Russia says it hits Ukraine air defenses before eastern push
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia claimed Monday that it destroyed several Ukrainian air-defense systems in what appeared to be a renewed push to gain air superiority and take out weapons Kyiv has described as crucial ahead of an expected broad new offensive in the east. In one strike, Moscow said it...
Can cancer blood tests live up to promise of saving lives?
Joyce Ares had just turned 74 and was feeling fine when she agreed to give a blood sample for research. So she was surprised when the screening test came back positive for signs of cancer. After a repeat blood test, a PET scan and a needle biopsy, she was diagnosed...
2 people killed, 5 wounded in shooting near Los Angeles
WILLOWBROOK, Calif. — Two people were killed in a weekend shooting near Los Angeles and five people were wounded and hospitalized, authorities said. The gunfire erupted at about 4 p.m. Sunday on a residential block in the community of Willowbrook, about 10 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, the Los...
Germany may have to junk 3 million covid shots by late June
BERLIN — Germany’s health ministry said Monday that the country may have to discard 3 million doses of expired covid-19 vaccine by the end of June. Ministry spokesman Hanno Kautz told reporters in Berlin that “not many doses” have been destroyed so far, though he couldn’t give an exact figure....
Tesla CEO Elon Musk won’t join Twitter’s board after all
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter’s largest investor, billionaire Elon Musk, is reversing course and will no longer join the company’s board of directors less than a week after being awarded a seat. Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announced the news, which followed a weekend of Musk tweets suggesting changes to Twitter, including...
Kenyatta criticizes Fetterman over 2013 Black jogger incident in virtual Senate forum
State representative and U.S. Senate candidate Malcolm Kenyatta called out challenger Lt. Gov. John Fetterman this past weekend over a 2013 incident in which Fetterman, shotgun in hand, confronted a Black jogger he suspected of being involved in nearby gunfire. Kenyatta’s criticism occurred during a virtual forum held by statewide...
Mimi Reinhard, who typed up Schindler’s list, dies at 107
JERUSALEM — Mimi Reinhard, a secretary in Oskar Schindler’s office who typed up the list of Jews he saved from extermination by Nazi Germany, has died in Israel at the age of 107. Reinhard died early Friday and was laid to rest Sunday in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, her son...
Polish panel: Russia behind Polish leader’s plane crash
WARSAW, Poland — A Polish government special commission has reinforced its earlier allegations that the 2010 plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others in Russia was the result of Moscow’s assassination plan. The latest of the commission’s reports, released Monday, alleges that an intentional detonation of planted...
Goose flies into motorcyclist’s head, killing rider in Pa. crash, police say
Police in Bucks County said a deadly crash was caused by a goose flying into the head of a motorcyclist on Friday morning. According to a report by police, a motorcyclist was riding a 2013 Harley-Davidson in the Southeastern Pennsylvania county about 9:55 a.m. Friday when a goose flew out...
Mariupol mayor says siege has killed more than 10,000 civilians
KYIV, Ukraine — The mayor of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol said Monday that more than 10,000 civilians have died in the Russian siege of his city, and that the death toll could surpass 20,000, with corpses that were “carpeted through the streets.” Speaking by phone Monday to The...
2 killed and 10 wounded in Cedar Rapids nightclub shootingVideo
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A shooting inside a crowded Cedar Rapids nightclub left a man and a woman dead and 10 people wounded early Sunday, authorities said. Cedar Rapids Police Chief Wayne Jerman said investigators believe two men fired more than a dozen shots inside the Taboo Nightclub and Lounge...
Texas DA says murder charge in abortion case will be dropped
A Texas district attorney said Sunday that he will ask a judge to dismiss a murder charge against a woman over a self-induced abortion. Lizelle Herrera was arrested Thursday in Rio Grande City, a community of about 14,000 people along the Mexico border, after a Starr County grand jury indicted...
U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb brings his Pennsylvania Senate campaign to the midstate
U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb, D-Mt. Lebanon, may have made his political reputation as being a centrist Democrat who could deliver his party election wins in Trump-leaning districts they weren’t expected to get. But Lamb spent some time promising Harrisburg area Democrats on Saturday that, if he wins this tough open-seat...
Ukraine digs in to fight Russia’s looming eastern offensiveVideo
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces dug in while Russia lined up more firepower Sunday and tapped a decorated general as war commander ahead of a potentially decisive showdown in eastern Ukraine that experts said could start within days with a full-scale offensive. The outcome of that confrontation could determine the...
In France, it’s Macron vs. Le Pen, again, for presidency
PARIS — Incumbent Emmanuel Macron will face far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen in a winner-takes-all runoff for the French presidency, after they both advanced Sunday in the first round of voting in the country’s election to set up another head-to-head clash of their sharply opposing visions for France. But while...
Shanghai discharges thousands of patients, boosts supplies
BEIJING — Shanghai on Sunday discharged over 11,000 recovered covid-19 patients and health authorities emphasized that they must be allowed to return home despite the lockdown that has severely restricted movement in China’s largest city. “We hope their family and community will not worry about them or discriminate against them,”...
Metal detectors planned after Erie school shooting hurt 1
ERIE — Metal detectors will be installed at schools in the northwestern Pennsylvania district in which a student was injured in a shooting, school authorities said. Erie’s Public Schools announced last week that planned changes to safety and security protocols will include “the installation of fully functioning metal detectors.” The...
U.S. official: Russia appoints new Ukraine war commanderVideo
WASHINGTON — After its striking post-invasion setbacks, Russia has appointed a new Ukraine war commander, a U.S. official said Sunday. Russia has turned to Gen. Alexander Dvornikov, 60, one of Russia’s most experienced military officers and — according to U.S. officials — a general with a record of brutality against...
Trump endorses Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania’s Senate primary race
HARRISBURG — Former President Donald Trump endorsed Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania’s crowded Republican Senate primary, ending months of jockeying for his support. In a statement Saturday evening, Trump said his decision was “all about winning elections” as he formally backed the celebrity heart surgeon best known as the host of...
Police: 3 dead in Georgia gun range shooting; 40 weapons stolen
ATLANTA — Police are searching for at least one armed suspect in connection with the killing of the owner of a gun range in Georgia and his wife and grandson, authorities said Saturday. The Grantville Police Department said via Facebook that the robbery occurred Friday evening. When officers arrived at...
Treatment for opioid addiction often brings discrimination
PHILADELPHIA — Danielle Russell was in the emergency department at an Arizona hospital last fall, sick with covid-19, when she made the mistake of answering completely when she was asked what medications she was on. “I said yes, I was taking methadone,” said Russell, a doctoral student who also was...
War crimes watch: A devastating walk through Bucha’s horror
BUCHA, Ukraine — There is a body in the basement of the abandoned yellow home at the end of the street near the railroad tracks. The man is young, pale, a dried trickle of blood by his mouth, shot to death and left in the dark, and no one knows...
Mexico’s converted island prison ready to receive tourists
MEXICO CITY — A small archipelago off Mexico’s Pacific coast that had been home to an island prison colony is now ready to receive tourists. Getting to Islas Marias, however, will be a challenge for even the sturdiest tourist: a five-hour boat ride in often choppy waters. But some people,...
More flee east Ukraine after deadly train station strike
KYIV, Ukraine — Civilian evacuations moved forward in patches of battle-scarred eastern Ukraine on Saturday, a day after a missile strike killed at least 52 people and wounded more than 100 at a train station where thousands clamored to leave before an expected Russian onslaught. In the wake of the...
CNN: Trump Jr. text shows ideas to overturn 2020 election
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump Jr. texted White House chief of staff Mark Meadows two days after the 2020 presidential election with strategies for overturning the result if Trump’s father lost, CNN reported Friday. The text was sent two days before Joe Biden was declared the winner, according to CNN. It...
