EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — About 5,000 residents of a resort town in the Canadian Rockies who fled their homes because of a wildfire can return on Friday, officials said Monday. Jasper Mayor Richard Ireland said residents should prepare for “a new normal” but added that essential services have been restored to the point where they
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The Amazon rainforest stores the equivalent of almost two years of global carbon emissions, but its role as a carbon sink is under threat, according to a study released Monday. The U.S. nonprofit Amazon Conservation used satellite data provided by the Planet company to calculate how much climate-changing carbon the Amazon
DAMASCUS (AP) — An earthquake shook central Syria late Monday, local authorities said, causing no major damages but rattling the nerves of residents who remembered last year’s devastating temblor that struck northern Syria and Turkey. Syria’s National Center for Earthquakes said the quake struck 28 kilometers (17 miles) east of the city of Hama at
LONDON (AP) — New Chelsea signing Caleb Wiley will spend the season on loan at French team Strasbourg, the two clubs said Monday. Chelsea signed the 19-year-old American left-back from Atlanta United last month, and he then played for the U.S. at the Paris Olympics. He will now join up with the club that is
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies and two former foreign military officials have been charged with threatening a Chinese national and his family with violence and deportation during a sham raid at his Orange County home five years ago, federal prosecutors said Monday. The four men also demanded $37 million
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.4 was strongly felt Monday afternoon from the Los Angeles area all the way to San Diego on the U.S.-Mexico border, swaying buildings, rattling dishes and setting off car alarms but no major damage or injuries were immediately reported. Monday’s quake was centered near the
Donald Trump was once a cheerleader of publicizing hacked materials. “Russia, if you’re listening,” Trump said during a press conference in his 2016 presidential run, when Hillary Clinton’s deleted personal emails were a hot topic, “I hope you are able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.” “I think you will probably be rewarded
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The first day back to school in South Florida’s Broward County got off to a chaotic start as a disorganized rollout of new metal detectors kept students waiting in lines long after the first bell rang. At high schools across the nation’s sixth largest district, scores of students stood in lines
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A Black police officer who was critically injured during a protest marking the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson 10 years ago wanted to make “a difference from inside” the department and follow in the footsteps of his father, who was also a police officer, a former supervisor said Monday. Officer
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ attorney general launched an investigation Monday into Houston’s electric utility over allegations of fraud and waste following Hurricane Beryl , adding to the mounting scrutiny after widespread power outages left millions without electricity for days. The latest investigation of CenterPoint Energy comes after state regulators and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott
