Associated Press FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (AP) — A man convicted of human smuggling testified that he shuttled more than 500 Indian migrants across the U.S.-Canada border over four years. Rajinder Singh said Tuesday that he made over $400,000 while working in the same international smuggling ring as two men who are on trial in federal
Continue Reading Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Developing nations have a long list of changes their farmers need to make to adapt to a warming climate. Things like new and more resilient seeds, more efficient tractors and other tools, better water management systems and much more. But all that costs money, and that’s why advocates say
Continue Reading Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The trial has begun for a man accused of holding down a teenage boy so colleagues could rape him at a New Hampshire youth center in the 1990s. Prosecutors said Tuesday that a brutal crime took place. The defense says that it never happened and that the accuser is
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Multiple students were injured after a car crashed into people outside a primary school in central China on Tuesday morning, state news agency Xinhua reported. Authorities have not said how many people were injured in the incident, which took place in Hunan province’s Changde city. A 39-year-old
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s first stint in the White House proved to be a chaotic ride for the District of Columbia. Now with Trump set to return to power — backed by a Republican-controlled Congress and the momentum of a sweeping electoral win — local officials in the nation’s capital are trying
Continue Reading Associated Press HENNIKER, N.H. (AP) — When Hector Xu was learning to fly a helicopter in college, he recalled having a few “nasty experiences” while trying to navigate at night. The heart-stopping flights led to his research of unmanned aircraft systems while getting his doctorate degree in aerospace engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Then,
Continue Reading Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British farmers have descended on Parliament to protest a tax hike they say will deal a “hammer blow” to struggling family farms. An estimated 13,000 people packed the streets around Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office on Tuesday, demonstrating against the government’s decision to impose inheritance tax on agricultural property. The
Continue Reading Associated Press NEWLAND, N.C. (AP) — The Cartner family had known since last year that one of their farm’s Christmas trees would be headed to the White House this winter. But then Hurricane Helene struck, unleashing a deadly deluge across western North Carolina, including Avery County, where Cartner’s Christmas Tree Farm has stood for decades.
Continue Reading Associated Press After being grounded for months following a crash last November that killed eight service members in Japan, the V-22 Osprey — a complicated aircraft that flies fast like a plane but converts to land like a helicopter — is back in the air. But there are still questions as to whether it should
Continue Reading Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The clock on her wall stopped almost as soon as the day began, its hands frozen by the Russian bomb that hit the dormitory serving as home for Ukrainians displaced by war. It was 1:45 a.m. in an upstairs room in the eastern city of Zaporizhzhia, Natalia Panasenko’s home
Continue Reading Associated Press UDHAGAMANDALAM, India (AP) — Forests of native trees and plants once blanketed the Western Ghats mountains in southern India, but nearly 200 years ago, British colonists installed rows upon rows of tea plantations there. The few groves that stand today are either protected by Indigenous communities who preserve them for their faith and
Continue Reading Associated Press CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AP) — Over a New Mexico training range named the Hornet, two Osprey aircraft speed 100 feet off the ground, banking hard over valleys and hills as they close in on a dusty landing zone. A flight engineer in the back braces a .50-caliber machine gun over the
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Officials in Texas have backed a controversial new public school curriculum that would incorporate Christian lessons from the Bible as early as kindergarten. Eight out of 15 state school board members voted Tuesday to keep the Bluebonnet Learning curriculum on a list of K-5 reading and English language arts
Continue Reading By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — It was the early hours of the morning when a guard entered Sohrab’s cell – a small, dark room with a barred window and a blanket on the floor – in Kabul’s sprawling Pul-e-Charkhi prison last August. The 19-year-old was escorted to another room in the complex, where he
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung and Laura Dolan, CNN (CNN) — The factory explosion that killed two workers in Louisville, Kentucky, last week was caused by a failed cooking vessel, officials said Monday. “It was an industrial accident, and there’s no indication anyone did anything intentional to cause the explosion,” said Shawn Morrow, the Louisville special agent
Continue Reading Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s president opened the second day of a meeting of the world’s 20 major economies Tuesday by calling for more action to slow global warming, saying developed nations must speed up their initiatives to reduce harmful emissions. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s comments came the day after
Continue Reading By Caroll Alvarado, Michelle Watson, Maria Aguilar Prieto and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — It’s been more than a week since Hannah Kobayashi missed a flight connection in Los Angeles. After a series of suspicious texts from her phone, the 30-year-old Hawaii woman has gone silent – and her family now fears she may have
Continue Reading TORONTO (AP) — Poet-novelist Anne Michaels has won the Giller Prize for her novel “Held,” a multi-generational examination of war and trauma. The 100,000 Canadian dollar ($71,000) Giller prize honors the best in Canadian fiction. Past winners have included Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler and Alice Munro. Michaels appealed for “unity” among “all the arts” during
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Led by Jamar Brown 22 points, the Kansas City Kangaroos defeated the Calvary Warriors 119-19.
Continue Reading Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — As tens of thousands crowded the streets in New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, on Tuesday, the throng of people, flags aloft, had the air of a festival or a parade rather than a protest. They were marching to oppose a law that would reshape the county’s founding treaty between
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