Category Archives: World
5 dead after a small plane crashes on Santa Catalina Island off the Southern California coast
AVALON, Calif. (AP) - Five people were killed when a small plane crashed during takeoff from Santa Catalina Island off the Southern California coast, authorities said Wednesday. The twin-engine Beechc...
Oct 09, 2024
Language, lack of money and fear are matters of life and death with Milton approaching Florida
MIAMI (AP) - Hurricane Milton is expected to unleash its greatest force over hundreds of thousands of immigrants who don't speak English, most of them Latin Americans harvesting oranges and tomatoes i...
Oct 09, 2024
Language barriers and lack of money is a matter of life and death with Milton approaching Florida
MIAMI (AP) - Hurricane Milton is expected to unleash its greatest force over hundreds of thousands of immigrants who don't speak English, most of them Latin Americans harvesting oranges and tomatoes i...
Oct 09, 2024
Biden and Netanyahu hold their first conversation in weeks. Trump recently called the Israeli leader
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday were holding their first call in weeks, a conversation that comes as Israel expands its ground incursio...
Oct 09, 2024
Former Sen. Tim Johnson, the last Democrat to hold statewide office in South Dakota, dies at 77
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Former Sen. Tim Johnson, a centrist who was the last Democrat to hold statewide office in South Dakota and who was adept at securing federal funding for projects back home dur...
Oct 09, 2024
Time to evacuate is running out as Hurricane Milton closes in on Florida
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The National Weather Service says a tornado is on the ground in the lightly populated Everglades area of South Florida. The service posted a photo on the social platform X of the fu...
Oct 09, 2024
The death toll in a gang attack on a small Haitian town rises to 115, a local official says
PONT-SOND, Haiti (AP) - The death toll in a brutal gang attack last week on a small town in central Haiti has risen to 115, a local official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The attack on resid...
Oct 09, 2024
Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for work on proteins
STOCKHOLM (AP) - The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their work with proteins. Baker works at the University of Washington in Seattle,...
Oct 09, 2024
Gaza Health Ministry says Palestinian death toll from Israel-Hamas war has passed 42,000
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Gaza's Health Ministry says the Palestinian death toll from the war in Gaza has passed 42,000. The ministry does not differentiate between fighters and civilians in it...
Oct 09, 2024
Ishiba dissolves Japan's lower house to set up an Oct. 27 parliamentary election
TOKYO (AP) - Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba dissolved Japan's lower house of parliament Wednesday to set up an Oct. 27 early election and seek the voters' mandate for his 9-day-old government. Ishiba t...
Oct 09, 2024
