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By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s defense ministry said early Sunday that forces of the Wagner private army, with the support of Russian troops, seized the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. The ministry statement on the Telegram channel came about eight hours after a similar claim by Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin. Ukrainian

By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer GOIANIA, Brazil (AP) — Lifelong soccer fan and full-time police officer Hugo Jorge Bravo felt there was only one thing to do when he received information over what has since blown up into a major alleged match-fixing scandal in Brazil. He started his own investigation. But this case was

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

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