By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a 37-year-old mother drowned one of her daughters in their South Carolina home and was trying to kill another child when the oldest daughter was awakened by screams and managed to save her sister. Investigators say Jamie Bradley Brun is charged with murder and
Continue Reading By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has opened Africa’s biggest oil refinery, with hopes it will help the country achieve self-sufficiency and become a net exporter of refined petroleum products. Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, who built the $19 billion project, said Monday that the new oil refinery
Continue Reading BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon fixture Rick Hoyt has died at the age of 61. Hoyt and his father, Dick, were a well-known at the race. Rick Hoyt was in a wheelchair because of cerebral palsy. Dick Hoyt pushed his son in a wheelchair through the course 32 times. His family says Rick Hoyt died
Continue Reading By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova welcomed pledges of F-16 fighter jets to her country Monday while urging patience for the launching of a spring counteroffensive against Russia’s full-scale invasion. She said for Ukrainians the effort to repel Russia has been one long counterattack. Markarova spoke after delivering
Continue Reading By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Very few are capable of capturing people’s attention at the Cannes Film Festival like Liv Ullmann. At 84, Ullmann is unabashed cinema royalty, and directors have flocked to greet her at this year’s festival. Pedro Almodovar sought her out at a luncheon. Todd Haynes endeavored
Continue Reading TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A group of Chinese citizens living and working in Florida is suing the state over a new law that bans Chinese nationals from purchasing property in large swaths of the state. The suit filed Monday by the American Civil Liberties union in a federal court claims the law unfairly targets foreign
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Longtime St. Louis baseball writer Rick Hummel has died at the age of 77. Hummel covered the Cardinals for five decades and is enshrined in the writer’s wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. The Post-Dispatch reported that Hummel died Saturday after a short illness. Hummel was born in 1946
Continue ReadingBy Danny Freeman. CNN (CNN) — Two Philadelphia inmates planned and executed an escape from prison with the help of a lookout on the inside, a hole in a prison fence and a quick call to Uber, court documents state. Nasir Grant and Ameen Hurst are now back in custody, after a 10-day investigation that
Continue Reading ST. LOUIS (AP) — Rick Hummel, an esteemed writer who covered the St. Louis Cardinals and Major League Baseball for five decades for the Post-Dispatch until his retirement last year, has died. He was 77. Hummel died in his sleep at his St. Louis-area home early Saturday after a short, aggressive illness, the Post-Dispatch said.
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi and Omar Jimenez, CNN (CNN) — The Marine veteran who held an unhoused Black man in a deadly chokehold aboard a New York City subway train earlier this month defended his actions and said in an interview with the New York Post the killing “had nothing to do with race.” Daniel Penny,
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are moving tentatively Monday, as Wall Street waits to see whether a pivotal meeting in the afternoon will help the U.S. government avoid a potentially disastrous default on its debt. The S&P 500 was 0.1% higher after coming off its best week since March.
Continue Reading By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian officials claimed that Ukrainian military saboteurs launched an attack across the border Monday, wounding eight people in a small town. Kyiv officials denied any link with the group and blamed the fighting on a revolt by disgruntled Russians against the Kremlin. Neither version of events
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s president has appointed a new official to take over the post of the secretary of the country’s Supreme National Security Council, replacing the longtime powerful Ali Shamkhani. The decree on Monday by President Ebrahim Raisi will see Shamkhani replaced after he had been
Continue Reading BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Chinese petroleum giant Sinopec signed an agreement with Sri Lanka on Monday to enter into it’s retail fuel market as the crisis-stricken Indian ocean island nation struggles to resolve a worsening energy crisis amid an unprecedented economic upheaval. The contract agreement would enable Sinopec to import,
Continue Reading By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Delegates from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations have begun a meeting on tourism in Indian-controlled Kashmir that was condemned by China and Pakistan, as authorities reduced the visibility of security in the disputed region’s main city. The meeting is the first significant
Continue Reading By MEG KINNARD and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott has launched his presidential campaign. At an event in his hometown of North Charleston on Monday, Scott offered an optimistic message he hopes can contrast the two figures who have used political combativeness to dominate the early
Continue Reading By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes get together, they can instantly tell if something’s wrong: If insults don’t immediately fly, there’s a problem. Fans of the trio’s banter will get much more this week after a documentary film team captured them on tour
Continue Reading By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A judge entered not guilty pleas Monday for a man charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, setting the stage for a trial in which he could potentially face the death penalty. The Nov. 13, 2022, killings stunned the rural community of
Continue ReadingBy John Miller and Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — Two boys who were reported missing last week and found dead in different rivers in Manhattan may have been last seen playing together at the water’s edge, according to a law enforcement source. Alfa Barrie, 11, and Garrett Warren, 13, were seen together in Harlem between
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar, Eric Levenson and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — The killings of four University of Idaho students in an off-campus home in Moscow in November 2022 were as brutal as they were perplexing. The group of friends had gone out in the college town and returned to their shared home late. The next
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