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New York begins drying out after record-breaking rainfall

Published:Saturday | September 30, 2023 | 4:32 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City began drying out Saturday after being soaked by one of its wettest days in decades, as city dwellers dried out basements and traffic resumed on highways, railways, and airports that were temporarily shuttered by...

Disney Plus announces crackdown on password sharing in Canada

Published:Saturday | September 30, 2023 | 3:15 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — Password-sharing crackdowns are becoming more and more common in the streaming world today. And Disney Plus is following suit. In an email sent to the users in Canada earlier this week, Disney announced restrictions...

Bus carrying children overturns in England, killing driver and 14-year-old girl

Published:Saturday | September 30, 2023 | 12:10 PM

LONDON (AP) — A bus carrying dozens of schoolchildren overturned on a highway near the English city of Liverpool on Friday, killing the driver and a 14-year-old girl, police said. The bus was transporting students from Calday Grange Grammar...

French police accused of systemic discrimination in landmark legal case

Published:Saturday | September 30, 2023 | 9:56 AM

PARIS (AP) — France's highest administrative authority held a landmark hearing Friday over accusations of systemic discrimination in identity checks by French police. Victims are not seeking money, but a ruling to force deep...

President slams US aid for Ukraine and sanctions on Venezuela, Cuba

Published:Saturday | September 30, 2023 | 12:07 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP): Mexico’s president on Friday slammed US aid for Ukraine and economic sanctions on Venezuela, Cuba and other nations as the first of two high-level US-Mexico meetings got under way in Washington. President Andrés Manuel López...

Thousands of women march for abortion rights

Published:Saturday | September 30, 2023 | 12:07 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP): The streets of cities across Latin America were bathed in green Thursday as tens of thousands of women marched to commemorate International Safe Abortion Day. Latin American feminists have spent decades fighting to roll back...

Man pleads guilty to arranging hundreds of sham marriages

Published:Saturday | September 30, 2023 | 12:07 AM

BOSTON (AP): A California man has pleaded guilty to arranging hundreds of sham marriages in an effort to circumvent immigration laws, federal prosecutors said. Marcialito Biol Benitez, a 49-year-old Philippine national living in Los Angeles,...

More refugees to come from Latin America, Caribbean under Biden’s new 125,000 refugee cap

Published:Friday | September 29, 2023 | 9:28 PM

As the number of migrants coming to the United States' southern border is climbing, the Biden administration aims to admit more refugees from Latin America and the Caribbean over the next year. The White House Friday released the...

Baltimore Archdiocese says it will file for bankruptcy before new law on abuse lawsuits takes effect

Published:Friday | September 29, 2023 | 2:05 PM

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Archdiocese of Baltimore announced Friday it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganisation days before a new state law goes into effect removing the statute of limitations on child sex abuse claims and allowing victims...

Man tied to suspected shooter in Tupac Shakur's 1996 killing arrested in Las Vegas, AP sources say

Published:Friday | September 29, 2023 | 11:58 AM

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police have arrested a man in the deadly 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur, a long-awaited break in a case that has frustrated investigators and fascinated the public ever since the hip-hop icon was gunned down...

Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California dies at age 90

Published:Friday | September 29, 2023 | 9:02 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — US Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, a centrist Democrat who was elected to the Senate in 1992 in the "Year of the Woman" and broke gender barriers throughout her long career in local and national politics,...

Dozens dead after blast in southwestern Pakistan

Published:Friday | September 29, 2023 | 8:48 AM

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of people celebrating the Prophet Muhammad's birthday in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 52 people and wounding nearly 70 others,...

PM visits wedding fire victims as two more die from their injuries

Published:Friday | September 29, 2023 | 12:05 AM

BAGHDAD (AP): Iraq’s prime minister on Thursday visited injured patients and the families of victims in northern Iraq days after a deadly wedding fire killed around 100 people, as two more people died from their injuries and additional remains were...

Shelters for migrants filling up as attitudes toward them harden

Published:Friday | September 29, 2023 | 12:05 AM

BERLIN (AP): Dozens of people from around the world lined up on a sunny morning this week in front of a former mental health hospital in Berlin to apply for asylum in Germany. There were two older women from Moldova. A young man from Somalia sat...

6 women rescued from refrigerated truck after making distress call to BBC reporter

Published:Friday | September 29, 2023 | 12:05 AM

LONDON (AP): Six female migrants trapped inside a refrigerated food truck were rescued by French police after one of the women made a distress call to a reporter, the BBC reported Thursday. The women – four Vietnamese and two Iraqis – hid for hours...

California man pleads guilty to arranging hundreds of sham immigration marriages

Published:Thursday | September 28, 2023 | 3:52 PM

BOSTON (AP) — A California man has pleaded guilty to arranging hundreds of sham marriages in an effort to circumvent immigration laws, federal prosecutors said. Marcialito Biol Benitez, a 49-year-old Philippine national living in Los Angeles...

Indonesia bans e-commerce sales on social media platforms, TikTok speaks out

Published:Thursday | September 28, 2023 | 2:35 PM

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Chinese-owned app TikTok on Thursday said it regretted the Indonesian government's decision to ban e-commerce transactions on social media platforms and particularly the impact it would have on the millions of...

Tropical Storm Rina forms in Atlantic Ocean, trailing Tropical Storm Philippe

Published:Thursday | September 28, 2023 | 1:33 PM

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Rina formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said, as forecasters continued to monitor Tropical Storm Philippe which was also at sea. Rina had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65...

Man pleads guilty to smuggling charges over Texas deaths of 53 migrants in tractor-trailer

Published:Thursday | September 28, 2023 | 12:17 PM

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — One of six men charged in Texas over 53 migrants who died last year in a sweltering tractor-trailer has pleaded guilty for his role in the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt from Mexico, federal...

Scotland approves UK’s first consumption room intended for safer use of illegal drugs

Published:Thursday | September 28, 2023 | 9:37 AM

LONDON (AP) — Scottish authorities on Wednesday approved a 2.3 million-pound drug consumption room, the first government-backed place in the United Kingdom where users can take illegal drugs such as cocaine and heroin under the supervision of...

Country elects first woman head of state

Published:Thursday | September 28, 2023 | 12:07 AM

ROSEAU (CMC): Dominica on Wednesday elected its first-ever woman head of state overshadowed by opposition attempts to scuttle the “historic moment” and raising the possibility of the matter ending up before the courts here. By a margin of 20-5,...

Israeli citizens can now travel to US visa-free

Published:Thursday | September 28, 2023 | 12:07 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): The Biden administration is admitting Israel into a select group of countries whose citizens are allowed to travel to the United States without getting a visa in advance. The decision announced Wednesday comes despite Washington’s...

US soldier who crossed into North Korea now in American hands

Published:Thursday | September 28, 2023 | 12:07 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): The US soldier who sprinted into North Korea across the heavily fortified border between the Koreas two months ago was released into American custody, the White House announced on Wednesday. Earlier, North Korea had said it would...

Fire rips through wedding hall killing 100

Published:Thursday | September 28, 2023 | 12:07 AM

MOSUL (AP): As they watched the bride and groom start their slow dance, Faten Youssef imagined the future wedding of her son, seated next to her at a reception table. Within moments, however, disaster struck when an inferno erupted that would leave...

Jamaica-American judge denies Trump’s request to recuse herself in federal election case

Published:Wednesday | September 27, 2023 | 8:31 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jamaican-American judge Tanya Chutkan said Wednesday she won't recuse herself from Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case in Washington, rejecting the former president's claims that her past comments...

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