Police: 4, including robbery victim, stabbed on CTA train
CHICAGO (AP) — Police say four people have been stabbed and injured in an attack on a Chicago Transit Authority train. Chicago police say six…
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White House announces $270M military package for Ukraine
By NOMAAN MERCHANT and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House announced Friday that the U.S. is sending an additional…
Continue ReadingProtest held at Uffizi’s ‘Spring’ but painting not damaged
ROME (AP) — Italian environmental activists glued their hands Friday to the glass protecting Sandro Botticelli’s painting “Spring” in the…
Continue ReadingTennessee wall-climber convicted in breach of US Capitol
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee business owner who scaled a wall outside the U.S. Capitol has been convicted of five charges connected to the…
Continue ReadingWith Italy’s Draghi toppled, populists campaign in fast gear
By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s politicians are in campaign mode after coalition allies toppled Premier Mario…
Continue ReadingIndigenous Canadians wary, hopeful as pope prepares apology
By PETER SMITH Associated Press MASKWACIS, Alberta (AP) — To this day, Flo Buffalo doesn’t drink milk — not since two nuns force-fed her the…
Continue ReadingElection-denying Colorado clerk surrenders to authorities
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — A rural Colorado official known as the state’s most prominent election denier has surrendered to authorities amid allegations…
Continue ReadingPolice: 3 fatally shot at Iowa state park; gunman also dead
By RYAN J. FOLEY and MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Three family members were shot to death while camping in a state park in eastern Iowa Friday,…
Continue ReadingEast Africa bloc says 50 million face acute food insecurity
By RODNEY MUHUMUZA and DESMOND TIRO Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — More than 50 million people in the wider East African region are…
Continue ReadingNew this week: ‘Not Okay,’ ‘Amber Brown’ and ‘Honor Society’
By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include new music from Wiz Khalifa and Maggie Rogers, Neil Patrick Harris playing an…
Continue ReadingNebraska AG: No charges over ex-state senator’s photos
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s attorney general says he will not file criminal charges against fellow Republican and former state lawmaker…
Continue ReadingIsraeli couple arrested after man dies in pool sinkhole
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police said Friday they placed a couple under house arrest, a day after a man attending a party at their villa died after…
Continue ReadingFormer Albanian leader Sali Berisha barred from entering UK
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Former Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha says the United Kingdom has barred him from entering the country, citing his…
Continue ReadingCalifornia OKs ‘baby bonds’ to help combat child poverty
By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Parenting — that long chain of decisions that hopefully leads to a well-rounded adult —…
Continue ReadingRussia’s central bank slashes rate, saying inflation slows
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian central bank has slashed its key interest rate just a month after dropping it to where it was before sending troops into…
Continue ReadingAccused man dies in custody after sister awakened from coma
By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Daniel J. Palmer III had long been considered the key suspect in a brutal attack that left…
Continue ReadingLiz Cheney braces for primary loss as focus shifts to 2024
By STEVE PEOPLES and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Three weeks before the most significant election of her political career,…
Continue Reading‘Long 3 years’: Trial to start in deaths of 7 motorcyclists
By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press RANDOLPH, N.H. (AP) — The trial for a commercial truck driver charged with negligent homicide in the deaths of…
Continue ReadingKenya court finds 3 policemen, 1 informant guilty of murder
Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Three Kenyan policemen and an informant were found guilty Friday for the killing in 2016 of a human rights…
Continue ReadingFrance, Egypt pressed on missing backpacker as leader visits
By ANGELA CHARLTON and NICOLAS GARRIGA Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The family of a French backpacker who went missing in Egypt have used a Paris…
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