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Authorities in Papua New Guinea search for safer ground for thousands of landslide survivors 05/29/2024 04:43am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Authorities in Papua New Guinea were searching on Wednesday for safer ground to relocate thousands of survivors at risk from a potential second landslide in the South Pacific country's highlands, while the arrival of heavy earth-moving equipment at the disaster site whe 2 people missing after building explosion in Youngstown, Ohio 05/29/2024 01:30am • YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — Two people were missing and seven were injured when a natural gas explosion caused extensive damage to a building in downtown Youngtown, Ohio, authorities said. The blast, which occurred around 2:45 p.m. Tuesday, blew off the façade of Realty Tower. Firefighters helped som Fears rise of a second landslide and disease outbreak at site of Papua New Guinea disaster 05/28/2024 10:46pm • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene of Papua New Guinea’s mass-casualty disaster because of water streams and bodies trapped beneath the tons of debris that swept over a village. Thousands are being told to prepare to ev Prosecutor says Trump tried 'to hoodwink voters' while defense attacks key witness in last arguments 05/28/2024 10:28pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump engaged in a conspiracy “to hoodwink voters” in 2016, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday during closing arguments in the former president’s hush money trial, while a defense lawyer branded the star witness as the “greatest liar of all time” and pressed the pane Storms leave widespread outages across Texas, cleanup continues after deadly weekend across US 05/28/2024 10:09pm • HOUSTON (AP) — Strong storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail pummeled Texas on Tuesday, leaving one person dead and about 1 million businesses and homes without power as much of the U.S. recovered from severe weather, including tornadoes, that killed at least 24 people during the Memor Israeli strikes kill at least 37 Palestinians, most in tents, near Gaza's Rafah as offensive expands 05/28/2024 09:59pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli shelling and airstrikes killed at least 37 people, most of them sheltering in tents, outside the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight and on Tuesday — pummeling the same area where strikes triggered a deadly fire days earlier in a camp for displaced Pale The Latest | Fighting escalates in Rafah as Israel pushes ahead with its offensive 05/28/2024 08:35pm • Palestinian residents of the southern Gaza city of Rafah have reported an escalation of fighting Tuesday as Israeli forces pressed their assault on the border town once seen as the territory's last refuge. Israel says it is carrying out limited operations in eastern Rafah along the Gaza-Egypt border Should I Sell My Home to Pay Off Debt? 05/28/2024 08:00pm • The average American owes over $104,000 in consumer debt, according to the latest data from Experian. If you feel like you're drowning in debt, you may be considering out-of-the-box solutions to pay it off -- such as selling your house. Selling your home could free up funds to pay off what you owe, 7 Best Mid Cap Stocks to Buy Now 05/28/2024 08:00pm • Many investors gravitate to large-cap stocks because the deep pockets and established operations of a massive company provide a degree of certainty. Sure, it's hard for some of the most dominant companies to grow their customer base significantly if they already operate in saturated markets. But the US opens up banking to private Cuban businesses as it aims to boost private sector 05/28/2024 07:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. lifted some financial restrictions against Cuba on Tuesday, in a move designed to boost private businesses on the island. The measures will allow independent entrepreneurs to open and access U.S. bank accounts online to support their businesses. They also include steps t Kentucky families struggling after being hit for a second time by a tornado in the same locations 05/28/2024 06:24pm • BARNSLEY, Ky. (AP) — Devin Johnson’s life was uprooted for a second time when a tornado flattened his home over the Memorial Day weekend — on the same lot in Kentucky where another storm left him homeless in 2021. Johnson, 21, watched Tuesday as workers used chain saws to cut into the wreckage 'We have nothing.' As Israel attacks Rafah, Palestinians are living in tents and searching for food 05/28/2024 03:28pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The tent camps stretch more than 16 kilometers (10 miles) along Gaza’s coast, filling the beach and spilling into empty lots, fields and streets. Families dig trenches to use as toilets. Fathers search for food and water. Children dig through garbage and wrecked Malta's ex-leader and others plead not guilty in a hospital fraud scandal that is roiling politics 05/28/2024 01:22pm • VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Malta’s former prime minister, Joseph Muscat, and other former top officials pleaded not guilty in court Tuesday to charges in a hospital corruption scandal that is roiling the Mediterranean island nation as it prepares for European Parliament elections. The case involves East, Southeast Asia had record methamphetamine seizures last year. Profits remain in the billions 05/28/2024 12:31pm • BANGKOK (AP) — East and Southeast Asia are awash in record amounts of methamphetamine and other synthetic drugs, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime said in a new report Tuesday. It traced their source largely to the cross-border region known as the Golden Triangle where Thailand, Myanmar and Laos Former intel agency chief set to become the Netherlands' next prime minister in hard right coalition 05/28/2024 12:15pm • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A former head of the Dutch intelligence agency and counterterrorism office emerged Tuesday as the surprise nominee to become the Netherlands' next prime minister, after he was given the backing of leaders cobbling together a four-party coalition headed by Geert Wilder