Hurricane hunter aircraft confirms Delta is a fearsome Category 4 hurricane with top winds of 130 mph and higher gusts

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane hunter aircraft confirms Delta is a fearsome Category 4 hurricane with top winds of 130 mph and higher gusts.

Key figure in German child abuse case jailed for 12 years

BERLIN (AP) — A court in western Germany on Tuesday sentenced a 43-year-old man at the center of a large child sexual abuse network to 12 years imprisonment.

Ex-jail employees charged for playing 'Baby Shark' on repeat

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two former Oklahoma jail employees and their supervisor face misdemeanor cruelty charges after investigators found they forced inmates to stand handcuffed for hours and listen to the children's…

Hurricane Delta now Category 4, roars at Mexico's Yucatan

CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Delta rapidly intensified into a dangerous Category 4 storm with 145 mph (230 kph) winds Tuesday while following a course to hammer southeastern Mexico and then continue on to the U.…

Top Israeli, UAE diplomats meet in Berlin for talks

BERLIN (AP) — The foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Israel met in Berlin on Tuesday for talks that Germany hopes will strengthen nascent ties between the two nations and bolster broader Middle East …

Virginia's governor says he's developed mild COVID symptoms

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia's governor said he has developed mild symptoms of the coronavirus a little less than two weeks after he and the state's first lady tested positive.

Hurricane Delta now Category 3, roars at Mexico's Yucatan

CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Delta rapidly intensified into a Category 3 hurricane with 115 mph (185 kmh) winds Tuesday on a course to hammer southeastern Mexico and then grow to a potentially catastrophic Categ…

Japan seeks to boost catch limits of prized bluefin tuna

MITO, Japan (AP) — Japan has proposed raising its catch quotas for Pacific bluefin tuna, a fish so highly prized for sushi and sashimi that its population is at less than 5% of historical levels.

Hurricane Delta is now an extremely dangerous Category 3, aiming at Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula with top winds of 115 mph

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Delta is now an extremely dangerous Category 3, aiming at Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula with top winds of 115 mph.

Florida looking into crash of voter registration site

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida is investigating why its online voter registration system crashed just before the deadline for the upcoming presidential election, saying unexpectedly heavy traffic that can't be im…

Prosecutors: Bar patron, 80, shoved over mask request dies

WEST SENECA, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man who authorities say confronted another patron at a bar for not wearing a mask and was shoved to the ground has died.

Germany: OPCW says nerve agent used in Navalny poisoning

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman says a global chemical watchdog group has confirmed Germany and other countries' findings that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was the victim of an…

Turkish diplomat denounces Armenia on trip to Azerbaijan

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Turkey's top diplomat traveled to Baku on Tuesday in a show of solidarity with Azerbaijan amid a flare-up in fighting over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.

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Charging decision expected in fatal police shooting of teen

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A prosecutor is expected to announce a decision Wednesday on whether to charge a police officer in the fatal shooting of a Black teenager outside a suburban Milwaukee mall in February.