TOKYO (AP) 鈥� Asian shares rallied on Wednesday, with Tokyo鈥檚 benchmark Nikkei 225 index up more than 3% after Japan and the U.S. announced a deal on President Donald Trump鈥檚 tariffs. The agreement as announced calls for a 15% import duty on goods imported from Japan, apart from certain products such as steel and aluminum […]
WOODSIDE, Calif. (AP) 鈥� Nestled in forests around the world, a gentle army of giant wooden trolls want to show humans how to live better without destroying the planet. The Danish recycle artist Thomas Dambo and his team have created 170 troll sculptures from discarded materials such as wooden pallets, old furniture and wine barrels. […]
A Black college student shown on video being punched and dragged from his car by Florida law officers during a traffic stop faces a long recovery from injuries that include a concussion and a broken tooth that pierced his lip and led to several stiches, his lawyers said Wednesday. At a news conference in Jacksonville, […]
Ken Beckley never went to Harvard, but he has been wearing a crimson Harvard cap in a show of solidarity. As he sees it, the Trump administration’s attacks on the school echo a case of government overreach at his own alma mater, Indiana University. Beckley, a former head of the school’s alumni association, rallied fellow […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) 鈥� A brown bear attacked a woman Tuesday afternoon as she hiked on a popular trail in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains, and officials are still looking for the animal, state police said. Alaska State Troopers used a helicopter to evacuate the woman off the Basher Trail to a hospital, Anchorage Police spokesperson Christopher […]
The U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday denied an appeal by The Associated Press for a hearing on its efforts to restore full access to cover presidential events, not ending its case but allowing the White House to continue its control over access to President Donald Trump. The news outlet wanted the court to overturn […]
DENVER (AP) 鈥� Colorado鈥檚 Democratic attorney general on Tuesday sued a sheriff鈥檚 deputy for allegedly helping federal immigration agents find and arrest a college student who had an expired visa. Attorney General Phil Weiser also disclosed that his office is investigating whether other law enforcement officers on a regional drug task force the deputy worked […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump announced a trade framework with Japan on Tuesday, placing a 15% tax on goods imported from that nation. 鈥淭his Deal will create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs 鈥� There has never been anything like it,鈥� Trump posted on Truth Social, adding that the United States 鈥渨ill continue to always […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� An attorney is seeking Erik Menendez’s release from prison because of a medical condition after he was taken to a hospital. The 57-year-old has been serving a life without parole sentence along with his brother Lyle Menendez after being convicted of murdering their parents in their Beverly Hills, California, home in […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) 鈥� The U.N. Security Council urged the 193 United Nations member nations on Tuesday to use all possible means to settle disputes peacefully. The U.N. chief said that is needed now more than ever as he pointed to 鈥渢he horror show in Gaza鈥� and conflicts in Ukraine, Sudan, Haiti and Myanmar. The […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Columbia University announced disciplinary action Tuesday against students who participated in a pro-Palestinian demonstration inside the Ivy League school鈥檚 main library before final exams in May and an encampment during alumni weekend last year. A student activist group said nearly 80 students were told they have been suspended for one to […]
WALNUT GROVE, Calif. (AP) 鈥� Dozens of peacocks and peahens known for wandering the grounds of a historic Art Deco hotel in the Sacramento Delta are missing, and the hotel staff said Tuesday they believe the birds were stolen. After a customer at the Ryde Hotel mentioned Sunday seeing two men grabbing one of the […]
BEND, Ore. (AP) 鈥� Oregon authorities on Tuesday identified two people who died in a fatal waterfall accident as search operations continued for the one person who remains missing. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office said the victims include Amanda Lloyd, 40, of Rockwall, Texas; and Lindsay Bashan, 33, of Parkland, Florida. The accident happened Saturday […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The Senate narrowly voted on Tuesday to begin considering the nomination of former Trump lawyer Emil Bove for a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals court judge, with at least one Republican opposed and Democrats vowing to try to slow his confirmation. Bove, a former criminal defense lawyer for President Donald Trump, […]
A group of journalists at the Agence France-Presse news agency is sounding the alarm about conditions faced by colleagues working in Gaza, saying that 鈥渨ithout immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die.鈥� In a war-torn territory where Israel generally forbids outside journalists to enter, international news organizations like AFP, The Associated Press and […]
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) 鈥� The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has effectively barred transgender women from competing in women鈥檚 sports, telling the federations overseeing swimming, athletics and other sports it has an 鈥渙bligation to comply鈥� with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump. The change, announced Monday with a quiet change on the […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� As California鈥檚 much-loved hamburger chain In-N-Out Burger expands across the country into Tennessee, billionaire owner and CEO Lynsi Snyder has announced she and her family are going with it and heading east, too. 鈥淭here are a lot of great things about California, but raising a family is not easy here,鈥� Snyder […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump on Tuesday said a trip to China might be 鈥渘ot too distant,鈥� raising prospects that the leaders of the world’s two largest economies may meet soon to help reset relations after moving to climb down from a trade war. Trump made the remarks while hosting Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos […]
BOSTON (AP) 鈥� More than 120 cases, including some for assault on family members and police, were dismissed Tuesday in Boston, the latest fallout from a monthslong dispute over pay that has led public defenders to stop taking new clients. At a mostly empty courtroom, Boston Municipal Court Chief Justice Tracy-Lee Lyons invoked the Lavallee […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� The man accused of killing an 鈥淎merican Idol鈥� executive and her husband used the couple’s gun to kill them and later called the police, authorities allege. Los Angeles police previously said they responded to a 911 call about a burglary that afternoon, July 10, but left after finding 鈥渘o signs of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The U.S. Army鈥檚 head of aviation has changed jobs to become chief of the branch’s enterprise marketing office, a move that comes before the National Transportation Safety Board holds hearings next week on January’s midair collision between an Army helicopter and a commercial jet that killed 67 people. Brig. Gen. Matthew Braman […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) 鈥� Robert A. Daugherty, whose Jimmy Carter clasping hands with Middle East leaders after cementing a peace treaty, has died after a lengthy illness. He was 86. Daugherty, the son of sharecroppers who shined shoes for spare change in his youth, died Monday in Noblesville, Indiana, his wife Stephanie said. He was […]
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ July 18 The Washington Post says conspiracy theories abound when the government misleads For decades, the CIA downplayed the extent of its knowledge about Lee Harvey Oswald鈥檚 activities before he assassinated President John F. Kennedy. Documents newly unearthed by a House task force prove […]
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) 鈥� A small plane that crashed in 2023 while carrying moose meat for hunters in remote western Alaska, killing the husband of former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, was overweight for takeoff and encountered drag from a set of antlers mounted outside, federal investigators said in a report released Tuesday. The National Transportation […]
