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Ukraine's largest music festival returns with a break from the inescapable reality of war 07/22/2024 10:10pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� This year, Ukraine���s largest music festival struck a different chord. Gone were the international headliners, the massive performance halls and the hundreds of thousands of visitors. Instead, beloved local artists graced the stage this past weekend at the Atlas Festival ��� New Mexico village battered by wildfires in June now digging out from another round of flooding 07/22/2024 08:25pm • RUIDOSO, N.M. (AP) ��� A southern New Mexico village that was ravaged by wildfires in June and then battered off-and-on by flooding across burn scars was cleaning up Monday from another round of flash flooding in which a dozen people had to be rescued and many more were displaced from their homes. � Safety regulators are investigating another low flight by a Southwest jet, this time in Florida 07/22/2024 07:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Federal officials are investigating an incident in which a Southwest Airlines jet flew as low as 150 feet (45 meters) over water while it was still about 5 miles (8 kilometers) from its intended landing spot at the airport in Tampa, Florida. The pilots skipped over the Tampa airp A man suspected of shooting a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper is arrested in Kentucky 07/22/2024 06:58pm • PRINCETON, Ky. (AP) ��� A man who was the subject of an intense search after the shooting of a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper has been arrested in Kentucky, but a second suspect has not been found, authorities said. Braze Rucker was arrested early Sunday morning at a home in Princeton, Kentucky, Silicon Valley-backed voter plan for a new California city won't be on the November ballot after all 07/22/2024 06:56pm • FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) ��� A Silicon Valley-backed initiative to build a green city for up to 400,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area on land now zoned for agriculture won't be on the Nov. 5 ballot after all, officials said Monday. The California Forever campaign qualified for the ballot in Ju Israel-Hamas war latest: Israeli military orders evacuation of part of humanitarian zone in Gaza 07/22/2024 06:08pm • The Israeli military has ordered the evacuation of part of a crowded area in the Gaza Strip it had designated a humanitarian zone, while the Health Ministry in Gaza says over 39,000 Palestinians have now been killed in the nine-month war. The military said Monday it plans an operation against Hamas SMU embracing challenge of 'moving up in weight class' and joining Atlantic Coast Conference 07/22/2024 05:24pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� Rhett Lashlee isn���t naive about the enormous challenge facing Southern Methodist as his team transitions to the Atlantic Coast Conference this season. But that hasn���t dampened the third-year head coach's confidence. ���It���s a jump. We are moving up in weight class,��� Man convicted of kidnapping Michigan store manager to steal guns gets 15 years in prison 07/22/2024 05:20pm • BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) ��� A man who kidnapped the manager of a Michigan sporting goods store and held him at gunpoint while an accomplice stole 123 handguns was sentenced Monday to 15 years in federal prison. The Dunham's Sports manager was handcuffed and blindfolded outside his home last Novemb No prison for a nursing home owner who sent 800 residents to ride out a hurricane in squalor 07/22/2024 05:12pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� A Louisiana businessman who sent more than 800 elderly residents from his seven nursing homes to ride out Hurricane Ida in a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse pleaded no contest to 15 criminal counts Monday and was sentenced to three years of probation. Bob Dean Jr. also must pay Plane crashes near the site of an air show in Wisconsin, killing the 2 people on board 07/22/2024 03:51pm • NEKIMI, Wis. (AP) ��� A plane crashed in a Wisconsin farm field near the site of an air show Monday, killing the two people on board, authorities said. Sheriff's deputies and firefighters responding to the crash in the eastern Wisconsin town of Nekimi on Monday afternoon found the aircraft fully eng UK's scrapped Rwanda migrant plan a 'shocking waste' of $904 million in public funds, minister says 07/22/2024 03:41pm • LONDON (AP) ��� A scrapped plan by former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to send some migrants on a one-way trip to Rwanda was the ���most shocking waste of taxpayer money I have ever seen," the U.K.���s new home secretary said Monday as she put the cost at 700 million pounds ($904 million) in p Cleveland-Cliffs will make electrical transformers at shuttered West Virginia tin plant 07/22/2024 02:58pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) ��� Cleveland-Cliffs announced Monday it will produce electrical transformers in a $150 million investment at a West Virginia facility that closed earlier this year. The company hopes to reopen the Weirton facility in early 2026 and ���address the critical shortage of distribu Israel orders evacuation of part of Gaza humanitarian zone as war's toll passes 39,000 Palestinians 07/22/2024 01:40pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� The Israeli military ordered the evacuation Monday of part of a crowded area in the Gaza Strip it had designated a humanitarian zone, saying it is planning an operation against Hamas militants there. The order triggered a new flight of Palestinians, many of whom ha Shooting outside a Mississippi nightclub kills 3 and injures more than a dozen 07/22/2024 11:52am • INDIANOLA, Miss. (AP) ��� A shooting outside a Mississippi nightclub left three people dead and more than a dozen injured over the weekend, authorities said. A large crowd gathered outside a club near the Sunflower County courthouse in Indianola early Sunday, and officers were putting up barriers to Car Review: Toyota Corolla aims to stay relevant in crossover-crazed market 07/22/2024 10:21am • Toyota has been building the compact Corolla for half a century, and over that time it has become one of the go-to compact sedans on the market. While crossovers and SUVs continue to grow in popularity, the Corolla has learned a few tricks to stand out in the crowd. The Corolla has adapted to the ch