A paid passenger on an expedition to the Titanic with the company that owned the Titan submersible testified before a U.S. Coast Guard investigatory panel Friday that the mission he took part in was aborted due to an apparent mechanical failure. This June 2023 United States Coast Guard still frame...
NEW YORK (AP) — The federal Bureau of Prisons says it has increased staffing in recent months to make up for staggering shortfalls at the troubled New York City jail where Sean “Diddy” Combs is awaiting trial after pleading not guilty Tuesday to sex trafficking charges. The agency’s push to...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In-person voting for this year’s presidential election began Friday, a milestone that kicked off a six-week sprint to Election Day after a summer of political turmoil. Voters lined up to cast their ballots in Minnesota, South Dakota and Virginia, the states with the first...
WHITESBURG, Ky. (AP) — Residents of a tiny Appalachian town struggled Friday to cope with a shooting involving two of its most prominent citizens: a judge who was gunned down in his courthouse chambers and a local sheriff charged with his murder. In this image from video provided by WYMT-TV,...
NEW YORK (AP) — Activists geared up Friday for protests around the world to demand action on climate change just as a pair of major weeklong climate events were getting underway in New York City. A demonstrator dressed in a Spiderman costume takes part in a march calling on the government to...
Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to speak about abortion Friday in Georgia, where two women's deaths have been tied to a state law that mostly bans the procedure after roughly six weeks. FILE - A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The European Union pledged on Friday to lend Ukraine up to 35 billion euros ($39 billion) as part of a loan package organized by the Group of Seven major industrial nations, as it seeks to help the country repair and reconnect its war-shattered power grid. President of...
BEIRUT (AP) — Chris Knayzeh was in a town overlooking Lebanon's capital when he heard the rumbling aftershock of the 2020 Beirut port blast. Hundreds of tons of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrates had exploded, killing more than 200 people and injuring thousands. FILE - A drone picture...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities in Ukraine advised residents in the capital Kyiv to stay indoors Friday as air pollution, partly caused by fires in the region, blanketed the city. A delivery cyclist wearing a face mask cycles down a street in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday Sept. 20, 2024 on a day...
(Photo from Pasay LGU) The Pasay City General Hospital (PCGH), the city's lone public hospital, received a donation of two new dialysis machines that will help residents undergoing dialysis due to chronic kidney disease. According to Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano, the dialysis machines were donated by...
(Photo from Parañaque PIO) The Parañaque City government welcomed the delegates of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Australia Philippines Inc. (CCIAP) as part of its commitment in building and strengthening its ties with international investors on Thursday, September 19. The delegates,...
A construction worker wanted for rape was arrested by members of the Parañaque Police Warrant and Subpoena Section (WSS) in Cavite on Friday, September 20. The Southern Police District (SPD) identified the suspect as “Junbert," 26. He was arrested in Barangay Sampaloc 2, Sito Malinta,...
