By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors have rested their seditious conspiracy case against former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants charged with plotting to stop the transfer of presidential power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 election. Jurors will still hear testimony by defense witnesses before
Continue Reading By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s warring sides say they have agreed to release nearly 900 prisoners of war in a U.N.-brokered deal amid international efforts to end the yearslong conflict. The deal reached Monday on a prisoner exchange capped 10 days of intensive talks in Switzerland between Yemen’s internationally recognized government
Continue Reading ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — A student opened fire at a Dallas-area school Monday morning, killing one student and injuring another before being arrested on a capital murder charge, police said. The shooting began on a high school campus in the suburb of Arlington around 6:55 a.m., before many students arrived for the first day back
Continue Reading HEIDELBERG, Germany (AP) — Poland’s prime minister says Europe may see “revolts” if the European Union, of which his country is a member, turns into a “super-state government” that ignores national differences. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki gave a speech Monday at the university in Heidelberg, in Germany, about the challenges facing the continent amid the
Continue Reading By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin wasn’t waiting at the end of the red carpet to greet Chinese leader Xi Jinping upon his arrival in Russia on Monday for a high-profile visit. But it wasn’t a snub. Russia’s standard protocol for visiting dignitaries calls for them to be welcomed at
Continue Reading By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fictional soccer coach Ted Lasso used a White House visit Monday to encourage people, even in politically divided Washington, to make it a point to check in often with friends, family and co-workers to “ask how they’re doing, and listen, sincerely,” Comedian Jason Sudeikis,
Continue Reading By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — At least three Kenyan legislators and several protesters have been arrested in ongoing protests in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, organized by the opposition demanding the resignation of President William Ruto. Hundreds of demonstrators spread across the city have not succeeded in reaching the designated meeting point in
Continue Reading By SCOTT McFETRIDGE, ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and SARA CLINE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Teri Patrick bristles at the idea she wants to ban books about LGBTQ issues in Iowa schools, arguing her only goal is ridding schools of sexually explicit material. Sara Hayden Parris says that whatever you want to call it, it’s
Continue Reading By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — There’s scientific agreement that carbon emissions must cease in order to address climate change, but how does a company make that transition and remain profitable? Ørsted, the former Danish Oil and Natural Gas company, ramped up construction of offshore wind farms beginning in 2008. Then it
Continue Reading By ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A Palestinian militant commander who was shot and killed in Syria has been buried in refugee camp on the edges of the Syrian capital, Damascus. His wife says his killers used weapons equipped with silencers. She spoke on Monday during the funeral of her husband, 31-year-old
Continue Reading By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press Over a week after Cyclone Freddy’s second and more devastating landfall in Malawi and Mozambique and nearly a month since it battered Madagascar, the effects are still being felt as locals, officials and aid workers continue to uncover the full extent of the cyclone’s destruction. In Malawi the death toll
Continue Reading By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police on Monday monitored protests by the country’s leftist Economic Freedom Fighters party, which is demanding the resignation of President Cyril Ramaphosa. The party urged all South Africans to participate in a national shutdown but there was limited response in most of the country’s major
Continue Reading By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet The homes that helped many people build wealth can become a burden in retirement. It’s not just the big maintenance and repair bills. Few homes are set up to support aging in place, and remodeling them to be safer can be expensive. Selling the house could help you tap equity
Continue Reading By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and international donors on Monday pledged seven billion euros ($7.5 billion) to help Turkey and Syria in the aftermath of the earthquake that devastated parts of the neighboring countries last month. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU’s executive arm, said 3.3
Continue Reading By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin warmly welcomed Chinese leader Xi Jinping to the Kremlin on Monday, sending a powerful message to Western leaders that their efforts to isolate Moscow over the fighting in Ukraine have fallen short. Xi’s trip — his first abroad since his re-election earlier this
Continue Reading By SYLVIE CORBET and ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Parliament has adopted a divisive pension bill raising the retirement age in France from 62 to 64, after lawmakers in the lower chamber rejected two no-confidence votes against the government. But the bill pushed through last week by President Emmanuel Macron without lawmakers’ approval
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By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid the longest drought on record in Somalia last year and half of them likely were children. It is the first official death toll announced in the drought withering large parts of the Horn of Africa. At
Continue Reading By ANDI JATMIKO Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Dozens of conservative Muslims have marched in Indonesia’s capital to protests Israel’s first-ever participation in the FIFA World Cup Under-20 in Indonesia. The world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation is hosting the U-20 World Cup from May 20 to June 11. A total of 24 countries from
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British police say windows at India’s High Commission in London have been smashed and two security guards were slightly injured during a demonstration by Sikh protesters. London’s Metropolitan Police force said a man was arrested on suspicion of violent disorder outside the diplomatic mission on Sunday afternoon.
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