FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Military-run hearings for accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-defendants at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were in upheaval Wednesday following Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s decision to throw out a plea agreement . Defense attorneys contend the plea deal still stands and suspended participation in the pre-trial hearings while
TOKYO (AP) — Recorded and filmed as he was dying of cancer , Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Opus” — the Japanese film composer’s posthumous album and documentary of the same name — is clearly meant to be his final farewell. As an album, it is fitting that the 20-song, hour-and-a-half recording of sparse piano played by Sakamoto
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. PARIS (AP) — It didn’t matter to 51-year-old Andy Macdonald that he was among the lower-ranked finishers in the men’s park skateboarding competition at the Paris Olympics . He still considers himself a winner “People are like: ‘Are you going for the gold?’
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. PARIS (AP) — Li Fabin of China defended his Olympic weightlifting title on Wednesday, winning the men’s 61-kilogram division, while Hampton Morris became the first American man to earn a weightlifting medal at the Games in four decades. After going into the competition
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. PARIS (AP) — It is quite literally the food of champions. Paris Olympics organizers are determined that it not go to waste. Food that goes uneaten at the Games — by the athletes, the spectators and the workers — is helping those in
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The NCAA announced a four-year show-cause order for former Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh on Wednesday for impermissible contact with recruits and players while access was restricted during the COVID-19 pandemic. The NCAA said Harbaugh, who left his alma mater to coach the Los Angeles Chargers after last season’s national championship
Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind behind the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, has been announced as the new leader of the militant group Hamas. He rose to the top position after the killing of the previous leader, Ismail Haniyeh , in an explosion in Iran that has been blamed on Israel. Some things to know about
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Thirty people have been killed and hundreds displaced in flooding in Yemen’s southern city of Hodeidah following several days of heavy rains, the governor said Wednesday. Hodeidah Gov. Mugammad Qahim told Houthi-controlled Masirah TV that the floods displaced people from 500 houses. Five people also went missing, Qahim said. Hodeidah, the
GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday he will convene an expert group to determine if the increasing spread of the mpox virus in Africa warrants being declared a global emergency. At a press briefing in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that given the increasing spread of mpox
The extreme weather seen in places across the United States in recent weeks shows that it doesn’t take a catastrophic hurricane to cause significant damage — the torrential rain from Tropical Storm Debby in parts of the Southeast is just one example. The slow-moving system lingering over Georgia and the Carolinas Wednesday after coming ashore
