Putin visits China to reaffirm Russia ties as Xi also seeks stable U.S. relations after Trump summit
BEIJING — Russian President Vladimir Putin is traveling to China to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping less than a week after U.S. President Donald Trump wrapped up his own trip to Beijing. Putin is scheduled to be in China on Tuesday and Wednesday in a visit likely to be...
Minnesota county charges ICE officer in a nonfatal shooting during Trump’s immigration crackdown
MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota county prosecutor on Monday announced charges against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in the nonfatal shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Trump administration’s crackdown in the state. The officer, Christian Castro, is charged with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely...
U.S. seeks to drop criminal charges against tycoon Gautam Adani
NEW YORK — In the span of a few hours Monday, Gautam Adani, Asia’s richest person, neared a resounding victory halfway around the world that had been months in the making. In Brooklyn, New York, the Justice Department sought to drop criminal charges against the Indian billionaire, just after an...
Negotiators reach a deal to end strike on North America’s busiest commuter rail system
NEW YORK — Negotiators on Monday reached a deal to end the strike that stalled service on the Long Island Rail Road, the busiest commuter rail system in North America. Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a statement on X that the deal “delivers raises for workers while protecting riders and...
Humanitarian aid ship from Mexico docks in Havana as U.S.-Cuba tensions escalate
HAVANA — A ship laden with humanitarian aid from the governments of Mexico and Uruguay arrived Monday in Havana to help ease Cuba’s spiraling crises. The ship, which departed from a Mexican port, includes personal hygiene items and 1,700 tons of grains, powdered milk and other food items, according to...
U.S. pauses joint defense effort with Canada that dates to WWII
WASHINGTON — The United States is pausing its participation on a joint board with Canada for continental defense that dates back to World War II, the Pentagon announced Monday, accusing Canada of failing “to make credible progress on its defense commitments.” President Donald Trump has long accused Canada and other...
Mark Fuhrman, former Los Angeles police detective convicted of lying during OJ Simpson murder trial, dies at 74
BOISE, Idaho — Former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman, who was convicted of lying during testimony at the OJ Simpson murder trial, has died. He was 74. Fuhrman was one of the first two police detectives sent to investigate the 1994 killings of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and...
Federal court rejects Elon Musk’s claims against OpenAI, saying he filed his lawsuit too late
OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal court on Monday dismissed claims filed against OpenAI and its top executives by Elon Musk, who accused them of betraying a shared vision for it to remain a nonprofit dedicated to guiding artificial intelligence’s development for the good of humanity. The nine-person jury found Musk...
Congo opens more centers to treat rare type of Ebola that has killed more than 110
KINSHASA, Congo — Congo will open three Ebola treatment centers in the eastern Ituri province, and the World Health Organization is sending a team of experts to the country, following an outbreak of a rare type of the virus that has killed more than 110 people. An American doctor in...
Trump claims he’s called off Iran strike planned for Tuesday at request of Gulf allies
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he is holding off on a military strike on Iran planned for Tuesday because “serious negotiations” are underway. Trump made the announcement in a social media post on Monday after threatening over the weekend that time was running out for Iran to strike a...
Police: 2 suspects kill 3 people at a San Diego mosque before killing themselvesVideo
SAN DIEGO — Two teenage shooters opened fire at a San Diego mosque on Monday and killed three men before killing themselves a few blocks away, police said. The attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego is being investigated as a hate crime, San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl...
Lebanon death toll reaches 3,000 in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah
BEIRUT — The death toll in the latest round of fighting between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon has surpassed 3,000, Lebanon’s health ministry said Monday. The ministry said the toll is now 3,020 in the fighting that has not stopped despite a fragile ceasefire, including 292 women and...
Riders navigate the 1st weekday of a strike that has shut down the largest U.S. commuter rail system
NEW YORK — Commuters in New York City’s suburbs navigated a gauntlet of car, bus and subway routes to get to work Monday after a strike on the Long Island Rail Road that shut down the nation’s busiest commuter rail system entered its third day. Unions representing rail workers and...
Greenland’s prime minister tells Trump’s envoy self-determination cannot be negotiated
NUUK, Greeland — Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said Monday that he had a respectful and positive meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump ‘s special envoy to the Arctic territory, but that he made it clear that the Greenlandic people continue to insist on self-determination. Greenland is a semiautonomous territory...
Justice Department announces a $1.7B fund to compensate Trump allies in a deal to drop IRS suit
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced Monday the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies of the Republican president who believe they have been unjustly investigated and prosecuted, an arrangement that Democrats and government watchdogs derided as “corrupt” and unconstitutional. The “Anti-Weaponization Fund” of $1.776 billion is part...
3 young people arrested in series of random shootings across Austin that left 4 injured
AUSTIN, Texas — Three young people were in custody following at least 10 random weekend shootings in Austin, Texas, that left four people injured, city officials said. Driving around the city in stolen vehicles, at least two of the suspects fired at two fire stations, apartment buildings and houses during...
China agrees to boost trade for U.S. beef and poultry following Trump-Xi summit
WASHINGTON — China has agreed to ramp up trade for U.S. agricultural products such as beef and poultry, buying at an annualized rate of $17 billion per year for 2026 and at that level for 2027 and 2028, the White House announced Sunday, two days after President Donald Trump returned...
Israeli troops intercept vessels from a flotilla trying to breach the blockade of Gaza
ANKARA, Turkey — The Israeli military intercepted boats off the coast of Cyprus on Monday, part of the latest wave of flotilla activists attempting to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza. More than 50 vessels departed from the port in Marmaris, Turkey, last week in what the organizers of the...
Italy’s foreign minister says divers found bodies of 4 Italians dead in Maldives sea cave
ROME — Italy’s Foreign Ministry said Monday rescuers have located the bodies of four Italian divers believed to be deep inside an underwater cave in a Maldive atoll. The searches had resumed on Monday after being suspended following the death of a local military diver during a perilous mission to...
Protesters light bonfires during public transport strike in Kenya over fuel prices
NAIROBI, Kenya — Protests erupted in Kenya’s capital Nairobi Monday as a nationwide public transport strike kicked off in protest at rising fuel prices. Commuters were stranded in various suburbs and the city center remained deserted. Drivers with private vehicles opted to stay home as protesters burned tires on major...
Hantavirus-stricken cruise ship docks in the Netherlands for disinfection
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — The cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak has docked at the Dutch port of Rotterdam for disinfection, wrapping up a troubled journey that put international health authorities on alert. The MV Hondius was still carrying 25 crew members and two medical personnel as it reached...
Pop star Shakira is acquitted in a Spanish tax fraud case
MADRID — A Spanish court acquitted Shakira in a tax fraud case, ordering the government to return more than 55 million euros ($64 million) in wrongly imposed fines, a court document seen Monday by The Associated Press said. The decision follows years of tax troubles in Spain for the Colombian...
3 Finnish divers arrive in the Maldives to remap the search for the bodies of 4 Italian divers
MALE, Maldives — Three Finnish divers arrived in the Maldives Sunday to draw up a fresh plan in the search for the bodies of four Italian divers believed to be deep inside an underwater cave. The initial search was suspended after a local military diver died during a perilous mission...
4 crew members ejected safely after 2 Navy jets crash during air show in IdahoVideo
BOISE, Idaho — All four crew members ejected safely after two Navy jets collided and crashed on Sunday during an air show at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in western Idaho, officials said. The collision involved two U.S. Navy EA18-G Growlers from the Electronic Attack Squadron 129 in Whidbey...
News analysis: Trump spent 2 days with Xi in Beijing. Was he outplayed?
As President Trump left Beijing on Friday, Chinese social media resurfaced a familiar nickname for the president — flattering at first glance — declaring that Chuan Jianguo, the “Nation Builder,” had returned. It was not meant as a compliment. The nation he is building, according to the Chinese, is not...
