Month: November 2023

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Court records say a Maine man charged with using social media to threaten to commit a shooting at a New Hampshire high school has changed his plea to guilty. Police charged Kyle Hendrickson with criminal threatening with a firearm in April. They said he posted a video with a gun outside

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A midwestern woman who filled her front yard with stones, statues and art is facing the possibility of being forced to remove the decorations after 30 years of collecting them. Iris Logan’s home in St. Paul, Minnesota, has become something of a local landmark. But the St. Paul Pioneer Press

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The University of North Carolina graduate student charged with fatally shooting his faculty adviser has been found unfit for trial after two mental evaluations. Tailei Qi is accused of killing associate professor Zijie Yan in a science building at the state’s flagship public university

By SAM METZ Associated Press MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — A documentary about Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass that depicts how four generations of women in her family were shaped by exile has premiered before an emotional audience in Marrakech. The Marrakech International Film Festival began last week in the Moroccan city, bringing American and international movie

By EMMANUEL IGUNZA and BRIAN INGANGA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s government is urging people living in flood-prone areas to relocate to higher ground as heavy rains and flash floods continued to wreak havoc across East Africa. At least 76 people have died and 40,000 displaced from their homes since the rains began

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The five armed assailants captured by U.S. forces after seizing a commercial ship near Yemen over the weekend were likely Somali and not Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, the Pentagon said Monday. Recent attacks on commercial vessels have been conducted by Houthis, seen as part of a rise in

By SHARON LURYE Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, La. (AP) — Nearly 9,000 private schools in Louisiana don’t need state approval to grant degrees. They’re unlike public schools, formal homeschooling programs or traditional private schools. Almost all such unapproved schools serve a single homeschooling family, but some have buildings, classrooms, teachers and dozens of students. Unapproved schools

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers used an alternative state email account using the name of Hall of Fame Milwaukee Braves pitcher Warren Spahn. The conservative news outlet Wisconsin Right Now first reported on the account Sunday. Evers’ spokesperson Britt Cudaback on Monday downplayed the use of the

By SARAH TETAUD Associated Press ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — The main opposition candidate in Madagascar says he has filed lawsuits with the country’s highest court seeking to have the results of this month’s national election canceled and incumbent President Andry Rajoelina’s victory declared invalid. He claims the electoral commission “modified” its figures. Rajoelina was announced

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An Amsterdam museum says historical treasures that were stored there for years during an ownership dispute sparked by Russia’s annexation of Crimea have been safely transported to Ukraine. Their transport ends a nearly decade-long legal tug-of-war over the artifacts that include a solid gold Scythian helmet from the 4th century

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says he plans to travel to NATO member North Macedonia later this week to attend a conference of a top trans-Atlantic security and rights group, a trip that would mark his first visit to a NATO country since Moscow sent troops to Ukraine. Russia is one of

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press SZEGED, Hungary (AP) — Interior ministers from six European Union countries say their nations have agreed to step up efforts to protect the bloc from illegal immigration and target groups of human smugglers that operate on its borders. The ministers from the V4 group of Central European nations — including