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US Supreme Court blocks census citizenship question

Published:Thursday | June 27, 2019 | 9:35 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) —The Supreme Court is forbidding President Donald Trump’s administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census for now. The court says the Trump administration’s explanation for wanting to add the...

Europe sets heat records as much of continent sizzles

Published:Thursday | June 27, 2019 | 9:41 AM

BERLIN (AP) — Torrid weather gripped large parts of western and central Europe on Wednesday, setting new June temperature records in Germany and the Czech Republic and forcing drivers to slow down on some sections of the famously speedy...

San Francisco becomes 1st major US city to ban e-cigarettes

Published:Thursday | June 27, 2019 | 9:11 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco became the first major U.S. city to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes after supervisors gave the measure its second and final vote Tuesday. Backers say they hope the legislation will curb underage use of...

Former PM Barak stages return to ‘topple Netanyahu’

Published:Thursday | June 27, 2019 | 12:18 AM

JERUSALEM (AP): Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Barak announced Wednesday that he is returning to politics and forming a new party that will aim to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in upcoming elections. Speaking at a Tel Aviv press...

Beauty pageant winner accuses ex-Gambia president of rape

Published:Thursday | June 27, 2019 | 12:17 AM

DAKAR (AP): A Gambian beauty pageant winner has accused the country’s former dictator Yahya Jammeh of raping her four years ago, the latest allegation of human rights abuses committed by the ex-president now living in exile in Equatorial Guinea....

I feel a hole in my heart – Drowned man’s mother

Published:Thursday | June 27, 2019 | 12:17 AM

SAN MARTIN (AP): The mother of a man who drowned alongside his 23-month-old daughter while trying to cross the Rio Grande into Texas, says she feels a hole that “nobody can fill”. Rosa Ramírez says she begged Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez not to...

Kremlin confirms Trump-Putin meeting at G-20

Published:Thursday | June 27, 2019 | 12:15 AM

MOSCOW (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of an international summit in Japan, the Kremlin said Wednesday, in talks that come amid bitter differences between Moscow and Washington. Trump...

Dutch railway company to pay reparations for WWII transports

Published:Thursday | June 27, 2019 | 12:14 AM

THE HAGUE (AP) : The Dutch national railway company said Wednesday it will pay reparations to Jews, Roma and Sinti whom it transported to camps in the Netherlands during World War II — from where they were sent to Nazi concentration camps. NS said...

Honolulu mayor signs new law to regulate vacation rentals

Published:Wednesday | June 26, 2019 | 1:00 PM

HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu’s mayor has signed a bill giving the city stronger tools to regulate vacation rentals and their operators, a report said. Democrat Kirk Caldwell signed the bill Tuesday to allow permits for about 1,700 hosted...

Illinois becomes 11th state to allow recreational marijuana use

Published:Wednesday | June 26, 2019 | 12:01 PM

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois’ new governor delivered on a top campaign promise Tuesday by signing legislation making the state the 11th to approve marijuana for recreational use in a program offering legal remedies and economic...

European heat wave sees Germany put speed limits on highways

Published:Wednesday | June 26, 2019 | 9:25 AM

BERLIN (AP) — Large parts of western and central Europe sweltered in scorching weather Wednesday, with German authorities imposing speed limits on highways amid fears of buckling road surfaces and some French schools staying closed as a...

Orangutans, polar bears make a splash as Europe swelters

Published:Wednesday | June 26, 2019 | 12:00 AM

Berlin (AP): Orangutans at a Vienna zoo got buckets of water, lemurs in Rome enjoyed fruit, icicles and a polar bear took to a pool in Germany as much of Europe sweltered yesterday in an early summer heatwave. Authorities warned that temperatures...

More than 100 migrant kids moved back to troubled facility

Published:Wednesday | June 26, 2019 | 12:00 AM

HOUSTON, Texas (AP): United States Government officials say they’ve moved more than 100 children back to a remote border facility where, lawyers reported, detained youngsters were caring for each other and had inadequate food, water, and sanitation...

Australian man wins fingerprinting court case against employer

Published:Tuesday | June 25, 2019 | 9:59 AM

An Australian man won a landmark case against his employer after he was fired for refusing to provide his fingerprints to sign in and out of work, raising questions about biometric data collection and ownership. The Business Insider reports that...

Sudan’s military sidesteps proposal for civilian rule

Published:Tuesday | June 25, 2019 | 9:27 AM

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan’s military rulers refused to agree on Monday to the Ethiopian proposal for a power-sharing agreement with the country’s pro-democracy movement, a top general said, in comments that could worsen a...

Man convicted for pushing 91-y-o on to subway tracks

Published:Tuesday | June 25, 2019 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP): A British judge has sentenced a paranoid schizophrenic to at least 12 years in custody for pushing a 91-year-old man on to the subway tracks in London. Paul Crossley shoved Robert Malpas, a former Eurotunnel executive, on to the rail...

Pompeo in Mideast talks on building a coalition against Iran

Published:Tuesday | June 25, 2019 | 12:00 AM

DUBAI (AP): US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held talks on Monday with the Saudi king and crown prince about countering the military threat from Iran by building a broad, global coalition that includes Asian and European countries. Pompeo is...

Driver with Ebola team severely injured by mob

Published:Tuesday | June 25, 2019 | 12:00 AM

BENI (AP): A driver working with an Ebola response team is in critical condition after angry crowds hurled rocks at him and set his vehicle on fire. Monday’s attack in Beni is the latest against health workers trying to combat the virus that has...

Plotter of failed coup killed, 182 others arrested

Published:Tuesday | June 25, 2019 | 12:00 AM

ADDIS ABABA (AP): The Ethiopian army general accused of leading a failed coup in a restive northern region was killed on Monday in a firefight with security forces amid a security crackdown in which more than 180 others have been arrested. Brig...

Alerts issued in France as intense heat wave envelops Europe

Published:Monday | June 24, 2019 | 2:22 PM

PARIS (AP) — The sunset had an orange glow and so does the new heat alert level for Paris. More than half of France, including around Paris, was placed on an orange alert for intense heat Monday — the second-highest level on the scale...

Trump to sign order for hospital fees disclosure upfront

Published:Monday | June 24, 2019 | 2:02 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Monday that calls for upfront disclosure by hospitals of actual prices for common tests and procedures to keep costs down, administration officials said. Health and...

Florida woman charged after giving abusive husband’s guns to police

Published:Monday | June 24, 2019 | 11:13 AM

LAKELAND, Florida (AP) — A Florida woman’s effort to protect herself from domestic violence has become a flashpoint in the debate over gun rights and victims’ safety. Courtney Irby gave her estranged husband’s guns to police...

Pompeo in Saudi Arabia, Iran threatens more US drone attacks

Published:Monday | June 24, 2019 | 9:16 AM

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held talks Monday with the Saudi king and crown prince after days of mounting tensions following the downing of a U.S drone last week and after President Donald Trump...

10 years later, a look at people surrounding Michael Jackson

Published:Sunday | June 23, 2019 | 12:00 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP): A look at the status of the major figures in the life and death of Michael Jackson after 10 years, starting with the King of Pop himself: MICHAEL JACKSON: Jackson, who would be 60 years old were he alive, was rehearsing for a...

Trump denies new sex assault claim

Published:Sunday | June 23, 2019 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): A New York-based advice columnist claims Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a dressing room at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s, according to a first-person account published Friday by New York Magazine. Trump...

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