Partly cloudy. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Low 57F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph..
Partly cloudy. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Low 57F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph.
Updated: June 6, 2023 @ 4:34 pm
A boat carrying 180 Rohingya refugees vanished. A frantic phone call helped untangle the mystery.
TEKNAF, Bangladesh (AP) — On December 1, a boat carrying 180 Rohingya refugees set out from Bangladesh, bound for Indonesia. On board were babies, pregnant women and frightened children fleeing surging violence in Bangladesh’s refugee camps. One week later, the boat vanished. The Associated Press has reconstructed the passengers’ journey based on dozens of interviews, videos and audio recordings of calls from the boat. Those aboard the doomed vessel were among at least 348 Rohingya who died or went missing while attempting to cross the Bay of Bengal or Andaman Sea last year. That’s the highest death toll since 2014. Yet the United Nations’ refugee agency says its repeated pleas to maritime authorities to rescue some of these distressed boats in recent months have been ignored.
Canada wildfires are leading to air-quality alerts in US. Here’s how to stay safe
Canada is dealing with a series of intense wildfires that have spread from the western provinces to Quebec, with hundreds of forest fires burning. Wind has carried smoke from the fires southward, triggering air quality alerts throughout the United States. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday issued a poor air quality alert for New England, a day after parts of Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota received a similar advisory. Last week, U.S. officials as far south as Maryland, Baltimore, Virginia and Pennsylvania reported being impacted by the wildfires. Fine-particle pollution — known as “PM 2.5” — is what’s being measured. The tiny particles are small enough to get past airway defenses and cause breathing problems.
Plane that crashed in Virginia lost contact with air traffic controllers during ascent, feds say
Only minutes into a doomed journey, the pilot of a business jet wasn’t responding to air traffic control instructions and federal aviation officials say the situation was soon reported to a network that includes military, security and law enforcement agencies. Despite being out of contact on its ascent Sunday, the jet that took off in Tennessee continued toward Long Island, then turned back toward Virginia, where it slammed into a mountain, killing four people. Family and friends identified two victims as an entrepreneur known in New York real-estate circles and her 2-year-old daughter. The plane’s erratic flight path directly over the nation’s capital prompted the military to scramble fighter jets, causing a sonic boom heard in Washington, Maryland and Virginia.
US judge blocks Florida ban on trans minor care in narrow ruling, says ‘gender identity is real’
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge is temporarily blocked portions of a new Florida law championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that bans transgender minors from receiving puberty blockers. Judge Robert Hinkle says in Tuesday’s ruling that “gender identity is real” and the state has no rational basis for denying patients treatment. Hinkle issued a preliminary injunction, saying three transgender children can continue receiving treatment. The lawsuit challenges the law DeSantis signed shortly before he announced a run for president. The ruling was narrowly focused on the three children whose parents brought the suit. Attention on the new law has focused on language involving minors. Hinkle’s ruling focuses on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
Citizens embark on chaotic scramble to escape floodwaters after Ukraine dam breach
KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Dozens of evacuees on an island in the Dnieper River scurried onto the tops of military trucks to flee rising floodwaters caused by the breach of a dam upstream, as shelling in a war zone separating Ukrainian and Russian forces echoed overhead. Nobody knew just how high the waters would rise, or whether people or pets would escape alive, after waters rushed through a gaping hole in the Kakhovka dam – the latest human catastrophe in a string of them since Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine more than 15 months ago. Each side accused the other of a role in destroying the dam.
Sheriff probes self-defense claim of white woman who fatally shot Black neighbor in front of kids
OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff says detectives must investigate self-defense claims before any criminal charges can be brought against a white woman who fatally shot her Black neighbor last week in the violent culmination of what the sheriff described as a 2½-year feud. Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods said Monday that he’s not legally able to arrest the shooter unless he can prove that she did not act in self-defense when she shot Ajike Owens, a 35-year-old mother of four last Friday night. The women lived in a neighborhood in the rolling hills south of Ocala in north Florida.
Prince Harry’s drug use cited in push to release visa records by conservative US group
WASHINGTON (AP) — A conservative American think tank says the past drug use that Prince Harry detailed in his explosive memoir should spark the release of his U.S. immigration records. The Heritage Foundation made that argument in a Washington court Tuesday, appealing to a judge after the U.S. government refused to release the records considered private. The hearing played out as the Duke of Sussex himself testified in London in a lawsuit he filed against British newspapers there. The U.S. asks about drug use on its visa applications and The Heritage Foundation argues there is public interest in Harry’s treatment by immigration authorities. The Department of Homeland Security says the records are private.
Giuliani denies claims he coerced woman to have sex, says she’s trying to stir ‘media frenzy’
NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is denying a woman’s claims that he forced her to have sex and owes her $2 million in unpaid wages. Giuliani says he had a consensual relationship with Noelle Dunphy for a few months in 2019, during his time as former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer. In court papers filed Friday, he also denies ever employing Dunphy. Giuliani is asking a judge to throw out the lawsuit. Dunphy’s lawyer, Justin Kelton, said Tuesday that Giuliani has filled his court papers with “misrepresentations” in a “transparent attempt to avoid having to answer” her allegations under oath.
Recalled pillows linked to 10 infant deaths still being sold on Facebook Marketplace, US agency says
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal safety regulators are urging consumers to stop using baby pillows that have been linked to 10 infant deaths but are still being sold on Facebook Marketplace, despite being recalled two years ago. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Tuesday that Boppy Newborn Loungers are no longer legally for sale but it has found thousands of them on Facebook Marketplace since the 2021 recall began. The agency wrote to Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook parent Meta Platforms, on Tuesday saying it had made repeated requests to have recalled items taken down from Marketplace. The company that Marketplace posts featuring recalled products are removed when identified.
PGA, LIV golfers react to merger of rival leagues: ‘Nothing like finding out through Twitter’
It was almost a year ago to the day that Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf teed off for the first time as the PGA Tour’s newest rival, flush with defectors from golf’s top circuit. Morals were questioned. Lawsuits were filed. Golfers doubled down on their affiliations. A merger, it seemed, wasn’t in the cards. But on Tuesday, professionals from both tours were caught off guard by news that their worlds would collide. When a news outlet broke the embargoed announcement that the PGA Tour, European tour and LIV Golf were merging before PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan could send a memo to the players, some learned about it on social media.
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