Far-right gains in the EU election deal stunning defeats to France's Macron and Germany's Scholz (apnews.com)
Far-right gains in the EU election deal stunning defeats to France's Macron and Germany's Scholz (apnews.com)
Far-right parties rattled the traditional powers in the European Union and made major gains in parliamentary elections Sunday, dealing an especially humiliating defeat to https://apnews.com/article/france-macron-election-legislative-parliament-national-rally-07b742fe000170af8ee410e292bf23e2...
A real nut case: Cold Stone Creamery faces suit over lack of real pistachios in pistachio ice cream (apnews.com)
Is it nuts to assume a scoop of pistachio ice cream should contain actual pistachios? Or how about real butter in a dish of butter pecan?...
How an Israeli raid freed 4 hostages and killed scores of Palestinians in Gaza (apnews.com)
Scientists have traced the origin of the modern horse to a lineage that emerged 4,200 years ago (apnews.com)
Scientists have traced the ancestry of the modern horse to a lineage that emerged 4,200 years ago and quickly became dominant across Eurasia.
Large chunk of Wyoming's Teton Pass road collapses; unclear how quickly it can be rebuilt (apnews.com)
A large chunk of a twisting mountain pass road collapsed in Wyoming, authorities said Saturday, leaving a gaping chasm in the highway and severing a well-traveled commuter link between small towns in eastern Idaho and the tourist destination of Jackson....
A Christian group teaches public school students during the school day. Their footprint is growing (apnews.com)
An Ohio nonprofit that provides off-site Bible instruction to public school students during classroom hours says it will triple its programs in Indiana this fall after new legislation forced school districts to comply....
Ukraine says it struck one of Russia's most advanced warplanes (apnews.com)
Ukraine on Sunday said its forces hit an ultra-modern Russian warplane stationed on an air base nearly 600 kilometers (370 miles) from the front lines, after its Western allies allowed Kyiv to use their weapons for limited strikes inside Russia....
Pope Francis appeals for urgent humanitarian aid for Gaza and backs cease-fire proposals (apnews.com)
Pope Francis appeals for urgent humanitarian aid for Gaza and backs cease-fire proposals (apnews.com)
South Korea restarts anti-North Korea loudspeaker broadcasts in retaliation for trash balloons (apnews.com)
South Korea on Sunday resumed anti-North Korean propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts in border areas in retaliation for the North sending over 1,000 balloons filled with trash and manure over the last couple of weeks....
Seoul will restart anti-Pyongyang loudspeaker broadcasts in retaliation against trash balloons (apnews.com)
South Korea says it will restart anti-North Korean propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts in border areas in response to continuing North Korean campaigns to drop trash on the South with balloons....
Blinken to push cease-fire proposal in eighth urgent Mideast trip since war in Gaza erupted (apnews.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will push for a breakthrough on President Joe Biden’s cease-fire proposal when he returns to the Middle East next week on his eighth diplomatic mission to the region since the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza began in October, the State Department said Friday....
India’s Modi elected as leader of coalition and set to form new government (apnews.com)
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday was formally elected leader of the National Democratic Alliance coalition, which won the most seats in the national election after his political party failed to win a majority on its own....
Nationalist parties, far-left on the rise ahead of Sunday’s federal elections in Belgium (apnews.com)
BRUSSELS (AP) — The last time federal elections were held in Belgium in 2019, it took nearly 18 months before a new prime minister could be sworn in to lead a seven-party coalition government....
Israel rescues 4 hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, and 210 Palestinians are reported killed (apnews.com)
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel on Saturday carried out its largest hostage rescue operation since the latest war with Hamas began, taking four to safety out of central Gaza amid the military’s heavy air and ground assault. At least 210 dead Palestinians, including children, were brought to local hospitals, a health...
Israel Lists Names Of 17 Alleged Militants Killed In Gaza School Strike, But Many Don't Match Hospital's List Of Dead (apnews.com)
Israel’s military said Friday an additional eight militants were among those killed in a strike on a U.N.-run school in central Gaza, raising the number of alleged militants to 17....
In Indonesia, women ranger teams go on patrol to slow deforestation (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16316322...
Voting in Harmony: A Wisconsin township sets itself apart and has a knack for picking winners (apnews.com)
Since 2000, Harmony voters have sided with the winner in all 13 presidential and gubernatorial races....
California law bars ex-LAPD officer Mark Fuhrman, who lied at OJ Simpson trial, from policing (apnews.com)
Former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman who was convicted of lying on the witness stand in the O.J. Simpson trial three decades ago, is now barred from law enforcement under a California police reform law meant to strip the badges of police officers who act criminally or with bias....
Women and children of Gaza are killed less frequently as war’s toll rises, AP data analysis finds (apnews.com)
Israel rescues 4 hostages kidnapped in a Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7. (apnews.com)
Israel said Saturday it rescued four hostages who were kidnapped in a Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7....
Black D-Day combat medic's long-denied medal tenderly laid on Omaha Beach where he bled, saved lives (apnews.com)
A medal richly deserved but long denied to an African American combat medic wounded on Omaha Beach in the D-Day landings was tenderly laid Friday on the hallowed sands where he saved lives and shed blood....
New charges for alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer cast scrutiny on another man's murder conviction (apnews.com)
In new charges unveiled Thursday, prosecutors said Rex Heuermann — the man already accused in a string of deaths known as the Gilgo Beach serial killings — was responsible for the death of one of the women, Sanda Costilla. The findings, authorities said, indicate that Heuermann began hunting victims more than a decade...