Nation and World
-
Authors and friends rally and read for Salman Rushdie
Aug 19, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Friends and fellow authors spoke out on Salman Rushdie's behalf during a rally Friday on the steps of the main branch of the New York Public Library, one...
-
Foot found in Yellowstone hot spring linked to July death
Aug 19, 2022 7:00 am - HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Part of a human foot found in a shoe floating in a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park earlier this week is believed to be linked to the death o...
-
China jails Canadian tycoon for 13 years for finance crimes
Aug 19, 2022 7:00 am - BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese-born Canadian tycoon who disappeared from Hong Kong in 2017 was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for a multibillion-dollar string of finan...
-
Judge won't let Graham delay testimony in election probe
Aug 19, 2022 7:00 am - ATLANTA (AP) - Sen. Lindsey Graham can't put off his appearance before a special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried ...
-
CDC confirms Nebraska child died of brain-eating amoeba
Aug 19, 2022 7:00 am - OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Federal health officials confirmed Friday that a Nebraska child died from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a river n...
-
British national gets life in prison for Islamic State hostage-taking scheme that took about 2 dozen Westerners captive
Aug 19, 2022 7:00 am - ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - British national gets life in prison for Islamic State hostage-taking scheme that took about 2 dozen Westerners captive. ...
-
Australia upset at Indonesia reducing Bali bomber's sentence
Aug 19, 2022 7:00 am - CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australia's leader said Friday that it's upsetting Indonesia has further reduced the prison sentence of the bombmaker in the Bali attack that ...
-
Vatican cardinal terms assault allegations false, defamatory
Aug 19, 2022 7:00 am - ROME (AP) - The Vatican cardinal accused in a class-action lawsuit in Canada of sexual assault against a woman on Friday denied any inappropriate behavior and said he wo...
-
3rd attempted murder charge filed in shooting of Indiana cop
Aug 19, 2022 7:00 am - RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) - Prosecutors have filed a third attempted murder charge against a man accused of shooting an eastern Indiana police officer in the head during a tra...
-
Wind drives major wildfire in Spain as 35 aircraft deployed
Aug 19, 2022 7:00 am - MADRID (AP) - A wildfire burning out of control in the eastern province of Valencia has become one of the biggest this year in Spain, having already scorched more than 1...