Category Archives: World
US says it disabled another commercial ship trying to breach blockade and reach Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military has stopped another merchant vessel trying to break through the American blockade of Iranian ports, a U.S. official with knowledge of the situation told The Associa...
May 30, 2026
WHO chief visits epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo as cases outpace response
BUNIA, Congo (AP) - The head of the World Health Organization on Saturday visited eastern Congo's Bunia, a city at the heart of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola, where the virus is spreading faster...
May 30, 2026
Rescuers free 4 men who had been trapped in a flooded Laos cave, search for 2 still missing
BANGKOK (AP) - Rescue workers in Laos said Saturday they have safely evacuated four villagers trapped in a flooded cave for 10 days, the day after another one was successfully extracted. Two men remai...
May 30, 2026
Federal judge says New Hampshire must make it easier to prove citizenship when registering to vote
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A federal judge has said that New Hampshire must make voter registration easier by allowing applicants to attest to their U.S. citizenship if they don't have the documents to prov...
May 29, 2026
3 climbers who fell near treacherous pass on Alaska’s Mount McKinley are dead, 1 rescued
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Three climbers on Alaska's Mount McKinley who fell near a treacherous pass on North America's tallest peak have died, a Latvian mountaineering group announced Friday. A fourth cl...
May 29, 2026
Former head of Iowa school district sentenced to 2 years for falsely claiming to be a US citizen
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The former superintendent of Iowa's largest school district who was arrested last year in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown was sentenced Friday to two years in ...
May 29, 2026
Louisiana’s Legislature has passed a new congressional map to give the GOP another seat
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana lawmakers passed a new congressional map Friday designed to help Republicans pick up a seat while eliminating one of the state's two majority-Black House districts, b...
May 29, 2026
Bondi refuses to answer lawmakers' questions about Trump's involvement in Epstein files release
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to answer questions Friday on President Donald Trump's involvement in the release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files as she defended the Trum...
May 29, 2026
Judge temporarily blocks payouts from Trump's $1.8B 'anti-weaponization' settlement fund
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's administration from paying any claims through a new $1.776 billion settlement fund for the Republican president...
May 29, 2026
Bus hits cars in Virginia, killing 5 people and injuring 34, state police say
STAFFORD, Va. (AP) - A bus struck six vehicles on Interstate 95 in Virginia as traffic slowed for a work zone, killing five people and sending 34 to hospitals, state police said Friday. The crash happ...
May 29, 2026
