By Avery Schmitz, Amanda Musa, Lucas Lilieholm and James Legge, CNN (CNN) — The family of an American woman shot and killed while protesting in the occupied West Bank has blamed Israel for her death and called for an independent investigation, saying in a statement that an Israel-led probe would be inadequate. Two eyewitnesses told
Continue ReadingALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algerians have voted in an election to decide whether army-backed President Abdelmadjid Tebboune gets another term in office — five years after pro-democracy protests prompted the military to oust the previous president after two decades in power. There is little suspense about the result with Tebboune expected to win easily. The
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Balkan countries are reporting that the summer of 2024 was the hottest since the measurements started more than 130 years ago. There were long periods with temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius or 86 degrees Fahrenheit. And the mercury often didn’t fall below 20 degrees Celsius or 68 Fahrenheit overnight.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s coast guard says it has intercepted dozens of Europe-bound migrants on a boat and returned them to the shore. The boat was carrying 64 migrants and was stopped Friday off the northwestern town of Sirte, said the town’s coast guard on Saturday. This came after a boat carrying 32
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Rebekah Schuler was walking to her 10th grade history class with her best friend, each with a shared headphone in her ear, blasting their favorite song, when gunshots and bloodcurdling screams sent them running for their lives. It has been nearly three years since the 2021 Oxford High School
Continue ReadingWANF, WXIA, CNN By Isabel Rosales, Sara Smart and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — The mother of the teenager suspected of killing four people during a shooting at a Winder, Georgia, high school called to warn a school counselor before the attack, according to the suspect’s aunt and grandfather. Colt Gray, 14, apologized to his
Continue ReadingBy Isabel Rosales, Sara Smart and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — The mother of the teenager suspected of killing four people during a shooting at a Winder, Georgia, high school called to warn a school counselor before the attack, according to the suspect’s aunt and grandfather. Colt Gray, 14, apologized to his mother, Marcee Gray,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — This week, when they would normally be going back to school, the Qudeh family’s children stumbled with armfuls of rubble they collected from a destroyed building to sell for use in building graves in the cemetery that is now their home in southern Gaza. “Anyone our age
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese authorities say Typhoon Yagi has killed at least four people and injured 78 others after making landfall Saturday afternoon in the north of the country. Yagi, described by Vietnamese meteorological officials as “one of the most powerful typhoons in the region over the past decade,” made its way
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and Ecuador circulated a draft resolution asking the United Nations to begin planning for a U.N. peacekeeping operation to replace the Kenya-led mission now in the Caribbean nation helping police to quell gang violence. The proposed Security Council resolution, obtained Friday by The Associated Press, says
Continue ReadingAP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The two astronauts left behind at the International Space Station have both flown long space missions before. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been at the space station since June after arriving as the first crew of Boeing’s new Starliner capsule. But their trip to the
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The Missouri high school football season continued Friday with some Mid-Missouri teams playing host and others on the road.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Hinano Rodrigues remembers being 4 or 5 years old, carrying a bucket across a highway to the ocean in the Maui community where he still lives. At dawn, he would accompany his grandmother to a reef at low tide, where she plucked black snails, spiny lobsters and spiky sea
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An abandoned 22-story building in Louisiana that became a symbol of the destruction inflicted by back-to-back hurricanes in 2020 has been imploded. The once gleaming building in Lake Charles came down Saturday after the demolition crew set off a series of explosions inside. Formerly known as the Capital
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are veering sharply in how they gear up for Tuesday’s presidential debate, setting up a showdown that reflects not just two separate visions for the country but two politicians who approach big moments very differently. The vice president is cloistered in a historic hotel in
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Maya Rudolph won her sixth career Emmy on Saturday night, taking the trophy for best character voice-over for her work on “Big Mouth” at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, while Angela Bassett won her first for her narration of the National Geographic show “Queens.” The former and future
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writers SAO PAULO (AP) — Saquon Barkley has been practicing the art of positive thinking since switching teams for the first time in his career. Yet he probably couldn’t have imagined making such a spectacular debut for the Philadelphia Eagles. Barkley scored three touchdowns Friday night in the first NFL game in South
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DOVER, N.H. (AP) — As the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles grew to become a pop culture sensation, the place where they were conceived rarely got mentioned. It wasn’t the New York City sewers, where the Turtles mutated from regular reptiles into a crime-fighting quartet who battled foes with nunchucks, snark and pizza. Rather,
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer While tennis fans savor the last matches of the U.S. Open, a subset of viewers have watched the tournament as a source of fashion inspiration. It may have escaped people who don’t pay attention to clothing styles, but cities from Australia to America are awash in pleated skirts, tennis dresses and other
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have denounced the conservative Project 2025 blueprint in hundreds of ads and billboards, printed it in oversized book form as a convention prop and mentioned it frequently. On Saturday, they took their campaign against the blueprint from allies of Donald Trump to the sky above college football stadiums in
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