Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A military court in Congo has sentenced 25 people, including the leader of a rebel coalition, to death. Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Alliance Fleuve Congo, or AFC, was found guilty of war crimes, participation in an insurrection and treason. The AFC is a political-military movement launched in December
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writers SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — The first sign of trouble Thursday night came when Noah Lyles started rounding the curve in the Olympic final of the 200 meters — the sprint that has always been his best race. Normally at the curve, Lyles starts making up ground, then pulling away from what have
Continue ReadingATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Six University of Georgia students arrested during an April 29 protest against the Israel-Hamas war will remain suspended through the fall semester. The university announced the decision Monday after a July 30 disciplinary hearing. The students will also remain on probation for the remainder of their academic careers at the university.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — As sweaty fans pushed up against one another, clutching their drinks and swaying to the music, Annie Clark, known professionally as St. Vincent, was being transported. She recounts that surprise concert in May at the Paramount, an intimate historic East Los Angeles venue, as a kind of exorcism. The
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Authorities say two men linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard are facing terrorism charges in the U.S. in connection with the interception of a vessel in the Arabian Sea that resulted in the deaths of two Navy SEALs. The new indictment announced Thursday by federal prosecutors in Virginia charges two Iranian brothers and the
Continue ReadingFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Serbian competitor in the CrossFit Games has died while competing in a swimming event Thursday morning at a Texas lake. CrossFit CEO Don Faul said during a news conference that they were “deeply saddened” and were working with authorities on the investigation into the death of one of their
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A judge is expected to decide soon whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely listed a New York residence as the independent presidential candidate fights to get on the state ballot in November. A non-jury trial in Albany over whether Kennedy’s New York nominating petitions should be invalidated ended Thursday
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A New York City driver has been arrested and charged with tossing a lit firework into a Verizon utility truck and injuring two workers in an apparent act of road rage, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Kevindale Nurse, 36, was driving a commuter “dollar van” in the city borough of Brooklyn at
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Families of three students murdered during the 2018 massacre at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and a wounded former student have reached multimillion-dollar settlements in a lawsuit against the shooter. The parents of Luke Hoyer, Alaina Petty and Meadow Pollack each reached $50 million settlements with Nikolas
Continue ReadingWAUPACA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man has been convicted in a wrong-way drunken driving crash that killed four siblings last year. WLUK-TV reports that 48-year-old Scott Farmer of Neenah pleaded no contest Wednesday to four counts of homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle and one count of operating while intoxicated in the
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Business groups in Mexico are warning of economic damage to companies and thousands of regular citizens as a protest blockade of Mexico’s main east-west highway reached its second full day. Farmers blockaded the highway between Mexico City and Puebla Tuesday. By Thursday, some truckers and drivers had spent almost two full
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A man who says he broke his ankle jumping into the sprinkle pool at the Museum of Ice Cream in New York City has filed a lawsuit alleging that the facility was negligent for not warning customers that it is unsafe to jump into the sprinkle pool. Plaintiff Jeremy Shorr says
Continue ReadingHAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — A fire that destroyed a vacant landmark building in a southwestern Ohio community this week is considered suspicious because the building had no utilities. The fire at the former Beckett Paper Company building in Hamilton, a Cincinnati suburb, was reported around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. The building was completely engulfed in flames
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — A French police officer who killed a teenager during a traffic stop performed for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. The family of the 19-year-old who was shot and killed is shocked and angry. An internal police investigation found that the young man had backed up his car and
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — With blue, white and red flags waving in the stands and cheers blaring around them, France’s players took in the moment. Matthew Strazel erupted in dance. Evan Fournier ripped his jersey off and skipped around. Later, the team gathered in a circle at center court as fans erupted in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s president has sacked the country’s prime minister and replaced him with another Cabinet member, the latest shakeup in the North African country ahead of the October presidential election. President Kais Saied announced late Wednesday that he was dismissing Prime Minister Ahmed Hachani after only one year in office.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Authorities say two suspected attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted a ship in the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait that links the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea. The Houthis did not immediately claim the assaults on Thursday and Friday, though they follow a monthslong campaign by
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After 13 months of what felt like an endless breaking of heat records, the streak came to an end last month. The European climate agency Copernicus said Thursday that July 2024’s average heat just missed surpassing the July of a year ago. While the slight cooling is good news
Continue ReadingSYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A zoo in Syracuse, New York, has welcomed two baby patas monkeys born weeks apart. The Rosamond Gifford Zoo said Thursday that the monkey babies are being raised by keepers because their mothers showed a lack of maternal instinct. The wide-eyed, big-eared babies, which were born in April and May, were
Continue ReadingAssociated Press THOMASVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Civil rights icon Andrew Young has come home to the south Georgia city where he first became a pastor in 1955. Young is billed as the star guest at the opening of a traveling exhibit in Thomasville on Thursday. The aptly called “The Many Lives of Andrew Young” will
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