WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — A shark bit a Maui surfer and severed his leg. Authorities say the 61-year-old man was surfing off Waiehu Beach Park Friday morning when a shark bit him. Maui officials say the man’s right leg was completely severed below the knee. The man was alert while being treated on shore and
Continue Reading BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — A suspect was charged with murder in the brutal slaying of a Montana man that was initially reported as a possible bear mauling. The suspect allegedly told authorities that he arrived at a campsite northeast of Big Sky, Montana, intending to stay the night but found it occupied by the victim.
Continue Reading Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The two candidates for Alabama’s 2nd Congressional district made their final campaign pushes this week. Democrat Shomari Figures and Republican Caroleene Dobson are running for the reshaped district. Both candidates emphasized a push for voter turnout. Former President Barack Obama recorded a message encouraging voters to support Figures. Federal
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — Top House Republicans called on the White House to produce all documents and internal communications regarding President Joe Biden’s statement earlier this week in which he appeared to take a swipe at supporters of Donald Trump. White House press officials altered the official transcript of Biden’s statement, drawing objections from the federal
Continue Reading Associated Press CALI, Colombia (AP) — At the United Nations biodiversity summit in Colombia, negotiators struggle to find common ground on key issues, such as how to finance protections for 30% of the Earth’s wild species by 2023 and how to make payments for nature’s genetic data. Observers say pledges have not met expectations and
Continue Reading PINE CITY, N.Y. (AP) — An orphaned squirrel that became a social media star called Peanut was euthanized after state authorities seized the beloved pet during a raid on his caretaker’s home, authorities said Friday. After anonymous complaints, officers from the state Department of Environmental Conservation took the squirrel and a raccoon named Fred from
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Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal jury has convicted a former Kentucky detective of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor the night she was shot to death by police officers in 2020. The 12-member jury returned the late night verdict after clearing Brett Hankison earlier in the evening on a charge that he
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Election preview with ABC correspondents and contributors. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga.; Gov. Doug Burgum, R-N.D. ___ CNN’s “State of the Union” — Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., and Tim Scott, R-S.C. ___ CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Catherine
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Associated Press A New York man who turned a rescued squirrel into a social media star called Peanut is pleading with state authorities to return his beloved pet after they seized it during a raid. Mark Longo says at least six officers from the state Department of Environmental Conservation seized the squirrel from his upstate
Continue Reading Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police have indicted 20 people for rock salt mining in the northeastern coastal city of Maceio that destroyed five urban neighborhoods and forced tens of thousands of people to leave their homes. The charges Friday include damage to public property and environmental crimes. A police source, who
Continue Reading ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — An airline passenger is sitting in jail in Virginia after being accused of an unprovoked attack on a fellow passenger who was sleeping. An FBI agent said Everett Chad Nelson punched the other man repeatedly in the face and head, leaving the man bleeding. The agent says another passenger pulled Nelson
Continue Reading Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian President Luis Arce has condemned the seizure of three military units by supporters of former President Evo Morales, calling it “an absolutely reprehensible criminal act that is far from any legitimate social claim of the Indigenous peasant movement.” Earlier on Friday, the armed forces had urged those
Continue Reading Associated Press AGUA CLARA, Brazil (AP) — In 2006, environmental nonprofits and some of the world’s largest soybean traders came together in a landmark “soy moratorium” to stop the sale of soy grown on illegally deforested land in Brazil’s Amazon. Participants included Greenpeace, WWF, Cargill and Bunge. Now, Mato Grosso state, Brazil’s largest soybean producer,
Continue Reading Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Early in-person voting in North Carolina ends Saturday, but the number of people who have cast ballots by this method already has exceeded the total from four years ago. State Board of Elections Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell says that nearly 3.8 million people had cast early in-person ballots
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AP Science Writer It’s as if Mother Nature shut off the rain faucet in the United States in October. More than 100 cities across the nation are reporting their driest October so far. In June, less than 12% of the US was in drought. Now it’s nearly half and growing. Meteorologists say the country is
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The good news: You will get a glorious extra hour of sleep. The bad: It’ll be dark as a pocket by late afternoon for the next few months in the U.S. Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. local time Sunday, which means you should set your clock back an hour before you go to
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is sending additional bomber aircraft and Navy warships to the Middle East to bolster the U.S. presence in the region. It comes as an aircraft carrier and its warships are preparing to leave. Austin is ordering several B-52 Stratofortress bomber aircraft, a fighter
Continue Reading Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s state government is diverting $100 million to spend on loans to farmers and cleanup after Hurricane Helene. The Georgia State Financing and Investment Commission voted unanimously Friday to spend the money, which had been set aside for construction projects or paying off existing debt. Officials last month estimated that
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Halloween is gaining ground in Mexico, but in a country so wracked by drug cartel violence, there have been real fears about ghosts, ghouls and skeletons walking the streets. The concern isn’t so much about competition for Mexico’s traditional, home-grown Day of the Dead celebrations, which are going off Friday and
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new Secret Service report into the July assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump says multiple staffers knew about clear line-of-sight risks but found them “acceptable.” That’s one of the findings of an internal review released Friday into how the Secret Service’s own staffers handled security leading up to
Continue Reading Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — It was the hottest September in more than a century in parts of South Florida, and Dwayne Wilson could hear his 81-year-old fellow inmate gasping for breath and crying out for help at the Dade Correctional Institution, 45 miles southwest of Miami on the edge of the
Continue Reading Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government has broken its silence over growing tensions with neighboring Venezuela, with the Foreign Ministry saying it was surprised by “the offensive tone” adopted by Venezuelan authorities toward Brazil. In recent days, Venezuela’s government has escalated its criticism of Brazilian foreign relations officials and even President Luiz Inácio
Continue Reading Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Twenty-nine minors in Nigeria could be facing the death penalty. The children were among 76 protesters arraigned Friday for participating in a protest against the country’s record cost-of-living crisis. Four of the children collapsed due to exhaustion before they could take their plea. A charge sheet shows the protesters
Continue Reading MILAN, N.M. (AP) — Nine people were arrested this week in connection with a suspected drug trafficking operation at a federal prison in a small New Mexico town, authorities announced Friday. The arrests were made Wednesday as the FBI and U.S. Marshals Service raided 13 homes across the northwestern part of the state, mostly in
Continue Reading Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A legal fight over Elon Musk’s $1 million-a-day voter sweepstakes will move back to state court in Pennsylvania after a federal judge said Friday he does not have jurisdiction. The ruling is a loss for the world’s richest man and his political action committee. Musk’s giveaways aim to boost Donald Trump’s
Continue Reading AP Business Writer Wendy’s plans to close 140 U.S. restaurants before the end of this year on top of the 100 it said it would close in May. But in a conference call with investors Thursday, the company said those closures will be offset by new restaurant openings. Wendy’s said it plans to open between
Continue Reading AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Basel Adra, a Palestinian, and Yuval Abraham, an Israeli, spent five years making a movie that depicts daily life in Adra’s village under Israeli occupation. Their film, “No Other Land,” has been hailed as one of the year’s most powerful documentaries and won prizes at international film festivals.
Continue Reading ERWIN, Tenn. (AP) — Rescue workers in Tennessee have recovered the body of the final person still missing after massive flooding from Hurricane Helene hit a plastics factory there. Twenty-nine-year-old Rosa Andrade was one of six employees killed after they were unable to escape the rising waters in Erwin, a small town in East Tennessee.
Continue Reading BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico has reacted angrily after the British ambassador to Bratislava criticized his interview with Russia’s Rossiya 1 state-owned television, saying, “Slovakia is not Britain’s colony.” In his interview for the propaganda channel, Fico condemned Western support for Ukraine, saying it only prolongs the war, and accused
Continue Reading Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An urban pond where goldfish used to swim beneath a leaky New York City fire hydrant has been replaced by a new makeshift aquarium, days after the city unceremoniously paved over the old one due to safety concerns. Industrious Brooklynites have taken waterproof liner, bath tiles, concrete blocks and
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