81-Year-Old Suspected 'Serial Slingshot Shooter' Arrested In California
AZUSA, Calif. (AP) — An 81-year-old man who investigators say terrorized a Southern California neighborhood for years with a slingshot has been arrested, police said.
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Disaster declaration issued for April snowstorm that caused millions in damage in Maine
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A powerful late-season snowstorm that caused millions of dollars in damage in Maine was a major disaster, the federal government has declared.
New Jersey and wind farm developer Orsted settle claims for $125M over scrapped offshore projects
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Danish wind farm developer Orsted will pay New Jersey $125 million to settle claims over the company’s cancellation of two offshore wind farms last year — a little over a third of what the company once was required to pay.
US-built pier in Gaza will need to be removed and repaired after damage from rough seas
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says the U.S.-built temporary pier taking humanitarian aid to starving Palestinians has been damaged in rough seas and weather and will be removed from the coast of Gaza to be repaired.
Israel forced to work on Jewish Sabbath as UN court judge calls out colleagues in scathing dissent
A U.N. International Court of Justice (ICJ) chided her colleagues on Friday for requiring Israel to work on the Sabbath when responding to a case brought by South Africa to the ICJ under the Genocide Convention.
Yellen sees no 'showstoppers' on G7 Ukraine loan backed by Russian asset earnings
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Friday that she does not see "any showstoppers" in her discussions with fellow G7 finance ministers about a larger loan to Ukraine backed by the income of frozen Russian sovereign assets. Yellen told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of a G7 finance leaders meeting that not all of the technical details of the loan proposal need to be worked out this weekend. "I think things look pretty good," for agreeing on the concept of the loan, Yellen said after several bilateral meetings on the first day of the two-day finance summit in the northern Italian resort town of Stresa. "I've not seen anything I regard as a show stopper, but there are some issues that we need to be sorted out and people will have to be flexible to reach common ground," Yellen said. The U.S. Treasury chief has been pushing her counterparts in the talks to a
U.A.W. Seeks a New Election at Mercedes-Benz Plants in Alabama
A week after losing a hard-fought election at two Mercedes-Benz factories in Alabama, the United Automobile Workers asked federal officials on Friday to order a new vote, saying the German carmaker violated labor laws to suppress support for the union.
Lindsey Graham tells UN International Court of Justice to 'go to hell' over ruling against Israel
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said the United Nations’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) "can go to hell" after the body ordered Israel to halt its military operations in southern Gaza.