By SOPHENG CHEANG and DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Counting of ballots began Sunday in Cambodia’s general election in which longtime Prime Minister Hun Sen’s party is all but assured a landslide victory thanks to the effective suppression and intimidation of any real opposition. His critics say the process has made
Continue Reading PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities in Oregon say a security guard at a Portland hospital died after being shot by an armed person Saturday. The suspect was later traced to the nearby community of Gresham, where officers shot and killed the person. The suspect’s name has not been released, and police declined to speculate on
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam in the Women’s World Cup drew 6.26 million viewers, making it the most-watched soccer telecast in the U.S. since last year’s men’s World Cup final. It is also the largest combined English- and Spanish-language audience for a U.S. women’s group stage match. Saturday afternoon’s
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Texas A&M University president M. Katherine Banks resigned Thursday amid controversy over the school’s failed attempt to hire a new professor to lead its journalism program. Banks’ decision came after the Faculty Senate announced its own plans to investigate why the school announced the hiring of journalist and professor
Continue Reading By JULIA FRANKEL and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was rushed to the hospital early Sunday for an emergency implantation of a heart pacemaker, plunging Israel into deeper turmoil after widespread protests over his contentious judicial overhaul plan. A physician at the Sheba Medical Center said later that the
Continue Reading By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, and his mother, a White House official said Saturday. Biden will
Continue Reading By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos contamination must pay the government almost $6 million in penalties and damages after it submitted hundreds of false asbestos claims, a judge ruled. The 337 false claims made patients eligible for Medicare and other benefits
Continue Reading By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — A man has been charged with arson after several small fires broke out Saturday night at the downtown hotel where New Zealand’s national team is staying for the Women’s World Cup. The Football Ferns were evacuated briefly from the Pullman Hotel after the
Continue Reading Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is undergoing a procedure to receive a pacemaker. In a short video statement released at 2 a.m. Sunday, Netanyahu said he had been fitted with a monitoring device last week after being briefly hospitalized for what his office had said was dehydration. He said an alarm had sounded,
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By JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Cody Bellinger drove in four runs and Nico Hoerner had three of Chicago’s 15 hits, helping the Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 8-6 in a wet and wild matchup of NL Central rivals. Chicago trailed 1-0, 3-1, 5-3 and 6-5 before moving in front for
Continue Reading By CHARLES O’BRIEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — DJ LeMahieu hit the go-ahead home run in the 7th inning, Gerrit Cole struck out 10 and the New York Yankees defeated the Kansas City Royals 5-2. Giancarlo Stanton homered and drove in three runs and Anthony Volpe doubled and stole a base for the Yankees,
Continue Reading Associated Press TEMECULA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California school board has resolved a dispute with Gov. Gavin Newsom over a social studies curriculum. The Temecula Valley Unified School District on Friday voted to adopt the curriculum for elementary school students. The board had previously rejected the curriculum in part because it mentioned Harvey Milk.
Continue Reading By SOPHENG CHEANG and DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodians go to the polls Sunday with incumbent Prime Minister Hun Sen and his party all but assured a landslide victory thanks to the effective suppression and intimidation of any real opposition. Critics say he has made a farce of democracy in
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Police in Oregon say a suspect is dead after opening fire in a hospital in downtown Portland Saturday, a shooting that left one person dead and another injured. Authorities say the suspect, who fled Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center after the shooting, was stopped in a
Continue Reading BY KIM CHANDLER and JEFF AMY Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The fight over Alabama’s congressional map is shifting back to federal court after Republican lawmakers declined to create a second majority-Black congressional district. Lawmakers adopted new lines after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a finding that the previous map likely violated the federal
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Columbia Parks and Recreation is looking for the public’s feedback on developments to a park being built on Orr Street.
Continue Reading By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — The New York Jets’ third practice of training camp marked the first session open to the public. It gave about 2,000 ecstatic fans their first in-person glimpse of their team’s new quarterback, Aaron Rodgers. They greeted him with chants that turned to
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals catcher Willson Contreras left their game against the Chicago Cubs because of right hip tightness. Contreras drove in two runs against his former team. He hit an RBI double in the fifth inning, and then was replaced by Iván Herrera behind the plate before the Cubs batted in the
Continue Reading SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A mountain climber and a cliff diver have died in separate incidents at national recreation spots in the American West. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that 36-year-old Cory Ryan Ehrnschwender of Cincinnati died while cliff-jumping at Lake Powell. The lake is located in southern Utah and northern Arizona in the
Continue ReadingBy Raja Razek and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A man stabbed four people Saturday morning in Montgomery County, Maryland, before a police officer fatally shot him. The four victims are expected to survive, according to local police. Authorities said they believed the stabbing incident was a “random” act. “We have total of four stabbing
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