Salvador’s president threatens to use gang-crackdown style tactics against price gougers

Salvador’s president threatens to use gang-crackdown style tactics against price gougers

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, famous for his heavy-handed crackdown on street gangs, threatened to use similar tactics against price gougers. Since 2022, Bukele has rounded up tens of thousands of suspected street gang members — often on little evidence — and filmed them being frog-marched in their underwear though

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Andy Murray’s Wimbledon career ends when Emma Raducanu pulls out of their match in mixed doubles

Andy Murray’s Wimbledon career ends when Emma Raducanu pulls out of their match in mixed doubles

LONDON (AP) — Andy Murray’s Wimbledon career came to an anticlimactic end when Emma Raducanu, his mixed doubles partner, pulled out of that competition hours before their first-round match on Saturday because of an issue with her surgically repaired right wrist. The 37-year-old Murray, a two-time singles champion at the All England Club , has

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More records expected to shatter as long-running blanket of heat threatens 130 million in U.S.

More records expected to shatter as long-running blanket of heat threatens 130 million in U.S.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Roughly 130 million people were under threat Saturday and into next week from a long-running heat wave that already has broken records with dangerously high temperatures — and is expected to shatter more from East Coast to West Coast, forecasters said. Oppressive heat and humidity could team up to spike temperatures

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