Month: April 2024

By FARAI MUTSAKA, OMAR FARUK and DESMOND TIRO Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant African continent are looking to the past and future to respond to climate change. Africa, with the world’s youngest population, faces the worst effects

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press CHBAR MON, Cambodia (AP) — A funeral was held Sunday for 20 soldiers who died at an army base in southwestern Cambodia in a huge explosion of stored munitions that also wounded several others and damaged nearby houses. There has been no public explanation of what caused the Saturday afternoon

By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police departments across the United States are reporting an increase in their ranks for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 killing of George Floyd, which led to a historic exodus of officers, a survey shows. More sworn officers were hired in 2023 than

By GRAHAM LEE BREWER Associated Press OKMULGEE, Okla. (AP) — Wild onions are among the first foods to grow at the tail end of winter in the South, and generations of Indigenous people place the alliums at the center of an annual communal event. From February through May, there’s a wild onion dinner every Saturday

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (AP) — Richelle Dietz is a mother of two and wife of a U.S. Navy chief petty officer living on a Hawaii military base who often thinks about water. The family has been using bottled water for drinking, cooking and brushing teeth ever since

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — During three years of working as a parade performer at the Disneyland Resort in Southern California, Zach Elefante always has had a second or third job to help him earn a living. Unlike the experiences of his peers at Disney’s parks in Orlando, Florida, where there

By NICOLE WINFIELD and PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press VENICE, Italy (AP) — Venice has always been a place of contrasts, of breathtaking beauty and devastating fragility, where history, religion, art and nature have collided over the centuries to produce an otherworldly gem of a city. But even for a place that prides itself on its

By JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press Maryam Alwan figured the worst was over after New York City police in riot gear arrested her and other protesters on the Columbia University campus, loaded them onto buses and held them in custody for hours. But the next evening, the college junior received an email from the university. Alwan

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican journalists are protesting a day after one of their colleagues was killed in the southern state of Morelos. Reporters on Saturday demanded a transparent investigation into the killing of journalist Roberto Figueroa and vented anger over the dangers that reporters face in Mexico. Figueroa covered local politics and gained a

By ELISE MORTON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Two Russian journalists were arrested by their government on “extremism” charges and ordered by courts there to remain in custody pending investigation and trial on accusations of working for a group founded by the late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny. Russian courts said Saturday that Konstantin Gabov

LUPTON, Ariz. (AP) — Crews plan to extinguish a fire on Saturday night from a freight train derailment near the Arizona-New Mexico state line that forced the closure of a stretch of Interstate 40. Some wreckage has been removed from the tracks, but about 35 rail cars remain, including a half-dozen rail cars that were

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities say a helicopter crew has recovered the body of a climber who died after falling about 1,000 feet while on a steep, technical route in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve. Park officials say 52-year-old Robbi Mecus of Keene Valley, New York, died of injuries sustained in a fall Thursday

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Former Arkansas Gov. and U.S. Sen. David Pryor is being remembered. Funeral services were held Saturday for family, friends and colleagues, including former Arkansas governor and President Bill Clinton. Pryor died at the age of 89 on April 20 from natural causes. Saturday’s memorial was held at a Little Rock

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Authorities say armed assailants have ambushed and killed three law enforcement officers in southern Chile before setting their car on fire. It’s the latest attack on police to revive security concerns in the South American country. It remains unclear who carried out Saturday’s assault on Chile’s national police force in the

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The war in Gaza spurred large protests outside a glitzy roast with President Joe Biden, journalists, politicians and celebrities Saturday but went all but unmentioned by participants inside, with Biden instead using the annual White House correspondents’ dinner to make both jokes and grim

BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts State Police announced they had busted a burglary ring that stole around $4 million in jewels mostly from the homes of South Asian lived in more than two dozen communities over the past six years. Four people, including two brothers, who were members of the Providence-based gang were arrested and

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The athletes filling a huge gym in Anchorage were ready to compete, cheering and stomping and high-fiving each other as they lined up for the chance to claim the state’s top prize in their events. But these teenagers were at the Native Youth Olympics, a statewide