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Rescuers search for five missing people after a deadly landslide in India’s Kerala state

NEW DELHI (AP) — Rescue teams in the southern Indian state of Kerala raced to find five people still missing a day after heavy monsoon rains caused a deadly landslide, officials said. The landslide killed at least three people working near a tunnel construction site in Wayanad district, a hill region known for its lush forests and rolling green landscapes. Seven workers were also injured and are undergoing treatment in a hospital. Authorities divided the area into zones as rescue crews, including disaster response teams and sniffer dogs, searched the region for missing despite ...

Specialty farmers adapt harvests, protect crops in face of extreme heat

BROOKSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Even as the sun started to set, the day’s heat was still hanging in the air as Annie Woods walked back out to harvest squash and zucchini on her 50-acre farm. Prolonged and intense heat is part of a climate change-driven pattern of weather extremes that has ...

US airlines’ monthly fuel spending topped $6 billion again in May, up 84% from year ago

U.S. airlines spent $6.66 billion on jet fuel in May, the second straight month that fuel costs topped $6 billion, according to government data released Tuesday. The May figure was 84% higher than a year earlier. Airlines spent $6.47 billion on fuel in April, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics said. The higher year-over-year spending has been driven mostly by pricier jet fuel rather than a significant increase in how much of it airlines consumed. U.S. carriers used 1.627 billion gallons in May, down 0.6% from May 2025. Consumption was also slightly lower in April compared with a ...

Kennedys, 1961

AP Photo/JR President John F. Kennedy and wife, Jacqueline, pass through a crowd as they enter St. Francis Xavier church for mass at Hyannis Port, Mass., on July 9, 1961. The president was spending the weekend with his family at their summer home here.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear asks Sen. Mitch McConnell to give a public update on his condition

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is directly asking Sen. Mitch McConnell, the state’s most powerful figure in Congress, to disclose more about his condition after three weeks of silence from the 84-year-old since he was hospitalized in Washington. The letter released Wednesday from Beshear, a Democrat who is considered a potential presidential candidate in 2028, to the former Senate Republican leader says “Kentuckians have grown increasingly concerned about the current state of your health and well-being, and ability to hold office.” McConnell, whose physical condition has visibly ...

Trump says US will give Ukraine license to produce Patriot defense systems

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said at a NATO summit Wednesday in Turkey that the U.S. will give Ukraine a license to make Patriot air defense systems to counter missile attacks from Russia in their more than four-year war, a huge coup for Kyiv which has long requested the ...