Month: November 2023

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — Wildlife officials across the Great Lakes are looking for spies to take on an almost impossible mission: stop the spread of invasive carp. Over the last five years, agencies such as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources have employed

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — As weary migrants arrive in Denver on buses from the U.S.-Mexico border city of El Paso, Texas, officials offer them two options: temporary shelter or a bus ticket out. Nearly half of the 27,000 migrants who arrived in Denver since November 2022 have chosen the

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Some states are steadily chipping away at longstanding bans on Sunday hunting, and there’s a push to overturn the laws in Maine and Massachusetts, the final two states with full bans. Maine’s highest court is considering a lawsuit asking whether the state’s 19th century law, which

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Officials trying to reach 41 workers who have been trapped in a collapsed tunnel in northern India for eight days were contemplating alternative rescue plans Sunday after snags with a drilling machine caused them to halt digging. A new drilling machine arrived at the accident site

By NICOLE WINFIELD and TRISHA THOMAS Associated Press TORVAIANICA, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis is hosting a special lunch for more than 1,000 poor people to mark the Catholic Church’s World Day of the Poor. Among his guests Sunday are a community of trans women from a seaside town south of Rome who have forged

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press VOORBURG, Netherlands (AP) — Thousands of families are lining up for free handouts at food banks across the Netherlands. The queues underscore how poverty is taking root even in lower middle class families and why tackling it has become a major theme in next Wednesday’s parliamentary election. The cost-of-living crisis,

By DANIEL POLITI and DAVID BILLER Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Right-wing populist Javier Milei will become the next president of Argentina after promising a dramatic shake-up to the state in a fiercely polarized election campaign held amid deep discontent over soaring inflation and rising poverty. With 99.4% of votes tallied in Sunday’s

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sales on the secondary-ticket market were surging for Saturday night’s Las Vegas Grand Prix. But plenty of tickets were on sale on the Ticketmaster site for the Formula One race as of early in the afternoon. Race CEO Renee Wilm promised on the Nov. 3

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden says that achieving a cease-fire amid Israel’s war with Hamas “is not peace” and that an important key to lasting stability is a reunited Gaza Strip and West Bank that can be governed under “a revitalized Palestinian Authority.” In an op-ed published Saturday

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — State investigators repeatedly identified fire and safety hazards at a leased storage space under an elevated Los Angeles freeway before it burned in an arson fire last weekend. The state’s transportation agency has released a series of documents about inspections to the site that flagged problematic

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A large metal gate at an elementary school in Arizona apparently fell onto and killed a 9-year-old child who was trying to help close it, authorities said. Deputies and paramedics responding to the Centennial Elementary School on Friday afternoon tried to revive the child, who was pronounced dead at a hospital,

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office says a 5-year-old California boy has fatally stabbed his twin brother. The tragedy occurred Wednesday in Scotts Valley, roughly 55 miles south of San Francisco. Authorities say the twins were fighting when one brother grabbed a small kitchen knife and stabbed his sibling. The