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Online protest movement exposes corruption in Uganda, leaving officials and others rattled
KAMPALA, Uganda — Abuse of public funds. Failing hospitals. Potholes in the streets of Kampala, the capital of Uganda. These and other issues feature in an online protest campaign that is rattling government officials and others in this East African country where street protests are practically outlawed — and where...
Malaysia may renew the search for MH370 a decade after the flight disappeared
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia’s government said Sunday it may renew the hunt for MH370 after a U.S. technology firm proposed a fresh search in the southern Indian Ocean where the Malaysia Airlines plane is believed to have crashed a decade ago. Transport Minister Anthony Loke said Texas-based Ocean Infinity...
Key Northern California highway closed as snow continues to fall in the blizzard-hit Sierra NevadaVideo
TRUCKEE, Calif. — A major highway was closed and ski resorts were shut down Sunday as the effects of a powerful blizzard continued to cause problems across the Sierra Nevada, and forecasters warned that more heavy snow was on the way for Northern California. Sections of Interstate 80 to the...
Cancer patient dragged by New York City bus, partially paralyzed, awarded $72.5 million in lawsuit
NEW YORK — A Florida woman who says she was struck and dragged by a New York City bus and left partially paralyzed has been awarded $72.5 million in her lawsuit against the city’s transit agency. A city jury found in favor of Aurora Beauchamp, now 68, who was hit...
Post-pandemic vaccine hesitancy fueling latest measles outbreak
WASHINGTON — Cases of measles are rising across the country and seem to be striking counties at random, but experts say there is one thing the public health system can do to turn the tide, and that’s to stem the post-pandemic vaccine lag and get parents to vaccinate their kids....
A Supreme Court decision could come Monday in a case about barring Trump from the 2024 ballot
WASHINGTON — A Supreme Court decision could come as soon as Monday in the case about whether former President Donald Trump can be kicked off the ballot over his efforts to undo his defeat in the 2020 election. Trump is challenging a groundbreaking decision by the Colorado Supreme Court that...
Netanyahu rival’s visit to U.S. highlights cracks within Israel’s wartime leadershipVideo
TEL AVIV, Israel — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuked a top Cabinet minister arriving in Washington on Sunday for talks with U.S. officials, according to an Israeli official, signaling widening cracks within the country’s leadership nearly five months into its war with Hamas. The trip by Benny Gantz, a centrist...
Kamala Harris leads Bloody Sunday memorial as marchers’ voices ring out for voting rightsVideo
SELMA, Ala. — Vice President Kamala Harris told thousands gathered for the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday attacks on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, that fundamental freedoms are under attack in America even today. Harris joined those gathered at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where voting...
Trump wins Missouri, Idaho caucuses, sweeps Michigan GOP convention as he moves closer to nomination
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Former President Donald Trump continued his march toward the GOP nomination Saturday, winning caucuses in Idaho and Missouri and sweeping the delegate haul at a party convention in Michigan. Idaho Republicans planned to caucus later. Nikki Haley, the former U.N. ambassador who is his last major rival,...
Oil spill, fertilizer leak from sinking of cargo ship highlight risks to Red Sea from Houthi attacks
MIAMI — A vibrant fishing industry, some of the world’s largest coral reefs, desalination plants supplying millions with drinking water. They’re all at risk from large amounts of fertilizer and oil spilled into the Red Sea by the sinking of a cargo ship attacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Officials on...
Firefighters face difficult weather conditions as they battle the largest wildfire in Texas history
STINNETT, Texas — Firefighters battling the largest wildfire in Texas history face increasingly difficult weather conditions on Saturday. The Smokehouse Creek Fire that began Monday has killed at least two people, left a charred landscape of scorched prairie, dead cattle and destroyed as many as 500 structures, including burned-out homes,...
Paramedic gets 5 years in prison for Elijah McClain’s death
DENVER — A Colorado paramedic was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for the death of Elijah McClain in a rare prosecution of medical responders that has left officials rethinking how they treat people in police custody. The convictions of Peter Cichuniec and a fellow paramedic sent shockwaves through...
Lobster catch dips to lowest level since 2009 as fishers grapple with climate change, whale rules
PORTLAND, Maine — America’s lobster fishing business dipped in catch while grappling with challenges including a changing ocean environment and new rules designed to protect rare whales. The lobster industry, based mostly in Maine, has had an unprecedented decade in terms of the volume and value of the lobsters brought...
The CDC has relaxed covid guidelines. Will schools and day cares follow suit?
Four years after the covid-19 pandemic closed schools and upended child care, the CDC says parents can start treating the virus like other respiratory illnesses. Gone are mandated isolation periods and masking. But will schools and child care centers agree? In case you’ve lost track: Before Friday, all Americans, including...
Trump’s Florida trial on secret documents will likely be postponed
A federal judge in Florida indicated Donald Trump’s trial on charges that he mishandled classified documents likely will be postponed from the current May 20 start date, putting his legal schedule in limbo as he campaigns again for the White House. Judge Aileen Cannon indicated during a hearing with prosecutors...
CVS and Walgreens plan to start dispensing abortion pill mifepristone soon
The drugstore chains CVS Health and Walgreens plan to start dispensing an abortion pill in a few states within weeks. CVS Health will start filling prescriptions for mifepristone in Rhode Island and neighboring Massachusetts “in the weeks ahead,” spokeswoman Amy Thibault said Friday. Walgreens will begin dispensing the medication within...
Parts of the Sierra Nevada likely to get 10 feet of snow from powerful storm by weekend
RENO, Nev. — At least nine Lake Tahoe ski resorts closed and visitors to Yosemite National Park were told to urgently leave Friday as California’s most powerful storm of the season bore down on the Sierra Nevada, where residents were urged to take shelter as they prepared for up to...
U.S. health officials drop 5-day isolation time for covid-19
NEW YORK — Americans who test positive for covid-19 no longer need to stay in isolation for five days, U.S. health officials announced Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its longstanding guidance, saying that people can return to work or regular activities if their symptoms are mild...
China pledges to increase opportunities for foreign companies as it seeks to boost its economy
BEIJING — Chinese Vice President Han Zheng pledged Friday to provide more opportunities for foreign companies in China as the government tries to restore confidence in the world’s second largest economy. Han told an audience of American business people in Beijing that the government would continue to open up more...
Woman convicted of murder conspiracy, coverup, in 2019 disappearance of Connecticut mother
A woman was convicted Friday of conspiring to murder missing mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos, who vanished from a wealthy Connecticut enclave in 2019 and was never found. Prosecutors said Michelle Troconis, 49, helped her then-boyfriend, Fotis Dulos, in his plot to kill his estranged wife and cover it up. In addition...
With trash bins now required in NYC, only the rats are sorry to see the garbage piles go
NEW YORK — New York City’s tradition of piling garbage bags on the sidewalk for pickup is going the way of the dinosaur. As of Friday, all 200,000 businesses in the Big Apple are required to put out their bags of trash in garbage bins, as communities across the county...
N.Y. man sentenced to 25 years to life for killing woman who wound up in his driveway after wrong turn
FORT EDWARD, N.Y. — A man who fatally shot a 20-year-old woman after the SUV she was riding in mistakenly drove into his rural driveway in upstate New York was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in prison. Kevin Monahan, 66, was convicted of second-degree murder in the death...
With salacious testimony finished, legal arguments to begin over Fani Willis’ future in Trump case
ATLANTA — After several days of extraordinary testimony, the judge in the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump is set to hear arguments Friday over whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be removed from the prosecution over a romantic relationship. Lawyers for Trump and other...
Gaza doctor says gunfire accounted for 80% of the wounds at his hospital from aid convoy bloodshed
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — The head of a Gaza City hospital that treated some of those wounded in the bloodshed surrounding an aid convoy said Friday that more than 80% had been struck by gunfire, suggesting there had been heavy shooting by Israeli troops. At least 112 Palestinians were killed...
Putin foe Alexei Navalny is buried in Moscow as thousands attend under a heavy police presence
Under a heavy police presence, thousands of people bade farewell Friday to opposition leader Alexei Navalny at his funeral in Moscow after his still-unexplained death two weeks ago in an Arctic penal colony. Navalny was buried at a cemetery in the snowy southeastern outskirts of the capital after a short...
