Month: May 2023

HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia and Latvia are jointly planning to acquire German air defense systems for the protection of the airspace of the two NATO nations in what would be the biggest defense cooperation deal between the Baltic neighbors that border Russia, the Estonian and Latvian defense ministers said on Sunday.  According to the provisional

MADRID (AP) — Animal rights activists have gathered in Madrid to protest plans for the construction of a large-scale octopus farm. They said Sunday that there are no laws in the country or the European Union to guarantee the welfare of octopuses in captivity. The farm is scheduled to be built next year in Spain’s

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press GALLATIN, Tenn. (AP) — Conservative groups that have targeted and won majorities on local boards and commissions across the United States over the past couple years are now pressing agendas that include election distrust, skepticism of government and a desire to have religion play a greater role in public

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press GALLATIN, Tenn. (AP) — Shortly after being sworn in last fall, the new majority of the Sumner County Commission in Tennessee acted to update one of its official documents. The new version said county operations would not only be orderly and efficient, but “most importantly reflective of the Judeo-Christian

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — When the lights came up after a screening on the Walt Disney lot of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” Steven Spielberg was incredulous. “Damn!” he said. “I thought I was the only one who knew how to make one of these!” “Dial of

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and MARC LEVY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Before Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman checked himself in to the hospital for clinical depression in February, he walked the halls of the Senate stone-faced and dressed in formal suits. These days, he’s back to wearing the hoodies and gym shorts he was known

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Ministry of Defense says an Afghan military helicopter crashed in the country’s north after hitting a power line base, killing at least two crewmembers. The MD-530 chopper was patrolling Sunday in the area after it took off from northern Balkh province and crashed in the Kholim district of Samangan province. Officials

By STEPHEN GROVES, ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and House Republicans wrapped up another round of debt ceiling talks Sunday as Washington races to strike a budget compromise along with a deal to raise the nation’s borrowing limit and avert an economy-wrecking federal default. President Joe Biden

By ZEKE MILLER, ELISE MORTON and SUSIE BLANN Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russian forces are not occupying Bakhmut. Zelenskyy’s comments on Sunday at the Group of Seven summit in Japan cast doubt on Moscow’s insistence that the eastern Ukrainian city had fallen. Zelenskyy said that “Bakhmut is not

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A security guard was one of the three people killed in a shooting at a Kansas City bar early Sunday that also wounded two others, including one critically wounded, according to family members. Police haven’t yet identified the victims, and they didn’t release many details Sunday about what led to

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein has made sweeping gains in Northern Ireland’s local elections. The party repeated its success from last year’s assembly elections. The vote counting in the local election was completed late Saturday. Sinn Fein took 144 of 462 local government seats. The Democratic Unionist

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Four people were shot and wounded outside an Alabama bar early Sunday in what police described as an exchange of gunfire. AL.com reports Birmingham Police Lt. Ron Harless says three men and a woman were shot outside Tin Roof in the city’s Lakeview District. The shooting was reported around 12:45 a.m.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state TV says five Iranian border guards were killed in a clash with an unknown armed group trying to enter the country near the Pakistani border. Sunday’s report says the fighting happened in the town of Saravan in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, some 1,360 kilometers (850 miles)

By TIA GOLDENBERG and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A far-right Israeli Cabinet minister has visited Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site, declaring “we are in charge.” The visit to the disputed hilltop compound by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Sunday drew condemnations from the Palestinians and neighboring Jordan and Egypt. The visit

By ADAM SCHRECK, FOSTER KLUG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy huddled with some of his biggest backers as the Group of Seven summit closed in Hiroshima on Sunday, building momentum for his country’s war effort even as Russia claimed a battlefield victory that was quickly disputed by

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — As the number of people who die in mass killings in the U.S. continues to rise, thousands more are left to handle the trauma of losing someone they love. One of the hardest days they confront each year is the anniversary of the

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Shua Wilmot and Raegan Zelaya, two former dorm directors at a small Christian university in western New York, acknowledge their names are unconventional, which explains why they attached gender identities to their work email signatures. Wilmot uses “he/him.” Zelaya goes by “she/her.” Their former employer,

By ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press/Report for America BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Unfounded claims about Indiana University’s sex research institute, its founder and child sex abuse have been so persistent over the years that when the Legislature prohibited the institute from using state dollars, one lawmaker hailed the move as “long overdue.” Now, funding from the