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Biden OKs $60M in aid after Baltimore bridge collapse as governor warns of 'very long road ahead'

Mar. 28, 2024 19:41 PM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore warned Thursday of a “very long road ahead” to recover from the loss of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge as the Biden administration approved $60 million in immediate federal aid after the deadly collapse. Meanwhile the U.S. Army...

Why did more than 1,000 people die after police subdued them with force that isn't meant to kill?

Mar. 28, 2024 11:23 AM EDT

Carl Grant, a Vietnam veteran with dementia, wandered out of a hospital room to charge a cellphone he imagined he had. When he wouldn’t sit still, the police officer escorting Grant body-slammed him, ricocheting the patient’s head off the floor. Taylor Ware, a former Marine and...

UN top court orders Israel to open more land crossings for aid into Gaza

Mar. 28, 2024 19:11 PM EDT

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top United Nations court on Thursday ordered Israel to take measures to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, including opening more land crossings to allow food, water, fuel and other supplies into the war-ravaged enclave. The International...

Doctors visiting a Gaza hospital are stunned by the war's toll on Palestinian children

Mar. 28, 2024 06:24 AM EDT

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst. But the gruesome impact Israel’s war against Hamas is having on Palestinian children still left them stunned. One toddler died from a brain injury caused by...

Fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

Mar. 28, 2024 19:50 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for a massive fraud on hundreds of thousands of customers that unraveled with the collapse of FTX, once one of the world’s most popular platforms for exchanging digital currency. ...

Bus plunges off a bridge in South Africa, killing 45 people. An 8-year-old is only survivor

Mar. 28, 2024 20:18 PM EDT

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers headed to an Easter festival plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass and burst into flames in South Africa on Thursday, killing at least 45 people, authorities said. The only survivor of the crash was an 8-year-old child,...

Trump attends wake of slain New York officer, calls for 'law and order,' to show contrast with Biden

Mar. 28, 2024 17:10 PM EDT

MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Donald Trump attended Thursday's wake of a New York City police officer gunned down in the line of duty and called for “law and order,” as part of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's attempt to show a contrast with President Joe Biden and focus on...

Biden's fundraiser with Obama and Clinton nets a record $25 million, his campaign says

Mar. 28, 2024 19:43 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A fundraiser for President Joe Biden on Thursday in New York City that also stars Barack Obama and Bill Clinton is raising a whopping $25 million, setting a record for the biggest haul for a political event, his campaign said. The eye-popping amount was a major...

House Republicans invite President Biden to testify at public hearing as impeachment inquiry stalls

Mar. 28, 2024 17:28 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Thursday invited President Joe Biden to testify before Congress in what appears to be a last-ditch effort to deliver on their stalled monthslong impeachment inquiry into the Biden family businesses. Rep. James Comer, chair of the House...

Black pastors see popular Easter services as an opportunity to rebuild in-person worship attendance

Mar. 28, 2024 08:15 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when many churches moved their services online, the Rev. William H. Lamar IV initially shuddered at the thought that he needed to morph into a “video personality” to stay engaged with his parishioners. “I resisted...

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Bus plunges off a bridge in South Africa, killing 45 people. An 8-year-old is only survivor

Mar. 28, 2024 20:18 PM EDT

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers headed to an Easter festival plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass and burst into flames in South Africa on Thursday, killing at least 45 people, authorities said. The only survivor of the crash was an 8-year-old child,...

Activists sue US National Park Service over plan to remove Puerto Rico's famous stray cats

Mar. 28, 2024 20:14 PM EDT

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A nonprofit organization said Thursday that it sued the U.S. National Park Service over a plan to remove Puerto Rico’s famous stray cats from a historic district in the U.S. territory. The lawsuit filed by Maryland-based Alley Cat Allies comes four...

Haiti now needs up to 5,000 police to help tackle `catastrophic' gang violence , UN expert says

Mar. 28, 2024 20:14 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Haiti now needs between 4,000 and 5,000 international police to help tackle “catastrophic” gang violence which is targeting key individuals and hospitals, schools, banks and other critical institutions, the U.N. rights expert for the conflict-wracked Caribbean nation...

Baltimore bridge collapse puts the highly specialized role of ship's pilot under the spotlight

Mar. 28, 2024 20:03 PM EDT

The expert pilots who navigate massive ships in and out of Baltimore's port must often maneuver with just 2 feet (0.6 meter) of clearance from the channel floor and memorize charts, currents and every other possible maritime variable. The highly specialized role — in which a pilot...

Republican committee to select Buck's likely replacement, adding a challenge to Boebert's campaign

Mar. 28, 2024 19:56 PM EDT

DENVER (AP) — A panel of Colorado Republicans will select a candidate Thursday who will likely serve out the final months of U.S. Rep. Ken Buck ’s term — and could pose a challenge to Rep. Lauren Boebert’s bid for another term in Congress. It's an unusual and confusing twist...

Fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

Mar. 28, 2024 19:50 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for a massive fraud on hundreds of thousands of customers that unraveled with the collapse of FTX, once one of the world’s most popular platforms for exchanging digital currency. ...

Biden's fundraiser with Obama and Clinton nets a record $25 million, his campaign says

Mar. 28, 2024 19:43 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A fundraiser for President Joe Biden on Thursday in New York City that also stars Barack Obama and Bill Clinton is raising a whopping $25 million, setting a record for the biggest haul for a political event, his campaign said. The eye-popping amount was a major...

Biden OKs $60M in aid after Baltimore bridge collapse as governor warns of 'very long road ahead'

Mar. 28, 2024 19:41 PM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore warned Thursday of a “very long road ahead” to recover from the loss of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge as the Biden administration approved $60 million in immediate federal aid after the deadly collapse. Meanwhile the U.S. Army...

California man convicted of killing his mother is captured in Mexico after ditching halfway house

Mar. 28, 2024 19:38 PM EDT

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man convicted of killing his mother as a teenager was captured in Mexico a week after he walked away from a halfway house, violating the conditions of his probation, authorities said. Ike Nicholas Souzer, 20, was arrested Wednesday in...

California supervisor who tried to get rid of Shasta County vote-counting machines survives recall

Mar. 28, 2024 19:34 PM EDT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A local official in a rural Northern California survived a recall attempt spurred in part by his effort to get rid of the county's vote-counting machines following unfounded accusations of fraud amplified by former President Donald Trump. Kevin Crye was...