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Trump administration terminates agreements to protect transgender students in several schools
WASHINGTON — The Education Department said Monday it has terminated agreements with five school districts and a college aimed at upholding protections for transgender students, backing away from requirements negotiated by previous administrations that took a different interpretation of civil rights. The decision removes the federal obligations for the schools...
Video brings new scrutiny to ICE shooting in Minneapolis after charges against 2 men collapsedVideo
MINNEAPOLIS — The city of Minneapolis released a video Monday showing a chase and scuffle that ended in a nonfatal shooting in January and the suspensions of two federal officers involved in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota. The video — from a city-owned security camera — captured part...
Artemis II breaks Apollo 13’s distance record with daring moon flyby that included a solar eclipseVideo
HOUSTON — After traveling deeper into space than any other humans, the Artemis II astronauts pointed their moonship toward home Monday night, wrapping up a lunar cruise that revealed views of the far side never beheld by eyes until now. Their flyby of the moon even included some celestial sightseeing...
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán has long annoyed the European Union. Now some hope he faces defeat
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary ‘s elections on April 12 will have profound aftershocks as many in the European Union hope for the defeat of nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who is widely seen as endangering the future of the 27-nation bloc. Orbán, the EU’s longest-serving leader, has trailed in the...
2 U.S. lawmakers visiting Cuba denounce island’s ‘economic bombing’ under energy blockade
HAVANA — Two U.S lawmakers called for a permanent solution to Cuba’s crises after witnessing the effects of a U.S. energy blockade during an official visit to the island. Democratic Reps. Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Jonathan Jackson of Illinois met with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez...
Trump widens threat to all of Iran’s power plants and bridges as his deadline for a deal approachesVideo
TEHRAN, Iran — President Donald Trump on Monday expanded his threat against Iran to include all power plants and bridges as his ultimatum to make a deal ticked closer, after Tehran rejected a 45-day ceasefire proposal and said it wants a permanent end to the war. “The entire country can...
Key Fed official sees possible rate hike amid higher gas prices, inflation concerns
WASHINGTON — A top Federal Reserve official said Monday that an interest rate hike could be appropriate if inflation remains persistently above the central bank’s 2% target, the latest sign that some policymakers are moving away from a bias toward reducing borrowing costs. Beth Hammack, president of the Federal Reserve...
NASA’s Artemis II moon mission — everything you need to knowVideo
HOUSTON — Maybe you weren’t paying attention last Wednesday when the four astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission launched on a journey around the moon. But it’s a 10-day flight, and on Day 6, you’d be jumping in at the highlight of the trip. It’s moon day! Here is the...
Steve Bannon wins Supreme Court order likely to lead to dismissal of contempt of Congress conviction
WASHINGTON — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, on Monday won a Supreme Court order that is expected to lead to the dismissal of his criminal conviction for refusing to testify to Congress. Prodded by the Trump administration, the justices threw out an appellate ruling upholding Bannon’s...
A 12-hour drive through Iran offers glimpses of destruction, defiance and daily life
ZANJAN, Iran — A black banner hangs over the border crossing and portraits of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stare down, promising vengeance against the United States and Israel. But on the 12-hour drive south to the capital, Tehran, daily life continued, with only occasional signs of the...
Savannah Guthrie returns to ‘Today’ anchor desk for first time since mother’s disappearance
NEW YORK — Savannah Guthrie was back and almost all business at NBC’s “Today” show anchor desk on Monday, marking a return for the first time in more than two months since her mother’s disappearance. “Here we go, ready or not,” Guthrie said as the show opened. “Let’s do the...
European ministers call for profit caps on energy companies as Iran war drives price surge
The finance ministers of Spain and four other European countries are urging the European Union to impose a bloc-wide windfall tax on energy companies, concerned that surging oil and gas prices driven by the war in Iran will fuel inflation and strain households. Spanish Economy Minister Carlos Cuerpo said Saturday...
A Russian attack kills 3 in Odesa while Ukraine targets Russian oil infrastructure, officials say
KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa killed two women and a toddler, authorities said Monday, while Ukrainian long-range drones targeted Russia’s key Black Sea port for oil exports. The nighttime attack on Odesa heavily damaged an apartment block, killing the women and...
Iranian state media says Tehran rejects latest ceasefire proposal
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency said Tehran rejected the latest ceasefire proposal and wants a permanent end to the war. The agency said it has conveyed its response to the U.S. through Pakistan, a key mediator. “We only accept an end of the war with...
Trump revels in threats to commit war crimes in Iran
WASHINGTON — Power plants, desalination stations, oil wells, roads, bridges and other infrastructure. They are the foundations of civilian life in Iran, and their destruction by American and Israeli forces would cause widespread suffering among the country’s 93 million people — and in most cases would be considered a war...
3 killed as damaging wind topples tree on an Easter egg hunt in Germany
FRANKFURT, Germany — Three people, including a 10-month-old girl, were killed Sunday when strong wind toppled a tree in northern Germany during an Easter egg hunt, police said. Around 50 people from a nearby residential facility for new mothers, pregnant women and children were attending the event in woods near...
ICE agents detain newlywed spouse of soldier training to deploy
A U.S. Army staff sergeant and his wife arrived at his base in Louisiana last week, expecting to begin their life together as newlyweds. The couple checked in at the visitor center, identification in hand, ready to complete the steps that would allow her to move into his home on...
Trump administration agencies post Easter messages celebrating Christ’s resurrection
Numerous previous presidents have issued statements in recognition of Easter Sunday. This year, the Trump administration went a step farther, with several key Cabinet departments heralding Christ’s resurrection on their official social media accounts. “He is risen,” declared the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department. The Defense Department...
It’s time for Artemis II to break Apollo 13’s distance record. What to know about the moon flybyVideo
HOUSTON — The Artemis II astronauts are already the champions of a fresh new era of lunar exploration. Now it’s time to set a new distance record. Launched last week on humanity’s first trip to the moon since 1972, the three Americans and one Canadian are chasing after Apollo 13’s...
Inside the Pentagon, fears of a disrupted war effort after Army chief’s ouster
WASHINGTON — Merely two weeks had passed since the Iran war began when Gen. Randy George, the Army’s highest-ranking officer, began sounding an alarm. Touring a weapons depot in North Carolina, George warned lawmakers present that the conflict’s vast and ever-growing list of targets was straining U.S. capacity — “depleting...
Photos show Christians celebrating Easter around the world
Christians around the world celebrated on Sunday the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the most important holiday in the Christian liturgical calendar....
U.S. military jets hit in Iran war are the first shot down by enemy fire in over 20 years
WASHINGTON — Iran shooting down two American military jets marks an exceedingly rare assault for the U.S. that has not happened in more than 20 years and shows the Islamic Republic’s continued ability to hit back despite President Donald Trump asserting it has been “completely decimated.” The attacks came five...
Pope Leo urges peace in first Easter Mass as Christians celebrate in Jerusalem, Gaza and Tehran
VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Easter Mass as pontiff with a call Sunday to lay down arms and seek peace to global conflicts through dialogue, but he departed from a tradition of listing the world’s woes by name in the Urbi et Orbi blessing from the...
NASA astronauts are closer to moon than Earth on Artemis II day 4
HOUSTON — As Day 4 dawned on the Artemis II mission, the astronauts were closer to the moon than to Earth, after crossing the halfway point between the two bodies on Friday night. Before Day 3 ended, the stark gray disk appeared in the crew’s view of the blackness of...
Trump slashed science funding and now the U.S. could face a costly brain drain
In March last year, Wali Malik, a robotics engineer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, received a call from a research institution in Austria, a country where he had never been and knew no one. “‘Hey,’” Malik recalled the man saying. “‘We have this position to build an institute from scratch, on AI...
