By Nouran Salahieh and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The evacuation order in place since Tuesday for residents near a recycling plant fire in Richmond, Indiana, was lifted Sunday after officials determined it was safe for residents to return to their homes, Wayne County Emergency Management said. The agency consulted with the county’s health department and state
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By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — In the weeks since Chinese leader Xi Jinping won a third five-year term as president, setting him on course to remain in power for life, leaders and diplomats from around the world have beaten a path to his door. None more so than those from Europe. French
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, CNN It was only three months ago that nearly three dozen scientists and conservationists sounded the alarm that the Great Salt Lake in Utah faces “unprecedented danger” — unless the state’s lawmakers fast-tracked “emergency measures” to dramatically increase the lake’s inflow by 2024, it would likely disappear in the next five years.
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — More than 6,000 British military personnel will take part in the coronation of King Charles III, the U.K. forces’ biggest ceremonial deployment in seven decades, the government said Sunday. The Ministry of Defense said thousands of soldiers, sailors and aviators will escort the king and Camilla, the queen consort, between Buckingham Palace
Continue Reading By JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — The Sudanese military and a powerful paramilitary group battled for control of the chaos-stricken nation for a second day Sunday, signaling they were unwilling to end hostilities despite mounting diplomatic pressure to cease fire. Heavy fighting involving armored vehicles, truck-mounted machine guns and
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VICHY, Mo. (KMIZ) Hours after Mid-Missouri residents were encouraged to take shelter for Saturday’s tornado warning, reports of the weather’s damage came rolling in. Golf ball-sized hail left dents in the sides of homes, grass and trees were uprooted and a house was even completely lifted off its foundation. In Maries County, crews gathered near
Continue Reading By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Álvaro Alarcón plays out the moment when he will enter Madrid’s Las Ventas bullring for his final challenge as a “novillero,” or apprentice bullfighter. The 24-year-old has been training in the dusty countryside outside the Spanish capital, and his skintight suit, delicately woven with beads and gold
Continue Reading By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — A former Indian lawmaker convicted of kidnapping and facing murder and assault charges has been fatally shot along with his brother in a dramatic attack caught live on TV in northern India. Atiq Ahmad and his brother, Ashraf Ahmad, were under police escort on their way
Continue Reading KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan’s military and a powerful paramilitary force battled fiercely in the capital and other areas, dealing a new blow to hopes for a transition to democracy and raising fears of a wider conflict. A doctors’ syndicate said Sunday the death toll rose to 56, with at least 595 people wounded. The
Continue Reading By BILL BARROW Associated Press PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Jimmy Carter already had drawn months of media scrutiny as a devout Southern Baptist running for president. Then the 1976 Democratic nominee brought up sex and sin as he explained his religious faith to Playboy magazine. Carter was not misquoted. But he was certainly misunderstood, as
Continue Reading TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Flights out of northern Taiwan were delayed Sunday after China launched a rocket carrying a satellite that dropped debris into waters north of the capital Taipei. China had declared a 27-minute halt to flights over a section of the East China Sea, considerably shorter than the no-fly period over parts of
Continue Reading By The Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — An unidentified suspect fired a gun into a crowd of hundreds in a Kentucky park, leaving two people dead and four wounded Saturday night, police said. Police were called around 9 p.m. to Chickasaw Park in Louisville, authorities said. “Hundreds of people were in the park at
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN A Florida mother won $2 million in the lottery, just days after she finished paying off her daughter’s cancer treatment. Geraldine Gimblet, a resident of Lakeland, won $2 million from a $10 scratch-off lottery ticket, according to a news release from the Florida Lottery. She claimed her winnings as a one-time
Continue Reading By ALFIAN KARTONO and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Separatist gunmen have opened fire on a military post in Indonesia’s restive Papua province, killing at least six soldiers and leaving dozens of others missing. Attackers from the West Papua Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Free Papua Movement, carried out the
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN The newest addition to the Oregon Zoo is adorable, and it’s helping boost the population of a once-endangered species. A baby bontebok was born at the Zoo April 1 to Winter, his 8-year-old mother, according to a news release from the Oregon Zoo. The bontebok is a species of grazing antelope
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jared Stroud scored three minutes into the match and St. Louis City never let up in a 5-1 victory over FC Cincinnati after tornado warnings forced a lengthy delay at the start of the match. Stroud used assists from João Klauss and Eduard Löwen to give St. Louis City (6-2-0) the
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer SAPPORO, Japan (AP) — Energy and environment ministers of the Group of Seven wealthy nations vowed Sunday to work to hasten the shift toward cleaner, renewable energy, but set no timetable for phasing out coal-fired power plants as they wrapped up two days of talks in the northern Japanese
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh and Rebekah Riess, CNN At least two people were killed and four others were wounded when shots were fired into a crowd gathered at a park in Louisville, Kentucky, Saturday, authorities said. Officers responded to Chickasaw Park around 9 p.m. and found several people had been shot, including two who were pronounced
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Two victims died after five people were shot during an altercation at a late-night chicken fight Friday in Honolulu. KHON-TV reports Honolulu police responded to a call about shots fired just past midnight Friday and were searching Saturday for a suspect believed to be in his 20s who allegedly shot the
Continue Reading CYRUS, Minn. (AP) — Three law enforcement officers in west-central Minnesota were shot while responding to a domestic call. The Pope County Sheriff’s Office says on its Facebook page that the incident happened Saturday night in Cyrus. One officer from Starbuck, Minnesota, and two Pope County sheriff’s deputies were hit by gunfire. Their conditions were
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