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ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — An explosion at the Dutch port of Rotterdam on Thursday killed at least one person and injured several others, city police said. Police said the blast at Europe’s biggest port happened late Thursday morning and that a crime scene has been set up to try to establish what caused it. In a post on social media, they said the explosion “appears to be a workplace accident […]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Flock Safety, the surveillance technology company increasingly under scrutiny from lawmakers, civil liberties advocates and citizens across the U.S., announced Thursday it is making changes to its platform intended to quell privacy concerns and address documented abuses of its system by some members of law enforcement. The company is one of the nation’s largest providers of automated license plate readers, which document plate data and other […]

By Phil Stewart PANAMA CITY, Aug 13 (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday said reports about poor conditions aboard aircraft carrier the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East were “completely misrepresented.” “We make sure every ship, every crew, every captain has everything we can provide them at every single moment. Some deployments are longer than others, and I have more respect and gratitude for those sailors […]

Doc Rivers needed some time to write the speech that he’ll give when formally inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The storytelling, that part was easy. He’s a natural at that. But what Rivers wound up learning during the trial-and-error process of speechwriting was that the words he’ll say from a stage in Springfield, Massachusetts aren’t going to be about him. They’re going to be about everyone […]

Nearly four decades after “ Field of Dreams ” brought a group of dead baseball players to life with a homemade diamond on an Iowa farm, Keith Rahe and his traveling troupers are still dedicated to keeping the cornfield mystique alive. Once the long days of filming had passed and the fantasy flick had shifted from movie theaters to video cassettes, the farmhouse and ballfield where those idyllic scenes were […]

WARSAW (AP) — Poland’s prime minister said Thursday authorities arrested a Russian citizen who was allegedly recruited by Russia’s secret services, thwarting his plan to kill a Ukrainian American citizen in Warsaw. It was the first time that “someone on the order of Russia” sought to attack an American citizen on the territory of another NATO country, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said. The American-Ukrainian citizen “was uncomfortable for the Putin […]

A Powerball ticket sold at a gas station in western Illinois was the sole winner of the $1 billion jackpot, ending a three-month drought without a top-prize victor. The ticket that won the jackpot Wednesday night was purchased at a Hy-Vee station in Quincy, about 100 miles (161 kilometers) west of the state capital of Springfield along the Missouri border, Illinois Lottery officials said. The winning numbers were 4-26-66-67-69 with […]

(AP) – Wholesale inflation cooled last month, offering a narrow but meaningful signal that consumer prices may begin to ease—though Americans are still feeling the pinch. The Labor Department’s Producer Price Index, which measures inflation before it reaches shoppers, rose 4.7 percent in July compared with a year earlier. That’s down from the 5.5 percent increase reported in June. On a month-to-month basis, wholesale prices were flat in July—unchanged from […]

By Jack Queen Aug 13 (Reuters) – Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down a health insurance executive on a Manhattan sidewalk, is expected to plead guilty in a federal case charging him with stalking, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing two people with knowledge of the matter.  A guilty plea would avert a trial in the closely watched case over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian […]