STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) — Every morning, the Rev. Karna Moskalik goes through a “grounding” routine that involves prayer, Bible reading, positive affirmations, and meditations about the best outcomes for the day’s tasks, as well as lighting a perfumed candle and walking through each space of her Lutheran church.“I always feel like work never ends, but
Azerbaijan’s president said Sunday that his country was ready to hold talks with Armenia on a prospective peace treaty after reclaiming the breakaway Armenian-populated region of Nagorno-Karabakh, noting that Georgia would be a preferable venue for the negotiations.President Ilham Aliyev made the statement on a visit to Georgia after snubbing a planned meeting with Armenian
ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — Simone Biles’s appetite for victory is insatiable.The American superstar claimed a third gold medal at the 2023 gymnastics world championships on Sunday by winning the women’s beam with a superb routine on the final day of the competition.Biles oozed confidence throughout. She had no hesitation on her jumps and delivered controlled
In Israel, a frightened woman runs down the street cradling a young girl in her arms as a car behind her is engulfed in a ball of flames from an unprecedented surprise attack by Hamas militants.In Gaza City, an anguished Palestinian woman embraces the head of a dead man carried by a crowd through the
LUXEMBOURG (AP) — Polling stations for Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Luxembourg have closed and officials have started counting results that will determine the fate of the three-party coalition led by Prime Minister Xavier Bettel. Ten years ago, Bettel succeeded Jean-Claude Juncker, the Christian Democrat who had been Europe’s longest serving democratically elected leader at the
MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Communities dependent on the Amazon rainforest’s waterways are stranded without supply of fuel, food or filtered water. Dozens of river dolphins perished and washed up on shore. And thousands of lifeless fish float on the water’s surface.These are just the first grim visions of extreme drought sweeping across Brazil’s Amazon. The
LONDON (AP) — The British government’s contentious policy to stem the flow of migrants faces one of its toughest challenges this week as the U.K. Supreme Court weighs whether it’s lawful to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda. The Conservative government is challenging a Court of Appeal ruling in June that said the policy intended to deter
MIAMI (AP) — Ron DeSantis wants suspected drug smugglers at the U.S.-Mexico border to be shot dead. Nikki Haley promises to send American special forces into Mexico. Vivek Ramaswamy has accused Mexico’s leader of treating drug cartels as his “sugar daddy” and says that if he is elected president, “there will be a new daddy
BERLIN (AP) — A man has been arrested in western Germany after his 3-year-old daughter died while apparently locked in a basement room, and he threw her body into a canal, authorities said Sunday.The 40-year-old German went to a police station in his hometown of Dinslaken on Friday and told officers that his daughter had
Actually, it’s Oklahoma that’s back.Of course, the Sooners haven’t been gone for long.The final Red River Rivalry in the Big 12 before it moves to the Southeastern Conference felt like a chance for No. 3 Texas to lay claim to being the best team in the country. Instead, at the Cotton Bowl on Saturday, second-year
