Bear attacks 7-year-old boy in his suburban backyard
BEDFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Officials say a black bear attacked a 7-year-old boy outside his family’s home in suburban New York and sent the child to a…
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Germany is moving forward with a plan to ease its citizenship rules as it seeks to attract workers
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany plans to ease rules for obtaining its citizenship under legislation approved by the Cabinet.…
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India makes historic uncrewed landing on the moon’s south pole
(CNN) — India has landed its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the moon, becoming only the fourth nation ever to accomplish such a feat. The mission…
Continue Reading Native American group to digitize 20,000 archival pages linked to Quaker-run Indian boarding schools
By LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A coalition advocating for Native American people traumatized by an oppressive system of…
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Fire Department responds to fire in far east El Paso
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Fire Department responded to a fire in far east El Paso Wednesday Morning. It happened on the neighborhood of…
Continue Reading Facebook’s parent company Meta and moderators suing it for $1.6 billion in Kenya agree to mediation
By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Meta, Facebook’s parent company, and 184 of its content moderators who were based in…
Continue Reading Minnesota names first Black chief justice of state Supreme Court, Natalie Hudson
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has promoted Natalie Hudson to chief justice of the Minnesota…
Continue Reading Taliban prevents scores of Afghan women from studying abroad, scholarship group says
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The chairman of a group that has offered scholarships to female Afghan students to study abroad says the Taliban have prevented…
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Two people are in the hospital after an aggravated assault in Central El Paso
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Two people are in the hospital following an aggravated assault in Central El Paso Wednesday morning. According to police,…
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Union representing World Cup champion kissed by Spanish soccer head demands act not ‘go unpunished’
By DAVID BRUNAT and JOSEPH WILSON BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The players’ union representing the Women’s World Cup winner kissed without her…
Continue Reading Five high school students, from all over the country, have been named National Student Poets
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Five high school students from Florida to Utah have been selected as this year’s National…
Continue Reading Kosovo inaugurates ‘Wall of Honor’ statue for 23 Albanians who rescued Jews during the Holocaust
By SYLEJMAN KLLOKOQI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — In Kosovo, a statue bearing the names of 23 Albanians who rescued…
Continue Reading Rescuers evacuate over 100,000 people from flood-hit areas of Pakistan’s Punjab province in 3 weeks
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say rescuers have evacuated more than 100,000 people from flood-hit areas of Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province…
Continue Reading I was surprised when some of my student loans were canceled. Yours might be, too
By JAE BRATTON of NerdWallet The Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration’s plan to forgive up to $20,000 of student loan debt per…
Continue Reading The German Cabinet has approved a plan to make it easier for people to legally change name, gender
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Cabinet has approved a plan to ease legal changes of name and gender for transgender,…
Continue Reading Teen with a knife wounds an 8-year-old boy at a school in eastern Germany
BERLIN (AP) — Police say a teenager armed with a knife has wounded an eight-year-old boy at a school in eastern Germany and then set himself…
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ABC-7 First Alert: Remnants of Tropical Storm Harold move through the Borderland
The ABC-7 First Alert continues for moderate to heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Harold. Rainfall could be heavy at times on Wednesday with some…
Continue Reading Ingebrigtsen goes down in another upset, while Warholm hurdles to gold
By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Britain’s Josh Kerr pulled off the biggest upset of the world championships,…
Continue Reading American sprinter Gabby Thomas well-researched in power of sleep, even writing paper on rest
By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The importance of a good night’s rest is not lost on American sprinter Gabby Thomas. She…
Continue Reading A top Russian general linked to the head of a rebellious mercenary group is reportedly dismissed
By The Associated Press Gen. Sergei Surovikin, a former commander of Russia’s forces in Ukraine who was linked to the leader of a brief armed…
Continue Reading Residents in southern Syria raid ruling party offices, block road as protests over economy intensify
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Angry protesters have raided the local offices of the ruling Baath party in a southern Syrian…
Continue Reading Australian prosecutors drop case against actor Amber Heard over pet Yorkshire terriers
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian prosecutors have dropped a potential criminal case against American actor…
Continue Reading Flames devour forests and homes as wildfires that have left 20 dead in Greece burn out of control
By ELENA BECATOROS and COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Advancing flames are devouring forests and homes in Greece as…
Continue Reading Dollar Tree and Family Dollar agree to take steps to improve worker safety at the bargain stores
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. regulators on Wednesday announced a settlement with the company that runs Dollar Tree and Family Dollar aimed at improving…
Continue Reading Xi, Putin and other leaders locked in discussions over an expansion of the BRICS economic bloc
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have held closed-door discussions…
Continue Reading Pakistani children rescued from a broken cable car say they repeatedly feared they would die
By RIAZ KHAN and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Schoolchildren who were rescued from a broken cable car dangling high above…
Continue Reading Surprisingly durable US economy poses key question: Are we facing higher-for-longer interest rates?
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A year ago, Chair Jerome Powell delivered a stark warning: To fight persistently high…
Continue Reading Two tankers collided in Egypt’s Suez Canal, briefly disrupting traffic in the vital waterway
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities say two tankers have collided in a single-lane stretch of the Suez Canal, briefly…
Continue Reading A Hong Kong court refused to ban a protest song. Now the government has been allowed to appeal
By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The Hong Kong government has been given the green light to appeal a court’s refusal to ban a…
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Cities with the highest rates of obesity
Stacker examined data from the CDC’s annual PLACES report, released in July 2023, to see which cities had the highest share of adults with…
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