Nation and World
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Top Spanish court nixes height rule for women joining police
Jul 18, 2022 7:00 am - MADRID (AP) - Spain's Supreme Court has disallowed a rule on a minimum height for women wanting to join the police force, saying it is discriminatory. Candidates for the...
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How to cook with garden and windowsill herbs this summer
Jul 18, 2022 7:00 am - I am a terrible gardener. I hate weeding, and within weeks of planting anything, the tomato, pepper and other plants start to become overrun with unwanted greenery, and ...
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Uvalde report: 376 officers but '~egregiously poor' decisions
Jul 17, 2022 7:00 am - UVALDE, Texas (AP) - Nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to a mass shooting at a Uvalde elementary school, but 'œegregiously poor decision-making'ť resulted in m...
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'Evil cannot win': Killed by Russian missile, Liza is buried
Jul 17, 2022 7:00 am - VINNYTSIA, Ukraine (AP) - Beautiful and serene in a crown of white flowers, 4-year-old Liza Dmytrieva, who was killed by a Russian missile strike, was buried Sunday in c...
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Prosecutors try to prove 1996 killing with body missing
Jul 17, 2022 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - The smiling face of Kristin Smart still looks out from a billboard in front of attorney James Murphy Jr.'s law office more than 25 years after the col...
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Correction: Abortion-Child Rape-Arrest story
Jul 17, 2022 7:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - In a story published July 15, 2022, about a doctor's lawyer telling Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita to stop making false statements about obstet...
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Pope seeks prayers for his 'penitential' Canadian pilgrimage
Jul 17, 2022 7:00 am - VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis on Sunday asked for prayers to accompany him on what he called his 'œpenitential'ť pilgrimage to Canada to apologize to Indigenous group...
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Fires scorch France, Spain; temperature-related deaths soar
Jul 17, 2022 7:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Firefighters struggled on Sunday to contain wildfires raging out of control in France and Spain as Europe wilts under an unusually extreme heat wave that au...
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Florida amusement park pauses new sniper-like laser game
Jul 17, 2022 7:00 am - ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The Orlando amusement park where a teenager fell from a ride and died earlier this year has paused a new sniper-like laser shooting game amid critic...
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Drought in northern Mexico threatening livelihoods
Jul 17, 2022 7:00 am - SANTIAGO, Mexico (AP) - Restaurant owner Leticia RodrÃguez celebrated the construction late last year of a new lakeside boulevard in this northern Mexico town that she ...