NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee's GOP-controlled Senate advanced legislation on Tuesday allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions as critics raised concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court has banned capital punishment in such cases. Republicans approved the bill on a 24-5 vote. It must...
BROWNVILLE, N.Y. — A Long Island doctor who was headed to upstate New York to see the solar eclipse with her family fell out of a moving trailer on a highway and died, authorities said. Dr. Monika Woroniecka, 58, a pediatrician at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital who specialized in...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Fifty-one passengers were rescued after the bus they were traveling in was swept away by floodwaters on a river bridge in northern Kenya, authorities said Tuesday. The bus is still stuck in the river some 30 meters away from the bridge, although the waters are...
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The parents of a Michigan school shooter are asking a judge to keep them out of prison as they face sentencing for their role in an attack that killed four students in 2021. FILE - James Crumbley enters the Oakland County Courtroom of Cheryl Matthews during his trial,...
SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AP) — A baby monkey struggles and squirms as it tries to escape the man holding it by the neck over a concrete cistern, repeatedly dousing it with water. YouTuber Ium Daro, who started filming Angkor monkeys about three months ago, follows a mother and a baby along a...
STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Europe's highest human rights court ruled Tuesday that its member nations have an obligation to protect their citizens from the ill effects of climate change, but still threw out a high-profile case brought by six Portuguese youngsters aimed at forcing countries to...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Germany on Tuesday strongly rejected a case brought by Nicaragua at the United Nations' top court accusing Berlin of facilitating breaches of the Geneva Convention and international humanitarian law by providing arms and other support to Israel in its deadly...
Manila Mayor Honey Lacuna-Pangan led the inauguration of the new 10-story and fully air-conditioned school building, Dr. Alejandro Albert Elementary School (DDAES), in Sampaloc, Manila on Monday, April 8. Mayor Honey Lacuna-Pangan leads the inauguration of new school building in Sampaloc,...
The Manila Police District (MPD) rescued a total of 2,315 street children and mendicants from various areas of the city in just one month. MPD rescued street children and mendicants in Manila. (Photo from MPD/MANILA BULLETIN) The MPD said it already conducted 391 rescue operations from March...
The Division of City Schools-Manila released on Tuesday, April 9, a memorandum on the implementation of shortened classes in public schools in the city from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. starting on April 11 until May 28. Photos from Manila Public Information Office/MANILA BULLETIN Manila Chief...
A 39-year-old man who was despondent after failing to provide for the needs of his family, was rescued by the police and members of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) when he climbed and reached the top of an electrical post on M. Naval Street, Barangay Sipac Almacen, Navotas City early Tuesday...
The arrested suspect (Photo from SPD) A 38-year-old man was arrested for his unauthorized use of a Philippine National Police (PNP) uniform on Monday, April 8. The Southern Police District (SPD) said the suspect, identified as alias Jefferson, was arrested at around 11:00 a.m. at PITX...
