Month: July 2023

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — An apartment building condemned for more than a decade but used by homeless people collapsed in Brazil’s northeastern state of Pernambuco, killing 14 people, including six children, firefighters reported Saturday. The building in Recife’s Paulista suburb crumbled in the early hours of Friday, prompting a frantic search for victims. Searchers

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Fire crews on Saturday continued to battle flames that have smoldered inside a cargo ship docked at the East Coast’s biggest port, days after the blaze claimed the lives of two New Jersey firefighters and injured five others. Newark firefighters Augusto “Augie” Acabou and Wayne “Bear” Brooks Jr. were killed in

BIG PINE KEY, Fla. (AP) — Hundreds of divers and snorkelers listened to an underwater concert that advocated coral reef protection in the Florida Keys. Saturday’s Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival also spotlighted eco-conscious diving. It took place at Looe Key Reef, an area of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary located about 6 miles

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The body of a Minnesota woman who had been missing for two years was found in a storage unit, and St. Paul police said Friday that her death has been linked to a man who was charged after another woman’s dismembered body was found in a different storage unit in

By DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s conservative government has won a vote of confidence in Parliament to start its second four-year term. The 300 lawmakers voted 158-142 Saturday to approve the government’s policy statement after a low-key three-day debate. The vote went as expected, with only lawmakers from the ruling New

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press A federal judge has found Washington state in contempt and ordered it to pay more than $100 million in fines for failing to provide timely psychiatric services to mentally ill people who are forced to wait in jails for weeks or months. In her order released late Friday, U.S. District

By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has met with his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro to build momentum for upcoming regional summit  on the Amazon rainforest and enhance efforts for its protection. The encounter took place in Colombia’s Leticia, a small town in the Amazon’s

NEW YORK (AP) — A scooter-riding gunman killed an 87-year-old man and wounded three others in a string of random shootings that stretched across two New York City boroughs, police said Saturday. A 25-year-old man was taken into custody without incident and his identity was not revealed by police, Assistant Police Chief Joseph Kenny said

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s anti-government protest movement gained new momentum on Saturday night as tens of thousands of people spilled into the streets of cities across the country to oppose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious plan to overhaul the judicial system. The grassroots movement has staged protests for

By The Associated Press A solar storm forecast for Thursday is expected to give skygazers in 17 American states a chance to glimpse the Northern Lights, the colorful sky show that happens when solar wind hits the atmosphere. Northern Lights, also known as aurora borealis, are most often seen in Alaska, Canada and Scandinavia, but

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Republicans announced Saturday that the party’s presidential nominating caucuses will be held Jan. 15, on the federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr., putting the first votes of the 2024 election a little more than six months away as the GOP tries to reclaim