuesday released video footage of a Gaza tunnel where it says six hostages were recently killed by Hamas. The video shows a low, narrow passageway deep underground that had no bathroom and poor ventilation. The discovery of the hostages’ bodies last month has sparked a mass
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a lower-court ruling that blocks Arizona from enforcing a 2022 law that bans transgender girls from playing on girls’ school sports teams. A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said Monday that the lower-court didn’t make an error in concluding that, before puberty,
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — Two Delta Air Lines planes collided on a taxiway at Atlanta’s airport Tuesday morning, with a larger plane knocking over the tail of a smaller regional jet. No injuries were reported and Delta said passengers were rebooked on other flights that departed Tuesday afternoon. Atlanta-based Delta said the wing of a Delta
Continue ReadingThere might be a strike at Boeing this week after all. The president of the machinists’ union local district in Seattle says he expects workers to vote down a contract negotiated by the union and the company. Voting takes place Thursday and covers about 33,000 workers, most of them in Washington state. The tentative agreement
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness says his country will send two dozen soldiers and police officers to Haiti this week to boost a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya to fight violent gangs. The 20 soldiers and four police officers are scheduled to arrive Thursday and will join
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