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American Red Cross declares national blood shortage due to low donor turnout and climate disasters like Hurricane Idalia 09/12/2023 06:01am • (CNN) — The American Red Cross is sounding the alarm that the United States’ blood supply has fallen by nearly 25% since early August, to what it describes as “critically low levels.” The organization, which provides about 40% of US blood and blood components, announced on its website Mon Holocaust survivor Eva Fahidi-Pusztai, who warned of far-right populism in Europe, dies at age 97 09/12/2023 04:55am • BERLIN (AP) — Eva Fahidi-Pusztai, a Holocaust survivor who spent the late years of her life warning of the re-emergence of far-right populism and discrimination against minorities across Europe, has died. She was 97. The International Auschwitz Committee said Fahidi-Pusztai died in Budapest on Mon How to help those affected by the earthquake in Morocco 09/12/2023 04:19am • ▶ Watch Video: Morocco earthquake death toll nearing 3,000 The powerful earthquake that struck Morocco Friday night has killed more than 2,800 people, injured many more, and affected hundreds of thousands in sections of the country that suffered severe damage. It was the strongest quak American researcher has been rescued from deep Turkish cave more than a week after he fell ill 09/12/2023 02:47am • TASELI PLATEAU, Turkey (AP) — Rescuers pulled an American researcher out of a Turkish cave early Tuesday, more than a week after he became seriously ill 1,000 meters (more than 3,000 feet) below its entrance, officials said. Teams from across Europe had rushed to Morca cave in southern Turkey� 7 people have died in storms in southern China and 70 crocodiles are reported to be on the loose 09/12/2023 12:16am • BEIJING (AP) — Rainstorms battering southern China have killed at least seven people and allowed dozens of crocodiles to escape from a farm. Nearby residents were advised to stay at home after more than 70 crocodiles escaped in Maoming, a city near the coast in western Guangdong province, accordin Today in History: September 12, Voyager 1 becomes first man-made object to leave the solar system 09/12/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Tuesday, Sept. 12, the 255th day of 2023. There are 110 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 12, 2013, Voyager 1, launched 36 years earlier, became the first man-made spacecraft ever to leave the solar system. On this date: In 1913, Olympic le Outrage intensifies over New Mexico governor's temporary gun ban as sheriff vows not to enforce it 09/11/2023 09:12pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal lawsuits, cries for impeachment and outside protests. Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said she would welcome a fight after announcing an emergency order to suspend the right to carry firearms in most public places around Albuquerque. That's exactl Flooding in Libya leaves 2,000 people feared dead and more missing after storm collapsed dams 09/11/2023 09:06pm • CAIRO (AP) — Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in Libya that broke dams and swept away entire neighborhoods in multiple coastal towns in the east of the North African nation. As many as 2,000 people were feared dead, one of the country's leaders said Monday. The destruction appe Earthquake robbed Moroccan villagers of almost everything — loved ones, homes and possessions 09/11/2023 08:25pm • TAFEGHAGHTE, Morocco (AP) — His dead relatives have been dug out and buried, but the remnants of Musa Bouissirfane's former life are still trapped under rubble and dust in the ruins of the mud-brick Moroccan village of Tafeghaghte. “It’s incredibly challenging to lose your entire family and al US sets record for billion-dollar weather disasters in a year — and there's still 4 months to go 09/11/2023 08:01pm • The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia's watery storm surge helped push the United States to a record for the number of weather disasters that cost $1 billion or more. And there's still four months to go on what's looking more like a calendar of calamities. The National Oceanic and A The 49ers get off to a fast start to the season with a blowout win over the Steelers 09/11/2023 07:51pm • SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers have gotten off to shaky starts to the season too often under coach Kyle Shanahan. After a training camp dominated by a lengthy contract holdout from the team's best defensive player Nick Bosa, the trading away of the former future franchise quart Republican opposition to abortion threatens global HIV/AIDS program that has saved 25 million lives 09/11/2023 07:37pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The graves at the edge of the orphanage tell a story of despair. The rough planks in the cracked earth are painted with the names of children, most of them dead in the 1990s. That was before the HIV drugs arrived. Today, the orphanage in Kenya’s capital is a happier, more h Slave descendants face local vote on whether wealthy can build large homes in their island enclave 09/11/2023 07:27pm • DARIEN, Ga. (AP) — Descendants of enslaved people living on a Georgia island are watching anxiously Monday evening as county commissioners consider doubling the maximum size of houses that can be built in their tiny community of modest homes and dirt roads. Black residents of the Hogg Hummock c McCarthy juggles a government shutdown and a Biden impeachment inquiry as the House returns for fall 09/11/2023 07:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is a man who stays in motion — enthusiastically greeting tourists at the Capitol, dashing overseas to the G7 summit of industrial world leaders, and raising funds back home to elect fellow Republicans to the House majority. But beneath the whirlwind Grand Canyon hiker dies after trying to walk from rim to rim in a single day 09/11/2023 04:47pm • GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — A 55-year-old Virginia man died in the Grand Canyon while trying to hike from the South Rim to the North Rim in a single day, a distance of 21 miles (33.8 kilometers), authorities said Monday. Grand Canyon National Park officials identified the hiker who