Winter storm to bring snow, winds, ice and life-threatening chill to US, forecasters warn
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Icy winter weather blanketed the U.S. on Saturday as a wave of Arctic storms threatened to break low-temperature records in the heartland, spread cold and snow from coast to coast and cast a chill over everything from football playoffs to .
As the three-day Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend began, the weather forecast was a crazy quilt of color-coded advisories, from an ice storm warning in Oregon to a blizzard warning in the northern Plains
Nigerian group provides hundreds of prosthetic limbs to amputee children thanks to crowdfunding
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The accident that broke 10-year-old Princess Igbinosa’s right leg could have crushed her dreams of becoming a model in a country where not many can afford prosthetics to cope with life and fight social stigma.
“It was heartbreaking when they told us they had to amputate it (the leg),” her mother, Esther Igbinosa, said of Princess’s experience in 2020. “During the first few months of her amputation … I just wake
As a new generation rises, tension between free speech and inclusivity on college campuses simmers
WASHINGTON (AP) — Generations of Americans have held firm to a version of free speech that makes room for even the vilest of views. It’s girded by a belief that the good ideas rise above the bad, that no one should be punished for voicing an idea — except in rare cases where the idea could lead directly to illegal action.
Today, that idea faces competition more forceful and vehement than it has seen for a century.
On college campuses, a newer version of free speech is emerging as young
In Ecuador, the global reach of Mexico’s warring drug cartels fuels a national crisis
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s two main drug cartels have long taken their deadly rivalry with them as they expand into distant markets from Asia to Australia to Africa, but never before with and a presidential declaration of a state of “internal armed conflict” this week in Ecuador.
Gunmen from an Ecuadorian gang believed aligned with Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation cartel and brandished explosives. Meanwhile, a rival gang believed to be backed by Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel called for peace — in a statement apparently issued from
As a new generation rises, tension between free speech and inclusivity on college campuses simmers
Generations of Americans have held firm to a version of free speech that makes room for even the vilest of views. It’s girded by a belief that the good ideas rise above the bad, that no one should be punished for voicing an idea — except in rare cases where the idea could lead directly to illegal action.
Today, that idea faces competition more forceful and vehement than it has seen for a century.
On , a newer version of free speech is emerging as young generations redraw the line where expression crosses
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A weekend of ferocious winter weather could see low-temperature records set in the US heartland
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Icy winter weather blanketed the U.S. on Saturday as a wave of Arctic storms threatened to break low-temperature records in the heartland, spread cold and snow from coast to coast and cast a chill over everything from football playoffs to presidential campaigns.
As the three-day Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend began, the weather forecast was a crazy quilt of color
After years of delays, former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ties the knot
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — After almost five years of engagement and a postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic, former New Zealand Prime Minister married longtime partner Clarke Gayford in a private ceremony Saturday.
Details of the event were closely held by the pair, but the ceremony is reported to have been staged at a luxury vineyard in the scenic Hawke’s Bay region, 325 kilometers (200 miles) from New Zealand’s capital, Wellington.
It is believed only family, close friends and
Hollywood’s brightest stars turn out for the American Film Institute Awards
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Laughs and hugs were shared between Hollywood’s best — including Margot Robbie, Meryl Streep and Leonardo DiCaprio — during a celebratory ceremony where everyone ended up walking away a winner at the American Film Institute Awards on Friday.
The annual invite-only luncheon honored 10 films and 10 television shows with well-spoken words about each celebrated project followed by a brief clip of a scene.
“Welcome to the annual AFI group hug,” institute President Bob Gazzale said as
Man wanted for assault that seriously injured victim on TTC bus
Toronto police are hoping to identify a man wanted in the alleged assault of a victim aboard a TTC bus in the city’s downtown core.
Officers responded to a call for an assault in the Brunswick Avenue and Bloor Street West area just before 4 a.m. on Dec. 25, 2023.
It’s alleged that the victim was standing on the bus when they were involved in an altercation with the suspect, who then assaulted them. The victim suffered serious injuries as a result.
Alabama court says state can make second attempt to execute inmate whose lethal injection failed
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday rejected the appeal of a death row inmate who is scheduled to be the and had argued that he shouldn’t face execution after a previous attempt at a lethal injection failed.
Justices without dissent rejected arguments that a second attempt to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith would violate federal and state bans on cruel and unusual punishment. A circuit judge had previously rejected Smith’s argument, and the decision was upheld by a state appellate court. State justices declined to