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By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press CETINJE, Montenegro (AP) — Riot police in Montenegro have fired tear gas at protesters who fired gunshots in the air and hurled bottles and stones during the inauguration of the new head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the small Balkan nation. Police and media reports say at least seven

By ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a security checkpoint in restive southwestern Pakistan, killing at least three paramilitary troops and wounding 15 others. A senior police officer said the attacker had walked toward the checkpoint Sunday manned by the paramilitary Frontier Corps

By HUIZHONG WU and KATIE TAM Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The group behind the annual Tiananmen Square memorial vigil in Hong Kong says it will not cooperate with a national security investigation into the group’s activities. Police notified the alliance last month it was under investigation for working for foreign interests. Alliance vice

SYDNEY (AP) — A surfer was fatally bitten by a shark off eastern Australia’s coast as many locals went to beaches to celebrate Father’s Day. An ambulance official said other surfers, bystanders and paramedics gave the man CPR but he had a critical arm injury and could not be revived. The attack occurred at a

Associated Press LUCEDALE, Miss. (AP) — A 16-year-old girl says she heard vehicles crashing all around the pickup truck where she and her mother were trapped after a highway collapsed in rural Mississippi. Seven vehicles plunged into a dark hole when the two-lane road gave way late Monday. Heavy rain was falling from Hurricane Ida.

By MATT SEDENSKY and AARON MORRISON Associated Press MARRERO, La. (AP) — Parishioners of a church outside New Orleans were surprised to find electricity had been restored overnight, allowing for an indoor service on Sunday. Amid the devastation caused by Hurricane Ida, residents of Louisiana are struggling to regain normal life. At St. Joachim Catholic

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia says it has intercepted a ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, which sent debris crashing down over a neighborhood near Dammam that wounded at least two children. Images published Sunday by the state-run Saudi Press Agency showed glass and debris across a townhouse there, which is

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Testimony from more than 20 women showed that adult film actor Ron Jeremy used his celebrity status to meet women whom he then raped and sexually assaulted. That’s according to grand jury transcripts unsealed Saturday. Many of the women testified that they approached Jeremy to

WASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department says three people were killed and three others were wounded Saturday night in a shooting in Northwest Washington. Information posted on the police department’s Twitter account says the shooting occurred about 7:30 p.m. EDT in the 600 block of Longfellow Street in the Brightwood Park

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina coach turned quarterback Zeb Noland threw for four touchdowns on 13 completions as the Gamecocks beat Eastern Illinois 46-0. The game was the debut for South Carolina coach Shane Beamer. He promised “Beamer Ball” just like his dad Frank Beamer played at Virginia Tech

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Testimony from more than 20 women showed that adult film actor Ron Jeremy used his celebrity status to meet women who he then raped and sexually assaulted. That’s according to grand jury transcripts unsealed Saturday. Many of the women testified that they approached Jeremy to

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Hospitals in the heart of California’s Central Valley are running out of beds in their intensive care units because of an influx of coronavirus patients. State officials announced Friday that hospitals in the 8-county San Joaquin Valley region have had fewer than 10% of staffed adult ICU beds for three consecutive