Search

Large pile of confiscated illegal fireworks explodes in the southern Philippines, injuring 27 people 07/09/2024 07:12am • ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AP) — At least 27 people, including 19 police and other government personnel, were injured when a large pile of confiscated illegal fireworks exploded in a powerful blast in the southern Philippines, damaging houses, hotels and an international airport, officials said Tuesd House keys carry symbolic weight for Gaza families repeatedly displaced by war 07/09/2024 05:01am • MUWASI, Gaza Strip (AP) — On his key chain, Hassan Nofal keeps the keys to two homes. One is to the house of his grandparents in what is now southern Israel, which his family was driven out of by Israeli forces in 1948 and to which they’ve never been able to return. The other is to Nofal’s hou Goldschmidt and Burleson go deep to back Mikolas as Cardinals blank Nationals 6-0 07/09/2024 12:03am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Paul Goldschmidt and Alec Burleson homered, Miles Mikolas pitched into the seventh inning and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Washington Nationals 6-0 on Monday. Burleson drove in three runs for the Cardinals, who took three of four games in the series and have won six of eight Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat wave blamed for several deaths 07/08/2024 11:09pm • DEATH VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of Europeans touring the American West and adventurers from around the U.S. were still drawn to Death Valley National Park on Monday, even though the desolate region known as one of the Earth's hottest places is being punished by a dangerous heat wave blamed fo Prince George's Co. schools promising better transportation this upcoming school year 07/08/2024 11:00pm • There were too many times during the last school year that simply transporting kids to Prince George's County Public Schools turned into a fiasco. Buses were late, if they even showed up, and so many routes were essentially vacant because the county didn't have enough bus drivers on staff. This f Cannabis advocates in Thailand protest a proposal to ban again its general use 07/08/2024 10:41pm • BANGKOK (AP) — Two years after marijuana was decriminalized in Thailand, nearly a hundred of its advocates marched to the prime minister’s office Monday to protest a possible ban on general use. A health ministry drug control committee approved Friday a proposal to relist cannabis as a narcotic How to Save for Your Honeymoon While Paying for a Wedding 07/08/2024 08:00pm • Congratulations, you've found your life partner and you're ready to start your next chapter. Part of the excitement of an engagement is creating the wedding of your dreams and planning your honeymoon. But paying for both is an expensive proposition. According to Fidelity, more couples are paying for 3 killed when small plane crashes in western North Carolina mountains, officials say 07/08/2024 04:40pm • MARION, N.C. (AP) — Three people were killed when a small plane crashed in western North Carolina, officials said Monday. McDowell County Emergency Management said in a statement that emergency personnel responding to a report of a missing small plane found the downed aircraft near the Rutherford Robinson, Zimmerman and Mihailovic on US men's Olympic soccer roster 07/08/2024 02:52pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Tim Weah's red card against Uruguay and the United States' first-round exit from the Copa America should be a lesson for players as they head to the Olympics, according to likely captain Walker Zimmerman. “It's a great example of how one moment can kind of change your entire outl Thanks to a $1 billion gift, most Johns Hopkins medical students will no longer pay tuition 07/08/2024 02:28pm • Most medical students at Johns Hopkins University will no longer pay tuition thanks to a $1 billion gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies announced Monday. Starting in the fall, the donation will cover full tuition for medical students from families earning less than $300,000. Living expenses and fees Violent holiday weekend sees mass shootings in Michigan, Illinois and Kentucky 07/08/2024 02:16pm • CHICAGO (AP) — A shooting at a block party in Detroit left two people dead and more than a dozen wounded, capping a violent holiday weekend in the U.S. that also saw mass shootings in Kentucky and Chicago. More than 100 people were shot in Chicago, 19 of them fatally, over the long Independence Da All rail cars carrying hazardous material have been removed from North Dakota derailment site 07/08/2024 02:15pm • BORDULAC, N.D. (AP) — All of the rail cars that contained hazardous materials have been removed from the site of a derailment in North Dakota, and all hotspots from the resulting fire have been extinguished, an official with CPKC said Monday. Railroad spokesman Patrick Waldron said in an email tha Deforestation in Colombia fell to historic lows in 2023, environment minister says 07/08/2024 01:36pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Deforestation in Colombia fell 36% in 2023 versus the previous year, the government said Monday, marking the lowest level since records began. The decline was driven by a drop in environmental destruction in the Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, including about one-th U.S. to expand control of land sales to foreigners near 56 additional military sites 07/08/2024 01:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. wants to expand a Treasury committee's jurisdiction to review land sales near U.S. military sites where foreigners are the buyers. New Treasury rulemaking would expand the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States' powers to review land sales near 56 addi Trading Mikal Bridges to Knicks sends Nets into rebuild. GM doesn't think it will be long one 07/08/2024 01:21pm • NEW YORK (AP) — When the Brooklyn Nets made their first deal with the local rival New York Knicks in four decades, they traded away their best all-around player in Mikal Bridges. Bridges was the key piece the Nets acquired when they sent Kevin Durant to Phoenix in 2023, and his brilliant play down