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LONDON (AP) — Archbishop of Canterbury at queen’s funeral: 'Few leaders receive the outpouring of love we have seen' for late monarch.
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A Detroit radio news anchor was killed and four other people, including his two children, are hospitalized in what police are calling a murder and suicide attempt.
Brad Keselowski has his first pole as an owner-driver at NASCAR’s highest level. A week after Chris Buescher drove RFK Racing other car to Victory Lane, Keselowski won the pole for Sunday's race at Texas that will start the round of 12 in NASCAR's Cup Series. The 2012 Cup champ joined the rebranded team with longtime owner Jack Roush this season. Joey Logano, who is second in the standings, will start on the front row beside Keselowski. Playoff contender William Byron starts third, while points leader Chase Elliott starts sixth.
LOS ANGELES — Homeless advocates on Friday called on city leaders to purchase the L.A. Grand Hotel, which has served as emergency shelter during the COVID-19 pandemic, to convert into permanent housing.
Forty years after a predominantly Black community in Warren County, North Carolina, rallied against hosting a hazardous waste landfill, President Biden’s top environment official has returned to what is widely considered the birthplace of the environmental justice movement to unveil a national office that will distribute $3 billion in block grants to underserved communities burdened by pollution. Joined by civil rights leaders and participants from the 1982 protests, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan announced Saturday that he is dedicating a new senior level of leadership to the environmental justice movement they ignited. The Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights will merge three existing EPA programs .
JD Vance’s deadlocked race against Democrat Tim Ryan for a U.S. Senate seat in Republican-leaning Ohio exemplifies the struggles besetting the GOP seven weeks before the midterm elections, where the party’s once-strong chances of taking the chamber have ebbed.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Chris Mazzola says the over-50 crowd has returned to his Delray Beach gym, although cautiously and often weaker from having a bout or two of COVID-19.
Actor Nia Long appreciates the concern people have shown after news broke that her fiance, Boston Celtics head coach Ime Udoka, had an improper relationship with a female team staff member.
On Monday evening, a robotic NASA spacecraft is programmed to ram itself into a distant asteroid at 14,000 miles per hour in deep space to demonstrate the agency’s future ability to defend Earth from hazardous space rocks.
Russia has told the world that it has “no choice” but to take military action in Ukraine. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's speech at the U.N. General Assembly meeting of world leaders recapped a series of grievances about Kyiv's government and the West. The address was Russia’s chance to respond to days of denunciations from the podium at the premier annual gathering of presidents, premiers, monarchs and government ministers. Lavrov claims the United States and its allies are aggressively undermining the international system that the U.N. represents. Not, as the West maintains, the other way around.
European Union candidate Serbia has signed an agreement with Russia to hold mutual “consultations” on foreign policy matters. Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Nikola Selakovic signed the agreement with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the margins of the U.N. General Assembly. Although the Serbian government says it supports Ukraine’s territorial integrity, it has refused to join Western sanctions against its Slavic allies in Moscow. Aligning foreign policies with the EU is one of the main pre-conditions for joining the 27-nation bloc. Officials from Serbia’s pro-Western opposition said the deal signed Friday is a sign President Aleksander Vucic has given up on EU membership and is bringing his country closer into Moscow’s fold.
Polish media are reporting that Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has canceled concerts planned in Poland amid outrage over his stance on Russia’s war against Ukraine. An official with the concert arena in Krakow where Waters had been scheduled to perform in April said the musician's manager had withdrawn the April performances without giving a reason. City councilors in Krakow were expected to vote next week on a proposal to name Waters as a persona non grata. Waters wrote an open letter to Ukraine's first lady this month in which he blamed “extreme nationalists” in Ukraine for having “set your country on the path to this disastrous war.” He also criticized the West.
LOS ANGELES — Pharoah Sanders, the legendary jazz saxophonist perhaps best known for his transcendent work with John Coltrane and for a solo run for Impulse Records beginning in the mid-1960s, and who helped define the so-called spiritual jazz movement, has died. He was 81.
Christopher Bell has been one of the most consistent drivers in NASCAR’s playoffs this season. He now gets to start the next round close to home at Texas Motor Speedway. None of the playoff contenders won any of the three races that opened this postseason. But Oklahoma native Bell was the only driver that finished in the top five each of those weeks. NASCAR opens the round of 12 on Sunday at the 1 1/2-mile Texas track. Bell is seventh in the standings after the points reset. Chase Elliott is first, ahead of Joey Logano, Ross Chastain and defending Cup champion Kyle Larson.
Kim Kardashian took Milan by storm with a a new collection she curated for Dolce & Gabbana that took inspiration from 20 years of archival looks. The designers had refused to open their archives until Kardashian proved she had the right stuff. They were convinced after she and her sisters all wore vintage Dolce & Gabbana when Kourtney Kardashian got married in Italy. Saturday was a day of debuts at Milan Fashion Week. Maximilian Davis, a 27-year-old British designer with Afro-Caribbean roots, was at the creative helm of Salvatore Ferragamo. Filipino American designer Rhuigi Villasenor led Bally as the brand returns to the runway for the first time in 20 years.
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Sammy Watkins has been placed on injured reserve, meaning he must miss at least the next four games. The Packers play at Tampa Bay on Sunday. They already had ruled Watkins out for the Buccaneers game on Friday’s injury report due to a hamstring issue. Watkins has six catches for a team-high 111 yards through the first two games of the season. He caught three passes for 93 yards Sunday night in a 27-10 victory over the Chicago Bears.
The United Nations official now in charge of the fight to curb climate change has a personal stake in the battle to reduce emissions. Simon Stiell is from a small island flattened twice by hurricanes. He's seen sea level rise around his ankles and poor nations like his have their economies wiped out by disasters juiced by global warming. Now his job is to get action so that heat-trapping emissions are cut in half in just eight years. And he's trying to get rich polluting nations pay for the damage their emissions have done to poorer countries.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Tropical Storm Ian grew overnight in the Caribbean still with a path that could bring it to Florida next week as a hurricane, prompting Gov. Ron DeSantis to declare a state of emergency in 24 counties.
Actor Louise Fletcher, who gave an Oscar-winning performance as the villainous Nurse Ratched in 1975's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and won hearts when she signed to her deaf parents during her Academy Awards speech, died Friday.
“The Crown” will return to its Netflix throne in early November. The streaming service says the series about Queen Elizabeth II and her family circle will begin its fifth season on Nov. 9. The debut will come two months after the queen’s Sept. 8 death at 96. Production on the sixth season was suspended on the day of the queen’s death and again for the funeral of Britain’s longest-serving monarch. In the upcoming season, Imelda Staunton is the latest in a succession of actors who have played the queen. The role of Princess Diana will be filled by Elizabeth Debicki of the film “Tenet.”
Two-time Olympic skiing champion Aksel Lund Svindal has undergone surgery after being diagnosed with testicular cancer. The Norwegian says on Instagram that “tests, scans and surgery all happened very quickly” and “already after the first week I knew the prognoses looked very good.” The 39-year-old Svindal retired from skiing after claiming a silver medal in his final race, the downhill at the world championships in Åre, Sweden, in February 2019. Svindal won the super-G at the 2010 Vancouver Games and the downhill at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games and ended his career with four Olympic medals in all. He also claimed five golds and nine medals overall at the worlds.
Russians are adjusting to the reality of President Vladimir Putin’s sweeping mobilization even as authorities in four occupied Ukrainian regions continue annexation votes derided by Kyiv and its allies as shams.
Thousands of Palestinians have held prayers in a small football field in a refugee camp in northern Lebanon for one of the scores of migrants who lost their lives this week when their boat sank off Syria’s coast. Saturday's funeral came as the death toll from the migrant boat incident rose to 94 making it the deadliest so far as surging numbers of people flee crisis-hit Lebanon. The Lebanese army announced that troops have detained the man who allegedly organized the deadly trip. Lebanon's three-year economic crisis is considered one of the worst the world has witnessed since the 1850s and has pushed three-quarters of the country into poverty.
Pharoah Sanders, a tenor saxophonist revered in the jazz world and known for the spirituality of his work, has died, his record label announced. He was 81. Sanders, also known for his work alongside John Coltrane in the 1960s, died in Los Angeles early Saturday, said the tweet from Luaka Bop, the label that released his 2021 album, “Promises.” It did not specify a cause. A phone message to Luaka Bop was not immediately returned. The saxophonist’s best-known work was his two-part “The Creator Has a Master Plan,” from the “Karma” album released in 1969. The combined track is nearly 33 minutes long.
ORLANDO, Fla. — With the approaching threat of what is forecast to be Hurricane Ian, NASA finally threw in the towel for a launch attempt Tuesday of its Artemis I mission to the moon from Kennedy Space Center.
China has underscored its commitment to its claim to Taiwan. Its foreign minister told world leaders that anyone who gets in the way of its determination to reunify with the self-governing island would be “crushed by the wheels of history.” China vehemently defends its claim on Taiwan. The island separated from the mainland after a 1949 civil war and now functions with its own government. A recent visit to Taiwan by the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives markedly ratcheted up tensions between Washington and Beijing. The language was forceful but not out of the realm of the normal for China.
Some Oregon parks officials say high demand for crowded campsites is leading to arguments, fistfights and even so-called campsite pirates. The Statesman Journal reports that park rangers have sometimes had to play mediator and detective when disputes break out over reserved and first-come, first-served campsites. In some cases, would-be campers will remove a reservation card from a reserved site and replace it with their own. Brian Carroll with Linn County Parks and Recreation says in a few cases people have even thrown punches in disputes at Sunnyside County Park. The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department has said it will seek legislation to give rangers added protection amid increasing harassment on the job.
A U.N. anti-crime agency official says authorities in northwestern Laos have made their third largest seizure ever of methamphetamine, confiscating a haul of 33 million tablets along with 1,100 pounds of crystal methamphetamine. The bust came after 200,000 tablets were found Friday night in a truck and the interrogation of the driver led to an even bigger seizure. Jeremy Douglas, the regional representative for the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, says the truck was stopped near a casino located in a special economic zone that operates virtually autonomously of Laotian law. Such zones are found in the neighboring countries of Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia, all of which have loose law enforcement and have struggled with organized crime.
Russian police have moved quickly to disperse peaceful protests against President Vladimir Putin’s military mobilization order. An independent website that monitors political arrests in Russia said police detained more than 700 people on Saturday, including over 300 in Moscow and nearly 150 in St. Petersburg. OVD-Info said some of the arrested individuals were children. The demonstrations followed protests that erupted within hours Wednesday after Putin, in a move to beef up his volunteer forces fighting in Ukraine, announced a call-up of experienced and skilled army reservists. In Moscow, a heavy contingent of police roamed a downtown area where a protest was planned and checked the IDs of passersby. Officers rounded up those they deemed suspicious.
So you’re paying attention to the tectonic geopolitical issues at the U.N. General Assembly, and most of them are addressed in carefully calibrated and crafted diplomatic language. Then, suddenly, someone like Ralph Gonsalves steps up to the podium. In an ocean of speakers from around the world, the prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines stood out with his use of metaphor and imagery. One sample: “Trying to go up a fast-moving down escalator is a challenging exercise.” Gonsalves is no stranger to summoning eloquence for political effect at the United Nations. Last year, he issued a clarion call after a volcanic eruption in his country displaced 20,000 people.
Filling in for the retired Roger Federer at the Laver Cup, 2021 Wimbledon finalist Matteo Berrettini put Team Europe back in front by edging Team World’s Felix Auger-Aliassime 7-6 (11), 4-6, 10-7. Berrettini received coaching advice from Federer during the match on Day 2 of the three-day team event. Federer closed his career on Friday night. The 20-time Grand Slam champion’s last match came in doubles alongside longtime rival Rafael Nadal. Berrettini is a 26-year-old from Italy who was the runner-up at Wimbledon last year. Nadal also withdrew from the Laver Cup and was replaced in singles Saturday by Cam Norrie.
New York City officials are appealing a judge’s ruling that they lacked the legal authority to fire members of the city’s largest police union for violating a COVID-19 vaccination mandate. State Supreme Court Judge Lyle Frank in Manhattan ruled Friday that the city health department’s vaccine mandate couldn’t be used to fire or put on leave members of the Police Benevolent Association. Frank ordered the reinstatement of union members who were “wrongfully” terminated or put on unpaid leave for refusing to get vaccinated. The city immediately filed a notice of appeal, freezing the judge’s decision until the appeal is heard.
Barcelona says defenders Jules Koundé and Ronald Araújo are sidelined for an undetermined period after sustaining leg injuries while playing for their national teams. Koundé suffered a left hamstring injury while playing for France. Araújo damaged a tendon in his right thigh while playing for Uruguay. Barcelona has not said how long it expects both to be out. The two have been regular starters for coach Xavi Hernández. Over the next three weeks, Barcelona faces two Champions League group games against Inter Milan and a clásico against Real Madrid on Oct. 16.