By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a man charged with kidnapping a Memphis, Tennessee, school teacher during an early-morning run and killing her, a district attorney said Thursday. Cleotha Abston is charged with snatching Eliza Fletcher from a street near the University of Memphis on
Continue Reading VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis will travel to the periphery of Roman Catholicism this summer becoming the first pontiff to visit Mongolia. The Central Asian nation is squeezed between Russia and China and has just 1,500 Catholics. The Sept. 1-4 schedule released on Thursday is light by papal standards. It includes a full day
Continue Reading By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A Hamas militant has opened fire near an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, killing one Israeli, before he was shot and killed by Israeli forces. Thursday’s attack came a day after Israeli forces withdrew from the largest military operation in the West Bank in two
Continue Reading By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An 8-year-old girl was killed and more than a dozen people were injured Thursday when an SUV crashed into a private elementary school on a narrow road in southwest London, police said. The crash wasn’t believed to be terrorism, and the driver was taken into custody. The
Continue Reading By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Fendi put a fitting exclamation point on Paris couture week by drawing an A-list crowd to the opulent Palais Brongniart. Naomi Watts, Zoe Saldana, Cardi B and Shakira were among the celebrities seated front row for a show that dazzled with its artful fusion of jewelry-making
Continue Reading By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A U.K. court on Thursday rejected the British government’s request to keep former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages and diaries from being made public at an official COVID-19 inquiry. The Cabinet Office took the unusual step of bringing a legal challenge after the retired judge
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — There are just some tickets that are hard to get in Las Vegas. Like Adele, for example. Or Garth Brooks. Or U2, which starts a residency there this fall. And now, add Wemby to that list. Victor Wembanyama’s debut at NBA Summer League is Friday
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron called for order and calm and efforts to address the roots of several days of unrest around the country sparked by the police killing of a 17-year-old boy. The police officer accused of the shooting death is in custody on a charge of voluntary homicide. A judge in
Continue Reading SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has visited the capitals of Bulgaria and the Czech Republic, discussing military aid and receiving assurances of support for Ukraine’s entry into NATO after its war with Russia is over. Czech President Petr Pavel said it is in the interest of his country and Ukraine that soon as the war
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GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Grand Canyon National Park is getting $27.5 million in federal highway money to upgrade its aging fleet of shuttle buses, which help the more than 4 million annual visitors get around the huge park. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration announced the grant at an event
Continue Reading By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s president has accused Kosovo of carrying out “silent” ethnic cleansing of Serbs and said his country will seek an urgent session of the United Nations Security Council to demand their protection. Aleksandar Vucic says he will also seek a meeting with NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg
Continue Reading NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Greece’s newly appointed defense minister has welcomed a de-escalation of tensions in the eastern Mediterranean. Nikos Dendias expressed hope that this would lead to a “climate of trust” without directly referring to Turkey. But Nikos Dendias said Thursday after talks with his Cypriot counterpart that trust must be built on the
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — The trial of 10 men accused over the 2016 suicide bombings at Brussels airport and a subway station is taking a major step toward its conclusion. More than half a year after the trial started, the court held its last audience and the jury will begin the drawn-out process of deciding on
Continue Reading By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There are, as a rule, only so many places you can go as an action movie after leaving Tom Cruise clinging to the side of an Airbus A400M and flinging him out a cargo plane at 25,000 feet. But in the kinetic, headlong world of
Continue Reading By CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — The courts are finally dry at Wimbledon and the sun is even shining through the clouds at times. That gives organizers hope of fitting in a full day of tennis for the first time at this year’s tournament. The first three days of action at
Continue Reading By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press BOKSBURG, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a toxic gas leak in South Africa blamed on an illegal gold processing operation in a settlement of closely packed shacks has risen to 17. At least three children are among the dead. A person died on arrival
Continue Reading By JADE LE DELEY and LORI HINNANT Associated Press CRETEIL, France (AP) — At 19, he was the oldest of the group of teens accused of lobbing Molotov cocktails at the police station of their suburban hometown. “Why?” the judge asked Riad, who was taken into custody after he was identified in video surveillance images
Continue Reading By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli court has acquitted a border police officer who was charged with reckless manslaughter in the deadly shooting of an autistic Palestinian man in Jerusalem’s Old City three years ago. Jerusalem’s district court ruled Thursday that the officer was acting in self defense when he shot
Continue Reading By PETER SMITH Associated Press More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations — a fifth of the U.S. total — have now received permission to leave the denomination amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ people in the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination. Those figures emerge following the close of regular meetings in June
Continue Reading LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a missing 2-year-old girl has been found dead in Detroit, 90 miles from her home in Lansing. Lansing police say the body of Wynter Cole Smith was discovered Wednesday evening, three days after her disappearance. Police arrested Rashad Trice, who now faces attempted murder as well as other charges.
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