By MARILYNN MARCHIONE , AP Chief Medical Writer HONG KONG (AP) — A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin girls born this month whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life. If true, it would be…
By JILL LAWLESS , Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May was starting a frantic two-week race Monday to convince the British public, and a skeptical Parliament, to back the Brexit deal she has struck with the European Union. May was gathering her Cabinet for a meeting hours after returning from Brussels with…
MOSCOW (AP) — The Ukrainian parliament is set to consider a presidential request for the introduction of martial law in Ukraine following an incident in which Russian coast guard ships fired on Ukrainian navy vessels. Ukraine’s navy said six Ukrainian seamen were wounded when Russian coast guards opened fire on three Ukrainian ships near the…
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Hundreds of migrants approaching the U.S. border from Mexico were enveloped with tear gas Sunday after several tried to make it past fencing and wire separating the two countries. Earlier in the morning, a group of Central Americans staged a peaceful march to appeal for the U.S. to…
A major winter storm is expected to hit parts of the Midwest Sunday. The National Weather Service is calling for heavy snow in parts of southeast Nebraska, northeast Kansas, southern Iowa, northern Missouri, and northwest Illinois, with some areas seeing 10 inches or more. The snow will be accompanied by winds of up to 45…
BRUSSELS (AP) — Romania’s president has welcomed the Brexit agreement saying it will protect the rights of hundreds of thousands of Romanians in Britain. President Klaus Iohannis said Sunday that while most EU members were sad that Britain was leaving the bloc, if the agreement passes it “will protect Romanians and other Europeans who are…
By KIM CHANDLER , Associated Press HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Protesters on Saturday marched through an Alabama shopping mall where police killed a black man they later acknowledged was not the triggerman in a Thanksgiving night shooting that wounded two people. An officer shot and killed 21-year-old Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford, Jr. of Hueytown while responding…
By THOMAS ADAMSON PARIS (AP) — French police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse demonstrators in Paris Saturday, as thousands gathered in the capital and staged road blockades across the nation to vent anger against rising fuel taxes and Emmanuel Macron’s presidency. Thousands of police were deployed nationwide to contain the demonstrations, including…
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Latest on the situation in Afghanistan (all times local): 4:45 p.m. An Afghan military spokesman says the death toll from a bombing at a mosque inside an Afghan military base in the volatile eastern Khost province has risen to 27 soldiers. The spokesman, Abdullah, who like many Afghans uses…
By WAYNE PARRY , Associated Press COLTS NECK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey authorities say a family of four in affluent horse country was slain before their mansion was set ablaze, but assured the community a killer was not on the loose, hours after they arrested the brother of the homeowner on Wednesday. Monmouth County…