Van slams into crowd at Berlin Pride festival, killing 1 and injuring 16, as police identify suspect<\/p>\n
BERLIN (AP) \u2014 A van slammed into people gathered for Berlin\u2019s famed Pride festival on Saturday night, killing one person, injuring at least 16 others and prompting police to call off the celebrations and a concert in the German capital hours after they had begun.<\/p>\n
Berlin police said they have identified a suspect who has not been arrested and he has ties to Islamic groups in the German capital.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe suspect is known to police. He is known to us as a member of Islamic circles here in Berlin, and our search for this person is proceeding at full speed,\u201d said police spokesman Florian Nath. He did not identify the suspect by name. <\/p>\n
Nath added that \u201cwe still have no information whatsoever regarding his specific motives, the exact sequence of events, or his role in the crime itself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier, police said some of the victims had life-threatening injuries. In a post on X, police called on everyone to leave the site of the event immediately as ambulances and firefighters attended to the victims. <\/p>\n
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France and Spain battle wildfires as more than 250,000 people are forced to flee homes<\/p>\n
LEGE-CAP FERRET, France (AP) \u2014 France sent a hulking military cargo plane to dump tons of flame retardants as it battled raging wildfires on Saturday and slashed the final stage of Tour de France to redeploy security personnel to the blazes that forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes. <\/p>\n
The latest wildfires in southern Europe this week have displaced more than 250,000 people, including some 70,000 people who were evacuated in central Spain. One man died in Manises, the municipality reported on its Facebook page, the first death so far in the blazes. <\/p>\n
In France, the giant A400M transporter swooped in low, its long plume of ochre-colored retardant trailing over drought-hit woodlands in the southwest as fire crews on the ground fought flames that authorities feared could spread toward the wine region city of Bordeaux.<\/p>\n
Race organizers and the Paris police department announced a truncated 21st and final stage on Sunday for the three-week Tour, France’s most famous annual sporting event, reflecting the immense strain that two large fires in the southwest are causing for emergency services.<\/p>\n
Tour riders will race Sunday inside Paris, rather than starting from Thoiry, west of the capital, on a circuit of 89 kilometers (55 miles) \u2014 down by a third from the 133-kilometer (82.5-mile) route that had been planned. Part of the race’s security detail will instead \u201creinforce the response efforts in the areas affected by the wildfires,\u201d according to the statement announcing the \u201dexceptional measures made necessary by the situation.”<\/p>\n
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Iran-backed Houthis fire missiles at Saudi Arabia in response to airstrikes in Yemen<\/p>\n
CAIRO (AP) \u2014 Yemen\u2019s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said Saturday that they fired missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia in response to Saudi airstrikes on the strategic Red Sea city of Hodeida, in an escalation over vital shipping routes in the Middle East while the United States and Iran vie for control of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n
Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, the Houthis\u2019 military spokesperson, said in a prerecorded statement that the attack targeted facilities in the Red Sea cities of Yanbu and Jizan that belong to Aramco, the world\u2019s largest oil company.<\/p>\n
Saudi Arabia’s civil defense said alerts sounded multiple times early Saturday in both cities, but the kingdom didn’t comment further.<\/p>\n
There were no reported strikes overnight in Iran, in an apparent break from nearly two weeks of consecutive nights of U.S. attacks.<\/p>\n
The Houthis have said they would close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to Saudi-linked shipping in retaliation for the kingdom\u2019s blockade on Yemen and a recent attack on the international airport in Yemen\u2019s rebel-held capital, Sanaa.<\/p>\n
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Maine Democratic delegates choose Troy Jackson as new nominee to face US Sen. Susan Collins<\/p>\n
BANGOR, Maine (AP) \u2014 Former state lawmaker and logger Troy Jackson secured the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine on Saturday and will face longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins in November in a race that could decide which party controls the chamber.<\/p>\n
Jackson replaces Graham Platner, who won the Democratic primary in June but withdrew from the race earlier this month following an allegation of sexual assault that Platner has denied. Maine Democrats met Saturday to choose a new Senate nominee to face Collins.<\/p>\n
Support coalesced around Jackson, a former Maine Senate president and fifth-generation logger from rural northern Maine who campaigned alongside Platner during a failed bid for governor and was a favorite among progressives to replace him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the people in power refuse to listen, you have to organize, you have to stand in solidarity, together. And you have to make them listen,\u201d Jackson said during a speech at the last-minute nominating convention.<\/p>\n
Democrats view Maine as the party\u2019s best opportunity to flip a Senate seat this year because it’s a competitive race in a state President Donald Trump lost in 2024. But defeating Collins won\u2019t be easy. The five-term incumbent holds a fundraising advantage, while Jackson will have less than four months to sell himself to voters.<\/p>\n
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Latest Russian and Ukrainian attacks kill a total of 15 people, officials say<\/p>\n
Ukrainian attacks on holiday camps on Saturday in the partly Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region have killed 12 people, Moscow-installed officials said, while authorities in Ukraine\u2019s northeastern Sumy region said a Russian drone strike killed three people there.<\/p>\n
The strikes followed a major Russian attack on Friday near Kyiv that killed at least 10 people and wounded around 100 others, part of a relentless cycle of tit-for-tat attacks that dims the potential of reaching a diplomatic end to Russia’s more than 4-year-old invasion of its neighbor.<\/p>\n
The exchange comes as Ukraine\u2019s successful drome attacks have stalled the Russian army\u2019s advances in an expanded campaign by Kyiv inside Russia that has been hitting high-profile targets, causing fuel shortages and piling pressure on Russian leader Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n
Four children were among 12 people killed in the attack on the resorts in Zaporizhzhia, Yevgeny Balitsky, the Kremlin-installed regional head, said, adding that 19 others were wounded.<\/p>\n
Ukraine did not immediately comment.<\/p>\n
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Americans rewire their grocery shopping routines while digesting the biggest price jump in 50 years<\/p>\n
What\u2019s for dinner? Lately, at Apral Jack\u2019s house, it\u2019s whatever is on sale.<\/p>\n
Jack scouts an app for deals at her local supermarket before she buys groceries. When she reaches the store, she grabs the weekly circular to look for coupons she might have missed. If the shelf prices look too high, she scratches items off her list or tries to find lower prices someplace else.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe apples went up here, the ones I eat, so now I\u2019m not going to get them here. I\u2019ll go to Market Basket, where I can get them cheaper,\u201d Jack, 50, said as she pushed a cart into a Stop & Shop near her home in Lexington, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n
Couponing, comparison shopping and cutting back on favorite foods are new habits for her and millions of other Americans as they absorb the biggest jump in grocery prices in a half-century. Buying food to eat at home has gotten 33% more expensive in U.S. cities since the beginning of 2019, according to government figures. In the 7 1\/2 years before that, prices rose 6.4%.<\/p>\n
The historic increase happened for numerous reasons. The coronavirus pandemic snarled supply chains and raised labor and transportation costs. Droughts, hurricanes and diseases like bird flu drove down production. Tariffs raised prices on foreign products like coffee, tomatoes and chocolate. Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine disrupted oil and fertilizer supplies.<\/p>\n
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Small businesses file lawsuits against Trump’s new sweeping tariffs<\/p>\n
NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Trump’s tariffs are headed to court \u2014 again.<\/p>\n
Two lawsuits filed by small businesses are challenging Trump’s sweeping tariffs announced Thursday that impose double-digit levies on 60 trading partners.<\/p>\n
The tariffs, implemented under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 for what the Trump administration says is countries’ failure to prevent imports produced by forced labor, cover 99% of U.S. imports. Critics say the goal is less to prevent forced-labor imports and more to replace the worldwide tariffs that Trump imposed last year that were struck down by the Supreme Court in February. They came just as temporary 10% worldwide tariffs \u2014 that had also been challenged in court \u2014 expired.<\/p>\n
Educational toy company Learning Resources, which was part of the tariff lawsuit that won in the Supreme Court, filed a new suit along with several other small businesses in the Court of International Trade on Friday over the current round of tariffs.<\/p>\n
The second lawsuit was filed by Burlap and Barrel, a New York-based spice company, and Collective Horology, a watch retailer based in Ventura, California. They are represented by Liberty Justice Center, a libertarian advocacy group. <\/p>\n
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Wisconsin’s capital city cancels signature events, grapples with fallout from police shooting<\/p>\n
MADISON, Wis. (AP) \u2014 A police shooting in Wisconsin\u2019s progressive capital city this week put the spotlight on persistent and deep racial divisions, prompting cancellations and other changes to popular summertime events as protesters said they were determined to continue public pressure for change in Madison.<\/p>\n
Corey Ruiz, who is identified as Black or Latino in Wisconsin court records, was shot and killed by a Madison police officer on Wednesday after a brief scuffle at an intersection in the city’s most liberal neighborhood just yards away from a popular 52-year-old food co-op.<\/p>\n
It marks the third time since 2012 that Madison police have shot and killed someone in the same neighborhood. The shooting has sparked renewed calls for police reforms and forced the city to once again reckon with calls from the Black community to address racial justice issues.<\/p>\n
Pressure from protesters, and sympathy for their cause, has also led to the cancellation or disruption of many of Madison’s signature summertime events.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur community has spoken loud and clear: this is NOT business as usual,\u201d Black activist Clyde Mayberry posted on Facebook on Friday amid a string of cancellations. \u201cYour decisions have helped ensure that this city continues to acknowledge the pain, the loss, and the call for accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n
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How the lighthearted social media trend of ‘teen takeovers’ took a serious turn<\/p>\n
When Damarion Spann, 18, saw an Instagram flier calling for a massive gathering on a beach near downtown Chicago, he immediately wanted to go. Thousands of others joined him that night on the sand, blasting music and dancing. <\/p>\n
The cultural trend of so-called teen takeovers has popped up across the U.S. in recent years, influencing local policing and national politics. The events, often hyped online and captured in videos on social media, have led to shootings, theft and vandalism. City officials and police are concerned about an increase over the summer, and are under pressure to prevent similar gatherings or to punish those who participate.<\/p>\n
Over the July 4 holiday weekend, several thousand young people converged in two spots in Raleigh, North Carolina, police said. Nine people, including an adult who was not part of the gatherings, were shot and wounded.<\/p>\n
There were also takeovers in Pensacola, Florida, where a 19-year-old was shot and killed; and Newport Beach, California, where more than 400 were arrested after the police chief said teens launched \u201cexplosive mortars and other projectiles\u201d at officers ordering them to disperse.<\/p>\n
But Spann and other teens say that the events are largely misunderstood. They point to formal curfews or limits on group size at malls and movie theaters that have made it harder for teens to gather, exacerbating a feeling of disconnection they trace back to remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n
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More health workers strike as Ebola cases in Congo near 3,000, including over 1,300 deaths<\/p>\n
BUNIA, Congo (AP) \u2014 Health workers at an Ebola treatment center in eastern Congo went on strike on Saturday, demanding their pay. The walkout disrupted care for patients in the epicenter of the country\u2019s rapidly growing outbreak.<\/p>\n
The number of confirmed cases of Ebola in Congo has reached 2,973, including 1,309 deaths, according to government data released on Friday in what authorities say is the fastest-growing outbreak on record.<\/p>\n
The Elikya Ebola Treatment Center in Bunia, Ituri province, came to a standstill after doctors, nurses and security staff stopped work.<\/p>\n
About a hundred health workers protested outside the treatment center on Saturday. They said the unpaid bonuses were undermining morale and disrupting patient care, and called on Congolese authorities to resolve the backpay so they could resume their work.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to be paid, because in the meantime the disease is spreading at the treatment center,\u201d Martin Bolombi, one of the health workers on strike said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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