MAYWOOD, Ill. (AP) — A 30-year-old man charged with killing four people while they slept aboard a Chicago-area transit train was expected in bond court Wednesday. The Labor Day shooting happened before 5:30 a.m. aboard Chicago’s L system, on train that was moving near where Blue Line ends in suburban Forest Park, about 10 miles
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
Pope Francis urged Indonesia to live up to its promise of harmony in diversity and fight religious intolerance on Wednesday, as he set a rigorous pace for an 11-day, four-nation trip through tropical Southeast Asia and Oceania that will test his stamina and health. (AP video shot by Andi Jatmiko. Production by Maria Grazia Murru)
East Timor’s President José Ramos-Horta wants to use Pope Francis’ historic visit to put his young country on the world stage and use its strategic relationship with China to improve quality of life. (AP video by Tian Macleod Ji and Syawalludin Zain) East Timor’s President José Ramos-Horta wants to use Pope Francis’ historic visit to
