Nation and World
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Nigerian city celebrates its many twins with annual festival
Oct 14, 2022 7:00 am - IGBO-ORA, Nigeria (AP) - Twins appear to be unusually abundant in Nigeria's southwestern city of Igbo-Ora. Nearly every family here has twins or other multiple births, ...
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Families face man charged in killings of 22 elderly Texans
Oct 14, 2022 7:00 am - DALLAS (AP) - A week after the second conviction of a man charged in the deaths of 22 elderly women, family members of those he is accused of killing gathered at a Dalla...
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Strikes continue in French refineries, disrupt fuel supplies
Oct 14, 2022 7:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Continuing strikes at TotalEnergies group refineries in France seriously disrupted fuel supplies Friday after the left-wing CGT union rejected a deal over a...
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Parkland shooter prosecutors call for probe of juror threat
Oct 14, 2022 7:00 am - FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Prosecutors of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz called for an investigation Friday after a juror said another panelist threatened her dur...
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Official: 14 dead, 28 hurt after blast in Turkish coal mine
Oct 14, 2022 7:00 am - ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - An explosion inside a coal mine in northern Turkey on Friday left 14 people dead, at least 28 injured and nearly 50 trapped underground, Interior M...
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Arizona AG seeks probe of election integrity group
Oct 14, 2022 7:00 am - PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona's Republican attorney general, Mark Brnovich, on Friday asked the FBI and IRS to look into an election integrity group that claimed to have uncove...
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Kroger seeks to create grocery giant in $20 billion Albertsons bid
Oct 14, 2022 1:00 am - Two of the nation's largest grocers have agreed to merge in a deal they say would help them better compete with Walmart, Amazon and other major companies that have stepp...
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IKEA calls 2022 an 'exceptional year' despite challenges
Oct 13, 2022 7:00 am - STOCKHOLM (AP) - Swedish home furnishings giant IKEA said Thursday that despite 'œunprecedented challenges" caused by the war in Ukraine, supply chain disruptions, incre...
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Indonesia gears up to start its first high-speed rail line
Oct 13, 2022 7:00 am - BANDUNG, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia is preparing to start Southeast Asia's first high-speed rail service that will cut travel time between two cities from the current th...
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Ute Indian Tribe criticizes Biden monument on ancestral land
Oct 13, 2022 7:00 am - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A Utah-based Native American tribe that frequently has sparred with President Joe Biden criticized the White House again for not adequately consult...