Category Archives: World
California changes competition rules for track and field final amid controversy over trans athlete
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The governing board for California high school sports is changing its competition rules at this weekend's state track and field championships to allow more girls to take part...
May 27, 2025
France's National Assembly adopts long-debated bill legalizing end-of-life options
PARIS (AP) - France's lower house of parliament has adopted a bill to allow adults with incurable illness to take lethal medication. As public demands grow across Europe for legal end-of-life options,...
May 27, 2025
Israeli gunfire heard as crowds of Palestinians try to reach an aid center in Gaza
MUWASI, Gaza Strip (AP) - An AP journalist says Israeli tank and gunfire was heard Tuesday while giant crowds of Palestinians tried to reach a newly opened aid distribution center in southern Gaza. Th...
May 27, 2025
The Supreme Court rejects a plea to block a copper mine on land in Arizona that's sacred to Apaches
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from Apaches who are fighting to halt a massive copper mining project on federal land in Arizona that they hold sacred. The justices l...
May 27, 2025
Huge explosion rocks a chemical plant in eastern China, no information on casualties
BEIJING (AP) - A huge explosion rocked a chemical plant in China's eastern Shandong province around noon Tuesday, according to state broadcaster CCTV, with thick plumes of black smoke visible from the...
May 27, 2025
Authorities say they've captured three more of the 10 escapees who broke out of a New Orleans jail
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Authorities said Monday they have captured three more of the 10 escapees who broke out of a Louisiana jail this month. One of the men was arrested in Baton Rouge by local police and...
May 26, 2025
Driver arrested after car plows into celebrating Liverpool fans
LONDON (AP) - A driver was arrested Monday after plowing into a crowd of Liverpool soccer fans who had been celebrating the city soccer team's Premier League championship, police said. Merseyside Poli...
May 26, 2025
Former US Rep. Charles Rangel of New York has died at age 94
NEW YORK (AP) - Former Democratic US Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, an outspoken, gravel-voiced Harlem Democrat who spent nearly five decades on Capitol Hill and was also a founding member of the Co...
May 26, 2025
Marcel Ophuls, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who forced France to face its WWII past, is dead at 97
PARIS (AP) - Marcel Ophuls, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker whose landmark 1969 documentary "The Sorrow and the Pity" shattered the comforting myth that most of France had resisted the Nazis durin...
May 26, 2025
A court has acquitted Austrian ex-leader Sebastian Kurz of making false statements
VIENNA (AP) - A court in Vienna on Monday acquitted former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz of making false statements to a parliamentary inquiry into alleged corruption in his government, reversing...
May 26, 2025
