VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - Pope Francis warned against historic revisionism and any rebirth of anti-Semitism that fueled the Holocaust as he marked the annual remembrance Sunday for Lithuania’s centuries-old Jewish community that was nearly wiped out during World War II.…
Posted: 23 September 2018 [08:35 PM] Posted: 23 September 2018 [08:31 PM] SAN DIEGO (AP) - The Trump administration has proposed rules that could deny green cards to immigrants if they use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers and other forms of public assistance. Federal law already requires those seeking green cards to…
Posted: 23 September 2018 [08:30 PM] WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorneys for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, and the Senate Judiciary Committee have reached agreement for a public hearing Thursday, as talks continued to resolve additional details ahead of the high-stakes showdown. Ford…
Posted: 21 September 2018 [09:30 PM] GALIVANTS FERRY, S.C. - With muddy river water still washing over entire communities on Friday, eight days after Hurricane Florence slammed into land with nearly 3 feet of rain, new evacuation orders forced residents to flee to higher ground amid…
Posted: 21 September 2018 [09:28 PM] WASHINGTON - After holding his tongue for a week, President Donald Trump sarcastically assailed the woman claiming a decades-old sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, tweeting that if the episode was “as bad as she says,” she or…
Posted: 21 September 2018 [09:27 PM] WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Friday delayed his own order to declassify and release documents from the FBI's Russia investigation, saying the Justice Department and U.S. allies have raised security concerns about their disclosure. The announcement, in a pair…
Posted: 21 September 2018 [09:27 PM] KAMPALA, Uganda - Hundreds of solemn people watched Friday as body after body was pulled from a capsized ferry that Tanzanian authorities said was badly overcrowded and upended in the final stretch before reaching shore. The death toll was above…
Posted: 21 September 2018 [09:27 PM] UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Friday that the fight against famine is being lost in Yemen, which is already facing the world's worst humanitarian crisis with 75 percent of its 29 million people in need of assistance.…
Posted: 20 September 2018 [07:59 PM] SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Clapping and raising their hands to the sky, hundreds of people clad in white gathered at an 18th-century fort in the Puerto Rican capital on Thursday to remember the thousands who died in the aftermath…
Posted: 20 September 2018 [07:57 PM] WASHINGTON - Republicans say they're forging ahead in their drive to push Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination through the Senate, even as the woman accusing him of a decades-old sexual attack is threatening to boycott a committee hearing and suggesting…
Posted: 20 September 2018 [07:56 PM] ABDERDEEN, Md. - An employee at a Rite Aid warehouse opened fire at work Thursday, killing three people before taking her own life, authorities said. Several other people were wounded. The suspect was a 26-year-old temporary employee at the Rite…
Posted: 20 September 2018 [07:55 PM] WASHINGTON - The U.S. hopes to begin face-to-face negotiations with North Korea next month on terms for resuming on-the-ground searches in North Korea for remains of American servicemen, a senior Pentagon official said Thursday. Kelly McKeague, director of the Defense…
Posted: 20 September 2018 [07:53 PM] SACRAMENTO, Calif. - People who want straws with their drinks at California restaurants will have to request them under a new law. The law signed Thursday by Gov. Jerry Brown makes California the first state to bar full-service restaurants from…
Posted: 19 September 2018 [09:06 PM] WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Wednesday the White House and Republican supporters of Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination would have to “make a decision” on going forward if the woman accusing him of a long-ago sexual assault delivers…
Posted: 19 September 2018 [09:06 PM] NEW BERN, N.C. - Handing out hot dogs, hugs and comforting words, President Donald Trump sought Wednesday to soothe those who suffered losses in Hurricane Florence, declaring that “America grieves for you” as he surveyed damage the powerful storm left…
Posted: 19 September 2018 [09:06 PM] By WAYNE PARRY ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - New Jersey gambling regulators are investigating whether FanDuel's sports book should pay out more than $82,000 to a man who was given exorbitant odds for the…
Posted: 19 September 2018 [09:05 PM] BEIRUT - Thousands of people who were recently displaced by violence in northwest Syria have returned home following a Russia-Turkey deal that averted a government offensive on the last major rebel stronghold, Syrian opposition activists said Wednesday. The United Nations…
Posted: 19 September 2018 [09:05 PM] WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he has invited North Korea's foreign minister to meet with him next week to continue discussions on efforts to get the North to abandon its nuclear weapons. He also says the Trump…
Posted: 18 September 2018 [08:02 PM] WILMINGTON, N.C. - Hundreds of people waited in long lines for water and other essentials in Wilmington, still mostly cut off by rising water days after Hurricane Florence unleashed epic floods, and North Carolina's governor pleaded with more than 10,000…
Posted: 18 September 2018 [08:01 PM] WASHINGTON - Wrestling for advantage, Democratic and Republican senators argued Tuesday over who could, should or would testify at next Monday's hearing with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman who accuses him of a sexual assault when they…
Posted: 18 September 2018 [08:00 PM] WASHINGTON - The Senate on Tuesday approved a wide-ranging, $854 billion bill that funds the military and a host of civilian agencies for the next year and provides a short-term fix to keep the government open through early December. The…
Posted: 18 September 2018 [07:59 PM] WASHINGTON - For a second straight year the U.S. will slash the number of refugees it will accept, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, insisting amid criticism from human rights groups that the country is still committed to providing sanctuary…
Posted: 18 September 2018 [07:58 PM] MOSCOW - A Russian reconnaissance aircraft was shot down by a Syrian missile over the Mediterranean Sea, killing all 15 people on board, the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday. It blamed Israel for the crash, saying the plane was caught…
Posted: 17 September 2018 [08:17 PM] WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Monday defended Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her when the two were in high school, praising him as “one of the finest people” and signaling…
Swollen rivers swamp ash dumps, hog farms Posted: 17 September 2018 [08:14 PM] and GARY D. ROBERTSON RALEIGH, N.C. - Flooded rivers from Florence’s drenching rains have swamped coal ash dumps and low-lying hog farms,…
North Carolina city cut off by floodwaters Posted: 17 September 2018 [08:12 PM] and MARTHA WAGGONER WILMINGTON, N.C. - Throwing a lifeline to a city surrounded by floodwaters, emergency crews delivered food and water…
Posted: 16 September 2018 [08:44 PM] WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) - Catastrophic flooding from Florence spread across the Carolinas on Sunday, with roads to Wilmington cut off by the epic deluge and muddy river water swamping entire neighborhoods miles inland. “The risk to life is rising with…
Posted: 16 September 2018 [07:35 PM] LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) - Residents in communities north of Boston that were rocked by natural gas explosions were given the green light Sunday to return to their homes. Gov. Charlie Baker and other officials announced the move at a morning…
Posted: 14 September 2018 [08:13 PM] THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman and a native of New Britain, Connecticut, Paul Manafort is pleading guilty to two criminal charges under terms of a plea deal that includes his cooperation as a potential…
Posted: 14 September 2018 [06:51 PM] WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Friday denied an allegation of sexual misconduct from when he was in high school, seeking to defuse a potential threat to his confirmation as a handful of key senators remained silent on…
Posted: 14 September 2018 [06:51 PM] SANAA, Yemen - A recent bout of fighting between Yemeni government forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition and Shiite rebels around the Red Sea port city of Hodeida could jeopardize shipments of 46,000 tons of wheat expected to arrive within…
Posted: 14 September 2018 [06:50 PM] WILMINGTON, N.C. - Blowing ashore with howling 90 mph winds, Hurricane Florence splintered buildings, trapped hundreds of people and swamped entire communities along the Carolina coast Friday in what could be just the opening act in a watery, two-part, slow-motion…
Posted: 14 September 2018 [06:50 PM] TUGUEGARAO, Philippines - Typhoon Mangkhut retained its ferocious strength, gained speed and shifted slightly toward more densely populated coastal provinces Friday as it barreled closer to the northeastern Philippines, where a massive evacuation was underway. More than 5 million people…
Posted: 14 September 2018 [06:50 PM] LAWRENCE, Mass. - Investigators worked Friday to pinpoint the cause of a series of dramatic natural gas explosions that killed a teenager who had just gotten his driver’s license and was sitting in his car, injured at least 25 others…
Posted: 13 September 2018 [09:05 PM] WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) - The big slosh has begun, and the consequences could be disastrous. Hurricane Florence’s leading edge battered the Carolina coast Thursday, bending trees and shooting frothy sea water over streets on the Outer Banks, as the hulking…
Posted: 13 September 2018 [09:03 PM] LOS ANGELES (AP) - A gunman went on a rampage, killing his wife and four other people before shooting himself to death, California authorities said. Kern County sheriff’s Lt. Mark King said Thursday there were “strong indications” of a domestic…
Posted: 13 September 2018 [09:01 PM] WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee brushed aside a flurry of Democratic attempts to delay the consideration of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday, sticking with a schedule that could see him confirmed by Oct. 1.…
Posted: 13 September 2018 [08:59 PM] LAWRENCE, Mass. - A series of gas explosions left at least four people injured and ignited fires in at least 39 homes in three communities north of Boston on Thursday, forcing entire neighborhoods to evacuate as crews scrambled to fight…
Posted: 12 September 2018 [08:04 PM] LONDON (AP) - Leading Brexit-supporting lawmakers insisted Wednesday that they aren’t about to topple Prime Minister Theresa May, despite strong opposition to her plan for taking Britain out of the European Union. A faction of May’s Conservative Party opposes her…
Posted: 12 September 2018 [08:03 PM] WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. health officials are sounding the alarm about rising teenage use of e-cigarettes, calling the problem an “epidemic” and ordering manufacturers to reverse the trend or risk having their flavored vaping products pulled from the market. The…
Posted: 12 September 2018 [08:01 PM] HONOLULU (AP) - Maui was hit with heavy rain and powerful winds Wednesday as a gradually weakening tropical storm neared Hawaii, with forecasters predicting Tropical Storm Olivia could dump 5 to 10 inches. Some places could get as much as…
Posted: 12 September 2018 [08:00 PM] WILMINGTON, N.C. - People who thought they were safe from the onslaught of Hurricane Florence began boarding up and Georgia’s governor declared a state of emergency Wednesday as uncertainty over the path of the monster storm spread worry along the…
Posted: 11 September 2018 [09:24 PM] THE WASHINGTON POST SHANKSVILLE, Pa. - A solemn President Donald Trump paid tribute here Tuesday to the late passengers of Flight 93, who on Sept. 11, 2001, disrupted the plan of terrorists to crash one of their hijacked planes into…
Posted: 11 September 2018 [09:24 PM] CHICAGO - Active shooters with semi-automatic rifles wound and kill twice as many people as those using non-semi- automatic weapons, although chances of dying if hit in either type of assault are the same, a new analysis shows. Researchers examined…
Posted: 11 September 2018 [09:24 PM] NEW YORK (AP) - Americans looked back on 9/11 Tuesday with tears and somber tributes as President Donald Trump hailed “the moment when America fought back” on one of the hijacked planes used as weapons in the deadliest terror attack…
Posted: 11 September 2018 [09:23 PM] WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) - Motorists streamed inland on highways converted to one-way routes Tuesday as more than 1 million people in three states were ordered to get out of the way of Hurricane Florence, a hair-raising storm taking dead aim…
Posted: 11 September 2018 [09:23 PM] VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis will meet Thursday with a delegation of U.S. cardinals and bishops over the sex abuse and cover-up scandal roiling the Catholic Church and his own papacy, the Vatican said Tuesday. Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, head…
Posted: 10 September 2018 [09:03 PM] NEW YORK (AP) - On 9/11, Stephen Feuerman saw the World Trade Center aflame through the window of his Empire State Building office and watched, transfixed, as a second fireball burst from the twin towers. He ran through the 78th…
Posted: 10 September 2018 [09:01 PM] WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration ordered the closure of the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington on Monday and threatened sanctions against the International Criminal Court if it pursues investigations against the U.S., Israel, or other allies. The moves are…
Posted: 10 September 2018 [08:59 PM] RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Florence rapidly strengthened into a potentially catastrophic Category 4 hurricane on Monday as it closed in on North and South Carolina, carrying winds and water that could wreak havoc over a wide stretch of the eastern…
