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Sri Lanka in crisis: President flees and ire turns to PM

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s president fled the country Wednesday, plunging a country already reeling from economic chaos into more political turmoil. Protesters demanding a change in leadership then trained their ire on the prime minister and stormed his office. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his wife left aboard an...
Demand for monkeypox vaccine overwhelms NYC system

NEW YORK — Soaring demand for the monkeypox vaccine caused the appointment system to crash in New York City, one of many places where supplies have been running out almost as soon as they arrive. City health officials acknowledged the frustration over the limited supply of the vaccine and vowed...
South Africa’s many illegal guns a factor in bar shootings

JOHANNESBURG — South African police are patrolling the streets of Johannesburg’s Soweto township, following a spate of bar shootings that have rocked the nation. The country’s abundance of guns held illegally is partially to blame for the shootings in which 22 people were killed at three different taverns this past...
Russia, Ukraine discuss UN plan to free up grain exports

ISTANBUL — Russia said Wednesday it has presented a package of proposals for a “practical and quick solution” to unblock the export of Ukrainian grain during talks between Russian and Ukrainian military officials in Istanbul. Both sides were seeking an agreement on a United Nations plan for the grain’s shipment...
Wall Street opens lower after another hot inflation report

NEW YORK — Early gains on Wall Street were doused Wednesday after the government reported that surging prices for gas, food and rent catapulted U.S. inflation to a new four-decade peak in June, likely sealing the case for another large interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve. Futures for the...
Prominent Greek actor-director found guilty of 2 rapes

ATHENS, Greece — A prominent Greek stage actor and director has been found guilty of raping two men when they were minors. Dimitris Lignadis, 57, was found guilty by an Athens court Wednesday in two out of four cases of rape. Lignadis was acquitted for insufficient evidence in a third...
U.S. inflation surges again in June, raising risks for economy

WASHINGTON — U.S. inflation surged to a new four-decade high in June because of rising prices for gas, food and rent, squeezing household budgets and pressuring the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates aggressively — trends that raise the risk of a recession. The government’s consumer price index soared 9.1%...
Police: Investigation underway into death of goat working in Aspinwall park

Aspinwall police took to Facebook hoping people would come forward about what happened a goat that was part of a herd clearing brush and noxious plants at Firemen’s Memorial Park and died. Six goats from Capricious Goats, run by McCandless couple Monica and Timothy Shields, began work to clear the...
Video shows police milling in hallway during Uvalde massacre

AUSTIN, Texas — Surveillance footage captured the gunman in the Uvalde school shooting enter the building with a AR-15 style rifle and later shows officers in body armor milling in the hallway outside the fourth-grade classrooms where 19 children and two teachers were killed. The video published Tuesday by the...
Pennsylvania funds 3 new state parks, locations yet to be determined

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s governor tweeted he had “big news” on Tuesday, announcing the state budget passed in recent days includes funding for three new state parks. Gov. Tom Wolf’s press secretary, Beth Rementer, subsequently said the park sites haven’t been chosen, but work to identify and purchase the land is...
Prosecutor: Ohio escapee had woman at knifepoint, was killed

MASON, Ohio — A member of a law enforcement tactical team shot and killed an escaped prison inmate on Tuesday after the team entered an Ohio hotel room where authorities said he was holding a woman at knifepoint, prosecutors said. Authorities in Hamilton County had been seeking Thomas Cromwell, 27,...
John Fetterman’s fund-raising broke a record as he won the nomination for U.S. Senate

John Fetterman’s cash machine is still rolling — and gaining speed. The lieutenant governor raised $8.3 million for his U.S. Senate campaign between his Democratic primary win and the end of June, according to campaign figures shared first with The Inquirer. That was part of a record-setting $11 million haul...
Western Pa. U.S. Attorney Cindy Chung nominated to 3rd Circuit bench

President Joe Biden on Tuesday nominated Cindy K. Chung to become a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Chung, 46, has served as the U.S. Attorney for Western Pennsylvania since 2021. She would become the first Asian American to sit on the Third Circuit court...
‘The virus is not done with us yet’: New covid-19 variants better evade antibodies, doctors say

CHICAGO — For people who contracted covid-19 during earlier omicron surges, doctors have some unwelcome news: You are again susceptible to catching the virus. Two new variants of the virus appear to more easily evade immune protection from prior infections, meaning even some who have recovered from a case of...
Superbug infections, deaths rose at beginning of pandemic

NEW YORK — The toll of drug-resistant “superbug” infections worsened during the first year of the covid-19 pandemic, U.S. health officials said Tuesday. After years of decline, 2020 ushered in a 15% increase in hospital infections and deaths caused by some of the most worrisome bacterial infections, according to a...
Baby stars, dancing galaxies: NASA shows new cosmic views

GREENBELT, Md. — A sparkling landscape of baby stars. A foamy blue and orange view of a dying star. Five galaxies in a cosmic dance. The splendors of the universe glowed in a new batch of images released Tuesday from NASA’s powerful new telescope. The unveiling from the $10 billion...

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