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Haiti's new prime minister hospitalized days after being selected to lead...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s newly selected prime minister, Garry Conille, was hospitalized late Saturday in the capital of Port-au-Prince just days after arriving in the country, the...

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In Mexico heat wave monkeys still dying, birds are getting air-conditioning,...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Amid Mexico’s heat wave and drought, suffering birds are getting air-conditioning and monkeys with heatstroke are being rescued by non-governmental groups. The government,...

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In secular France, chaplains prepare to provide Olympians with spiritual...

PARIS (AP) — As athletes rev up their training and organizers finalize everything from ceremonies to podiums before the Paris Olympics, more than 120 faith leaders are preparing for a different...

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Venezuela's ruling party tests its organizing efforts ahead of next month's...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — With its decades-long grip on power under threat, Venezuela’s ruling party on Sunday tested a voter organizing campaign aimed at shoring up President Nicolás Maduro's bid for...

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Centrist Benny Gantz is quitting Israel's war Cabinet, citing frustrations...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Benny Gantz, a centrist member of Israel’s three-man war Cabinet, announced his resignation Sunday, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of mismanaging the war effort and...

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Bill would rename NYC subway stop after Stonewall, a landmark in LGBTQ+...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City subway station would be renamed to commemorate the Stonewall riots that galvanized the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, under legislation approved by state lawmakers as...

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June 9, 2024 Road Report

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — Road conditions for the Western Slope and the surrounding areas are brought to you by Montrose Ford Nissan.

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Celtics beat Mavericks 105-98, take 2-0 lead in NBA Finals as series heads to...

BOSTON (AP) — Jrue Holiday led the scoring. Derrick White added a chase-down block. Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown pitched in, too — with their passing and defense. The Mavericks can stop worrying...

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What does Israel's rescue of 4 captives, and the killing of 274 Palestinians,...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel's dramatic weekend rescue of four hostages from the Gaza Strip, in an operation that local health officials say killed 274 Palestinians, came at a sensitive time in the...

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US will store aid on secure beach in Gaza as UN pauses distribution from pier

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Monday that it plans to stockpile aid shipments on a secure beach in Gaza during a U.N. pause on distributing food from the American-built pier after one of...

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Palestinian players continue push for World Cup qualification amid war back home

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Mohammed Rashid once worked as a forklift driver in a Chicago warehouse. Fast forward to these grim times and Rashid, along with his Palestinian soccer teammates, carry a...

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Rudy Giuliani processed in Arizona in fake electors scheme to overturn...

PHOENIX (AP) — Rudy Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and Donald Trump attorney, was processed Monday in the criminal case over the effort to overturn Trump’s Arizona election loss to Joe Biden,...

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Clearnetworx expanding into Grand Junction

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — Internet service provider Clearnetworx is expanding from Montrose, adding Grand Junction as their new place of business. "We're a pretty fast-growing company over on the...

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Karl's story - from 9/11 to D-Day commemoration

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — Karl Gustavson, born in 1979, spent two years in Brazil after graduating from Grand Junction High School on a church mission trip before starting a career in personal...

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A growing Filipino diaspora means plenty of celebration worldwide for...

In the Philippines — where Spanish and later U.S. colonial rule persisted for nearly four centuries — June 12 is the real Independence Day. That date in 1898 was the pivotal moment when the island...

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South Korean troops fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers briefly...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean soldiers fired warning shots after North Korean troops briefly violated the tense border earlier this week, South Korea's military said Tuesday, as the rivals...

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The Latest | Hamas commander killed in West Bank clash

Hamas said that one of its commanders in the occupied West Bank was killed in a clash with Israeli forces, while Israel said four soldiers were killed in an explosion in Rafah. In a statement released...

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Soldiers, police and forest rangers continue search for missing plane...

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Soldiers, police officers and forest rangers continued to search Tuesday for a missing military plane carrying Malawi's vice president, a former first lady and eight others...

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Pamela Smart, serving life, accepts responsibility for her husband's 1990...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage student to have her husband killed in 1990, accepted full responsibility for his death for the first time...

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A Florida law blocking treatment for transgender children is thrown out by a...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a 2023 Florida law that blocked gender-affirming care for transgender minors and severely restricted such treatment for adults,...

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