Authorities have seized evidence from the home of a man charged in a downtown Cleveland mass shooting over the weekend that wounded nine people. But a motive for the early Sunday shooting remained …
more
7/12/23
|
It's cricket but with a relatively new spin. George Bernard Shaw asserted “the English are not very spiritual people so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.” Cricket has …
more
By STEVE McMORRAN
|
7/12/23
|
Illinois State Police say a Greyhound passenger bus crashed into three tractor-trailers parked along a highway exit to a rest area in southern Illinois, killing three people and injuring 14 others, …
more
7/12/23
|
The Webb Space Telescope is marking one year of cosmic photographs with one of its best yet. NASA unveiled the latest snapshot Wednesday, revealing the dramatic close-up of 50 young stars close to …
more
By MARCIA DUNN
|
7/12/23
|
Newly public documents are showing how America’s push for the atomic bomb helped saddle St. Louis with an enduring radioactive waste problem. St. Louis was part of a geographically scattered …
more
By MICHAEL PHILLIS and JIM SALTER
|
7/12/23
|
Computer chip and software maker Broadcom’s $61 billion proposed purchase of cloud technology company VMware got the green light from European Union regulators who were satisfied by concessions to …
more
LONDON
|
7/12/23
|
Dutch forward Vivianne Miedema and England’s Leah Williamson are among the stars of women's soccer who won’t be playing in the World Cup. Both players have been ruled out because of ACL injuries. …
more
By ANNE M. PETERSON
|
7/12/23
|
Most U.S. adults oppose the deepest bans on abortion, a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research has found. The majority of those who live in states that have barred …
more
By GEOFF MULVIHILL and LINLEY SANDERS
|
7/12/23
|
An American woman says she told her new husband she loved him and was certain they would die when a New Zealand volcano erupted in 2019 killing 22 people. Lauren and Matt Urey returned to New Zealand …
more
By ROD McGUIRK
|
7/11/23
|
On Jan. 26, 1971, Charles Manson and three members of his California cult were convicted for the murders of seven people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate. On Tuesday, one of those three …
more
7/11/23
|
New research suggests humans lived in South America at the same time as now extinct giant sloths, bolstering evidence that people arrived in the Americas earlier than previously thought. Scientists …
more
By CHRISTINA LARSON
|
7/11/23
|
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says it's time for Supreme Court justices to bring their conduct in line with the standards of other branches of government. Sen. Dick Durbin, an …
more
By CHRIS MEGERIAN, ERIC TUCKER and BRIAN SLODYSKO
|
7/11/23
|
Leaders of a Southern California city hit by a destructive landslide are planning to vote on a resolution to declare a local emergency. The resolution on the Rolling Hills Estate City Council agenda …
more
7/11/23
|
A state judge has thrown out obstruction of justice charges against two of the five Louisiana lawmen indicted in the fatal 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, a death authorities initially blamed on a car …
more
By JIM MUSTIAN
|
7/11/23
|
A plan by Oregon’s largest county to distribute tin foil and straws for fentanyl users and glass pipes for methamphetamine and crack users has been halted after opposition from Portland’s mayor …
more
7/11/23
|
A team of scientists is recommending to mark the start of a new geological epoch defined by how humans have impacted the Earth with a ‘golden spike’ in the pristine Crawford Lake outside Toronto …
more
By SETH BORENSTEIN
|
7/11/23
|
Fifty years ago, millions of files were destroyed in a huge fire at the Military Personnel Records Center in suburban St. Louis. The July 12, 1973, blaze consumed an estimated 16 to 18 million …
more
By ALLEN G. BREED, RANDY HERSCHAFT
|
7/11/23
|
Double Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya has won an appeal against track and field’s testosterone rules after the European Court of Human Rights ruled she had been discriminated against. The …
more
By GERALD IMRAY
|
7/11/23
|
A new analysis shows students across the U.S. fell further behind academically last school year despite extensive efforts to help them recover from learning setbacks tied to the COVID-19 pandemic. …
more
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and CAROLYN THOMPSON
|
7/11/23
|
Few Republicans have high confidence that votes will be tallied accurately in next year’s presidential contest, suggesting years of sustained attacks against elections by former President Donald …
more
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and LINLEY SANDERS
|
7/11/23
|