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3 people killed in Slovenia by torrential storms and flash floods 08/04/2023 03:20pm • LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Torrential rains and heavy floods ravaged Slovenia on Friday, killing at least three people, cutting off roads and bridges and surging into buildings. Slovenia's prime minister described the devastation as “catastrophic.” The Slovenian environmental agency raised the Cleanup from chemical spill and fire that shut down I-24 in Tennessee could take days 08/04/2023 02:28pm • CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Cleanup from a chemical spill and fire near Interstate 24 in Tennessee will take several days, after the interstate was shut down and nearby homes evacuated overnight on Thursday. Emergency responders were called to the scene just after 9 p.m. when a tractor-trailer carry Haitians express skepticism over Kenya's offer to UN to send police to confront gangs 08/04/2023 01:33pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (AP) — Haitians are expressing skepticism over an offer by Kenya to lead an international police force aimed at combatting the gang violence that has wracked the Caribbean nation. They say the sexual abuse and a devastating cholera outbreak that have accompanied foreign force After helping prevent extinctions for 50 years, the Endangered Species Act itself may be in peril 08/04/2023 01:11pm • SHARON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Biologist Ashley Wilson carefully disentangled a bat from netting above a tree-lined river and examined the wriggling, furry mammal in her headlamp’s glow. “Another big brown,” she said. It was a common type, one of many Wilson and colleagues had snagged in the Freight train derails in upstate New York, disrupting Amtrak service 08/04/2023 12:59pm • AMSTERDAM, N.Y. (AP) — A freight train derailed in upstate New York on Friday, disrupting Amtrak service and prompting authorities to close roads in the area. About 17 cars of a CSX train hauling mixed freight derailed just before 8 a.m. northwest of Albany, a CSX spokesperson said in a statement. Ethiopia's declaring a state of emergency in its Amhara region as local fighters clash with military 08/04/2023 12:57pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s Council of Ministers is declaring a state of emergency in the country’s Amhara region after authorities pleaded for help as clashes intensify there between regional forces and the military. The prime minister’s office announced the decision on Friday after th As the climate changes, how doctors treat patients, and medical program curricula, are evolving 08/04/2023 11:32am • NEW YORK (AP) — In the 1990s, two hurricanes devastated Samoa in the South Pacific Ocean, wiping entire communities off the map and killing dozens of people. “Everything was just decimated,” Malama Tafuna’i, a primary care physician in Apia, the territory’s capital, said. “It looked like An American billionaire says he'll stop funding the think tank behind Israel's judicial overhaul 08/04/2023 11:25am • JERUSALEM (AP) — An American billionaire and major donor to a Jerusalem think tank backing the Israeli government's divisive judicial overhaul said on Friday that he would stop giving to the conservative group. The decision by Arthur Dantchik, a 65-year-old libertarian multibillionaire from New Yo A month's worth of rain floods Vermont town, with more on the way 08/04/2023 09:59am • MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (AP) — Vermont's latest summer storm dumped a month’s worth of rain in one community, leading to the rescue of three people from a car roof, and more rain was in the forecast Friday. The highest rain totals were in Addison County, in the western part of the state, which had anyw What happens behind the scenes when storms knock power out? 08/04/2023 08:37am • After Saturday's storm in our region left homes cut in half and roads closed for days, many were left in the dark for hours — even days in some areas — and wondering when the power would come back on. At the Pepco Mobile Command operations center, currently stationed in Rockville, Maryland, c Md. Sen. Cardin among group aiming to end prescription drug shortages 08/04/2023 07:49am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Maryland U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin (D) is hoping to address continuing prescription drug shortages in a new bill by attempting to extend shelf Protests, poisoning and prison: The life of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny 08/04/2023 05:56am • LONDON (AP) — In a span of a decade, Alexei Navalny has gone from the Kremlin’s biggest foe to Russia’s most prominent political prisoner. Already serving two convictions that have landed him in prison for at least nine years, he stands a new trial that could keep him behind bars for two more A man accused of locking a woman in a homemade cell had a handwritten plan and sketch, FBI says 08/03/2023 10:00pm • SALEM, Ore. (AP) — He called it “Operation Take Over,” with a list that included a chilling reminder to go after women who wouldn’t be missed to avoid “any kind of an investigation,” according to the FBI. Accompanying the bullet-point notes was a sketch of an apparent dungeon, to be buil Trump pleads not guilty to federal charges that he tried to overturn the 2020 election 08/03/2023 07:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday to trying to overturn the results of his 2020 election loss, answering for the first time to federal charges that accuse him of orchestrating a brazen and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to block the peaceful transfer of presidential power Apple's earnings top analysts' forecasts, but year-over-year sales drop for third straight quarter 08/03/2023 06:50pm • Apple’s eked out a slightly higher profit last quarter even though sales dipped during the period, a showing that may not be enough to sustain investor enthusiasm that recently made the iPhone maker the first publicly held U.S. company to be valued at $3 trillion. The results released Thursday cov