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News Wrap: U.S. military searches for object shot down near Alaska

In our news wrap Saturday, the U.S. military is searching for the remains of an unidentified object shot down off the coast of Alaska Friday, Trump’s legal team turned over more classified materials to federal investigators, and police in Raleigh,…

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Head of private Russian military group says war in Ukraine could drag on for years

By Susie Blann, Associated Press

The owner of the Russian Wagner Group private military contractor actively involved in the fighting in Ukraine has predicted that the war could drag on for years.

U.S. blacklists 6 Chinese entities in response to alleged spy balloon incident

By Associated Press

The United States has blacklisted six Chinese entities it said were linked to Beijing's aerospace programs as part of its retaliation over an alleged Chinese spy balloon that traversed U.S. airspace.

Survivors still being found as earthquake death toll tops 28,000 in Turkey, Syria

By Justin Spike, Suzan Fraser, Associated Press, Abdelrahman Shaheen, Associated press

Five days after two powerful earthquakes hours apart caused thousands of buildings to collapse, killing more than 28,000 people and leaving millions homeless, rescuers were still pulling unlikely survivors from the ruins — one of them just 7 months old.

Aid reaches remote regions in Turkey and Syria as earthquake death toll nears 24,000

By Jane Ferguson, Jorgen Samso, Zeba Warsi, Shoshana Dubnow, Huseyin Aldemir

Six days have passed since a catastrophic earthquake struck the Turkish-Syrian border region and nearly 24,000 people are confirmed dead. The focus is shifting to aiding the survivors in Turkey and the Idlib Province in Syria, but there have also…

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News Wrap: Russia launches new wave of aerial attacks across Ukraine

In our news wrap Friday, Russia launched a new wave of aerial attacks across Ukraine targeting cities and power facilities with missiles, bombers and drones, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy insisted that Russian athletes be barred from next year's Olympics in Paris…

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World's critical fisheries endangered by corrupt leaders

By Fu Ting, Grace Ekpu, Helen Wieffering, Associated Press

The waters off Indonesia's many islands and archipelagos had once teemed with lobster, but overfishing in recent decades decimated the crustacean’s population.

South African rugby player who was killed by Hawaiian police had acute CTE, autopsy reports

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Associated Press

An autopsy report shows that a former rugby player from South Africa who was shot and killed by Honolulu police suffered from a severe form of brain disease.

U.S. military shoots down unknown object flying off the coast of Alaska

By Zeke Miller, Colleen Long, Tara Copp, Associated Press

A U.S. military fighter jet shot down an unknown object flying off the coast of Alaska on Friday on orders from President Joe Biden, White House officials said.

Russia cuts oil output in response to Western price caps

By David McHugh, Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press

Russia has announced it will cut oil production by 500,000 barrels per day next month after Western countries capped the price of its crude over its action in Ukraine.