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Days of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea leave more than 35 people dead, police say 09/17/2024 04:39am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Days of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea���s mountainous interior have left more than 35 people dead, a police official said on Tuesday. Police Assistant Commissioner Joseph Tondon in Enga province said the death toll from the violence blamed on illegal miners was st Massive pipeline fire burning near Houston began after a vehicle struck a valve, officials say 09/17/2024 01:56am • DEER PARK, Texas (AP) ��� A towering flame gradually subsided Tuesday morning in the aftermath of a massive pipeline explosion after a vehicle drove through a fence and struck an above-ground valve, officials said. Deer Park officials said police and local FBI agents initiated investigations and fou 2 people reported dead in China as Typhoon Bebinca is downgraded to a tropical storm 09/17/2024 12:28am • BEIJING (AP) ��� Two people died in China���s eastern Jiangsu province as Typhoon Bebinca brought torrential rains and powerful winds before easing into a tropical storm, state media reported Tuesday. Two residents of Zhoushi Town, about 80 kilometers (31 miles) northwest of Shanghai, were hit by a US Coast Guard says Russian naval vessels crossed into buffer zone off Alaska 09/17/2024 12:11am • JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) ��� The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday that it tracked a group of Russian naval vessels as they crossed into U.S. waters off Alaska in an apparent effort to avoid sea ice, a move that is permitted under international rules and customs. Crew of a U.S. Coast Guard cutter witnessed th The Titan's former lead engineer says he felt pressured to get the submersible ready 09/16/2024 11:19pm • The lead engineer for an experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreck of the Titanic testified Monday that he felt pressured to get the vessel ready to dive and refused to pilot it for a journey several years earlier. ���'I'm not getting in it,'��� Tony Nissen said he told Stockton R Keith hits 2-run homer as Tigers overcome Witt's grand slam and rally for 7-6 win over Royals 09/16/2024 11:15pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� Colt Keith hit a two-run homer, Matt Vierling had three hits while driving in the go-ahead run, and the Detroit Tigers rallied from an early four-run deficit to beat the Kansas City Royals 7-6 on Monday night in a crucial game for their playoff hopes. Pinch-hitter Wenceel P Germany begins conducting checks at all its land borders 09/16/2024 09:30pm • KEHL, Germany (AP) ��� Germany on Monday began random checks at its borders with five Western European nations as it seeks to crack down on irregular migration, expanding a system of mobile border controls that are already in place at four other borders. The checks began at the borders with France, Bolivia's iconic ex-President Morales calls for anti-government march as political fight escalates 09/16/2024 08:32pm • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) ��� Bolivia's hugely popular and controversial former leftist president, Evo Morales, on Monday called on supporters to take to the streets in protest against his bitter political rival, current President Luis Arce, who hours earlier accused Morales on national TV of trying to o Burning oil tanker is safely towed away from Yemen after rebel attacks 09/16/2024 08:26pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Salvagers successfully towed a Greek-flagged oil tanker ablaze for weeks after attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels to a safe area without any oil spill, a European Union naval mission said Monday. The Sounion reached waters away from Yemen as the Houthis meanwhile c Ohio state police to protect schools after furor over Haitian immigrants in Springfield 09/16/2024 08:16pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) ��� Ohio state police will help protect schools in a city at the center of a political furor over Haitian migrants, the governor announced Monday, while local officials canceled an annual celebration of cultural diversity in the fallout over former President Donald Trump���s f 9 Highest Dividend-Paying Stocks in the S&P 500 09/16/2024 08:00pm • One of the biggest trends on Wall Street looking forward seems to be the expectation of lower interest rates in the fourth quarter and into 2025. This could have dramatic implications for dividend stock investors and the market as a whole. Just look at the rate-sensitive real estate sector, as measu Oregon tribe sues over federal agency plans to hold an offshore wind energy auction 09/16/2024 06:42pm • EUGENE, Ore. (AP) ��� A tribe in Oregon whose culture is tied to the ocean is suing the U.S. government over plans to hold an offshore wind energy auction next month, saying the environmental analysis underpinning the sale was too narrow and based on a ���predetermined political decision.��� The law Wind, rain but no name as tropical disturbance approaches Carolinas coast 09/16/2024 06:26pm • MIAMI (AP) ��� Heavy winds and rains from a storm in the Atlantic that wasn't quite organized enough to get a name hit a stretch of the southeastern U.S. coast Monday. The center of the storm system was near the South Carolina coast Monday afternoon, moving inland, the U.S. National Hurricane Center Swimming, surfing off-limits at many Md., Va. beaches while probe, cleanup of medical waste occurs 09/16/2024 06:02pm • A number of beaches along the Maryland and Virginia coastlines remain closed to swimmers, waders and surfers as state, local and federal agencies investigate how medical waste and other trash washed up along shorelines stretching from Delaware to Virginia. Hugh Hawthorne, the superintendent of As Tropical Storm Gordon weakens to a depression 09/16/2024 05:57pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Tropical Storm Gordon has weakened to a depression as it swirls through open waters in the Atlantic. The storm was located about 955 miles (1,540 kilometers) east of the northeast Caribbean on Monday. It had top winds of 35 mph (55 kph) and was moving west at 6 mph (9