ZHYTOMYR, Ukraine — As soon as they had finished burying a veteran colonel killed by Russian shelling, the cemetery workers readied the next hole. Inevitably, given how quickly death is felling Ukrainian troops on the front lines, the empty grave won’t stay that way for long. Col. Oleksandr Makhachek left […]
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High-speed train derailment in China kills 1, injures 8
BEIJING — The driver of a high-speed train in southern China was killed and eight people were injured when two cars derailed early Saturday after hitting a mudslide, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The accident occurred midmorning as the train was entering a tunnel in the inland southern province of Guizhou. […]
LGBTQ people urge Democrats to forcefully reject GOP attacks
“The T stands for transgender,” a teacher explains in a video on a Maine Department of Education website launched during the coronavirus pandemic. “A transgender person is someone who the doctors made a mistake about when they were born,” the teacher says in the lesson plan targeted at kindergartners. “But […]
Man held in attack on doctor, nurses at California hospital
LOS ANGELES — A man stabbed a doctor and two nurses inside a Southern California hospital emergency ward and remained inside a room for hours before police arrested him, authorities said. The man walked into Encino Hospital Medical Center in the San Fernando Valley shortly before 4 p.m. Friday, Los […]
‘Bright, shining stars’: Family of 5 killed in connection with escaped inmate ID’d
A Texas community is reeling after five members of a Houston-area family were killed in an “unspeakable” crime. Three brothers, their cousin and their grandfather were found murdered at the family’s ranch in Centerville, located between Dallas and Houston, on Thursday, authorities said. An escaped inmate, who was killed in […]
Woman testifies Cosby forcibly kissed her when she was 14
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — A woman testified Friday that she was 14 when Bill Cosby took her into a trailer on a movie set in 1975, grabbed her so she couldn’t move her arms, and kissed her. “I was struggling to get away,” she said. “It was very shocking.” The […]
US has over 750 complaints of Teslas braking for no reason
DETROIT — More than 750 Tesla owners have complained to U.S. safety regulators that cars operating on the automaker’s partially automated driving systems have suddenly stopped on roadways for no apparent reason. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration revealed the number in a detailed information request letter to Tesla that […]
2 monkeypox strains in US suggest possible undetected spread
NEW YORK — Genetic analysis of recent monkeypox cases suggests there are two distinct strains in the U.S., health officials said Friday, raising the possibility that the virus has been circulating undetected for some time. Many of the U.S. cases were caused by the same strain as recent cases in […]
Georgia sheriff: Teen threatened death for Young Thug arrest
ATLANTA — Georgia officials have arrested an 18-year-old who they say threatened online to kill a sheriff and his wife over the arrest of rappers Young Thug and Gunna and others. Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat, alleged to be the target of the threats, announced the arrest Friday. Quartavius Mender […]
Police: Cop kills 13-year-old who crashed into patrol car
SAN ANTONIO — Police in San Antonio fatally shot a 13-year-old who was driving a suspected stolen car early Friday and rammed it into a marked patrol car, officials said. In a statement, police say officers were answering a report of multiple gunshots fired about 1:30 a.m. when they found […]