Who is Allison Daugherty? Florida mom arrested after abandoning toddler in running car to go swimming with sharks
Surveillance footage showed Daugherty treading water in a black bikini before being escorted to a nearby police vehicle
2023-09-14 20:49
France announces release of French official held by Niger security forces
France's Foreign ministry on Thursday announced the release of Stephane Jullien, a French official who had been held by security forces in Niger.
2023-09-14 20:25
No. 8 Washington, Michael Penix head to Michigan State to headline Pac-12 action
No. 8 Washington visits Michigan State on Saturday
2023-09-14 20:24
Who is Keanu Labatte? Minnesota man arrested for confining girlfriend to dorm and raping her for days over texts
Keanu Labatte and the survivor had been seeing each other for two months before he drove to her college from Granite Falls
2023-09-14 20:20
Tiny Italian island coping with thousands of migrants who arrived in a short span
A migrant reception center in Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa is overwhelmed as it copes with transferring to the mainland thousands of migrants who arrived on small, unseaworthy boats in a 24-hour span this week
2023-09-14 20:20
Europe's central bank hikes interest rates again even as threat of recession grows
The European Central Bank has piled on a 10th straight interest rate increase
2023-09-14 20:20
More than 3,000 arrested as massive climate protests block major Netherlands motorway for fifth day
Police in the Netherlands arrested over 3,000 climate activists this week during ongoing protests against government subsidies given to planet-heating fossil fuels. Extinction Rebellion, the organisation which called for protests, said this is the highest number of arrests they have faced from a single demonstration. “It's the most we have ever had," Hester Op De Laak, a representative of Extinction Rebellion told The Independent. She said around 2,400 people were arrested on Monday alone, with several hundred arrests taking place on Saturday and Sunday. The protests continued on the fifth consecutive day on Wednesday with hundreds of people blocking a major highway which connects to The Hague, the seat of the Dutch government. Local police said activists marched onto the A12 highway and blocked all incoming traffic to the city, the news agency ANP reported. Authorities said they warned protesters to stay off the road and detained people who ignored orders to leave. The group said it would continue till the Dutch government stopped using public funds to subsidise the oil and gas industry, as they have done in recent months. All the detained protesters have been released after being removed from the scene, the authorities said. On Monday, the police deployed water cannons to disperse the crowd, with photos and videos showing activists drenched in water and some being taken off the scene. No injuries have been reported, authorities said. “25,000 People Block Amsterdam A12 Motorway,” said Just Stop Oil on Monday, another group of climate activists, sharing a video of protestors holding banners as police fired water cannons. In one video, activists could be heard chanting: “What do we want? Climate justice!” On Saturday an estimated 10,000 activists joined the protest, while on Sunday several hundreds blocked the road, Reuters news agency reported. Earlier this year in May, 1,579 protestors of Extinction Rebellion were arrested from the same spot. The police released most of them but said 40 people would face charges. Over 1,000 arrests took place in the UK in 2022 after climate protestors blocked oil terminals. According to a report published last week by the Center for Research on Multinational Corporations, these subsidies total around €37.5bn (£32.23bn) each year. Burning fossil fuels – such as coal, oil and gas – is responsible for the majority of carbon pollution that is heating the world and fuelling more extreme weather and disasters. Scientific assessments have found that the global average temperature has already risen by about 1.2 degrees Celsius and it is set to rise more, triggering worse extreme heatwaves, droughts, hurricanes and wildfires. The year 2023 has seen the hottest summer on record, the United Nations confirmed this month with temperatures between June to August standing at 1.5C higher than normal. Read More Climate activists attack Walmart heiress’ $300m yacht – again What we know about 2023 Burning Man’s flooding chaos Hurricane Lee tracker: Alerts issued across coastal New England Just Stop Oil: Are the climate group’s demonstrations at sporting events against the law? Sadiq Khan says Just Stop Oil ‘really important’ amid Pride parade sponsors row UK police have new expanded powers to crack down on protests
2023-09-14 20:17
Heather Hoffman: Woman convicted of killing daughter’s dad bragged she could simply claim 'self-defense'
The prosecution asserted that the defendant, 26-year-old Heather Renee Faith Hoffman, had been driven to desperation by a child support dispute
2023-09-14 19:53
How did Eugene Peltola Jr die? Alaska Rep Mary Peltola rushes back to family after husband's death
Eugene Peltola Jr was piloting a Piper PA-18 SuperCub and transporting a hunter when the aircraft crashed under unknown circumstances
2023-09-14 19:45
Chevron reports LNG outage at Australian plant as strike action escalates
A Chevron Corp. liquefied natural gas plant has reported a production outage as workers escalated a strike action against its Australian operations that threaten global supply
2023-09-14 19:29
Scott rolls out economic plan as he looks to gain a foothold in 2024 race
As he looks to break through in the 2024 GOP primary, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott rolled out an economic plan on Thursday that takes aim at President Joe Biden's policies and calls for making permanent former President Donald Trump's tax cuts.
2023-09-14 19:17
Spain records its third hottest summer since records began as a drought drags on
Spain has recorded its third hottest summer since official records began 62 years ago
2023-09-14 18:52