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Lenny Kravitz, Billie Eilish set for Global Citizen’s ‘Power Our Planet’ show
Music superstars Lenny Kravitz, Billie Eilish and H.E.R. will team with advocacy nonprofit Global Citizen for a free concert in front of the Eiffel Tower designed to convince world leaders to take further action against climate change. “Power Our Planet: Live in Paris” is set for June 22 to coincide...
Trump makes video appearance in New York criminal case, trial date set for March primary seasonVideo
NEW YORK — Donald Trump threw up his hands in frustration Tuesday as a judge scheduled his criminal trial for March 25, putting the former president and current candidate in a Manhattan courtroom in the heat of next year’s presidential primary season. Trump, appearing by video conference at a pretrial...
Fake image of Pentagon explosion briefly sends jitters through stock market
An image of black smoke billowing next to a bureaucratic-looking building spread across social media Monday morning, with the claim that it showed an explosion near the Pentagon. The posts sent a brief shiver through the stock market and were quickly picked up by news outlets outside the U.S., before...
Kentucky sheriff’s deputy fatally shot during traffic stop
GEORGETOWN, Ky. — A Kentucky sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed during a traffic stop by someone who fled before being taken into custody, officials said. Scott County Sheriff’s Deputy Caleb Conley was shot Monday evening during a traffic stop on Interstate 75 near Georgetown just before 5 p.m., and...
Teen accused of deliberately crashing U-Haul truck into security barrier at park near White House
WASHINGTON — Police have arrested a Missouri man they believe intentionally crashed a U-Haul truck into a security barrier at a park across from the White House. The box truck’s driver smashed into the barrier near the north side of Lafayette Square on Monday around 10 p.m., the Secret Service...
Paul Whelan from Russia: ‘I have been told that I won’t be left behind’Video
DETROIT — Michigan’s Paul Whelan said that he has more confidence in U.S. efforts to bring him home from Russia than he did a few months ago in December, though he wishes the process would move faster. “I remain positive and confident on a daily basis that the wheels are...
E. Jean Carroll adds Trump’s post-verdict comments to pending defamation case
NEW YORK — E. Jean Carroll, the advice columnist who won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation award against former President Donald Trump, is seeking at least $10 million more in a court filing Monday that seeks to hold him liable for remarks he made after the verdict. The...
Group accused of making up story about homeless vets being evicted to make room for migrantsVideo
NEW YORK — The founder of a nonprofit group has been accused of fabricating a story about homeless military veterans being evicted from a New York hotel to make room for migrants, a tale that stoked days of outrage on cable news networks. One Republican lawmaker in New York who...
Breakthrough proposal would aid drought-stricken Colorado River as 3 Western states offer cutsVideo
LAS VEGAS — Arizona, California and Nevada on Monday proposed a plan to significantly reduce their water use from the drought-stricken Colorado River over the next three years, a potential breakthrough in a year-long stalemate that pitted Western states against one another. The plan would conserve an additional 3 million...
Roof collapses at school in Thailand, killing 6 people who were sheltering from rain
BANGKOK — Six people, including four children, died Monday when strong winds from a rainstorm caused a metal roof on a school’s activity center to collapse in northern Thailand, officials said. Eighteen other people were hospitalized, they said. Some students had gone inside the activity center at the Wat Nern...
Sheriff: Girl, 16, fights off mom to save a sister from being drowned after 2nd sister killed
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A mother drowned one of her daughters in their South Carolina home and was trying to kill another child when the oldest daughter was awakened by screams and managed to save her sister, a sheriff said. Jamie Bradley Brun, 37, was charged with murder and attempted murder...
Suspect ‘stands silent’ in slayings of 4 Idaho college students; judge enters not guilty pleas
BOISE, Idaho — The suspect in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students opted Monday to “stand silent” to murder charges, prompting the judge to enter not guilty pleas on his behalf ahead of a trial in which he could face the death penalty. The Nov. 13, 2022,...
Grenade found as family sorted relative’s belongings kills man, injures 2 children
LAKES OF THE FOUR SEASONS, Ind. — A hand grenade found as a family went through an older relative’s belongings exploded, killing an Indiana man and injuring his two teenage children, police said. The explosion fatally injured the 47-year-old man Saturday evening at the home in the community of Lakes...
Russia claims eastern city of Bakhmut, but Ukrainian military leaders say battle isn’t over
KYIV, Ukraine — Although Russia claims it has won control of Ukraine’s eastern city of Bakhmut after a grinding nine-month conflict in which tens of thousands of fighters have died, top Ukrainian military leaders say the battle is not over. Ukrainian officials acknowledge they control only a small part of...
With all the politics and maneuvering, how is life in Florida changing for its residents?
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — “Don’t say gay.” Regulation of books and classroom discussion. Teachers, parents and school librarians all navigating new and uncertain ground. LGBTQ+ rights under attack. A very public spat between state government and Disney. And at the center of it all is a governor who has emerged as...
UN agency: 2M killed, $4.3T in damages from extreme weather over past half-century
GENEVA — The economic damage of weather- and climate-related disasters continues to rise, even as improvements in early warning have helped reduce the human toll, the U.N. weather agency said Monday. The World Meteorological Organization, in an updated report, tallied nearly 12,000 extreme weather, climate and water-related events over the...
8-year-old girl sought medical help 3 times on day she died, immigration officials say
HARLINGEN, Texas — An 8-year-old girl who died last week in Border Patrol custody was seen at least three separate times by medical personnel on the day of her death — complaining of vomiting, a stomachache and later suffering what appeared to be a seizure — before she was taken...
TikTok, social media trends are thrusting performance crimes into spotlight
NEW YORK — Jonnifer Neal’s Kia was stolen twice in one day — first from in front of her Chicago home and later from outside the mechanic shop where she took it to get fixed. But Neal’s ordeal didn’t end there. After her car was recovered a month later, she...
Warner CEO booed at Boston University as supporters of writers’ strike picket outsideVideo
BOSTON — Scores of Boston University students turned their backs on the head of one of Hollywood’s biggest studios, and some shouted “pay your writers,” as he gave the school’s commencement address Sunday in a stadium where protesters supporting the Hollywood writers’ strike picketed outside. About 100 protesters chanted “No...
SpaceX sends Saudi astronauts, including nation’s 1st woman in space, to International Space StationVideo
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Saudi Arabia’s first astronauts in decades rocketed toward the International Space Station on a chartered multimillion-dollar flight Sunday. SpaceX launched the ticket-holding crew, led by a retired NASA astronaut now working for the company that arranged the trip from Kennedy Space Center. Also on board: a...
FBI, tribe’s police investigating fatal shooting of tribal member by Border Patrol agents
AJO, Ariz. — The FBI and Tohono O’odham Nation police are investigating the fatal shooting of a tribal member by U.S. Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona. Customs and Border Protection officials said agents from the Ajo Border Patrol Station were involved in a fatal shooting on the Tohono O’odham...
Police: Phoenix high schooler arrested after bringing AR-15, ammunition to school
On Friday, police arrested a student who allegedly brought an AR-15 and ammunition to a Phoenix high school. The student now faces “serious felony charges” for bringing the semi-automatic rifle, the same style of weapon behind the majority of the 21 deadliest mass shootings in the U.S. since 2006. The...
Police: 3 dead, 2 wounded in early morning shooting at Kansas City bar
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Three people were killed and two others wounded — including one critically — in a shooting at a Kansas City bar early Sunday, police said. Multiple officers responded to the shooting at Klymax Lounge that was reported just before the bar’s 1:30 a.m. closing time. They...
Civil rights groups warn tourists about Florida in wake of ‘hostile’ laws
ORLANDO, Fla. — The NAACP over the weekend issued a travel advisory for Florida, joining two other civil rights groups in warning potential tourists that recent laws and policies championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers are “openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals.” The...
Using ‘he/him,’ ‘she/her’ in emails got 2 dorm directors fired at N.Y. Christian college
NEW YORK — Shua Wilmot and Raegan Zelaya, two former dorm directors at a small Christian university in western New York, acknowledge their names are unconventional, which explains why they attached gender identities to their work email signatures. Wilmot uses “he/him.” Zelaya goes by “she/her.” Their former employer, Houghton University,...
