Category Archives: World
Initiative to enshrine abortion rights in Missouri constitution qualifies for November ballot
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri voters will decide in November whether to guarantee a right to abortion with a constitutional amendment that would reverse the state's near-total ban on the procedu...
Aug 13, 2024
An ex-Kansas police chief who led a raid on a newspaper is charged with obstruction of justice
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A former central Kansas police chief who led a raid last year on a weekly newspaper has been charged with felony obstruction of justice and is accused of persuading a potential wit...
Aug 13, 2024
Officer faces murder charge in shooting of pregnant Black woman who was accused of shoplifting
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio police officer was indicted Tuesday on charges including murder in the shooting of Ta'Kiya Young, a 21-year-old pregnant Black mother killed by police in a grocery store ...
Aug 13, 2024
Former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, election deniers hero, found guilty in election computer breach
DENVER (AP) - Former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, a hero to election deniers, has been found guilty in a breach of her county's election computer system in a jury verdict returned Monday at trial. Pete...
Aug 12, 2024
Judge rules against RFK Jr. in fight to be on New York’s ballot, says he is not a state resident
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A judge ruled Monday that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely claimed a New York residence on nominating petitions, invalidating the documents he needs...
Aug 12, 2024
Crews begin demolishing Texas church where gunman killed more than two dozen in 2017
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) - Crews on Monday began to tear down a Texas church where a gunman killed more than two dozen worshippers in 2017, using heavy machinery to raze the small building even ...
Aug 12, 2024
Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, being turned away from ERs despite federal law
WASHINGTON (AP) - Bleeding and in pain, Kyleigh Thurman didn't know her doomed pregnancy could kill her. Emergency room doctors at Ascension Seton Williamson in Texas handed her a pamphlet on miscarri...
Aug 12, 2024
Police in London say a man is arrested after a child and adult were stabbed in a busy square
LONDON (AP) - A man has been arrested after an 11-year-old girl and a 34-year-old woman were stabbed in central London, London's Metropolitan Police said Monday. The attack occurred in Leicester Squar...
Aug 12, 2024
Russia's Putin says Ukraine's incursion into Kursk is an attempt to stop Moscow’s eastern offensive
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that the Ukraine army's incursion into the Kursk region, which has caused more than 100,000 civilians to flee, is an attempt by Kyiv t...
Aug 12, 2024
Major wildfire rages out of control on fringes of Greek capital; hundreds of firefighters deployed
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Hundreds of firefighters backed by more than two dozen water-dropping planes were battling a major forest fire raging out of control Monday on the northern fringes of the Greek c...
Aug 12, 2024
