Month: May 2023

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized Donald Trump on Tuesday for implying Florida’s new six-week abortion ban is “too harsh,” stepping up his attacks on the former president as he prepares to challenge him for the 2024 Republican nomination. DeSantis was responding to a question about Trump’s comments in an article published

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Seven children remain hospitalized with serious injuries after a truck hit the rear of a school bus on the outskirts of Melbourne in southeastern Australia. Police say the bus was carrying as many as 45 children when it was struck at an intersection and overturned. A Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne official

By DÉBORA REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernández has made it official that she will not be running for president again, putting the brakes on an effort by members of her party to push her to become a candidate in the October election. Fernández, who was president 2007-2015,

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has signed gun-control measures that lawmakers approved in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year. The high court’s ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen ended a requirement similar to a Maryland law for people to

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Ice jams in two Alaska rivers have unleashed major flooding over the weekend. The floods damaged homes and left huge chunks of ice as tall as 12 feet littered across communities in the state’s southwest and east. The Anchorage Daily News reports floodwaters on the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers rose quickly

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California condors will receive a vaccine for a deadly strain of avian influenza that threatens to wipe out the already critically endangered vulture species, federal officials said Tuesday. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service granted emergency approval for use of the vaccine after more than a

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Canadian man has been shot to death in Mexico’s Pacific coast beach town of Puerto Escondido. He was the second foreign tourist killed in the southern state of Oaxaca in less than a week. State prosecutors said Tuesday that the Canadian man was found dead in a car with a

By COLLEEN LONG and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden marked Jewish American Heritage Month on Tuesday by highlighting his administration’s efforts to combat rising antisemitism, at a White House reception that featured performances from the stars of the Broadway revival of “Parade.” Biden told the crowd it was important to