PARIS (AP) — As it stands on the threshold of power in France, the far-right National Rally is facing scrutiny about some of the candidates it hopes will secure a ruling majority for the party in legislative elections on Sunday, including a woman it has now pulled from the high-stakes race over a photo of
It’s 100 years since the Caesar salad was invented, it’s said, on the Fourth of July at a restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico. And it’s had staying power. The original is credited to Italian immigrant Caesar Cardini, who tossed it in the dining room of his restaurant, Caesar’s Place, in 1924. Since then, the salad’s been
CHICAGO (AP) — Keely Roberts counts the days, not years, since a deadly shooting at an Independence Day parade in 2022 injured her and left one of her twin boys paralyzed from the waist down. It has been 730 days since her now-10-year-old son Cooper could chase his brother Luke in their suburban Chicago backyard
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly will keep standing up for Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty whatever the outcome of national elections across the globe this year, the body’s president said Wednesday, adding that “no country has the right to invade another country.” That stance “cannot change because this is a matter of
Hurricane Beryl roared through open waters Tuesday as a powerful Category 4 storm heading toward Jamaica after earlier making landfall in the southeast Caribbean, killing at least six people. (AP/Kenton Chance and Amar Spencer) Hurricane Beryl roared through open waters Tuesday as a powerful Category 4 storm heading toward Jamaica after earlier making landfall in
Palestinian families who fled eastern Khan Younis in the latest wave of exodus in the war-torn Gaza Strip earlier this week, have struggled to find shelters in the overcrowded shelters and open areas in the western parts of the city. (AP video shot by Mohammad Jahjouh Production: Wafaa Shurafa) Palestinian families who fled eastern Khan
Despite hardships brought by war, flowers fill Ukraine’s cities. Deep purple petunias and yellow rock roses burst out of planters that line Kyiv’s backroads and boulevards. (AP video shot by Anton Shtuka) Despite hardships brought by war, flowers fill Ukraine’s cities. Deep purple petunias and yellow rock roses burst out of planters that line Kyiv’s
Athletes at the last Summer Olympics remember the sadness and longing of competing with nearly no one in the stands, thanks to pandemic-era restrictions in Tokyo three years ago. Not just zero spectators and eerily quiet stadiums, which were bad enough. Worse, perhaps? There were no parents or siblings. No lifelong pals or childhood coaches.
MILAN (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgio Melon i has admonished the youth wing of her far-right Brothers of Italy party after an Italian news outlet published videos showing some of its members glorifying fascism. “I have said and repeated dozens of times, but perhaps I need to repeat it: There is no space in Brothers
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Early last week, floodwater in rural Minnesota pushed debris against a more than century-old dam and then carved a path around it , eroding so much of the riverbank that most of a house fell into the river. Several days later, intense rain damaged a dam that holds drinking water for
