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Thousands flee as wildfires burn out of control in and around Los Angeles and homes are destroyed
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California firefighters battled wind-whipped wildfires that tore across the Los Angeles area, destroying homes, clogging roadways as tens of thousands fled and straining resources as the fires burned uncontained early Wednesday. The flames from a fire that broke...
Trump refuses to rule out use of military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared U.S. control of both to be vital to American national security. Speaking to reporters less than...
Judge temporarily blocks release of special counsel report on Trump cases as court fight simmers
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the public release of special counsel Jack Smith's report on investigations into Donald Trump as an appeals court weighs a challenge to the disclosure of a much-anticipated document just days before the president-elect reclaims...
Southern US shivers as new winter storm threatens snow for Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A developing winter storm threatens to drop snow, sleet and freezing rain on parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas as frigid air that escaped the Arctic plunges temperatures to subfreezing levels in some of the southernmost points of the U.S. National Weather...
Tents arrive for survivors of a quake that killed 126 in freezing, high-altitude Tibet
BEIJING (AP) — Rescuers in the freezing, high-altitude Tibet region in western China searched a second day for any remaining victims of a deadly earthquake that struck near a holy city for Tibetan Buddhists, before shifting their focus to resettling the survivors. More tents,...
Middle East latest: Israeli strikes kill 17 people in Gaza, nearly all of them women or kids
Israeli airstrikes in southern Gaza killed at least 17 people late Tuesday, nearly all of them women or children, the territory’s Health Ministry and hospital officials said. Five kids were killed as they sheltered together in the same tent, said Ahmed al-Farra, director of the...
Hostages in Gaza endure another winter as their families plead for a ceasefire
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — When Luis Har was kidnapped by Hamas-led militants on the warm morning of Oct. 7, 2023, he was forced into Gaza wearing shorts and a T-shirt. As his captivity stretched into weeks and then months, the cold, wet winter set in, bringing along with it a dread he had never...
Jimmy Carter continues to lie in state at Capitol Rotunda ahead of his state funeral
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Jimmy Carter will continue to lie in state Wednesday after his remains arrived in Washington a day earlier as part of state funeral rites. The Georgia Democrat and 39th president died Dec. 29 at the age of 100. Carter served as president...
Jimmy Carter's woodworking, painting and poetry reveal an introspective Renaissance Man
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — The world knew Jimmy Carter as a president and humanitarian, but he also was a woodworker, painter and poet, creating a body of artistic work that reflects deeply personal views of the global community — and himself. His portfolio illuminates his closest...
See photos of fire, smoke and flight as wildfires race across Southern California
Strong winds that sent wildfires ripping through the mountains and foothills around Los Angeles on Tuesday fed a spectacle of smoke, flames and flight. Large flames Vivid orange flames lit the sky in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, where firefighters dragged hoses...
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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen pays tribute to her politically polarizing father
PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen paid tribute Wednesday to her father Jean-Marie, the founder of the National Front party who died at 96, calling him a “warrior” in politics despite their notoriously harsh political disputes. Le Pen posted on social media...
Thousands flee as wildfires burn out of control in and around Los Angeles and homes are destroyed
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California firefighters battled wind-whipped wildfires that tore across the Los Angeles area, destroying homes, clogging roadways as tens of thousands fled and straining resources as the fires burned uncontained early Wednesday. The flames from a fire that broke...
ByteDance's Lemon8 gains traction amid TikTok ban threat as creators push the app
Hearing a lot about Lemon8 lately? You’re not the only one. Amid a looming U.S. ban on TikTok, content creators have been pushing the platform's sister app. Lemon8 resembles an amalgamation of the types of short-form videos found on TikTok and the picture-perfect aesthetic of...
Ukraine claims it struck a key military fuel depot deep inside Russia
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian military said Wednesday that it struck a fuel storage depot deep inside Russia, causing a huge blaze at the facility that supplies an important Russian air base. Russian officials acknowledged a major drone attack in the area, and said that...
UK police face probe into handling of sex crimes allegations against Harrods owner Al Fayed
LONDON (AP) — British police watchdogs will investigate whether the London force bungled its handling of sex crimes allegations against Mohamed Al Fayed, the late owner of upmarket department store Harrods. The Independent Office for Police Conduct said Wednesday that it will...
Body of British hiker found in Italian alps as search continues for second missing since Jan. 1
ROME (AP) — Rescue crews found the body of a British hiker buried in the snow of the Italian alps and were continuing to search for his friend who had also been missing since Jan. 1, Italy's rescue services said Wednesday. Italy’s Alpine rescue service said it only received an...
124 migrants detained on an eastern Greek island after using unmarked speedboats
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities in Greece detained 124 migrants on the eastern island of Karpathos on Wednesday after spotting speedboats without identification markers. The coast guard said 58 migrants were discovered during an inspection near the main port of the island in the...
Carter and Biden's long friendship had wrinkles. It will be on display a final time with a eulogy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden is the consummate Washington insider. Jimmy Carter was anything but. Yet the 46th and 39th U.S. presidents had a decades-long friendship starting when Biden, as a young Delaware lawmaker, became the first sitting senator to endorse Carter’s outsider...
Italian journalist Cecilia Sala released from Iran and returning home
ROME (AP) — An Italian journalist detained in Iran for three weeks and whose fate became intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer wanted by the United States was freed Wednesday and is heading home, Italian officials announced. A plane carrying Cecilia Sala took off from Tehran...
Japan links Chinese hacker MirrorFace to dozens of cyberattacks targeting security and tech data
TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Wednesday linked more than 200 cyberattacks over the past five years targeting the country's national security and high technology data to a Chinese hacking group, MirrorFace, detailing their tactics and calling on government agencies and businesses to reinforce preventive...
