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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, water flows out from a gate of the Shuikou Hydropower Station in southeastern China's Fujian Province, Monday, June 13, 2022. Heavy rain in China has claimed several lives this week and forced the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people.
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, an aerial view shows a flooded areas along the Rongjiang River after heavy rainfalls in the Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, June 4, 2022 . China regularly experiences flooding during the summer months, most frequently in central and southern areas that tend to receive the most rainfall.
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, water flows out from a gate of the Shuikou Hydropower Station in southeastern China's Fujian Province, Monday, June 13, 2022. Heavy rain in China has claimed several lives this week and forced the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people.
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, an aerial view shows a flooded areas along the Rongjiang River after heavy rainfalls in the Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, June 4, 2022 . China regularly experiences flooding during the summer months, most frequently in central and southern areas that tend to receive the most rainfall.
BEIJING (AP) — Heavy rain in China has claimed six lives this week and forced the evacuation of some 200,000 people.
Five people died in southeastern China, according to state media reports: A house collapse took three lives in Fujian province on Tuesday, and two died Monday in a landslide caused by torrential rain in neighboring Jiangxi province.
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Ben Silverman and Davis Shore are among the young, the journeymen, the amateurs and the dreamers who made it through qualifying to earn spots in the U.S. Open this week. Starting Thursday, they will play alongside the millionaire disrupters, players such as Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson, whose move to the rival LIV Tour poses an existential threat to golf. This rare meeting of haves and have-nots is one of the most celebrated parts of the U.S. Open — a tournament that, technically, any pro or amateur with a low enough handicap can win. Silverman and Shore aren't necessarily against what Mickelson and Company are doing, but they are different in that their future depends on golf remaining a stable way to make a living via some tour.
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Lebanon's state-run news agency says the country's caretaker energy minister has extended the licensing deadline for oil and gas companies to explore in the country’s territorial waters until mid-December, to give more firms the chance to bid. The agency said Wednesday's decision to extended the deadline of the second round of licensing followed a request by the Lebanese Petroleum Administration. In December 2017, the Lebanese government approved licenses for three international companies to carry out exploratory drilling in two of the 10 blocks off the Lebanese coast. The new round of licensing will cover the remaining eight offshore blocks.
Three firearms bills are headed to the governor’s desk after passing the Rhode Island Senate. The bills passed Tuesday are intended to reduce gun violence and prevent mass shootings. They include a ban on magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, raise from 18 to 21 the minimum age for buying rifles and shotguns, and prohibit loaded rifles and shotguns from being carried in public. The bills were passed last week by the state House. Democratic Gov. Dan McKee is expected to sign them. The state Republican Party says the high-capacity magazine ban will turn law-abiding citizens into criminals.
Dozens of heavily armed men swarmed through the Mexican city of San Cristobal de las Casas, and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said one person was killed in confrontations between two gangs. López Obrador said Wednesday that the two gangs were fighting for control of a public market in San Cristobal. Frightened residents posted videos of the armed men Tuesday, showing organized squads of men carrying military-style rifles through the city. San Cristobal de las Casas was briefly taken over by Indigenous Zapatista rebels during their 1994 uprising. The colonial-era southern city is popular among tourists.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 59-year old man is facing a felony charge after he allegedly threatened to use explosives, kill children and “have a Texas style shooting” aimed at Kansas City amusement park Worlds of Fun on Sunday.
PHILADELPHIA — In 1931, an all-white jury took just four hours to convict Alexander McClay Williams, a Black teenager, in the stabbing death of a matron at the Glen Mills School for Boys in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
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A commercial bus driver has been charged with 38 counts of reckless endangerment after blacking out behind the steering wheel while snacking on gummies infused with THC. Jinhuan Chen appeared Tuesday in Bridgeport Superior Court after being arrested at his home in Boston. Chen was driving 38 passengers from the Mohegan Sun Casino on March 13 when he stopped the bus on the side of Interstate 95 in Stratford. Police say they found Chen unconscious next to an open package of Smokies Edibles Cannabis Infused Fruit Chews. Chen told a judge he had no idea he had been snacking on anything but regular candy.
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Italian record label Frontiers specializes in mixing and matching heavy metal artists from different backgrounds to write and record new music, and they've put together a good one in Iconic. The band consists of Stryper singer Michael Sweet; Whitesnake guitarist Joel Hoekstra; Whitesnake and Ozzy Osbourne drummer Tommy Aldridge; and former Ted Nugent bassist Marco Mendoza. The project aims to better promote up-and-coming singer Nathan James, but his star turn comes at the expense of Sweet, who should have been given a more prominent vocal role, says AP's Wayne Parry. Overall, Iconic dishes out vintage ‘70s and ’80s metal with familiar elements.
Top-seeded Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium needed just 45 minutes to ease into the quarterfinals of the Veneto Open, beating compatriot Ysaline Bonaventure 6-2, 6-2. She will next face Ylena In-Albon after the Swiss player beat compatriot Susan Bandecchi 6-3, 6-3. Third-seeded Lucia Bronzetti and fifth-seeded Arantxa Rus were eliminated. It is the first WTA tournament played on natural grass in Italy and organizers are using former soccer fields for the courts. The host tennis club has been nicknamed “Gaibledon” in homage to Wimbledon.
Italian record label Frontiers specializes in mixing and matching heavy metal artists from different backgrounds to write and record new music, and they've put together a good one in Iconic. The band consists of Stryper singer Michael Sweet; Whitesnake guitarist Joel Hoekstra; Whitesnake and Ozzy Osbourne drummer Tommy Aldridge; and former Ted Nugent bassist Marco Mendoza. The project aims to better promote up-and-coming singer Nathan James, but his star turn comes at the expense of Sweet, who should have been given a more prominent vocal role, says AP's Wayne Parry. Overall, Iconic dishes out vintage ‘70s and ’80s metal with familiar elements.
Top-seeded Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium needed just 45 minutes to ease into the quarterfinals of the Veneto Open, beating compatriot Ysaline Bonaventure 6-2, 6-2. She will next face Ylena In-Albon after the Swiss player beat compatriot Susan Bandecchi 6-3, 6-3. Third-seeded Lucia Bronzetti and fifth-seeded Arantxa Rus were eliminated. It is the first WTA tournament played on natural grass in Italy and organizers are using former soccer fields for the courts. The host tennis club has been nicknamed “Gaibledon” in homage to Wimbledon.
A third arrest has been made in a mass shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where three people died and 14 were injured. News outlets cited an affidavit filed with the U.S. District Court for Eastern Tennessee in reporting that 31-year-old Rodney Harris was charged Tuesday in federal court with possession of a firearm by a felon. The affidavit says he was seen in a Facebook live video carrying a rifle in front of Mary’s Bar & Grill and was among the gunshot victims. Meanwhile, police made another appeal to the public to help identify possible suspects in the shooting. It wasn't immediately clear whether Harris has an attorney.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento Police Chief Kathy Lester on Tuesday unveiled her strategy to combat the rising trend of gun violence. It’s a plan designed to rely on data analysis to focus enforcement operations and to use partnerships with community groups to lead intervention efforts and …
Global toy manufacturer the LEGO Group plans to invest more than $1 billion to construct a new precision manufacturing facility in suburban Richmond, Virginia. Gov. Glenn Youngkin made the announcement Wednesday. The factory is expected to open in 2025. It will feature a carbon-neutral design including an on-site solar park and will employ more than 1,760 people. The Virginia factory will be the seventh globally for the family-owned company headquartered in Billund, Denmark. Construction is expected to commence this fall. The project will be eligible for tens of millions of taxpayer-funded incentives.
The Supreme Court says the federal government improperly lowered drug reimbursement payments to hospitals and clinics that serve low-income communities. The reduction ended up costing those facilities more than a billion dollars annually. The high court ruled unanimously in a case involving payments for drugs, largely for cancer, that are used by Medicare patients in hospital outpatient departments. The Biden administration had stood by a Trump administration decision to reduce the payments. Medicare provides health insurance for nearly 60 million people age 65 and older or for people with certain disabilities.
Connecticut’s diesel tax will increase by 9 cents per gallon on July 1 after a scheduled rate adjustment. The tax is currently 40.1 cents per gallon and will increase to 49.2 cents per gallon. That's according to a letter released Wednesday from Lamont to top Democrats and Republicans on the General Assembly’s tax-writing committee and to his budget director. State law requires that it be updated annually and be based on a complex formula that takes into account daily fuel prices at two terminals over the prior 365 days. Lamont's GOP rival in the election has called for the tax to be suspended.
The gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket has been charged with federal hate crimes. Payton Gendron already has pleaded not guilty to state-level charges, including hate-motivated domestic terrorism and murder following the May 14 rampage. The 18-year-old has been jailed without bail since his arrest at the Tops Friendly Market he allegedly targeted for its location in a predominantly Black neighborhood. Authorities say Gendron’s radical, racist worldview and extensive preparation for the massacre are laid out in online documents.
Democratic Gov. Tim Walz is maintaining a strong financial advantage over Republican Scott Jensen for the fall election campaign. The Walz campaign says it has raised $1.8 million since Jan. 1 and has $4.5 million in cash on hand. The campaign says that bankroll is a record for a Minnesota gubernatorial campaign at this point in the election cycle. The Jensen campaign says it has raised $472,000 since January and has $660,000 left in the bank. Jensen spent heavily in his campaign to secure the GOP endorsement, while Walz faced no opposition for his party’s backing for a second term.
A Time magazine correspondent has a book planned for next year that will draw upon his extensive access to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Simon Shuster’s “When the World Is Watching: Volodymyr Zelensky and the War in Ukraine.” HarperCollins Publishers says the book will provide a detailed account of the Ukrainian president's response to the Russian invasion. “Shuster will offer revelations about the way Zelensky and his team have experienced this war and navigated the shifting roles of foreign leaders from around the world," the publisher said. Shuster is a Moscow native currently spending much of his time in Kiev.
A minister in Pakistan’s newly elected government is facing criticism following his plea to the nation to drink less tea to help save on imports amid a deepening economic crisis. Tea is a hugely popular drink among both the rich and the poor in this country of 220 million people and the government has to spend about $600 million dollars from its hard currency reserves for tea imports annually. A Pakistani is believed to drink at least three cups a day. Still, Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal’s appeal on Tuesday for Pakistanis to drink “one or two cups a day” less surprised many, leading to calls on social media for him to resign.
ORLANDO, Fla. — An area of low pressure had its odds of development over the next five days lessen Wednesday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party has sued the vice president of the opposition Candlelight Part for $1 million in compensation for comments he made in an online interview alleging that this month’s local elections were unfair. The Cambodian People’s Party filed the lawsuit against Son Chhay for saying that the nationwide commune elections were unfree as well as unfair. Son Chhay had charged that the National Election Committee was biased in favor of the governing party and that there had been vote-buying and intimidation of voters. His allegations were denied by the government. Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government has a history of aggressively pursuing legal action against its opponents, hindering their ability to operate freely.
Russia’s Gazprom has announced a reduction in natural gas flows through a key European pipeline for the second day in a row, hours after Germany’s vice chancellor said its initial move appeared to be political rather than a result of techical problems. The state-owned energy giant said on Twitter that deliveries through the Nord Stream 1 undersea pipeline to Germany would be cut again Thursday, bringing the overall reduction in deliveries through the pipeline to 60%. The new cut came a day after Gazprom said it would reduce flows by 40% after Canadian sanctions over the war in Ukraine prevented German partner Siemens Energy from delivering overhauled equipment. It blamed the same issue for the additional reduction.
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Monumental Sports & Entertainment is opening a business suite in Washington's Capital One Arena that will be operational on a year-round basis. The group that owns the NHL's Capitals and NBA's Wizards unveiled the project Wednesday in conjunction with professional services company KPMG. The team and company hope the suite becomes a blueprint for other arenas around the U.S. KPMG's ignition center designed to host clients and solve business problems is expected to debut in July.
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U.S. government advisers met Wednesday to decide whether to endorse COVID-19 shots for the youngest children, moving the nation closer to vaccinations for all ages. Kids under 5 are the last remaining age group to get vaccinated. Many parents have been anxiously waiting for months for regulators to act. An independent advisory committee is hearing presentations from Moderna and Pfizer at an all-day meeting before voting on whether to recommend Food and Drug Administration authorization. If the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention later recommends the shots, they could be available early next week.
BALTIMORE — When Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rushern Baker III launched his first television ad of Maryland’s 2022 campaign, he chose to focus on murders in Baltimore, telling viewers “nobody in power gives a damn” about the carnage because the victims are Black and vowing to “stop th…
U.S. government advisers met Wednesday to decide whether to endorse COVID-19 shots for the youngest children, moving the nation closer to vaccinations for all ages. Kids under 5 are the last remaining age group to get vaccinated. Many parents have been anxiously waiting for months for regulators to act. An independent advisory committee is hearing presentations from Moderna and Pfizer at an all-day meeting before voting on whether to recommend Food and Drug Administration authorization. If the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention later recommends the shots, they could be available early next week.
BALTIMORE — When Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rushern Baker III launched his first television ad of Maryland’s 2022 campaign, he chose to focus on murders in Baltimore, telling viewers “nobody in power gives a damn” about the carnage because the victims are Black and vowing to “stop th…
Russian energy giant Gazprom announces reduction in natural gas through key European pipeline for second day in a row.
The 24 hours after Belle found out she was unexpectedly pregnant were a blur of phone calls, highways and panic. Her home state of Texas had recently outlawed the right to an abortion after around six weeks, leaving her just days to secure a procedure in a region where there’s a dearth of clinics.
LOS ANGELES — Inge Baumbach did not like taking flowers from his garden.
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