Missouri Girl Scout leaders threatened legal action against a troop that made bracelets to raise funds for starving children in Gaza, provoking outrage and ridicule from the girls’ supporters and advocates for people trapped in the Palestinian territory by the latest humanitarian crisis.Girl Scouts of the USA said its eastern Missouri chapter had only been
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jason Kelce has retired after 13 seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles.The 36-year-old Kelce officially called it quits Monday at the Eagles’ NovaCare Complex, ending a career in which he became not only one of the great centers of his era who played a key role in the franchise’s lone Super Bowl championship
DETROIT (AP) — Former NFL player Braylon Edwards stepped in and saved the life of an 80-year-old man who was being attacked in the locker room at a suburban Detroit YMCA, police said Monday.“If it wasn’t for that intervention, we could very easily be talking about someone’s death,” said Jeff King, the police chief in
Increasingly powerful gangs have attacked prisons and the airport serving Haiti’s capital in recent days, forcing businesses and schools to close as hundreds of people fled.Heavily armed gangs have grown more powerful than Haiti’s weak government and they now control some 80% of the capital, according to the United Nations.The latest attacks began Thursday as
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Thousands of Belarusians have been convicted on politically-driven charges over the last three years as part of the authorities’ relentless crackdown on dissent, the country’s leading human rights group said Monday.The Viasna human rights center said that at least 4,690 people have been convicted on politically-motivated charges since the August 2020
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president acknowledged for the first time Monday that seven National Guard recruits drowned in an army training accident in February — the worst military training accident in recent memory in Mexico.The drownings on Feb. 20 raised questions about the president’s insistence that guard members receive military training and be under
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nine people died Monday in a van crash on a highway in a largely Indigenous area on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, authorities said.Prosecutors in the coastal state of Quintana Roo said that the van carrying the victims apparently collided with a truck. The crash occurred early Monday in an area about 75
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus police say a Syrian man admitted to burying one of his four children at sea after the 6-year-old died aboard a boat loaded with migrants that had gone adrift for many days without food or water.Police spokesman Christos Andreou told the state-run Cyprus News Agency Monday that the Syrian man
PARIS (AP) — As France becomes the only country to explicitly guarantee the right to abortion in its constitution, other Europeans look at the U.S. rollback of abortion access and wonder: Could that happen here?Abortion is broadly legal across Europe, and governments have been gradually expanding abortion rights, with some exceptions. Women can access abortion
Elon Musk’s social media platform X has made audio and video calling capabilities available to all users, not just those with paid accounts. But a privacy issue has emerged from the rollout.The changes have made it so anyone following you on the platform formerly known as Twitter can call and see your Internet Protocol address
