Nation & World

People march to the scene of a shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., Sunday, May 15, 2022.

Buffalo shooter targeted Black neighborhood, officials say

May 15, 2022, 2:20pm Latest News

The white 18-year-old who shot and killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket had researched the local demographics and arrived in the area a day in advance to conduct reconnaissance with the “express purpose” of killing as many Black people as possible, officials said Sunday. Read story

U.S. set to remove 5 groups from foreign terrorism blacklist

May 15, 2022, 1:12pm Nation & World

The United States is poised to remove five extremist groups, all believed to be defunct, from its list of foreign terrorist organizations, including several that once posed significant threats, killing hundreds if not thousands of people across Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Read story

Hendrik Wuest (CDU), Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia, stands in the polling station and puts his ballot paper into the ballot box in Rhede, Germany, Sunday, May 15, 2022.. The election for the 18th state parliament takes place in North Rhine-Westphalia on Sunday. Around 13.2 million people are called to the polls.

Blow for Scholz as conservatives win key German state vote

May 15, 2022, 1:11pm Nation & World

Voters backed the incumbent conservative governor and dealt a blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats on Sunday in Germany’s most populous state, projections based on partial counts showed. Read story

People watch a TV screen showing a news report about the COVID-19 outbreak in North Korea, at a train station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, May 14, 2022. North Korea on Saturday reported 21 new deaths and 174,440 more people with fever symptoms as the country scrambles to slow the spread of COVID-19 across its unvaccinated population.

North Korea reports 15 more suspected COVID-19 deaths

May 15, 2022, 1:08pm Latest News

North Korea has confirmed 15 more deaths and hundreds of thousands of additional patients with fevers as it mobilizes more than a million health and other workers to try to suppress the country’s first COVID-19 outbreak, state media reported Sunday. Read story

A haze of wildfire smoke hangs over the Upper Rio Grande valley behind the mesa-top city of Los Alamos, N.M., on Thursday, May 12, 2022. Public schools and many businesses were closed as a wildfire crept closer to the city and companion national security laboratory. Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are using supercomputers and ingenuity to improve wildfire forecasting and forest management amid drought and climate change in the American West.

Low winds may help crews control huge New Mexico wildfire

May 15, 2022, 12:49pm Latest News

Crews fighting the second-largest wildfire in New Mexico’s history are trying to take advantage of several days of mild winds to gain control over a fire that had charred more than 450 square miles by Sunday. Read story

‘A race to the bottom’: New bill aims to limit frenzy of well drilling on California farms

In farming areas across Calfornia’s Central Valley, a well-drilling frenzy has accelerated over the last year as growers turn to pumping more groundwater during the drought, even as falling water levels leave hundreds of nearby homes with dry wells. Read story

States band together to block immigration policy

On the morning of April 28, Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton filed his 11th immigration-related lawsuit against the Biden administration, submitting his paperwork before a U.S. District Court judge in the panhandle city of Amarillo and then issuing a news release about it. Read story