Firefighters battling a wildfire near South Dakota’s second-largest city caught a big break Wednesday — from the weather. The First Thunder Fire was reported Monday just a few miles from Rapid City, a community of 80,000 residents near Black Hills National Forest. As late as Tuesday evening, residents in an evacuation warning area were being
Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s 2019 conversion to Catholicism helped shape his political worldview, he has written. It has also put him in close touch with a Catholic intellectual movement, viewed by some critics as having reactionary or authoritarian leanings, that has been little known to the American public. That’s changing with Vance’s rise to the
ROME (AP) — About 20 migrants are believed to be missing after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean this week, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday. Seven Syrians were rescued and taken to the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, the Italian coast guard said. Chiara Cardoletti, the UNHCR representative to Italy, said on X that
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have issued a subpoena demanding testimony from Secretary of State Antony Blinken as they wrap up a sprawling yearslong investigation into the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. Rep. Michael McCaul , the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sent a subpoena letter late Tuesday ordering Blinken
LONDON (AP) — Priti Patel, who was Britain’s interior minister when Boris Johnson was prime minister, has become the first candidate to be eliminated in the Conservative Party’s leadership election, two months after the party resoundingly lost power following 14 years in office. In a vote open to the party’s lawmakers Wednesday, Patel garnered the
NEW YORK (AP) — An inevitable fact of interviewing Ridley Scott is that, whatever movie he’s about to release, you’ll find him already knee-deep in his next project. Scott, Hollywood’s perpetual rolling stone even at age 86, may be preparing to unveil “Gladiator II,” one of his biggest epics yet, but at the moment he’s
LONDON (AP) — Now that an independent inquiry has completed its investigation into Britain’s deadliest residential fire since World War II, survivors and bereaved relatives are demanding that criminal charges be brought against those responsible for the 2017 blaze that killed 72 people. The Grenfell Tower inquiry released its final report on Wednesday, a 1,700-page
Politika | 04.09.2024 | access_time 15:45 Foto: Beta/Milan Obradović Predsednik Srbije Aleksandar Vučić izjavio je da je sa glavnim tužiocem Mehanizma za međunarodne krivične tribunale Seržom Bramercom danas imao “korektan i otvoren razgovor”. U objavi na Fejsbuku napisao je da su razgovarali o saradnji Srbije sa Mehanizmom za međunarodne krivične sudove, rezultatima Nacionalne strategije za
Politika | 04.09.2024 | access_time 14:40 Foto: Predsednistvo Srbije/Dimitrije Goll Gradski odbor Stranke slobode i pravde (SSP) u Loznici ocenio je danas da je predsednik Srbije Aleksandar Vučić, koji će nekoliko dana boraviti u Podrinju i razgovarati sa građanima, došao kao “osvedočeni glavni promoter” kompanije Rio Tinto. SSP je naveo da je Vučić spreman da
Politika | 04.09.2024 | access_time 14:30 Foto: Beta/Milan Obradović Aktivista organizacije “Ne damo Jadar” Zlatko Kokanović ocenio je posetu predsednika Srbije Aleksandra Vučića Podrinju kao “cirkuzaniju od strane čoveka na vrhu države”. “Mi smo 2021. u januaru poslali dopis Vučiću u vezi problema sa rudnikom, on je tada nama odgovorio da to nije njegova nadležnost
