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For shrinking Mississippi River towns, frequent floods worsen fortunes 06/11/2024 12:24pm • WEST ALTON, Mo. (AP) ��� Devastating flooding, driven in part by climate change, is taking an especially damaging toll on communities that once thrived along the banks of America's most storied river. Flooding has pushed people out of their homes near the Mississippi River at a roughly 30% higher ra Riots erupt in drought-stricken central Algeria over months of water shortages 06/11/2024 12:06pm • TIARET, Algeria (AP) ��� Violent riots erupted in a drought-stricken Algerian desert city last weekend after months of water shortages left taps running dry and forced residents to queue to access water for their households. In Tiaret ��� a central Algerian city of less than 200,000 located 155 mile A brew of ancient coca is Bolivia's buzzy new beer. But it's unclear if the world will buy in 06/11/2024 11:57am • TRINIDAD PAMPA, Bolivia (AP) ��� If it were anywhere else in South America, the nondescript house with buckets of coca leaves soaking in liquid could be mistaken for a clandestine cocaine lab. But this is La Paz, Bolivia, and the fruity aroma of coca steeping in barrels signals that you've arrived a Russian warships conduct Atlantic drills en route to Cuba. New hypersonic missiles are on board 06/11/2024 11:56am • Russian warships conducted drills in the Atlantic, the military said Tuesday, as they were heading to visit Cuba, part of Moscow's efforts to project power amid the tensions with the West over Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry said the Admiral Gorshkov frigate and the Kazan nuclear-powered subma Malawi's vice president and 9 others are confirmed dead after their plane's wreckage is found 06/11/2024 11:08am • BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) ��� Malawi's Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine other people died when the small military plane they were traveling in crashed in bad weather in a mountainous region in the north of the country, the president said Tuesday. Chilima was 51. President Lazarus Chakwera announce At least 49 die and 140 are missing after migrant boat sinks off Yemen's coast, UN agency says 06/11/2024 10:42am • CAIRO (AP) ��� A boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Yemen, killing at least 49 people and leaving another 140 missing, the U.N. agency said Tuesday. The boat was carrying about 260 Somalis and Ethiopians from the northern coast of Somalia on the 320-kilometer (200-mile) journey across the Today in Sports - Chicago Bulls win their first NBA championship, Michael Jordan named series MVP 06/11/2024 10:00am • June 12 1920 ��� Man o��� War wins the Belmont Stakes, which was run at 1 3/8-miles, in 2:14 1/5. He shatters the world record by 3 1/5 seconds and sets the American dirt-course record for that distance. 1930 ��� Max Schmeling beats Jack Sharkey on a fourth-round foul for the vacant heavyweight titl Production starts at Senegal's first offshore oil project 06/11/2024 09:44am • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) ��� Production has started at Senegal's first offshore oil project, the Australian group Woodside Energy said Tuesday, as the country's new government eyes higher profits from natural resources. ���This is a historic day for Senegal and for Woodside,��� the company���s chief exec Community health centers' new crisis: The need for backup power 06/11/2024 08:11am • HEALDSBURG, Calif. (AP) ��� The 2017 Tubbs Fire, which killed 22 people and destroyed 5,600 buildings, was already a stressful time at Alliance Medical Center���s clinic here, as workers who picked grapes in the nearby vineyards streamed into the nonprofit community health center with burns, symptom Bizarre psychological warfare using K-pop and trash balloons raises tensions between the 2 Koreas 06/11/2024 06:23am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� Mammoth South Korean loudspeakers blaring BTS music. Large North Korean balloons carrying manure, cigarette butts and waste batteries. Small South Korean civilian leaflets slamming North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Day after day, the Cold War-style yet bizarre campaigns co Cardinals take on the Pirates in first of 3-game series 06/11/2024 04:00am • Pittsburgh Pirates (31-34, fifth in the NL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (31-33, fourth in the NL Central) St. Louis; Tuesday, 7:45 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Pirates: Paul Skenes (3-0, 3.00 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, 38 strikeouts); Cardinals: Miles Mikolas (4-6, 5.32 ERA, 1.28 WHIP, 53 strikeouts) BETMG South Korean troops fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers briefly crossed land border 06/11/2024 03:07am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� South Korean soldiers fired warning shots after North Korean troops briefly violated the tense border earlier this week, South Korea's military said Tuesday, as the rivals are embroiled in Cold War-style campaigns like balloon launches and propaganda broadcasts. Bloodshed Bureau of Land Management shrinks proposed size of controversial Idaho wind farm project 06/10/2024 11:20pm • TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) ��� The federal Bureau of Land Management���s preferred alternative for a proposed large-scale wind energy farm in southern Idaho would shrink its size by nearly half and move it farther from a national historic site. The proposed Lava Ridge wind farm has drawn opposition fro NASA taps George Mason U. to lead space mission that could help find another habitable planet 06/10/2024 09:07pm • The answer to some of life's most fascinating questions could eventually be answered with help from a NASA mission that George Mason University has been tapped to lead. The Fairfax County, Virginia, college will build and launch an "artificial star" into orbit. The small satellite will be equippe Soldiers in Malawi search for missing military plane carrying vice president and former first lady 06/10/2024 08:51pm • BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) ��� Soldiers are searching mountainous forests near a city in northern Malawi after a military plane carrying the country's vice president and a former first lady went missing in the area Monday, President Lazarus Chakwera said. The plane carrying 51-year-old Vice President Sau