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Sen. Chris Murphy’s ’emergency’ message about Trump is connecting with Democratic voters
SAXAPAHAW, N.C. — Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy isn’t drawing stadium-size crowds like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are as he tours the country talking to voters. But in a packed concert hall in rural North Carolina, people are starting to view the Democrat as worthy...
Photo gallery: From mightiest to humblest, hundreds of thousands gather for Pope Francis’ funeral
VATICAN CITY — From some of the world’s most powerful leaders to those on society’s margins whom Pope Francis always made a point to minister to, hundreds of thousands of people participated at the Vatican Saturday for the funeral rites for the late pontiff. U.S. President Donald Trump and some...
Mighty and meek bid farewell to Pope Francis at funeral where he is remembered as pope of the peopleVideo
VATICAN CITY — World leaders and rank-and-file Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for people on the peripheries and reflected his wish to be remembered as a simple pastor. Though presidents and princes attended the Mass in St. Peter’s Square, prisoners...
Trump pays his respects to a pope who publicly and pointedly disagreed with him, meets Zelenskyy
ROME — President Donald Trump on Saturday paid his respects to Pope Francis, occupying a front-row seat in sunlit St. Peter’s Square as more than 50 heads of state and other dignitaries attended the funeral of the Catholic Church leader who pointedly disagreed with the American on a variety of...
Woman who accused Prince Andrew in Epstein sex trafficking case dies by suicide
The woman who accused Britain’s Prince Andrew and other influential men of sexually exploiting her as a teenager trafficked by financier Jeffrey Epstein has died. She was 41. Virginia Giuffre died by suicide Friday at her farm in Western Australia, her publicist confirmed. “Deeply loving, wise and funny, she was...
Shedeur Sanders still available in 3rd round of NFL draft as stunning fall continues for Colorado QBVideo
GREEN BAY, Wis. — The wait continues for Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders, who was widely viewed as a first-round talent but was still available in the third round of the NFL draft on Friday. It was a stunning fall for Sanders, who garnered so much attention over the last several...
Bomb threat prompts plane evacuation at Florida airport; no explosives found
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A bomb threat note found Friday on a plane at a Florida airport prompted the evacuation of the aircraft and a temporary closure, but no explosives were found, officials said. A flight attendant on Allegiant Airways Flight 2006, heading from the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport to...
1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi: 1st-round QB Jaxson Dart welcomed to Giants by Eli Manning
Jaxson Dart received a video message from a familiar face, one who knows what it takes to be a franchise quarterback for the New York Giants. And one also from Ole Miss, at that. Two-time Super Bowl winner Eli Manning welcomed Dart to the team Friday, a day after the...
WNBA training camps set to open this weekend with Caitlin Clark preparing for Year 2Video
A’ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier will be back on the court Sunday to renew their chase of a coveted WNBA championship when training camps open and last year’s rookie sensation Caitlin Clark begins Year 2 in the league. Stewart and the New York Liberty will be chasing a...
Bob Baffert is back at the Kentucky Derby with 2 contenders after serving a 3-year suspensionVideo
Bob Baffert is back at the Kentucky Derby for the first time in four years, having served his punishment for Medina Spirit’s failed drug test and coming to the place where he has won a record-tying six times. He has settled in at his old Barn 33, the signs boasting...
Warriors’ Draymond Green wins NBA Hustle Award for 2024-25 season
Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors is this season’s winner of the NBA Hustle Award, the league announced Friday. The award has been presented since 2017. Oklahoma City’s Cason Wallace was second, Philadelphia’s Guerschon Yabusele was third, Oklahoma City’s Lugentz Dort was fourth and Atlanta’s Dyson Daniels was fifth....
19 states sue Trump administration over push to end diversity programs in public schools
CONCORD, N.H. — Nineteen states that refused to comply with a Trump administration directive aimed at eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public schools went a step further Friday, filing a federal lawsuit challenging what they consider an illegal threat to cut federal funding. The lawsuit filed in Massachusetts...
College journalists wrestle with transparency as students fear deportation for speaking out
CHICAGO — Over the past few weeks, Greta Reich, editor-in-chief of Stanford University’s student newspaper, has had almost two dozen requests to take down quotes, bylines, photos and opinion articles from current and former sources and writers. She and her staff at the Stanford Daily have been reviewing them on...
Elon Musk’s X sues to overturn Minnesota political deepfakes ban
MINNEAPOLIS — X Corp., the social media platform owned by Trump adviser Elon Musk, is challenging the constitutionality of a Minnesota ban on using deepfakes to influence elections and harm candidates, saying it violates First Amendment speech protections. The company’s federal lawsuit filed this week also contends the 2023 state...
Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to federal murder charge in killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO
NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty Friday to a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as prosecutors formally declared their intent to seek the death penalty against him. Mangione, 26, stood with his lawyers as he entered the plea, leaning forward toward a...
Trump administration reverses course on foreign students’ U.S. visa registrations
SAN FRANCISCO — The federal government is reversing the termination of legal status for international students around the U.S. after many filed court challenges against the Trump administration crackdown, a government lawyer said Friday. The records in a federal student database maintained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had been...
Ex-U.S. Rep. George Santos sentenced to over 7 years in prison for fraud and identity theft
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who lied about his life story and defrauded donors, was sentenced Friday to over seven years in prison, sobbing as he heard his punishment. The New York Republican, who served in Congress for barely a year before his House colleagues...
Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan is accused of helping a man evade immigration agents and is arrested
MILWAUKEE — The FBI on Friday arrested a Milwaukee judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities, escalating a clash between the Trump administration and the judiciary over the Republican president’s sweeping immigration crackdown. FBI Director Kash Patel announced on social media the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan, who...
Trump says ‘Crimea will stay with Russia’ as he seeks end to war in Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine — U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview published on Friday that “Crimea will stay with Russia,” the latest example of the U.S. leader pressuring Ukraine to make concessions to end the war while it remains under siege. “Zelenskyy understands that,” Trump said, referring to Ukrainian President...
So you saw ‘Conclave’ the movie. Here’s what it got right — and wrong — about real-life conclaves
Speculation surrounding a conclave to elect a pope is a time-honored tradition. But for the impending conclave following the death of Pope Francis, the ranks of armchair Vatican experts have swelled thanks to Hollywood. “Conclave” the film, a moody 2024 political thriller, introduced many laypeople to the ancient selection process...
Trump and Zelenskyy among dignitaries converging on Rome for funeral of Pope Francis
VATICAN CITY — Heads of state and royalty will start converging on Rome on Friday for the funeral of Pope Francis in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square, but the group of poor people who will meet his casket in a small crosstown basilica are more in keeping with Francis’ humble...
A Thai police plane crashes in the sea, killing all 6 on board
BANGKOK — A small police plane crashed into the sea near a popular beach town in Thailand, killing all six people on board, officials said Friday. The plane was conducting a test flight to prepare for parachute training in Hua Hin district before it crashed around 8 a.m., Royal Thai...
Donald Trump’s trip to Pope Francis’ funeral puts a sharper focus on their clashes over the years
WASHINGTON — The day before he died, in his final public address, Pope Francis expressed an Easter Sunday message of unity and an appeal for the marginalized and migrants. “All of us,” he proclaimed, “are children of God!” In a dramatically different message Sunday, President Donald Trump issued an insult-laced...
A Russian general was killed by a car bomb just outside Moscow
MOSCOW — A Russian general was killed by a car bomb on Friday, Russia’s top criminal investigation agency said, in the second such attack on a top Russian military officer in four months. The Investigative Committee said that Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy head of the main operational department...
How the public’s shift on immigration paved the way for Trump’s crackdown
PASSAIC, N.J. — Alleged gang members without criminal records wrongly sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador. International students detained by masked federal agents for writing opinion columns or attending campus demonstrations. American citizens, visa holders and visitors stopped at airports, detained for days or facing deportation for minor...
