AP Science Writer Meteorologists calculate that more than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week from Hurricane Helene and a run-of-the-mill rainstorm that sloshed in ahead of it. It’s an unheard-of amount of water that stunned experts. It’s enough to fill the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium 51,000 times or
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — If Kris Kristofferson’s life were fiction, it would feel a little implausible. He was a Texas-born Golden Gloves boxer and star football player, a Rhodes Scholar and a helicopter-flying U.S. Army captain who walked away from a West Point faculty gig to briefly become a janitor on his
Continue Reading AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — If Kris Kristofferson’s life were fiction, it would feel a little implausible. He was a Texas-born Golden Gloves boxer and star football player, a Rhodes Scholar and a helicopter-flying U.S. Army captain who walked away from a West Point faculty gig to briefly become a janitor on his
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is criticizing the Biden administration’s response to widespread devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, even as his supporters call for cuts to federal agencies that warn of weather disasters and deliver relief to hard-hit communities. As president, Trump delayed disaster aid for hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico and diverted
Continue Reading Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Doctors Without Borders says that it treated more than 25,000 victims of sexual violence in the Congo last year, by far the highest level it has seen there and most of it in the east where armed groups vie for power. The aid group says the vast majority of
Continue Reading Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas has sued YouTube and its parent company Alphabet, saying the video-sharing platform is deliberately addictive and fueling a mental health crisis among youth. Attorney General Tim Griffin’s office filed the lawsuit Monday in state court. The lawsuit accuses the companies of violating the state’s deceptive trade practices
Continue Reading Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court has denied a bail application by imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife in a graft case. Monday’s court order is yet another blow to the popular opposition leader, who has been held in prison for more than a year after being convicted on multiple
Continue Reading Associated Press Federal prosecutors say a network of illegal drug sellers packaged potentially deadly synthetic opioids into pills disguised as common prescription drugs and sold millions of them through fake online drugstores. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said Monday that at least nine people died of narcotics poisoning between August 2023 and June 2024 after
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America’s oldest living president, Jimmy Carter, turns 100-years-old on Tuesday.
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Some Verizon customers have been hit by a service outage. The issue Monday appeared to knock out cellphone service for tens of thousands of people. Data from outage tracker DownDetector shows that reports surpassed 100,000 shortly after 11 a.m. ET — and while that number has fallen significantly since, nearly 48,000
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He died Monday after a battle with brain cancer, which he was diagnosed in 2022. He was surrounded by his wife and family when he passed.
Continue Reading Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian opposition lawmakers have violently disrupted a Parliament session to protest the imprisonment of a fellow legislator for alleged slander. On Monday, Conservative Democrats shoved microphones off tables, hurled objects at the seats of the speaker and government ministers, and burnt chairs, saying Ervin Salianji’s prison sentence was politically
Continue Reading Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Officials in Las Vegas vowed Monday to complete a permanent memorial to victims and survivors of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history by the 10th anniversary of the 2017 attack. The announcement came one day before the seventh anniversary of the shooting that initially left 58 people
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Officials in Las Vegas vowed Monday to complete a permanent memorial to victims and survivors of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history by the 10th anniversary of the 2017 attack. The announcement came one day before the seventh anniversary of the shooting that initially left 58 people
Continue Reading Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge on Monday struck down the state’s abortion law, which took effect in 2022 and effectively prohibited abortions beyond about six weeks of pregnancy. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in his order that the law violates Georgia’s Constitution, finding that “liberty in Georgia includes in
Continue Reading Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) — Maine environmental officials say all water samples analyzed so far after the state’s largest recorded accidental spill of firefighting foam are below its guidelines for potentially dangerous chemicals. A fire suppression system at a hangar at Brunswick Executive Airport discharged more than 1,400 gallons of the foam concentrate mixed
Continue Reading Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre has filed a lawsuit against a U.S. Senate committee that pursued contempt charges against him for failing to appear before the panel despite being issued a subpoena. The lawsuit was filed Monday in federal court in Washington and named nearly all members
Continue Reading CINCINNATI (AP) — The Cincinnati Opera has postponed the premiere of the Afrofuturist-themed “Lalovavi” by one year to the summer of 2026. The company says Monday the libretto by Tifara Brown is still being worked on, delaying the music composition by Kevin Day. “Lalovavi” had been announced in February with a premiere date of June
Continue Reading RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A judge has convicted a man of obstructing the investigation into the assassination of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco and sentenced him to five years in prison. The conviction of Edilson Barbosa dos Santos was the first in the 2018 shooting death of Franco, who was prominent as the
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The man accused of plotting to kill former President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course earlier this month, Ryan Wesley Routh, pleaded not guilty Monday to five counts including the attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate.
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