ZEBALLOS, British Columbia (AP) — A young killer whale that was trapped for more than a month in a lagoon on Vancouver Island swam past a bottleneck at high tide early Friday, reaching an inlet that could take it to the open sea, officials said. The Ehattesaht and Nuchatlaht First Nations said in a statement […]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hit back at former President Trump following his “barely coherent” rant on Truth Social on Friday night targeting the independent presidential candidate. “When frightened men take to social media they risk descending into vitriol, which makes them sound unhinged,” Kennedy said Saturday in a post on the social platform X. “President […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken has determined that an Israeli army battalion committed grave human-rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank before the war in Gaza. But he said in a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson that he is postponing a decision on blocking aid to the unit to give […]
Jim Wallis was a long-haired student activist in the early 1970s who read Marx, marched against the Vietnam War and had little use for evangelical Christianity. But one day he conducted an unusual theological experiment that would change his life. Wallis and several friends wanted to know how many scriptures in the Bible dealt with issues such as […]
A host of warning signs point to China preparing for military action against Taiwan. Experts say China could be readying for a showdown over the island. US involvement, and Chinese leader Xi’s goals, also factor into the timeline. Tensions between China and Taiwan are reaching a boiling point, and many signs point to Chinese military […]
HONG KONG — Nelson Wells Jr. has spent almost a decade imprisoned in China. In May 2014, the American traveled to the country from Japan, where he lived with his wife and three children, to seek medical treatment for a head injury he had sustained in a traffic accident. He was arrested and accused of […]
DENVER (AP) — A former Colorado sheriff’s deputy was convicted of a misdemeanor on Friday in the shooting death of a 22-year-old man in distress who had called 911 for help after his car got stuck in a small mountain community. Andrew Buen was also charged with second-degree murder and official misconduct in the 2022 […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden had a question. “Is it true?” Biden asked Sen. Alex Padilla, referencing the roughly 25% of U.S. students in kindergarten through high school who are Latino. Padilla said the question came as he was waiting with the president in a back room at a library in Culver City, California, […]
Surveillance footage captured the two heroes running after and picking up the child in the nick of time Osvaldo Lugo/Instagram Camera footage showed the moment a barber was running after and then rescuing a child who was heading towards oncoming traffic in East Hartford, Conn., on April 25, 2024 The East Hartford Police Department confirmed […]
An Arizona resident who stumbled upon a den of “kittens” tucked away behind a shed was unsure what to do. The resident scooped up the “tiny baby animals” and brought them into the Arizona Humane Society, the nonprofit said in an April 24 news release. An Arizona resident took the litter to an organization for […]
Claudia Perez’s children could count on one hand the number of times they had seen their father cry. The day their mother left was one of them. Perez had worked her whole life for a dream that did not come true: Save enough money to take her family back to Mexico and live together in […]
LONDON (AP) — The military horses that bolted and ran loose when spooked by construction noise in central London earlier this week “continue to be cared for and closely observed,” the British Army said Friday. In an update on X, formerly Twitter, the Army gave no fresh information on the condition of the two horses […]