Associated Press PENAJAM PASER UTARA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia is marking 79 years of independence with a ceremony in its future new capital of Nusantara, a city still under construction. Relocating the capital to Nusantara, on the island of Borneo, has been a long-delayed project, meant to ease the burdens on the congested and polluted
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Militants with ties to the Islamic State group have killed 16 villagers in northeastern Congo and kidnapped 20 others. A local civil society group said Friday that the attacks occurred between Wednesday and Friday and that some of the victims were farmers. Dozens of villages across Congo are besieged
Continue ReadingTIARET, Algeria (AP) — An outpouring of fans greeted Algerian boxer Imane upon arrival back in her hometown on Friday and at a parade in Tiaret, the nearby regional capital. She and track star Djamel Sedjati were honored by local leaders and then paraded through the streets atop a city bus as hundreds of residents
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen in northern Nigeria have ambushed vehicles conveying some university students and abducted 20 of them. Police in the Benue state in north central Nigeria said on Friday that the gunmen ambushed the students on Thursday evening. It is the latest case of kidnap along Nigerian roads where dozens
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) — When Denisha Mitchell was asked why she filled out paperwork to serve as an Arizona elector for the independent presidential candidate Cornel West, her first response was “What?!” Her second: What’s an elector? “I was shocked and surprised by it all. I didn’t even know what an elector was,” Mitchell
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) — A powerful typhoon that slammed the Tokyo area with heavy rains and brought mudslide warnings in northern Japan is heading eastward in the Pacific Ocean away from the coast. There were no reports Saturday of major damage. Tokyo and nearby areas were back to normal under sunny skies. Bullet trains
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Mexico is defending cross-border anti-drug cooperation after Mexican prosecutors complained the Americans aren’t giving them enough information. Mexico’s government was embarrassed by the surrender of two Mexican drug lords who arrived in Texas aboard a mysterious flight in July. Officials say they weren’t even aware of the
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. authorities say arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico plummeted 33% in July to the lowest level since September 2020, a result of asylum being temporarily suspended. Customs and Border Protection says agents made 56,408 arrests last month, down from 83,536 arrests in June. Asylum was halted at the border
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — It was strange and surprising when Mexico’s most-wanted drug lord landed at an airfield near El Paso, Texas in July, but the story of how he got there is now growing into a scandal that threatens top figures in Mexico’s ruling party. At issue is whether Rubén Rocha —
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A large bronze statue of the late civil rights icon leader and Georgia congressman John Lewis was installed at the very spot where a contentious monument to the confederacy stood for more than 110 years in the town square before it was dismantled in 2020. Work crews on
Continue ReadingFALLON, Nev. (AP) — Ten U.S. Navy crew members injured during a training incident involving two Navy helicopters in the northern Nevada desert have been released from a Reno hospital. The crew members’ injuries were not life-threatening. The Navy said Friday it is investigating the mishap that involved two MH-60S Seahawk helicopters Thursday night while
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A tiny Florida college is once again at the center of the state’s culture wars after a dumpster left the campus library filled with hundreds of books. The New College of Florida says its library was performing a routine culling of its collection, mostly of old and damaged volumes. But students and activists
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Dirt track race car driver Scott Bloomquist has died in a plane crash in Tennessee. The sheriff’s office in Hawkins County said a small plane went down Friday into a barn in Mooresburg. The sole person in the aircraft who died is believed to be Bloomquist. He was 60. Bloomquist stood out with
Continue ReadingHATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi poultry processing plant has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor that requires it to pay $164,814 in fines and put in place enhanced safety measures following the death of a 16-year-old boy at the facility. The agreement, announced Friday in a news release, comes after
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has kept on hold in roughly half the country new regulations about sex discrimination in education, rejecting a Biden administration request. The court voted 5-4, with conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch joining the three liberal justices in dissent. At issue were protections for pregnant students and students who are parents,
Continue ReadingMONTREAL (AP) — Nearly 150,000 Montreal homes were put under a boil water advisory after a broken water main erupted into a “geyser” that transformed streets into streams, paralyzed traffic and forced people to evacuate from flooded buildings. Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante says many residents east of downtown woke up around 6 a.m. to firefighters
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin election officials have decided to allow the Green Party’s presidential candidate to remain on the battleground state’s ballot. A Democratic National Committee employee filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission on Wednesday seeking to keep Jill Stein off the ballot. Her appearance on the ballot could make
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DALLAS (AP) — A Texas jury is deliberating whether the parents of a former student accused of killing 10 people in a 2018 school shooting bear responsibility for what happened. Both sides presented their closing arguments in a Galveston court Friday, then the case went to the jury. A victims’ lawsuit alleges the
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — A former Washington, D.C., city employee was found guilty of manslaughter Friday in the fatal shooting of an unarmed 13-year-old boy that sparked public uproar in the nation’s capital. Jurors found Jason Lewis not guilty of second-degree murder, but convicted him of manslaughter and other charges after the trial in D.C. Superior
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer The launch of Venu Sports will be delayed after a federal judge granted FuboTV’s motion for a preliminary injunction against the planned sports streaming venture by ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery. United States District Judge Margaret M. Garnett in the Southern District of New York said in her 69-page ruling that
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