Year: 2024

Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Texas is widening investigations into aid organizations along the U.S.-Mexico border over claims that nonprofits are helping migrants illegally enter the country, taking some groups to court and making demands that a judge called harassment after the state tried shuttering an El Paso shelter. The efforts are led by

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico has made his first public appearance since he was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt, attacking his liberal political opponents and praising his Hungarian counterpart. Fico has been recovering at home from multiple wounds he suffered in the May 15 attack when he was shot

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a man has been arrested and charged with stealing and later selling the car of an elderly South Florida couple who were fatally shot in March. Court records show that 30-year-old Maurice Newson was arrested in May on a warrant for charges of grand theft auto and dealing

TABERNACLE, N.J. (AP) — A fast-moving forest fire has burned several hundred acres in southern New Jersey. The blaze in the Wharton State Forest was reported early Friday. Officials believe it began in the area of the Batona Campground in Tabernacle, which was evacuated as a precaution. No injuries have been reported, but authorities say

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An animal rescue center says a dehydrated coyote pup rescued by California firefighters has died. A spokesperson for the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA said Friday the pup was about 6 weeks old. Photos on social media of the July 4 rescue show a big-eared pup bundled up in material and

MANAWA, Wis. (AP) — A dam in an eastern Wisconsin community has been breached, prompting people living downriver to be evacuated. The National Weather Service says the dam in Manawa along the Little Wolf River was breached at about 1:45 p.m. Friday by floodwaters. Police Chief Jason Severson estimated that a 50-foot-wide area around the

Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Former President Donald Trump claims he knows nothing about a plan for a massive overhaul of the federal government drafted by some of his former administration officials. President Joe Biden isn’t buying that. Some involved in the Project 2025 plan are expected to take high-level administration jobs if Trump wins

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — President Joe Biden has canceled a planned speech in Philadelphia at the annual conference of the National Education Association after the union’s staff announced a strike. It set up picket lines Friday around the Pennsylvania Convention Center in downtown Philadelphia. Biden had planned to speak Sunday, but his campaign says the

Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Police say two people were killed and three others injured in Independence Day violence in a Southern California beach city. A city spokeswoman says Friday that police arrested a 26-year-old Huntington Beach resident on suspicion of murder and attempted murder. Authorities say they found the victims when they

Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades and advanced plans to build thousands of new settlement homes, according to Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlement monitoring group. They are the latest steps by Israel’s hard-line government meant to cement Israel’s control

Associated Press Rail cars carrying hazardous material have derailed and burst into flames in a remote area of North Dakota. Emergency officials say no one was hurt in Friday’s derailment. They also say the threat to those living nearby appears to be minimal. Twenty-nine cars of a CPKC train derailed around 3:45 a.m. Cars were

AP Tennis Writer LONDON (AP) — Defending Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz has come back to eliminate Frances Tiafoe 5-7, 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-2 to reach the fourth round. The third-seeded Alcaraz was outplayed for stretches by No. 29 Tiafoe on Friday but improved to 12-1 for his career in fifth sets. Tiafoe fell to