Nation and World
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'We're triaging': Cops combat violent crime as ranks dwindle
Aug 08, 2022 7:00 am - PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Five years after Brian Spaulding's parents found him fatally shot in the home he shared with roommates, his slaying remains a mystery that seems in...
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Ex-rebel takes oath as Colombian president in historic shift
Aug 08, 2022 7:00 am - BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Colombia's first leftist president was sworn into office Sunday, promising to fight inequality and bring peace to a country long haunted by blood...
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Pope encourages Cuban search crews after Matanzas blaze
Aug 08, 2022 7:00 am - ROME (AP) - Pope Francis is offering support to firefighters and search crews in Cuba following the fire and explosions at a big oil tank farm in the western province of...
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Gabby Petito's family files claim alleging police failed her
Aug 08, 2022 7:00 am - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Nicole Schmidt vividly remembers the pain she felt watching body camera footage of her daughter Gabby Petito sobbing while Utah police officers que...
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Not so fast: California's last nuke plant might run longer
Aug 08, 2022 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - An aggressive push toward renewable energy has run headlong into anxiety over keeping the lights on in California, where the largest utility is consid...
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Do spiders sleep? Study suggests they may snooze like humans
Aug 08, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - It's a question that keeps some scientists awake at night: Do spiders sleep? Daniela Roessler and her colleagues trained cameras on baby jumping spiders ...
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Japan tech giant SoftBank posts $23 billion quarterly loss
Aug 08, 2022 7:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - Japanese technology company SoftBank Group posted a $23.4 billion loss in the April-June quarter as the value of its investments sank amid global worries ab...
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Former coal town comes together in face of Kentucky floods
Aug 08, 2022 7:00 am - FLEMING-NEON, Ky. (AP) - Barely a week after floodwaters swept downtown and left a foot of mud and twisted, gutted buildings along Main Street, an incongruous sight appe...
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Study connects climate hazards to 58% of infectious diseases
Aug 08, 2022 7:00 am - Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including m...
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Southwest attendant suffers broken back in hard landing
Aug 08, 2022 7:00 am - DALLAS (AP) - A Southwest Airlines flight attendant suffered a compression fracture to a vertebra in her upper back during a hard landing last month in California, accor...