How to watch the first crewed flight of Boeing’s long-awaited Starliner spacecraft
By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Boeing’s spaceflight program may reach a significant milestone Monday night with the launch of its Starliner…
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China’s president arrives in Europe to reinvigorate ties at a time of global tensions
PARIS (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping kicked off a three-country trip to Europe on Sunday with the continent divided over how to deal with…
Continue ReadingStart your week smart: Security tactics at protests, Henry Cuellar, Al Jazeera, Canadian assassination, Kentucky Derby winner
By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Today is Cinco de Mayo, a holiday celebrated in some parts of Mexico that’s become a marketing…
Continue ReadingStart your week smart: Security tactics at protests, Henry Cuellar, Al Jazeera, Canadian assassination, Kentucky Derby winner
CNN By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Today is Cinco de Mayo, a holiday celebrated in some parts of Mexico that’s become a…
Continue ReadingA milestone reached in mainline Protestant churches’ decades-old disputes over LGBTQ inclusion
The Associated Press The fight to allow same-sex marriage and gay clergy has defined much of the last half-century for major mainline Protestant…
Continue ReadingMethodists end anti-gay bans, closing 50 years of battles over sexuality for mainline Protestants
By PETER SMITH Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — It took just a few days for United Methodist delegates to remove a half-century’s…
Continue ReadingHamas says latest cease-fire talks have ended. Israel vows military operation in ‘very near future’
By JOSEF FEDERMAN and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The latest round of Gaza cease-fire talks ended in Cairo after “in-depth…
Continue ReadingHush money, catch and kill and more: A guide to unique terms used at Trump’s New York criminal trial
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial is full of terms you don’t typically hear in a…
Continue ReadingGerman teen turns himself in over attack on European election candidate
BERLIN (AP) — A teenager has surrendered to police over an attack on a candidate from the party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz that has fueled concern…
Continue ReadingWhat a judge’s gag order on Trump means in his hush money case
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Virtually every day of his hush money criminal trial, former President…
Continue ReadingBiden has rebuilt the refugee system after Trump-era cuts. What comes next in an election year?
By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A church volunteer stood at an apartment door, beckoning inside a Congolese family for…
Continue ReadingAnti-war protesters leave USC after police arrive, while Northeastern ceremony proceeds calmly
By NICK PERRY and PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press Students protesting the war in Gaza abandoned their camp at the University of Southern California…
Continue ReadingPolice search for suspects after 7 wounded, 4 critically, in shooting in Long Beach, California
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Police are searching for suspects in a late-night shooting that wounded seven people, four critically, in Long Beach,…
Continue Reading‘A better church is possible:’ Methodists celebrate as the church embraces the LGBTQ
By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — On a Sunday morning in 2020, while Rev. Andi Woodworth welcomed her congregation to the Neighborhood Church in…
Continue ReadingIsrael orders Al Jazeera to close its local operation and seizes some of its equipment
By TIA GOLDENBERG and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has ordered the local offices of Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite…
Continue ReadingAustralian police shoot dead armed teen after stabbing attack that had ‘hallmarks’ of terror
By Angus Watson and Chloe Liu, CNN (CNN) — Australian police shot dead a teenage boy after he stabbed an injured a man in an attack that had…
Continue ReadingUkraine marks its third Easter at war as it comes under fire from Russian drones and troops
By SUSIE BLANN and ELISE MORTON Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Ukraine marked its third Easter at war, Russia on Sunday launched a…
Continue ReadingPolice tactics at campus protests reveal disparities in approaches to public order and lessons learned post-George Floyd
By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — As universities and colleges turn to police to clear their campuses of protests over Israel’s assault on Gaza…
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Columbia University’s encampment ended with a mass police operation. Here’s how some schools avoided that
By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — After several days of protests, pro-Palestinian encampments on the campuses of Ivy League schools…
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A driver dies after crashing into a security barrier around the White House complex, authorities say
WASHINGTON (AP) — A driver died after a vehicle crashed into an outer perimeter gate of the White House complex, and the incident late Saturday was…
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