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Russia snubs Ukraine’s unilateral ceasefire, firing dozens of drones
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia fired dozens of drones at Ukraine in nighttime attacks, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday, disregarding a unilateral ceasefire announced by Kyiv that began at midnight. The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that Ukraine hadn’t abided by its own ceasefire, saying that air defenses shot down 53 Ukrainian drones...
Howard Lutnick’s testimony about Epstein draws praise from GOP chair and derision from DemocratsVideo
WASHINGTON — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick appeared Wednesday before a House committee investigating sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, trying to explain to lawmakers his contact with the financier after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl. The Cabinet member was the latest powerful political figure to appear before...
Cruise ship with hantavirus outbreak heads to Canary Islands after 3 are evacuated
PRAIA, Cape Verde — Two patients with hantavirus and one suspected of infection were evacuated Wednesday from a cruise ship at the center of a deadly outbreak, the U.N. health agency said. The ship then departed Cape Verde with nearly 150 people on board — isolated in their cabins —...
Cosmetic interventions are booming. Many say ethical conversations are lagging
LOS ANGELES — Shula Jassell is insecure about the size of her chin and has periodically considered getting filler to make it bigger. But when the 25-year-old from Southern California gives serious thought to the idea of repeatedly having to get the cosmetic procedure — it only lasts about a...
Trump again assails Pope Leo, potentially complicating Rubio’s visit to the Vatican this week
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has renewed his criticism of Pope Leo XIV, potentially complicating a fence-mending visit that Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to make this week to the Vatican. In an interview with conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt, Trump said the first American-born pontiff is helping Iran and...
Australian court rejects convicted murderer’s appeal of deportation to small island nation
MELBOURNE, Australia — An Iranian man who murdered his wife has lost his landmark court bid to prevent Australia from deporting him to the tiny Pacific island of Nauru. Seven High Court judges unanimously dismissed an appeal by the man against an order last year deporting him to the independent...
For many Americans, Trump’s immigration crackdown is personal, new poll shows
WASHINGTON — Most U.S. adults say the United States is no longer a great place for immigrants, according to a new AP-NORC poll, as about one-third of Americans report knowing someone impacted by the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement. A new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs...
U.S. fires on Iranian oil tanker as Trump pressures Tehran for deal to end war
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military fired on an Iranian oil tanker Wednesday as President Donald Trump sought to pressure Tehran into reaching a deal to end the war. The Islamic Republic said it was reviewing the latest American proposals. A fighter jet shot out the rudder of the tanker in...
Senate GOP seeks $1 billion for Secret Service, Trump ballroom
A top Senate Republican has proposed spending as much as $1 billion for U.S. Secret Service security adjustments and upgrades, including for President Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom. The funding would come in legislation authored by Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, who on Monday released language for his panel’s...
Trump administration sues Denver over its 1989 assault weapons ban
The Trump administration sued Denver and its police department on Tuesday seeking to strike down an assault weapons ban that’s been in place for Colorado’s largest city since 1989. The lawsuit came a day after city officials publicly rejected calls by the Department of Justice to repeal the longstanding local...
Education Department opens probe into Smith College for admitting trans women
The U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation into Smith College, an all-women’s institution in Massachusetts, for admitting transgender women. The probe by the department’s Office of Civil Rights will look at whether the college violated Title IX, a 1972 law forbidding discrimination based on sex in education. The move...
Former FedEx driver sentenced to death for killing 7-year-old girl after delivery at her Texas home
DALLAS — A former FedEx driver was sentenced to death on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to killing a 7-year-old girl he took from her Texas home while delivering a Christmas gift. Jurors in a Fort Worth courtroom decided on Tanner Horner’s punishment after hearing about a month of testimony...
2 killed, 3 injured in shootings at shopping center north of Dallas, police say
CARROLLTON, Texas — A man shot five people in Texas on Tuesday, killing two of them, after meeting at a shopping center north of Dallas, police said. It was not a random act of violence and the attacker knew the victims, Carrollton Police Chief Roberto Arredondo said. “It was a...
Report: White House East Wing debris dumped at nearby golf course has toxic metals
WASHINGTON — Debris from the demolition of the White House East Wing that was dumped at a nearby public golf course has tested positive for lead, chromium and other toxic metals, the National Park Service said. An interim report by a Virginia engineering firm says the toxic metals, along with...
What to know about hantavirus, the illness linked to a cruise ship outbreak
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An outbreak aboard a cruise ship of a rare rodent-borne illness called hantavirus has left three people dead and sickened others. The virus, which usually spreads when people inhale contaminated residue of rodent droppings, has been confirmed in two of the cases. The World Health Organization said...
Man accused of attacking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home pleads not guilty to attempted murder
SAN FRANCISCO — The man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of attempted murder and attempted arson. Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama, wearing an orange jail uniform, did not speak as his attorney entered the pleas...
France reckons with Nazi-looted art in new Paris museum gallery
PARIS — The painting shows a girl in a bonnet and her younger brother staring across the Normandy coast toward an unknown horizon. The artwork itself faced an unknown future in 1942, when it was acquired in Paris for Adolf Hitler, one of countless works swept up in the Nazi...
U.S. says ceasefire with Iran is holding despite attacks in the Strait of Hormuz and against the UAE
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.S. military leaders said a ceasefire remains in effect a day after Iran was blamed for new attacks in the Strait of Hormuz and against the United Arab Emirates. The key American ally later said it came under Iranian drone and missile attack again on...
Proposed UN resolution threatens Iran with sanctions if it doesn’t allow freedom of navigation
UNITED NATIONS — A proposed U.N. resolution threatens Iran with sanctions or other measures if it doesn’t halt attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz, stop imposing “illegal tolls,” and disclose the placement of all mines to allow freedom of navigation. The draft resolution, co-sponsored by the United States...
GOP bill would fund $1B in White House security upgrades for Trump’s ballroom
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans have added $1 billion in White House security upgrades to legislation that would fund immigration enforcement agencies, a proposed boost for President Donald Trump’s ballroom project after a man was charged with trying to assassinate him at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner last week. The...
Justice Department seeks the names of 2020 election workers in Georgia’s Fulton County
ATLANTA — The Department of Justice is seeking the names of every person who worked in the 2020 election in Georgia’s Fulton County, a Democratic stronghold that Donald Trump has long accused of widespread voter fraud he falsely says cost him victory against Joe Biden in the state that year....
Macron says U.S. and EU are wasting time on tariff threats as Trump fumes over Germany
BRUSSELS — Europe and the United States have more important things to do than waste time on tariff threats, French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday, after President Donald Trump announced higher duties on European vehicles. Trump said on Friday that he would increase the tariffs charged on cars and trucks...
U.S. job openings were unchanged at 6.9 million in March but hiring improved
WASHINGTON — U.S. job openings were essentially unchanged in March but hiring improved before the full impact of the Iran war hit the economy. Employers posted 6.87 million jobs in March, compared to 6.92 million in February, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. The job market has been up and down...
German car-ramming suspect’s motive remains unclear. Officials say he had psychiatric treatment
BERLIN — The suspect in a car-ramming in the German city of Leipzig that left two people dead doesn’t appear to have had any political or religious motive, but had spent time recently at a psychiatric hospital, investigators said Tuesday. The 33-year-old German man was arrested on Monday afternoon in...
An explosion at a fireworks plant in China kills at least 26 people and injures dozens of others
BEIJING — An explosion at a fireworks plant in a central Chinese province killed at least 26 people and injured 61 others, state media reported Tuesday, prompting the halting of all firework manufacturing near the site. The blast occurred at a fireworks plant in the city of Changsha in Hunan...
