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Over 670 people died in a massive Papua New Guinea landslide, UN estimates, as survivors seek safety 05/26/2024 08:41am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The International Organization for Migration on Sunday increased its estimate of the death toll from a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea to more than 670 as emergency responders and traumatized relatives gave up hope that any survivors will now be found. Serhan Akto Here's what every key witness said at Donald Trump’s hush money trial. Closing arguments are coming 05/26/2024 08:02am • NEW YORK (AP) — After 22 witnesses, including a porn actor, tabloid publisher and White House insiders, testimony is over at Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York. Prosecutors called 20 witnesses. The defense called just two. Trump decided not to testify on his own behalf. The trial now shif Rare blue-eyed cicada spotted during 2024 emergence at suburban Chicago arboretum 05/26/2024 12:13am • LISLE, Ill. (AP) — It was late morning when The Morton Arboretum's Senior Horticulturist Kate Myroup arrived at the Children’s Garden with a special guest: a rare, blue-eyed female Magicicada cassini cicada, spotted earlier in the day by a visitor. A lucky few saw the cicada Friday at the arbor Va. Attorney General Miyares challenging heavy truck emissions rule and other federal proposals 05/25/2024 11:48pm • Joining 23 conservative-led states’ efforts, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has signed on to legal challenges to new federal rules designed to advance emission reductions and address what scientists say is causing extreme weather events. Miyares has challenged several rules, including The Pirates pitching staff began the season as a question mark. It's becoming an exclamation point 05/25/2024 09:13pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Pirates' starting rotation began the season as a question mark. Two months later, it's quickly becoming an exclamation point. And it's not just Paul Skenes, the rookie with the 100 mph stuff, the retro mustache, the influencer girlfriend and something called a “s Scuffles erupt between police, protesters demanding return of Israeli hostages still held in Gaza 05/25/2024 08:31pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Scuffles between Israeli police and protesters erupted in Tel Aviv on Saturday after thousands gathered to demonstrate against the government and demand that it bring back the hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza. Meanwhile, a small U.S. military vessel and what appeared to be a s White Sox slugger Eloy Jiménez frustrated by latest injury, vows to keep working 05/25/2024 06:08pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Eloy Jiménez was just starting to feel good at the plate when he got hurt again. That's one of the more frustrating parts for Jiménez and the Chicago White Sox when it comes to slugger's latest injury. Jiménez strained his left hamstring while scoring from second in the fifth inn Pro-independence leader calls on protesters in New Caledonia to 'maintain resistance' against France 05/25/2024 04:45pm • NICE, France (AP) — The leader of a pro-independence party in New Caledonia on Saturday called on supporters to “remain mobilized” across the French Pacific archipelago and “maintain resistance” against the Paris government's efforts to impose electoral reforms that the Indigenous Kanak pe South Africa's 4 big political parties begin final weekend of campaigning ahead of election 05/25/2024 03:58pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's four main political parties began the final weekend of campaigning Saturday before a possibly pivotal election that could bring the country's most important change in three decades. Supporters of the African National Congress, which has been in the government eve A World War II-era Spitfire fighter plane crashed in a field in England, killing the pilot 05/25/2024 02:03pm • LONDON (AP) — A World War II-era Spitfire fighter plane crashed near a British air force base in eastern England on Saturday, killing the pilot, the U.K. defense ministry said. The ministry confirmed the death of a Royal Air Force pilot “in a tragic accident” near RAF Coningsby, an airbase. Th What you can do to try to stay safe when a tornado hits, and also well beforehand 05/25/2024 12:32pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Record warmth this winter fueled a deadly tornado outbreak across parts of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Arkansas in March. Then tornadoes killed multiple people and injured at least 35 others in Iowa. Recent twisters have even struck in places unaccustomed to them, such as one near L Pogacar all but wins Giro d'Italia on debut with another stunning stage victory 05/25/2024 12:25pm • BASSANO DEL GRAPPA, Italy (AP) — Twenty down, one to go. Two-time Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar all but secured the Giro d’Italia on Saturday on his debut in the Italian grand tour. Pocagar once again destroyed his rivals in the mountains to claim a sixth stage win out of 20 and extend h Woman took her dog to a Montgomery Co. shelter to be euthanized. A year later, the dog is up for adoption again 05/25/2024 10:29am • Exhausted and short on options after consulting two veterinary clinics, Kristie Pereira made the gut-wrenching decision last year to take her desperately ill puppy to a Maryland shelter to be euthanized. So she was stunned last week to find the dog up for adoption at the same pet rescue organizat Emergency convoy delivers provisions to survivors of devastating landslide in Papua New Guinea 05/25/2024 09:31am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Survivors searched through tons of earth and rubble by hand looking for missing relatives while a first emergency convoy delivered food, water and other provisions Saturday at the site of a landslide that devastated a remote village in the mountains of Papua New Guinea Up close and personal, cicadas display Nature's artwork. Discerning beholders find beauty in bugs. 05/25/2024 08:23am • With rich reds, gentle greens and basic blacks, Nature's screaming, crawling artwork is the epitome of rare beauty — at least in the eyes of some beholders. To others, it may seem just creepy. It's a colorful, ever-changing canvas of bugs. Lots of them. A once-in-221-year convergence of two broods