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French leftist alliance selects Lucie Castets as candidate for new prime minister
By The Associated Press on July 23rd, 2024
PARIS (AP) – France’s leftist New Popular Front, which won the most seats in high-stakes legislative elections earlier this month, said Tuesday it has selected Lucie Castets, a civil servant unknown to the public, as their candidate to be the new French prime minister. The announcement came shortly before President Emmanuel Macron is scheduled to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!US Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey is resigning from office following his corruption conviction
By Michael Catalini, The Associated Press on July 23rd, 2024
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is resigning from office Aug. 20 following his conviction for taking bribes for corrupt acts including acting as an agent of the Egyptian government, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Menendez had insisted after the July 16 verdict that he was ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Harris visits battleground Wisconsin in first rally as Democrats coalesce around her for president
By Chris Megerian And Zeke Miller, The Associated Press on July 23rd, 2024
MILWAUKEE (AP) – Vice President Kamala Harris flew to her first battleground state Tuesday after locking up nomination support from Democratic delegates, determined to prosecute the Democrats’ political case against Republican former President Donald Trump. Just two days after President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid, Harris arrived in Milwaukee, where she was to hold ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mudslides in Ethiopia have killed at least 229. It’s not clear how many people are still missing
By Amanuel Gebremedhin Birhane, The Associated Press on July 23rd, 2024
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – Mudslides triggered by heavy rain in a remote part of Ethiopia have killed at least 229 people, including many who tried to rescue survivors, local authorities said Tuesday, in what the prime minister called a “terrible loss.” Young children and pregnant women were among the victims in Kencho Shacha Gozdi ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Iowa law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy to take effect Monday
By Hannah Fingerhut, The Associated Press on July 23rd, 2024
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – An Iowa judge has ruled the state’s strict abortion law will take effect Monday, preventing most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant. The law passed last year, but a judge had blocked it from being enforced. The Iowa Supreme Court reiterated in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Police arrest teen after Iowa mall shooting that left 2 people hurt
By The Associated Press on July 23rd, 2024
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) – Investigators arrested a teenager in connection with a shooting at an Iowa mall that left the teen and another person wounded and sent people running for safety, police said Tuesday. Police arrested a 16-year-old on several weapons charges after learning he had been taken by a private car to a hospital ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Secret Service director steps down after assassination attempt against ex-President Trump at rally
By Colleen Long (), The Associated Press on July 23rd, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) – The director of the Secret Service is stepping down from her job, according to an email she sent to staff, following the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump that unleashed intensifying outcry about how the agency tasked with protecting current and former presidents could fail in its core mission. Kimberly Cheatle, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Oscar Mayer Wienermobile flips onto its side after crash along suburban Chicago highway
By The Associated Press on July 23rd, 2024
OAK BROOK, Ill. (AP) – One of Oscar Mayer’s hot dog-shaped Wienermobiles ended up flipped onto its side after crashing on a suburban Chicago highway, police said. The Wienermobile hit a car Monday morning along Interstate 294 and its driver lost control and overcorrected, causing it to roll onto its side near the Chicago suburb ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!3 Army Reserve officers disciplined after reservist killed 18 people last October in Maine
By David Sharp And Patrick Whittle, The Associated Press on July 23rd, 2024
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – Three Army Reserve officers were disciplined for dereliction of duty in the aftermath of a rampage in which a reservist killed 18 people in Maine, according to an Army report that cited communication failures within the chain of command, and between military and civilian hospitals, among other shortcomings revealed during an ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Death toll in southern Ethiopia mudslides rises to at least 157 as search operations continue
By Amanuel Gebremedhin Birhane, The Associated Press on July 23rd, 2024
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – At least 157 people were killed in mudslides in a remote part of Ethiopia that has been hit with heavy rainfall, many of them as they tried to rescue survivors of an earlier mudslide, local authorities said Tuesday. Young children and pregnant women were among the victims of the mudslides ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Death toll in southern Ethiopia mudslides rises to at least 146 as search operations continue
By Amanuel Gebremedhin Birhane, The Associated Press on July 23rd, 2024
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – At least 146 people were killed in mudslides in a remote part of Ethiopia that has been hit with heavy rainfall, according to local authorities. Young children and pregnant women were among the victims of the mudslides in the Kencho Shacha Gozdi district of southern Ethiopia, said Dagmawi Ayele, a ... Read More »
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