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Floods in Central Europe threaten new areas. Heavy rains also inundate parts of Italy
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A massive flood wave moving across Central Europe threatened new areas after claiming 24 lives, raising concerns among residents and officials and prompting European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen to plan a visit to the region Thursday. Heavy rains also caused flooding and evacuation of some 1,000 people in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. In Central Europe, the receding waters revealed the scale of the destruction caused by exceptionally heavy rains that began a week ago. ...
Death of Japanese boy stabbed in China risks inflaming tensions
A 10-year-old Japanese child who was stabbed in southern China has died, a development that could further strain relations between the two countries. On Thursday morning Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa confirmed the death of the child, adding that the government was asking China to provide details of what happened and do its utmost to ensure the safety of Japanese citizens. “We understand that the attacker is in custody, and...
Exploding gadgets deathtoll rises in Lebanon as Israel steps up talk of war
Lebanon’s death toll from a series of walkie-talkie and pager explosions this week rose to 37, according to local authorities, an illustration of the devastation wrought by a wave of suspected Israeli attacks against Hezbollah militants. A second wave of blasts on Wednesday killed 25 and injured more than 600, the Lebanese health ministry said. Some occurred at funerals for Hezbollah members who died the previous day when thousands of pagers — most of them carried by the Iran-backed group — exploded in supermarkets, streets...
Former Arsenal soccer player arrested for alleged $800,000 drug smuggling from Thailand
LONDON (AP) — A soccer player who once appeared for Arsenal in the Champions League has been charged in connection with trying to smuggle cannabis worth 600,000 pounds ($800,000) through a British airport. Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, who currently plays for Scottish second-tier team Greenock Morton, was arrested at his home near Glasgow early Wednesday, the Press Association agency reported Thursday. Emmanuel-Thomas was detained by police and taken to the northern English...
Severe storms possible tonight
EAU CLAIRE — Storms are in the forecast for tonight, some possibly severe, as an unusually hot stretch for September approaches its end. Wednesday’s high temperature was 86 in Eau Claire, some 14 degrees above the normal. That’s down from the prior two days, actually. Monday saw the thermometer top out at 88, and Tuesday reached 87. Storms could begin in the afternoon, though evening appears to be more likely....
Takeaways from AP's report on the evangelicals backing Kamala Harris
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has heavily courted conservative evangelicals since his arrival on the political scene almost a decade ago. Now he is selling Trump-themed Bibles, touting the overturning of Roe v. Wade and imploring Christians to get out the vote for him. But a small and diverse coalition of evangelicals is looking to pull their fellow believers away Trump’s fold, offering not only an alternate candidate to support but an alternate vision for their faith altogether. ...
These evangelicals are voting their values — by backing Kamala Harris
WASHINGTON (AP) — When the Rev. Lee Scott publicly endorsed Kamala Harris for president during the Evangelicals for Harris Zoom call on Aug. 14, the Presbyterian pastor and farmer said he was taking a risk. “The easy thing for us to do this year would be to keep our heads down, go to the ballot box, keep our vote secret and go about our business,” Scott told the group, which garnered roughly 3,200 viewers according to organizers. “But at this time, I just can’t do...
Paris Olympics anti-doping program found almost 50 cases. More likely with re-tests over 10 years
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The anti-doping program for the Paris Olympics caught five athletes after earlier finding 40 rule violations among competitors who had been expected to take part in the Games, the agency that ran the operation said Thursday. Summing up its Olympic program, the International Testing Agency said 6,130 samples were collected during the Games period in July-August from 4,150 different athletes. The samples were of urine, blood and dried blood spot. ...
Hezbollah fires new volley at Israel as fears of greater war mount after electronic devices bombing
BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah fired a new barrage into northern Israel on Thursday, continuing its drumbeat of exchanges with the Israeli military as fears of a greater war rise after hundreds of electronic devices exploded in Lebanon, killing at least 32 people and wounding more than 3,000 others. The device explosions appeared to be the culmination of a monthslong operation by Israel to target as many Hezbollah members as possible all at once. Over two days, pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah detonated, wounding and...
Oktoberfest tightens security in wake of deadly knife attack in western Germany
MUNICH (AP) — Security has tightened at Oktoberfest in the wake of last month’s deadly knife attack in Solingen in western Germany, and officials warned revelers to expect longer lines at entry points as metal detectors will be deployed for the first time in the Bavarian beer festival's 189-year history. Authorities say there are no specific threats to the world's largest folk festival, which begins Saturday with the traditional keg-tapping in Munich and runs through Oct. 6. Some 6 million participants, many wearing traditional lederhosen...
Blue Laser Fusion Wins Prestigious US Department of Energy INFUSE Project Award
Company to Collaborate with Caltech on High-Energy Pulsed Laser Technology to Advance Fusion Energy Commercialization PALO ALTO, CA / ACCESSWIRE / September 19, 2024 / Blue Laser Fusion Inc. (BLF), a leading fusion energy company, has won a prestigious US Department of Energy (DOE) INFUSE project award to develop a novel high-energy pulsed laser for inertial fusion energy applications in collaboration with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). ...
Tropical Weather-Pacific
Tropical Weather-Pacific for Thursday, September 19, 2024 Eastern Pacific: Still quiet in the East Pacific No tropical development is expected in the eastern Pacific basin over the next seven days. Western Pacific: There is no Western Pacific tropical discussion at this time. Southern Pacific: No new information for this time period. Copyright 2024 AccuWeather
The Thai zoo home to baby hippo and internet sensation Moo Deng is patenting the pygmy
CHONBURI, Thailand (AP) — Only a month after Thailand's adorable baby hippo Moo Deng was unveiled on Facebook, her fame became unstoppable both domestically and internationally. Zookeeper Atthapon Nundee has been posting cute moments of the animals in his care for about five years. He never imagined Khao Kheow Open Zoo's newborn pygmy hippo would become an internet megastar within weeks. Cars started lining up outside the zoo well before...
Here is the latest Big Ten Conference sports news from The Associated Press
UNDATED (AP) — Conference realignment has done more harm than good for college football and it’s easy to lament what has been lost in the name of chasing dollars. Then Week 4 of the season rolls around and the schedule is highlighted by No. 6 Tennessee at No. 15 Oklahoma in the Sooners’ first Southeastern Conference game and No. 11 Southern California visiting No. 18 Michigan in USC’s Big Ten debut. Yes, those matchups were created by greed, but they are pretty tasty. That’s how they get you. ...
Israel-Hamas war latest: Israel turns its focus north toward Lebanon and Hezbollah
Israel’s defense minister has declared the start of a “new phase” of the war as Israel turns its focus toward the northern front against Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. Two waves of explosive attacks hit Syria and Lebanon: an apparent Israeli attack targeting pagers used by Hezbollah that killed at least 12 and wounded nearly 3,000 on Tuesday, and exploding walkie-talkies and other electronics Wednesday across Lebanon that killed at least 20 people and injured 450 others. ...
AP Sports SummaryBrief at 1:05 a.m. EDT
Yankees clinch playoff berth by beating Mariners 2-1 in 10 innings SEATTLE (AP) — Following a one-year absence, the New York Yankees are back in the playoffs. After spending last year sitting at home when the postseason arrived, the AL East-leading Yankees wrapped up their place in the 2024 playoffs with a 2-1 win over the Seattle Mariners in 10 innings Wednesday night. It’s the 59th postseason appearance in franchise history, but the Yankees are still trying to end a World Series drought that dates...
Adoption fraud separated generations of South Korean children from their families, AP finds
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to supply some 200,000 Korean children to parents overseas, despite years of evidence they were being procured through questionable or downright unscrupulous means, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found. Those children grew up and searched for their roots — and some realized they are not who they were told. Their stories have sparked a reckoning that is rocking the international adoption industry. ...
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Of the dozens of newspapers being printed in Eau Claire in the mid-1800s, two stood the test of time. The newspaper business was fiercely competitive in those days. Many efforts failed; however, the Eau Claire Leader and the Eau Claire Daily Telegram survived. W. H. Lamb began the Eau Claire Leader in April 1881. At the time, the newspaper had a daily circulation of 300. The Leader was sold to William K. Atkinson in 1885. This morning paper grew to a circulation of 3,000 by 1889. In 1896, the Leader moved into a building at 407 South Barstow Street where it remained until 1912, when the Leader and the Telegram merged. The evening Eau Claire Daily Telegram was started in 1894 by William Irvine of Chippewa Falls. W. P. Welch and A. J. Rich purchased the Telegram in August 1895. Later, W. P. Welch, G. A. Bary and Charles Fiske incorporated the paper into the Telegram Publishing Co. The Leader and Daily Telegram merged into the Eau Claire Press Company in 1912 under the Company’s first president, C. W. Fiske. The two papers were published from the same building at 405 South Barstow Street until moving to a new and larger facility at 701 South Farwell Street. Ancestors of the Atkinson and Graaskamp families founded the Eau Claire Press Company and merged the two existing local papers: the Eau Claire Leader and the Daily Telegram. The Company's initial focus centered around the printing and publishing of these two local papers. On June 8, 1970, the two papers were merged into the afternoon Leader-Telegram. After 130 years of ownership by the Atkinson and Graaskamp families, APG purchased the Leader-Telegram in June 2018.
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