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Sen. Mark Kelly sues the Pentagon over attempts to punish him, declaring it unconstitutionalVideo
WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly sued the Pentagon on Monday over attempts to punish him for his warnings about illegal orders, claiming the Trump administration trampled on his constitutional rights to free speech. Kelly, a former U.S. Navy pilot who represents Arizona, is seeking to block his censure from...
Doctor charged with murdering his ex-wife and her Ohio husband waives right to extradition hearing
COLUMBUS — The ex-husband of an Ohio woman charged this weekend with the murders of her and her husband waived his right to an extradition hearing Monday in Illinois. Michael David McKee, 39, a doctor from Chicago, has been charged with premeditated aggravated murder in the shooting deaths of 39-year-old...
Judge is asked for emergency hearing after Congress members blocked from ICE facility in Minneapolis
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration secretly reimposed a policy limiting Congress members’ access to immigration detention facilities a day after a federal immigration officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, attorneys for several congressional Democrats said Monday in asking a federal judge to intervene. Three Democratic members of Congress...
Young Americans are increasingly rejecting the Democratic and Republican parties, a new poll shows
WASHINGTON — Americans are increasingly rejecting the two major political parties, according to new polling. Just under half, 45%, of U.S. adults now identify as independents, a new Gallup survey found. That’s a substantial shift from 20 years ago, when closer to one-third of Americans said they didn’t identify with...
Why the Federal Reserve has historically been independent of the White House
WASHINGTON— The Justice Department has threatened the Federal Reserve with a criminal indictment over the testimony of Fed Chair Jerome Powell this summer regarding its building renovations, Powell said over the weekend. It is a major escalation by the administration after repeated attempts by President Donald Trump to exert greater...
Judge says she’ll hold a limited hearing on seizure of Luigi Mangione’s backpack
NEW YORK — A federal judge on Monday said she will hold a short hearing in the next two weeks on procedures that police said allowed them to seize and look through Luigi Mangione’s backpack when he was arrested in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. U.S. District Judge...
Pope Leo XIV meets with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado in a surprise audience
ROME — Pope Leo XIV met with Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado in a private audience at the Vatican on Monday. The meeting, which hadn’t been previously included in the list of Leo’s planned appointments, was later listed by the Vatican in its daily...
What to know about the protests shaking Iran
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Nationwide protests in Iran sparked by the Islamic Republic’s ailing economy are putting new pressure on its theocracy as it has shut down the internet and telephone networks. Tehran is still reeling from a 12-day war launched by Israel in June that saw the United...
China says U.S. shouldn’t use other countries as ‘pretext’ to pursue its interests in Greenland
NUUK, Greenland — China said Monday that the United States shouldn’t use other countries as a “pretext” to pursue its interests in Greenland and said that its activities in the Arctic comply with international law. The comment by a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson came in response to a question at...
Mattel adds an autistic Barbie to doll line devoted to showcasing diversity and inclusion
NEW YORK — Mattel Inc. is introducing an autistic Barbie on Monday as the newest member of its line intended to celebrate diversity, joining a collection that already includes Barbies with Down syndrome, a blind Barbie, a Barbie and a Ken with vitiligo, and other models the toymaker added to...
Thousands of nurses go on strike at several major New York City hospitals
NEW YORK — Thousands of nurses in three hospital systems in New York City went on strike Monday after negotiations through the weekend failed to yield breakthroughs in their contract disputes. The strike was taking place at The Mount Sinai Hospital and two of its satellite campuses, with picket lines...
China and the EU agree on steps to resolve their dispute over EV imports
HONG KONG — China and the European Union said Monday they have agreed on steps toward resolving their dispute over the bloc’s imports of Chinese-made electric vehicles. A “guidance document” released by the EU on Monday gives instructions for Chinese EV manufacturers on making price offers for EV exports, including...
Protesters try to attack driver after truck speeds through Iran demonstration in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police responded Sunday after somebody drove a U-Haul box truck down a street crowded with marchers demonstrating in support of the Iranian people, causing protesters to scramble out of the way and then run after the speeding vehicle to try to attack the driver. The...
Federal Reserve Chair Powell says DOJ has subpoenaed central bank, threatens criminal indictmentVideo
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Sunday the Department of Justice has served the central bank with subpoenas and threatened it with a criminal indictment over his testimony this summer about the Fed’s building renovations. The move represents an unprecedented escalation in President Donald Trump’s battle with the...
Video captures Minneapolis immigration arrest in a city on edge after shooting of Renee GoodVideo
MINNEAPOLIS — Federal agents carrying out immigration arrests in Minnesota’s Twin Cities region already shaken by the fatal shooting of a woman rammed the door of one home Sunday and pushed their way inside, part of what the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest enforcement operation ever. In...
Thousands of New York City nurses set to strike Monday if deal isn’t reached with hospitals
NEW YORK — Thousands of nurses at some of New York City’s biggest hospitals could go on strike Monday during a severe flu season, three years after a similar walkout forced some of the same medical facilities to transfer some patients and divert ambulances. The looming strike could impact operations...
Trump: Cuba to get no more oil from Venezuela, should make a deal ‘before it is too late’
Following the capture of Venezuelan strongman and Cuban ally Nicolas Maduro, President Donald Trump said Sunday that Cuba won’t be receiving any more oil from the South American country and warned the government in Havana to “make a deal BEFORE IS TOO LATE.” In a post on Truth Social, Trump...
Reference to Trump’s impeachments is removed from the display of his Smithsonian photo portrait
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s photo portrait display at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has had references to his two impeachments removed, the latest apparent change at the collection of museums he has accused of bias as he asserts his influence over how official presentations document U.S. history. The wall...
Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer who spawned alien archaeology, dies at 90
BERLIN — Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose bestselling books about the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him fame among paranormal enthusiasts and scorn from the scientific community, has died. He was 90. Von Däniken’s representatives announced on his website on Sunday that he had died the previous...
Google teams up with Walmart and other retailers to enable shopping within Gemini AI chatbot
NEW YORK — Google said Sunday that it is expanding the shopping features in its AI chatbot by teaming up with Walmart, Shopify, Wayfair and other big retailers to turn the Gemini app into a virtual merchant as well as an assistant. An instant checkout function will allow customers to...
Suspect arrested after a fire damages a historic Mississippi synagogue
A person was taken into custody late Saturday after a fire ripped through a synagogue in Mississippi, heavily damaging the historic house of worship in what authorities say was an act of arson. No congregants were injured in the blaze, which broke out at the Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson,...
U.S. launches new retaliatory strikes against IS in Syria after deadly ambush
WASHINGTON — The U.S. has launched another round of retaliatory strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria following last month’s ambush that killed two U.S. soldiers and one American civilian interpreter in the country. The large-scale strikes, conducted by the U.S. alongside partner forces, occurred around 12:30 p.m. ET...
A $400,000 payout after Maduro’s capture is putting prediction markets in the spotlight
Prediction markets let people wager on anything from a basketball game to the outcome of a presidential election — and recently, the downfall of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The latter is drawing renewed scrutiny into this murky world of speculative, 24/7 transactions. Last week, an anonymous trader pocketed more...
Hamas says it will dissolve its Gaza government when new Palestinian body takes over
CAIRO — Hamas said Sunday it will dissolve its existing government in Gaza once a Palestinian technocratic leadership committee takes over the territory, as mandated under the U.S.-brokered peace plan. But the group gave no specifics on when the change will occur. Hamas and the rival Palestinian Authority, the Palestinians’...
Death toll from protests in Iran hits at least 544, activists say, as Trump says Iran wants to talk
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that Iran proposed negotiations after his threat to strike the Islamic Republic over its bloody crackdown targeting demonstrators there, a move coming as activists said the death toll in protests rose to at least 544. Trump and his national...
