Tyler James Williams, Nikki Glaser, Eric André and more react to their Emmy nominations
Reactions from select nominees for the 2024 Emmy Awards, including some first-time nominees. Tyler James Williams, “Abbott Elementary” “You…
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Toronto cleans up after storm as Trudeau says better infrastructure needed for future
TORONTO (AP) — Cleanup crews are working to get Canada’s largest city back to normal after a torrential downpour. Flooding in and around Toronto…
Continue ReadingSyrian official who oversaw prison where alleged abuse took place arrested by US officials
Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Syrian military official who oversaw a prison where human rights officials say torture and abuse…
Continue ReadingPanama says migration through border with Colombia is down since President Mulino took office
Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s border police says that migration through the Darien Gap dividing Colombia and Panama has…
Continue ReadingA Georgia death row inmate says a prosecutor hid a plea deal with a key witness, tainting his trial
Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Attorneys for an inmate who’s spent 25 years on Georgia’s death row are accusing a prosecutor of…
Continue ReadingVenezuela arrests security chief for opposition leader days ahead of presidential vote
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Officials in Venezuela have arrested the head of security for the country’s top opposition leader, a little more than a…
Continue ReadingUS military pier for carrying aid to Gaza will be dismantled after weather and security problems
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military-built pier to carry humanitarian aid to Gaza will be dismantled and brought home, ending a…
Continue ReadingJon Jones fights charges stemming from alleged hostility during a drug test at his home
Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones has pleaded not guilty to a pair of misdemeanor charges stemming from…
Continue ReadingA fire kills 16 people at a shopping mall in southwestern China
BEIJING (AP) — State media in China say that a fire at a shopping mall has killed 16 people in the southwestern Chinese city of Zigong. The…
Continue ReadingAmple signatures collected for referendum to repeal private school funding law, organizers say
Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Public school advocates say they have collected enough signatures to ask Nebraska voters in November to repeal…
Continue ReadingA man is convicted on all counts in a shooting that wounded 9 people outside a bar in Cleveland
Associated Press A man charged in a downtown Cleveland mass shooting last summer that wounded nine people has been convicted after he pleaded no…
Continue ReadingIn and on the water, French troops secure the River Seine for the Paris Olympics opening ceremony
Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s armed forces have been deployed along the River Seine to make it safe, both in and out of the water during…
Continue ReadingWind power operations off Nantucket Island are suspended after turbine blade parts washed ashore
NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — The federal government has ordered an offshore wind developer off Nantucket Island to suspend operations after parts of a…
Continue ReadingItalian authorities seek truck driver who was filmed striking migrants near French border
ROME (AP) — Italian border police are looking for a truck driver who is shown on a widely circulated video striking female migrants after he found…
Continue ReadingEuropean aid worker arrested in Central African Republic over spying allegations is on hunger strike
Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A European aid worker who was arrested two months ago in Central African Republic over spying allegations…
Continue Reading9 rescued, search still on for other crew members after oil tanker capsizes in Arabian Sea off Oman
Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Nine crew members were rescued and another died as teams searched for others after an oil…
Continue ReadingLionel Messi asked to apologize for Argentina players’ racist chant
AP Soccer Writer Lionel Messi is facing calls to apologize for racist chants made by Argentina players after they won the Copa America on Sunday. An…
Continue ReadingSpanish court gives online racial abuser of soccer star Vinícius 8-month suspended sentence
MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid says a Spanish court has given a suspended eight-month prison sentence to a person who racially insulted soccer stars…
Continue ReadingNavy exonerates 256 Black sailors unjustly punished in 1944 after a deadly California port explosion
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy has exonerated 256 Black sailors who were found to be unjustly punished in 1944 following a…
Continue ReadingGerman leader to visit Serbia seeking lithium for his country’s car industry
Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is to visit Serbia later this week to discuss a tentative deal with the…
Continue ReadingSheriff’s deputies fatally shoot 2 people while serving a warrant in Georgia
ALTO, Ga. (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies serving a warrant in another county have shot and killed two people in northeast Georgia on Tuesday. The…
Continue ReadingFrench anti-terror police detain alleged neo-Nazi sympathizer suspected of targeting Olympic torch
PARIS (AP) — French anti-terror police have detained an alleged neo-Nazi sympathizer suspected of wanting to target the Olympic torch relay. The…
Continue ReadingA meteor streaked over the NYC skyline before disintegrating over New Jersey
NEW YORK (AP) — A meteor streaked over the New York City skyline before disintegrating over nearby New Jersey, according to NASA. William Cooke,…
Continue ReadingTunisia’s opposition says politically motivated arrests and gag orders are chilling election efforts
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Leading opposition parties in Tunisia say politically motivated arrests and gag orders are creating impossible conditions for…
Continue ReadingForest fire at New Jersey military base 80% contained after overnight rain
BASS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — Heavy rain overnight has helped firefighters gain more control over a forest fire burning at a military bombing range in…
Continue ReadingEx-Trump adviser Peter Navarro, released from prison, decries ‘weaponization’ of justice system
Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro, released from prison Wednesday, condemned the Biden…
Continue ReadingNearly two-thirds of Democrats want Biden to withdraw, new AP-NORC poll finds
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly two-thirds of Democrats say President Joe Biden should withdraw from the presidential race and let his…
Continue Reading2 men sentenced in 2021 armed standoff on Massachusetts highway
WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — Two men have been sentenced for their role in an armed standoff on a busy Massachusetts highway in 2021 that lasted more than…
Continue ReadingProminent Democrat Schiff calls for Biden to withdraw, but party aims to nominate before convention
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — California Rep. Adam Schiff on Wednesday became the highest-profile Democrat to call for President Joe Biden to…
Continue ReadingFar-right leader Le Pen says France is in a political ‘quagmire’ 9 days before Olympics start
PARIS (AP) — France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen says the country is “in a quagmire” after chaotic legislative elections produced a…
Continue Reading6 dead and cities left without electricity as storm sweeps through Belarus
MOSCOW (AP) — The emergencies ministry in Belarus says six people died in a heavy weekend storm that swept through much of the country. Officials…
Continue ReadingGermany to impose tougher penalties on people who break through airport perimeters
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Cabinet has approved legislation that would impose tougher penalties on people who break through airport perimeters.…
Continue Reading‘Of all the places’: Deep red Butler, Pennsylvania, grapples with Trump assassination attempt
Associated Press BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — A common refrain on the streets of Butler, Pennsylvania, in the wake of Saturday’s assassination attempt on…
Continue ReadingLawsuit claims that delayed elections for Georgia utility regulator are unconstitutional
Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A new lawsuit says extending the six-year terms of Georgia’s elected public service commissioners violates…
Continue ReadingEx-Philadelphia detective convicted of perjury in coerced murder confession case
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former Philadelphia homicide detective accused of beating a murder suspect to obtain a confession and then lying about it in…
Continue ReadingPakistan summons Afghan diplomat to protest a suicide attack that killed 8 soldiers in the northwest
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan summoned a senior Afghan diplomat to strongly protest a deadly militant attack that left eight soldiers dead in the…
Continue ReadingTurkey holds a tense debate on a bill to control stray dogs. It’s raising fears of a mass culling
Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish parliamentary commission has begun debating a contentious bill to manage the country’s…
Continue ReadingStorms flood the Ozarks and strand drivers in Toronto. New York community is devastated by tornado
Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Another wave of severe storms pummeled a wide swath of the United States and Canada, leading to flash…
Continue ReadingTakeaways from AP story on dangerous heat threats to greenhouse workers
Associated Press MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — Many farms, from vertical farming startups to traditional specialty crop growers, are marketing greenhouses…
Continue ReadingThe “greenhouse effect”: How an oft-touted climate solution threatens agricultural workers
Associated Press MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — To harvest tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers, to clip herbs, to prune and propagate succulents, people work in…
Continue ReadingMovie armorer seeks dismissal of her conviction or new trial in fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin
Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A movie armorer has asked a judge to dismiss her involuntary manslaughter conviction or offer her a new…
Continue ReadingCan a lottery winner run an effective foundation? Meet Roy Cockrum
Chronicle of Philanthropy In the early 1980s, soon after graduating from college, Roy Cockrum was trying to make it as an actor in New York. He was…
Continue ReadingThe head of Hong Kong’s leading journalist group says she lost WSJ job after refusing to drop role
Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The new chair of Hong Kong’s leading media professional group says she lost her job at The Wall Street Journal…
Continue ReadingKorea’s KHNP selected to build at least 2 new nuclear reactors in Czech Republic
PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech government says South Korea’s KHNP has won a lucrative public tender to build at least two nuclear reactors in the Czech…
Continue ReadingRussia and Ukraine swap 95 prisoners of war each in their latest exchange
Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine and Russia have exchanged 95 prisoners of war each, three weeks after their last swap and as part of…
Continue ReadingGreece shuts Acropolis, 2 firefighters killed in Italy as southern Europe swelters in a heat wave
Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A heat wave across southern Europe forced authorities in Greece to close the Acropolis Wednesday for several…
Continue ReadingHouse Oversight panel subpoenas Secret Service director to testify on Trump assassination attempt
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee issued a subpoena Wednesday to the…
Continue ReadingCyprus plans to build a major naval base to play a larger geopolitical role, says defense minister
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ defense minister says plans are in motion to build a major naval base on the east Mediterranean island nation’s…
Continue ReadingRights groups urge Uzbek president to veto law on deporting or barring ‘undesirable’ foreigners
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — More than 25 human rights groups are calling on the president of Uzbekistan to veto a proposed law that would allow…
Continue ReadingDon’t work in bed, and other tips for creating a peaceful sleep zone in a studio apartment
Associated Press There’s a lot to be said for the work/play energy of a nice studio or other small apartment during the day. But how do you…
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