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Cyprus will host a regional firefighting hub as climate change worsens blazes 09/10/2025 07:40am • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) ��� The European Commission will propose setting up a regional firefighting hub based in Cyprus that could also assist Middle East countries in battling major wildfires, the head of the bloc's executive arm said Wednesday. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said These four electric SUVs provide hot-rod thrills without the need for gas 09/10/2025 06:23am • SUVs are undoubtedly practical, but they can often be a bore. What if you also want sporty performance from your family-hauler? Surprisingly, your best bet might just be an electric SUV. Thanks in part to the inherent advantages of EV powertrain design, hair-raising acceleration is no longer exclusi Wigan Warriors rugby club creates community garden as 'safe haven' to help combat suicide 09/10/2025 06:11am • WIGAN, England (AP) ��� Rugby League world champion Wigan Warriors has created a ���safe haven for players, staff, fans, and the wider public��� at its Robin Park Arena to combat suicide, the club said Wednesday. Wigan icon Terry Newton took his own life in 2010 and a community garden has been crea Bear or no bear? Maryland wildlife officials get a report of a sighting in Prince George's Co. 09/10/2025 05:47am • Jevon Butler was out for a bike ride near the Tucker Road Community Center in Fort Washington, Maryland, when he had a close encounter with a black bear. The eighth grader was near the archery range near Bock Road, which backs to a wooded area, when he said he stopped to check his phone. And that Today in History: September 10, Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination hearings begin 09/10/2025 04:10am • Today in History Today is Wednesday, Sept. 10, the 253rd day of 2025. There are 112 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 10, 1991, the Senate Judiciary Committee opened hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. The proceedings would become a watershed mo Despair and destruction: Civilians in Ukraine's eastern strongholds struggle as Russia advances 09/10/2025 01:46am • DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) ��� With the Russian advance deeper into the Donetsk region, the air in Ukraine���s last strongholds is thick with dread and the future for civilians who remain grows ever more uncertain. In Kostiantynivka, once home to 67,000 people, there is no steady supply of power, Russian glide bomb attack in eastern Ukraine kills 24 people collecting their pensions 09/10/2025 12:24am • DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) ��� A Russian glide bomb struck a village in eastern Ukraine as people stood in line in the open air Tuesday morning to collect their monthly pension. The blast killed at least 24 people and injured 19 others, the Ukraine Emergency Service said. In a related development, Air race championship takes flight in New Mexico's Roswell 09/10/2025 12:04am • Fans of head-to-head airplane races at screaming speeds are traveling to unfamiliar skies as a premiere national competition debuts in New Mexico for the first time in its 60-year history. The five-day National Championship Air Races runs through Sunday at a commercial airfield and former Air Force Killing of former Auburn professor at city park shakes community 09/09/2025 10:48pm • AUBURN, Ala. (AP) ��� Flowers and memorial messages were tied to the gate of Kiesel Park in Auburn to remember retired veterinary professor Julie Gard Schnuelle, who was attacked and killed there over the weekend. Gard Schnuelle's killing at a city park has rattled the college town of 83,757 people Montgomery County's Planning Board lays out development plans for a 3.5 mile stretch of University Boulevard 09/09/2025 09:30pm • Montgomery County's Planning Board presented its proposed development plans for the University Boulevard Corridor on Tuesday morning. "It looks for the next 20-plus years and delivers recommendations that can improve everyone's experience along the corridor," Planning Board Chair Artie Harris tol Chicagoans change routines as immigration crackdown looms. Some carry passports and avoid stores 09/09/2025 09:11pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� The streets in some of Chicago's liveliest neighborhoods are quiet these days. Public schoolteachers want online learning for families scared to venture out. And houses of worship are urging people to carry identification everywhere they go. As the nation's third-largest city await Grove of giant sequoia trees burns in California's Sierra National Forest 09/09/2025 06:36pm • FRESNO, Calif. (AP) ��� A lightning-sparked wildfire in California���s Sierra National Forest burned Tuesday through a grove of giant sequoias and set some of the ancient towering trees on fire. Wildland firefighters with tree-climbing experience were being sent in to put out the fire burning in the Kiko weakens into a tropical storm but brings dangerous surf to Hawaii 09/09/2025 05:32pm • HONOLULU (AP) ��� Tropical Storm Kiko was creating high surf and rip currents for parts of Hawaii even as the system weakened just to the north of the islands, forecasters said. Kiko would continue to pass to the north of the Hawaiian Islands on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the National Hurri More than 60 containers fall off ship in Long Beach port 09/09/2025 05:12pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� More than 60 containers toppled off a cargo ship Tuesday morning in the Port of Long Beach, tumbling overboard and floating in the water. The shipping containers fell off a vessel named the Mississippi shortly before 9 a.m., and no injuries have been reported, according to Port Georgia governor's electric mobility dream for Georgia tested after South Koreans detained in raid 09/09/2025 04:40pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Can Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp be tough on immigration and still encourage foreign investment? Kemp has courted foreign investment to his state but also once offered to use his own pickup truck to round up ���criminal illegals.��� Those two stances collided this past week when immigrat