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Hurricane Hilary grows off Mexico and could reach California as a very rare tropical storm
MEXICO CITY — Hurricane Hilary grew rapidly to Category 4 strength off Mexico’s Pacific coast on Friday and could reach Southern California as the first tropical storm there in 84 years, causing “significant and rare impacts” including extensive flooding. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Hilary had sustained winds near...
Firefighters are trying to put out a peatland fire threatening homes on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island
PALEMBANG, Indonesia — Firefighters on Friday were trying to put out a peatland fire on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island that was growing in size near a dense residential area. The effort is made difficult by the limited firefighting equipment and distant water source, a one-hour trip to the fire’s location in...
Justice Department seeks 33 years in prison for ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio in Jan. 6 case
The Justice Department is seeking 33 years in prison for Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy in one of the most serious cases to emerge from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to court documents filed Thursday. Tarrio, who once served...
Trump lawyers seek April 2026 trial date in federal election subversion case
WASHINGON — Lawyers for Donald Trump asked a federal judge Thursday to put off until 2026 a trial in Washington on charges that the former president plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The suggested April 2026 date is a counterproposal to the Justice Department’s recommendation last week...
Fulton County sheriff investigating online threats to grand jurors after Trump indictment
ATLANTA — The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday it is investigating online threats to the members of the grand jury that indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 others earlier this week. “We take this matter very seriously and are coordinating with our law enforcement partners to respond quickly...
Hurricane Hilary forms off Mexico’s Pacific coast and could bring rain to U.S. SouthwestVideo
MEXICO CITY — Hilary strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane off Mexico’s Pacific coast Thursday, and it could bring heavy rain to the U.S. southwest by the weekend. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said that Hilary had maximum winds of 105 mph and could perhaps skim the coast of the...
Oklahoma City man kills his 3 children and estranged wife before taking his own life, police say
OKLAHOMA CITY — A 28-year-old man fatally shot his three young children and his estranged wife before taking his own life, Oklahoma City police said Thursday. Investigators have not determined a motive, Sgt. Gary Knight said. “They’re still trying to figure out what led up to this,” Knight said. “Sometimes...
Texas woman accused of threatening to kill judge overseeing Trump election case and a congresswoman
HOUSTON — A Texas woman was arrested and has been charged with threatening to kill the federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump in Washington and a member of Congress. Abigail Jo Shry of Alvin, Texas, called the federal courthouse in Washington and left the threatening...
In Anne Frank’s Amsterdam, Ukrainian children’s war diaries go on show in exhibition at City Hall
AMSTERDAM — The city where Anne Frank wrote her World War II diary while hiding with her family from the brutal Nazi occupation is hosting an exhibition about the Ukraine war with grim echoes of her plight more than three quarters of a century later. The exhibition that opened at...
Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public
KABUL, Afghanistan — Women lose value if men can see their uncovered faces in public, a spokesman for a key ministry of Afghanistan’s Taliban government said Thursday, adding that religious scholars in the country agree that a woman must keep her face covered when outside the home. The Taliban, who...
Sweden raises its terror threat level to high for fear of attacks following recent Quran burnings
STOCKHOLM — Sweden raised its terror alert to the second-highest level on Thursday after a string of public desecrations of the Quran sparked angry demonstrations across Muslim countries and threats from militant groups. The Swedish Security Service, known as SÄPO, lifted the “terror threat level” one notch to “high,” the...
Air evacuations are to begin for people in the path of wildfires in Canada’s Northwest Territories
YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories — Air evacuations were to begin Thursday to move residents in the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories out of the path of wildfires that neared the city of 20,000 people. People in the four areas of Yellowknife at highest risk should leave as soon as possible and...
Hawaii is vowing to protect landowners on Maui from being pressured to sell after wildfires
LAHAINA, Hawaii — Hawaii’s governor vowed to protect local landowners from being “victimized” by opportunistic buyers when Maui rebuilds from deadly wildfires that incinerated a historic island community and killed more than 100 people. Gov. Josh Green said Wednesday that he instructed the state attorney general to work toward a...
Biden’s approval rating on the economy stagnates despite slowing inflation, AP-NORC poll shows
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has devoted the past several weeks to promoting the positive impacts of his policies — but his efforts have yet to meaningfully register with the public. Only 36% of U.S. adults approve of Biden’s handling of the economy, slightly lower than the 42% who approve...
Pig kidney works in a donated body for over a month, a step toward animal-human transplantsVideo
NEW YORK — Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s worked normally — a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients. Scientists around the country are racing to learn how to use animal...
Georgia prosecutor seeks March trial date for Trump, 18 others in election case
ATLANTA — The prosecutor in Atlanta who obtained an indictment this week against former President Donald Trump and 18 others wants to take the case to trial in March. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said in a proposed scheduling order filed with the court Wednesday that she wants the...
Kansas prosecutor says police should return computers, cellphones seized in raid on newspaper
MARION, Kan. — A Kansas prosecutor said Wednesday that he found insufficient evidence to support the police raid of a weekly newspaper and that all seized material should be returned in a dispute over press freedoms that the White House acknowledged it is watching closely. “This administration has been vocal...
Some abortion drug restrictions upheld by appeals court in case bound for Supreme CourtVideo
NEW ORLEANS — New restrictions on access to a drug used in the most common form of abortion in the United States would be imposed under a federal appeals court ruling issued Wednesday, but the Supreme Court will have the final say. The ruling by three judges on the 5th...
FEMA opens disaster recovery center on Maui to help victims of wildfires
Follow live updates about wildfires that have devastated parts of Maui in Hawaii, killing more than 100 people and destroying the historic town of Lahaina. The wildfires are the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century. Videos showing downed power lines apparently sparking some of the early blazes...
Tropical Storm Hilary forms off Mexico’s southern Pacific coast
MEXICO CITY — Tropical Storm Hilary formed Wednesday far off Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, but it is expected to strengthen and move north toward the Baja California peninsula later this week. Hilary had wind of 40 mph Wednesday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Hilary was located about 370 miles...
Russia hits Ukrainian grain depots again as foreign ship tries out Kyiv’s new Black Sea corridor
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian drones pounded grain storage facilities and ports along the Danube River that Ukraine has increasingly relied on as an alternative transport route to Europe, after Moscow broke off a key wartime shipping agreement using the Black Sea. At the same time, a loaded container ship stranded...
DeSantis’ appointees ask judge to rule against Disney without need for trial
A Florida judge should rule without trial against Disney as the company fights Gov. Ron DeSantis’ takeover of a board that oversees Walt Disney World, the Republican governor’s appointees said in a Tuesday court filing. Members of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District asked the state judge in Orlando for...
California judge pleads not guilty to murder in wife’s deathVideo
LOS ANGELES — A Southern California judge charged with killing his wife during an argument while he was drunk pleaded not guilty to murder Tuesday, and his lawyer says it was an “accidental shooting.” Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ricardo Ocampo ordered Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson, who...
Videos put scrutiny on downed power lines as possible cause of deadly Maui wildfiresVideo
Awakened by howling wind that tore through his Maui neighborhood, Shane Treu went out at dawn and saw a wooden power pole suddenly snap with a flash, its sparking, popping line falling to the dry grass below and quickly igniting a row of flames. He called 911 and then turned...
Tourists are getting trapped on remote Shark Island off North Carolina’s Outer Banks, park warns
Multiple tourists have become trapped on a treacherous island off the North Carolina coast this month, forcing the National Park Service to coordinate highly risky rescues, park rangers say. Visiting the ominously named Shark Island could get you killed, Cape Lookout National Seashore warned this week in a news release....
