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The Latest | US is removing aid pier from Gaza coast again due to weather, officials say 06/14/2024 06:18pm • The U.S.-built aid pier will be detached from Gaza’s coast for a second time due to rough seas, two U.S. officials said Friday, raising further questions about the viability of the sea route. Palestinians are facing widespread hunger because the war has largely cut off the flow of food, medicine a Aides' vehicle in a convoy carrying Mexico's next president involved in a crash that killed 1 06/14/2024 04:30pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — A highway accident Friday involving an SUV carrying aides to Claudia Sheinbaum, who won Mexico’s June 2 presidential elections, has resulted in at least one fatality. Sheinbaum was not injured. Sheinbaum’s spokesman said the advance car hit another vehicle on a highway in th Illinois lawmakers unable to respond to governor's prison plan because they lack quorum 06/14/2024 03:45pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Members of a legislative review panel on Friday said a state proposal to replace the ancient Stateville Correctional Center in suburban Chicago makes sense, but Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration needs to provide more details. However, the bipartisan Commission on Govern Muslims start the Hajj against the backdrop of the devastating Israel-Hamas war 06/14/2024 02:44pm • MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — In sweltering temperatures, Muslim pilgrims in the Saudi city of Mecca converged on a vast desert tent camp Friday, officially starting the annual Hajj pilgrimage. Earlier, they circled the cube-shaped Kaaba in the Grand Mosque, Islam’s holiest site. More than 1.5 milli UN agencies urge Greece to shed light on migrant shipwreck that killed hundreds one year ago 06/14/2024 01:36pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The United Nations' refugee and migration agencies on Friday criticized Greece's failure over the past year to shed light on one of the worst migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea that left hundreds dead. UNHCR and IOM stressed the “critical" importance of a “compre Tesla driver tells police he was using 'self-drive' system when his car hit a parked police vehicle 06/14/2024 01:10pm • DETROIT (AP) — A Tesla apparently operating on one of the company's automated driving systems crashed into a parked police vehicle Thursday near Los Angeles, narrowly missing an officer who was managing traffic at another crash. The Tesla driver told police in Fullerton, California, that he engage Rare twin elephants in Thailand receive monks' blessings a week after their tumultuous birth 06/14/2024 11:32am • BANGKOK (AP) — Buddhist monks in Thailand on Friday blessed twin baby elephants, one male and the other female, a week after their rare birth came close to being a tragedy. Their mother, Chamchuri, gave birth to the pair on the night of June 7 at a camp in Thailand’s ancient capital Ayutthaya, a Illinois is hit with cicada chaos. This is what it's like to see, hear and feel billions of bugs 06/14/2024 11:31am • RIVERWOODS, Ill. (AP) — The ground had seemed to undulate at night, alive with bugs. Crawling cicada nymphs, striving to get higher after 17 years underground, marched en masse toward and up trees, pausing to shed their skin and emerge as adults. And then the fun began. Cicada chaos is flourishing US makes final roster cut before Copa America opener 06/14/2024 11:00am • CHICAGO (AP) — Midfielder Timmy Tillman was cut from the United States roster for the Copa America on Friday, getting the team down to the 26-player limit for the tournament. Tillman was in the U.S. training camp for the past two weeks but the 25-year-old didn't play in a pair of warmup games, Elon Musk gets 77% approval from shareholders to get back his big, $44.9 billion Tesla pay package 06/14/2024 09:13am • DETROIT (AP) — Tesla shareholders voted Thursday to restore CEO Elon Musk's record $44.9 billion pay package that was thrown out by a Delaware judge earlier this year, sending a strong vote of confidence in his leadership of the world's largest electric vehicle maker. The favorable vote doesn’t Swedish officials say weak replacement parts caused a fatal roller coaster derailment last year 06/14/2024 08:03am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish accident investigators on Friday said the country's oldest amusement park didn't properly test new parts for a roller coaster that derailed last year and sent some passengers plunging to the ground, killing one and injuring nine others, one seriously. The June 2 Algae blooms prompt 2 warnings along parts of New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee 06/14/2024 07:08am • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire officials issued two warnings of potentially dangerous algae blooms along parts of Lake Winnipesaukee, the state's largest lake. The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services said on Thursday it detected high concentrations of cyanobacteria, also known A street in The Hague gets an all-encompassing orange facelift for Euro 2024 06/14/2024 03:50am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The fluttering of 64 kilometers (40 miles) of orange bunting and a hammer driving a nail into a wall to hold up orange tarps are the sounds of a Dutch summer of soccer in a normally drab suburban street in The Hague. The Marktweg is one of several streets in the Nethe Barkov, Bobrovsky and the Panthers beat the Oilers 4-3 to move within win of Stanley Cup title 06/13/2024 11:51pm • EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Following their leaders who got them this far in the playoffs and a winning recipe that has worked all season, the Florida Panthers are on the verge of lifting the Stanley Cup. Captain Aleksander Barkov set up a goal and scored another, Sergei Bobrovsky made some of the bi Jailed US reporter Evan Gershkovich to stand trial in Russia on espionage charges, officials say 06/13/2024 10:44pm • MOSCOW (AP) — U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich, who has been jailed for over a year in Russia on espionage charges, will stand trial in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg, where he was detained, authorities said Thursday. An indictment of The Wall Street Journal reporter has been finalized