Day: April 11, 2024

2 inmates dead, 5 hurt after work-release van crashes in Alabama

6:58 pm April 11, 2024

A van taking Alabama inmates from their jobs back to a work-release center crashed, killing two and injuring five others, authorities said. The crash happened Wednesday in Dadeville, about 55 miles northeast of Montgomery, the state Department of Corrections said. The van was taking the men from work back to the Alex City Community Based […]

Italian coast guard rescues 22 shipwrecked people, recovers 9 bodies. Some 15 reported missing

6:10 pm April 11, 2024

MILAN (AP) — The Italian Coast Guard rescued 22 people and recovered nine bodies after a smugglers’ boat capsized in a storm about 50 kilometers ( about 30 miles) south of the island of Lampedusa, authorities said Thursday. Survivors indicated that the steel bottom boat had departed from Sfax, Tunisia overnight Sunday carrying 46 people […]

Steelworkers at the UK’s largest production plant vote to strike over job losses

6:08 pm April 11, 2024

LONDON (AP) — Steelworkers at Britain’s largest steel production plant voted to strike for the first time in around 40 years to protest the planned loss of 2,800 jobs by Indian owner Tata Steel, union officials said Thursday. The Unite trade union said 1,500 of its members at the south Wales plant and the nearby […]

Ukraine’s parliament passes a controversial law to boost much-needed conscripts as war drags on

6:06 pm April 11, 2024

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s parliament passed a controversial law Thursday that will govern how the country calls up new soldiers at a time when it needs to replenish depleted forces who are increasingly struggling to fend off Russia’s advance. The law was passed against a backdrop of an escalating Russian campaign that has devastated […]

‘Expect NPR to suffer’ under GOP admin: Republicans renew call to defund outlet amid bias scandal

6:03 pm April 11, 2024

Congressional Republicans said National Public Radio’s (NPR) federal funding should be revisited after a senior editor at the publication penned a scathing review of its employees’ partisan make-up. “NPR has abandoned their own definition of diversity and inclusion with their one-sided reporting and blatantly biased newsroom,” House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., the No. 3 […]