By Eyad Kourdi and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — The recent deaths of more Palestinian children due to hunger and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip indicates that famine has spread across the entire enclave, according to a United Nations statement, citing independent experts. An estimated 495,000 people in Gaza – or 22% of the population – are
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New poll data released by the Pew Research Center show that global views towards China appear to be divided between high-income countries and middle-income ones, and the gap is apparently widest among China’s neighbors in the Indo-Pacific region. Fifteen out of the 18 high-income nations surveyed by Pew express negative
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Cleveland’s José Ramírez has become the sixth member of the eight-man Home Run Derby field. The New York Mets’ Pete Alonso, Philadelphia’s Alec Bohm, Baltimore’s Gunnar Henderson, Atlanta’s Marcell Ozuna and Kansas City’s Bobby Witt Jr. previously committed to the July 15 event at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. Alonso
Continue ReadingAP National Writer An investigator backed the World Anti-Doping Agency’s handling of a doping case involving 23 Chinese swimmers, while also publishing notes indicating WADA’s own science director doubted China’s explanation that the athletes had been subject to contamination. WADA released an interim report from a lawyer it chose for the probe who concluded the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) No foul play is suspected after a man was found dead Monday morning in the 400 block of Locust Street, a Tuesday afternoon press release from the Columbia Police Department says. The release says police were called at 8:15 a.m. for a death investigation after someone found the man dead with no
Continue ReadingCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — More details on the death of the gunman who shot and killed four law enforcement officers during a Charlotte, North Carolina, shooting were released in autopsy and toxicology reports obtained by local media outlets. The autopsy report shows that 39-year-old Terry Clark Hughes Jr. was shot 12 times and died from
Continue ReadingCHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A judge has approved a $1 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit that accused West Virginia state police troopers of using excessive force on a Maryland man who was walking along a highway. The settlement was approved Tuesday for the estate of Edmond Exline. The lawsuit said three troopers tackled
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Environmental groups and Florida regulators have settled a lawsuit over the 2021 leak of millions of gallons of polluted water from a phosphate plant reservoir into Tampa Bay, which triggered major fish kills and the temporary evacuation of dozens of nearby residents. The settlement, filed in federal court
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Few outside the White House would know Kevin O’Connor, President Joe Biden’s doctor. O’Connor keeps a low profile but is always around the Democratic president to provide care or consult when needed. But Biden’s politically crippling debate performance had changed that. Persistent questions about the 81-year-old president’s ability to serve
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Keegan Bradley was just as shocked as anyone when Zach Johnson told him he’d been selected as the 2025 U.S. Ryder Cup captain. Once Bradley composed himself, he realized he had his own phone call to make. It was to Tiger Woods. Bradley says “I certainly need his
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer DoorDash said Tuesday that it’s stepping up efforts to identify dangerous delivery drivers and remove them from its platform after a flood of complaints from cities. In a letter sent last month to DoorDash and other food delivery companies, Boston officials said they were seeing an increase in the unlawful and dangerous
Continue ReadingBy Tamar Michaelis and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — The head of the Golan Regional Council called for the Israeli government to attack Hezbollah “with force” and to move its offensive into the Lebanese side of the border Tuesday after a Hezbollah rocket attack killed two people. A woman and man were “killed on
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A security guard and a police investigator say a U.S. Army veteran who served in the war in Afghanistan pepper-sprayed a homeless man and entered into a confrontation with him before fatally shooting him with an automatic rifle in Memphis, Tennessee. The guard and the police sergeant testified during
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LYON, France (AP) — Former supermodel and French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has been given preliminary charges for involvement in alleged efforts to pressure a witness who accused ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy of receiving illegal campaign financing from Libya. Bruni-Sarkozy was placed under judicial supervision on Tuesday, according to a judicial official not authorized
Continue ReadingST. LOUIS (AP) — Two former police officers in a small St. Louis suburb are facing a federal indictment alleging that a man was beaten with a police baton while handcuffed. Federal prosecutors on Tuesday announced the indictment accusing Samuel Davis and Michael Hill of federal civil rights violations. Both formerly worked as officers in
Continue ReadingROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The commander of the New Hampshire Air National Guard has died in a hit-and-run crash. Police say Brig. Gen. John Pogorek was securing a load on his trailer on the side of the road in the city of Rochester on Monday night when he was struck by an SUV that kept
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — A drunken driver who snapped a photo showing he was speeding at 141 mph before a deadly crash in England has been sentenced to 17 years in prison. Darryl Anderson was sentenced Tuesday for the May 31 crash that killed little Zackary Blades and his aunt, Karlene Warner. Anderson pleaded
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The sky was crystal clear as Oksana Femeniuk took her daughter to Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital for routine dialysis. Around 10 a.m, air-raid sirens blared. Sixteen-year old Solomiia was undergoing the treatment that required her to sit still for up to five hours and could not be interrupted. Her
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former prison guards in Wisconsin and family members of people incarcerated there are urging lawmakers fix what they’re calling systemic problems in the state’s prisons. Witnesses at a legislative hearing Tuesday detailed allegations of sexual harassment by supervisors, retaliation against guards and inmate abuse going back years. The hearing
Continue ReadingBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Two France rugby players have been arrested in Argentina on sexual assault allegations. Oscar Jegou and Hugo Auradou were arrested in Buenos Aires on a request from prosecutors in Mendoza after a formal complaint was filed against them, Martín Ahumada, spokesman for the provincial Public Prosecutor’s Office, said Tuesday. The
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