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Japan’s retired former emperor is to be hospitalized for heart tests, Japanese media say
TOKYO — Japan’s Emperor Emeritus Akihito will undergo heart tests at a hospital after an unspecified problem was detected during a routine checkup, Japanese media reports said Monday. The Imperial Household Agency did not answer calls to its office on Monday, a national holiday, to confirm reports by the Kyodo...
Trump threatens a 100% tariff on foreign-made films, saying the movie industry in the U.S. is dying
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump is opening a new salvo in his tariff war, targeting films made outside the U.S. In a post Sunday night on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he has authorized the Department of Commerce and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to slap...
Trump blasts Mexico’s Sheinbaum for rejecting offer to send U.S. troops into Mexico to fight cartels
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump on Sunday said Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rejected his proposal to send U.S. troops to Mexico to help thwart the illegal drug trade because she is fearful of the country’s powerful cartels. The comments by Trump came a day after Sheinbaum confirmed...
Experts start complex recovery of a superyacht that sank off Sicily, killing 7
ROME — Marine salvage experts on Sunday began operations to recover from the seabed off Italy’s Sicilian coast the British-flagged superyacht “Bayesian,” which sank last summer, killing U.K. tech magnate Mike Lynch, his daughter and five others. Operations will be conducted by two floating cranes: “Hebo Lift 2,” which has...
Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island that has been closed for more than 60 years. In a post on his Truth Social site Sunday evening, Trump wrote that, “For too...
Former Vice President Pence defends Constitution after getting Profile in Courage Award
BOSTON — Former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday repeatedly invoked the Constitution and said it is what “binds us all together” after receiving the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. Pence received the award for his refusal to go along with President Donald Trump’s efforts to remain in...
Missile from Yemen halts flights in Israel hours before vote on intensifying Gaza warVideo
BEN-GURION INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Israel — A missile launched by Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen briefly halted flights and commuter traffic at Israel’s main international airport on Sunday after its impact near an access road caused panic among passengers. The attack on Ben-Gurion International Airport came hours before Israeli Cabinet ministers were...
Brazilian police arrest 2 people over alleged plot targeting Lady Gaga concert in RioVideo
RIO DE JANEIRO — Police in Brazil said on Sunday that two people have been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to detonate explosives at a free Lady Gaga concert in Rio de Janeiro. The Rio event on Saturday was the biggest show of the pop star’s career that...
A community rallied to share flu shot experiences. Then the government stopped the study
WASHINGTON — Some Denver parents got texts during this winter’s brutal flu season with videos sharing why people in their neighborhoods chose flu shots for their kids, an unusual study about trust and vaccines in a historically Black community. But no one will know how it worked out: The Trump...
Trump, in a new interview, says he doesn’t know if he backs due process rights
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump is circumspect about his duties to uphold due process rights laid out in the Constitution, saying in a new interview that he does not know whether U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike deserve that guarantee. He also said he does not think military...
Putin says he hopes there will be no need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine had not arisen and that he hopes it will not. In comments aired Sunday in a film by Russian state television about his quarter of a century in power, Putin said Russia has the strength...
How the stock market made back all its losses after Trump escalated the trade war
It felt much longer, but the U.S. stock market needed just a few weeks to roar all the way back to where it was on President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day.” That’s when he shocked Wall Street by announcing much steeper tariffs than expected on nearly all U.S. trading partners. Those...
Vatican workers install Sistine Chapel stove where conclave ballots will be burned
VATICAN CITY — Vatican workers installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the conclave to elect a new pope and began taking measures to block any electronic interference with their deliberations, as jockeying continued Saturday outside over who among the cardinals is in...
Analysis: National security shake-up narrows Trump’s circle of influence
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s removal of national security adviser Mike Waltz brings further disruption to a national security team that has endured scrutiny over using the Signal messaging app to discuss sensitive military operations as well as mounting questions over the leadership of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the...
Russian drone attack wounds 47 in Ukraine’s 2nd-largest city of Kharkiv
KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian drone strike on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, wounded 47 people, officials said, and prompted another appeal from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for more decisive support from the country’s allies. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said drones hit 12 locations across the city late Friday. Residential buildings,...
Witnesses, aid groups report looting in Gaza after 2 months of Israeli blockade
TEL AVIV, Israel — Warehouses in northern Gaza have been looted, including by armed groups, as desperation for aid spikes after more than two months of Israel’s blockade, say locals and aid workers, as Israeli airstrikes continued, killing over a dozen people. Organizations in Gaza, messages circulated between security officials...
Trump administration sues Colorado, Denver, alleging interference in immigration enforcement
DENVER — The Department of Justice sued Colorado and Denver on Friday, alleging interference with federal efforts to enforce immigration laws, the latest attempt by the Trump administration to crack down on what some call sanctuary cities and policies. The lawsuit claims the state and its most populous city, Denver,...
2 women shot on campus of small technical college near Los Angeles
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Two women were shot on the campus of a Southern California technical college Friday and taken to the hospital, the city’s mayor said. Mayor James Butts of Inglewood said the shooting occurred about 4 p.m. on the Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology Campus. Aerial TV video...
Hawaii lawmakers raise hotel tax to help the islands cope with climate change
HONOLULU — Hawaii lawmakers passed on Friday first-of-its-kind legislation that will increase the state’s lodging tax to raise money for environmental protection and strengthening defenses against climate change -fueled natural disasters. Gov. Josh Green supports the bill, indicating he will sign it. The bill adds a 0.75% levy to the...
7 people dead after a truck, tour van collided near Yellowstone, police say
BOISE, Idaho — A pickup and a tour van with international visitors — including two people from Italy — collided on a highway leading to Yellowstone National Park, leaving seven people dead and eight injured, Idaho State Police said. The crash happened just before 7:15 p.m. Thursday on U.S. Highway...
Military parade to celebrate Army’s 250th anniversary will be held on Trump’s birthday
WASHINGTON — The Army on Friday confirmed there will be a military parade on President Donald Trump’s birthday in June, as part of the celebrations around the service’s 250th birthday. Plans for the parade, as first detailed by the Associated Press on Thursday, call for about 6,600 soldiers to march...
Court says no rights violated when Michigan school told girl to remove hat with image of a gun
DURAND, Mich. — A Michigan school did not violate the free-speech rights of a third-grade student who was told to remove a hat that had an image of an AR-15-style rifle and the message “come and take it” in capital letters, a federal court said Friday. The principal at Kerr...
Tennessee police release video of Kilmar Abrego Garcia traffic stop in 2022
Authorities in Tennessee have released video of a 2022 traffic stop involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland construction worker who’s become the face of U.S. immigration policy after his erroneous deportation to El Salvador. Posted by various news organizations, the body-camera footage shows a calm and friendly exchange between officers...
Public broadcasting chiefs vow to fight Trump’s PBS, NPR cuts
The head of PBS said Friday that President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to public broadcasting institutions PBS and NPR is blatantly unlawful. NPR’s chief also vowed to challenge the decision. Public Broadcasting Service CEO Paula Kerger said the Republican president’s order “threatens our ability to...
Man sentenced to 53 years in prison in hate-crime attack on Palestinian American boy, mother
JOLIET, Ill. — An Illinois landlord who killed a 6-year-old Muslim boy and severely injured the boy’s mother in a brutal hate-crime attack days after the war in Gaza began was sentenced Friday to 53 years in prison. Joseph Czuba, 73, was found guilty in February of murder, attempted murder...
