FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia man has been charged with murder after a forestry worker was killed trying to extinguish a fire the man is accused of setting. According to a Friday news release from the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department, an investigation led to the arrest of David A. Bass, who is also
Continue Reading By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Christian worshippers thronged the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem on Saturday to celebrate the ceremony of the “Holy Fire,” an ancient ritual that sparked tensions this year with the Israeli police. In the annual ceremony that has been observed for over a millennium, a flame
Continue Reading YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Azerbaijan has withdrawn from the European Weightlifting Championships in the capital of Armenia a day after a man ran onto the stage at the competition’s opening ceremony, seized an Azerbaijan flag and set it on fire. Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Youth and Sports says the incident Friday night in Yerevan showed that
Continue Reading By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s government says it has decided to temporarily prohibit grain and other food imports from Ukraine. The move is meant to soothe the rising anger of Polish farmers, who say they are losing huge amounts of money to a glut of Ukrainian grain on the market.
Continue Reading By MICHELLE L. PRICE and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has raised more than $34 million for his 2024 White House run since the start of the year, buoyed by a big bump in donations since the announcement of criminal charges against him in New York, according to
Continue ReadingBy Jay Croft, CNN Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday delayed the executions of three death row inmates amid continued struggles to find pharmaceutical suppliers for the state’s lethal injection method. DeWine’s office said in a statement he was “issuing the reprieves due to ongoing problems involving the willingness of pharmaceutical suppliers to provide drugs
Continue Reading NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — Rutgers University and union representatives have announced an agreement on a framework for new contracts with several faculty unions, allowing a halt to a five-day strike that was the first such job action in the 257-year history of New Jersey’s flagship university, Rutgers said early Saturday that the agreement on
Continue Reading By AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross says hundreds of detainees linked to Yemen’s conflict have been released. The releases Saturday are part of a major prisoner exchange that began Friday. The U.N.-brokered deal has been the most significant exchange of prisoners in
Continue Reading By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to take its most daring leap yet with a round-the-world test flight of its mammoth Starship. Monday’s launch attempt was called off because of a stuck valve in the first-stage booster and there could be another try this week. Starship is the biggest and
Continue Reading By KOSTYA MANENKOV and SERGEI GRITS Associated Press IMATRA, Finland (AP) — The construction of barbed-wired fence along Finland’s long border with Russia – primarily meant to curb illegal migration – has broken ground near the southeastern town of Imatra less than two weeks after the Nordic country joined NATO as the 31st member of
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso, CNN The US Coast Guard is assisting Mexican navy crews in the search for three American sailors, last heard from on April 4 near Mazatlán, Mexico, according to a Coast Guard news release. Kerry O’Brien, Frank O’Brien and William Gross are all “experienced sailors,” according to a joint statement from their families.
Continue Reading ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni acknowledged “anomalies” in the handling of a Russian businessman who escaped from house arrest in Italy to avoid extradition to the United States and said Saturday she would speak with the justice minister to understand what happened. During a visit to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Meloni termed the case
Continue Reading By CARLOS VALDEZ Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Sofia Andrade, a lawyer, chose over the past month to withdraw all her dollar savings from the bank as the US currency became scarce on the streets of Bolivia. “I prefer to have them at home,” she said. “I fear they won’t let me withdraw
Continue Reading By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A Sudanese doctors’ group said at least three people were killed and dozens more injured in clashes that started Saturday between the country’s army and powerful paramilitary. The fighting comes after months of escalating tensions between the generals and years of political unrest after an October
Continue Reading KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The death toll from Russian missile strikes on eastern Ukraine’s city of Sloviansk rose to 11 Saturday as rescue crews tried to reach people trapped in the rubble of an apartment building, Ukrainian authorities said. Ukraine’s air force said the country would soon have weapons with which to try to prevent
Continue ReadingBy Jay Croft and Rebekah Riess, CNN Classes are set to resume Monday after Rutgers University and its faculty reached an agreement to end a weeklong strike, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced early Saturday morning. “This fair and amicable conclusion respects the interests of many different stakeholders, upholds New Jersey’s values, and puts an
Continue Reading By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — When Rep. Kevin McCarthy emerged from a messy 15-ballot election and ascended to House speaker, he was emboldened rather than chastened by the fight, declaring that his father taught him early on in life: “It’s not how you start; it’s how you finish.” But as the
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess, CNN A gas station shooting in Kansas City, Missouri, on Friday night left one person dead and four people injured, including a child, according to a police department news release. Officers were dispatched just before 9:30 p.m. Friday on a report of the sound of gunshots. They found a man in the
Continue ReadingBy Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN The US is home to more immigrants than any other country — more than 45 million people, according to the latest Census estimates. That’s 13.6% of the US population, about the same as it was a century ago. But over the years, we’ve seen significant shifts in where immigrants to
Continue Reading BEIRUT (AP) — After meeting in Saudi Arabia to discuss Syria’s political fate, a group of regional leaders promised to continue talks to reach a political solution to the Syrian conflict. But they stopped short Saturday of endorsing its return to the Arab League. The meeting, which included top diplomats from the Arab Gulf countries
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