LONDON — Almost 2,000 workers at the U.K.’s biggest container port will launch an eight-day strike Sunday over a pay dispute, the latest industrial action to hit a growing number of sectors of the U.K. economy. Workers including crane drivers and machine operators will walk off their jobs at Felixstowe […]
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Bus collision at accident site leaves 15 dead in Turkey
ISTANBUL — A passenger bus collided Saturday with emergency teams handling an earlier road accident in southern Turkey, leaving at least 15 people dead and nearly two dozen injured, officials said. Three firefighters, two paramedics and two journalists were among those killed on the highway between Gaziantep and Nizip, Interior […]
Wendy’s pulls lettuce from sandwiches amid E. coli outbreak
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The fast-food chain Wendy’s says it is pulling lettuce from sandwiches in its restaurants in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania after people eating them there reported falling ill. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday it is trying to determine whether romaine lettuce is the source […]
Here are the notable investigations, lawsuits Donald Trump is dealing with
Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was searched in August by FBI agents as part of what the Justice Department said is a criminal investigation into alleged classified documents taken with him when he left the White House. The unprecedented operation represented a significant step in the investigation, according to outside law […]
Statue honors once-enslaved woman who won freedom in court
The story of the enslaved woman who went to court to win her freedom more than 80 years before the Emancipation Proclamation has been pushed to the fringes of history. A group of civic leaders, activists and historians hope that ends Sunday in the quiet Massachusetts town of Sheffield with […]
Chemical tanker, cargo ship crash near southwestern Japan
TOKYO — A Japanese chemical tanker ship crashed into a cargo ship off the coast of southwestern Japan, the coast guard said Saturday. No one was injured among the six Japanese crew members aboard the tanker Ryoshinmaru and 14 Chinese crew members aboard the Belize-registered cargo ship Xin Hai 99. […]
In deeply Mormon Utah, a push to require clergy report abuse
SALT LAKE CITY — Survivors and faith leaders rallied Friday at the Utah State Capitol to demand change to a state law that exempts religious leaders from requirements that they report child sexual abuse brought to their attention in spiritual confessions. “If we as a people, as churches and as […]
Nicaraguan police detain bishop, other priests in raid
MEXICO CITY — Nicaraguan police on Friday raided the residence of a Roman Catholic bishop critical of President Daniel Ortega’s administration, detaining him and several other priests in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the church and a government increasingly intolerant of dissent. The pre-dawn raid came after Nicaraguan authorities […]
Liz Cheney to ABC News on Pence testifying: ‘I would hope that he will do that’
GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, once a rising star in the Republican Party and considered a potential speaker of the House, told ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl that she has no regrets about her political career, including her landslide primary election loss in Wyoming on Tuesday, saying she now […]
Washington state school shooter sentenced to 40 years
SPOKANE, Wash. — Caleb Sharpe, who shot one classmate to death and wounded three others five years ago in a Washington state high school, apologized to his victims before he was sentenced Friday to at least 40 years in prison. Sharpe, who was 15 at the time of the 2017 […]