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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City’s two main airports temporarily resumed operations after shutting down for a few hours due to ash spewing from Popocatepetl volcano, located 45 miles  southeast of the country’s capital. The city’s Benito Juarez International airport suspended operations at 4:25 a.m. local time and resumed operations at 10 a.m., after removing

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called herself a “Survivor superfan” on Saturday and offered an audience of graduating law school students lessons from the reality TV show. The show has been on television for 23 years and is now in its 44th season. Jackson said she

ALBANY, Ore. (AP) — The victims of one of Oregon’s deadliest highway crashes were farmworkers traveling in a van at an hour when agricultural laborers typically commute home after toiling in the harvest, the state’s farmworkers union and Mexican officials said. Authorities have not yet released the names of the seven who died or the

ROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis has tasked a leading Italian cardinal with a mission it hopes it can “ease tensions” in the Ukraine war and lead to path of peace. In a brief statement Saturday evening, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said Francis had given the mission to Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, a prelate

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Emergency teams in Croatia have found the remains of a small plane that crashed Saturday in a remote area. A police statement said the Cirrus 20 aircraft was found in northwest Croatia following an hourslong search that involved 150 people and an army helicopter. Authorities did not say how many people

NEW YORK (AP) — Songwriter and poet Pete Brown, who co-wrote “Sunshine of Your Love” and “White Room” for the short-lived rock supergroup Cream in the 1960s, has died. He was 82. The London-based Brown died of cancer late Friday, according to a post on his Facebook page. A poet who worked in the same

ROME (AP) — Italy’s far-right Premier Giorgia Meloni has rejected criticism of her government’s stance on LGBTQ+ rights, delivered publicly at the G7 summit by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. On television Friday, Trudeau told Meloni that Canada is “concerned about some of the positions Italy is taking on in terms of LGBT rights.” Meloni

TEL AVIV (AP) — Thousands of Israelis are protesting against contentious plans by their hard-line government to overhaul the judiciary, as the protest campaign showed no signs of abating nearly five months on. The main protest took place Saturday in Tel Aviv city, with other smaller rallies across the country. Last Saturday, organizers of the

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Republicans have selected Drew McKissick as their chairman for a fourth term at a convention where some of the party’s 2024 presidential hopefuls made pitches to voters in the first-in-the-South primary state. McKissick has led the party since 2017 in a state where the

HOMINY, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Department of Corrections has locked down all prisons statewide and canceled all visitations following a stabbing at a medium security prison in northeastern Oklahoma. Department spokesperson Kay Thompson said Saturday that it was “inmate on inmate,” but that she could not release further information because of an ongoing investigation

SUMMERLAND Key, Fla. (AP) — A shark in the Florida Keys bit the foot of a fisherman who had reeled it in, sending the man to the hospital, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday. The 35-year-old man was fishing off a dock in Summerland Key when he caught the shark Friday night. While it

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press KERNERSVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Mark Walker has formally joined next year’s race for North Carolina governor. Walker made his announcement Saturday at a Baptist church in Kernersville. The former pastor served three terms in Congress through 2020, then lost the 2022 Republican U.S. Senate primary to