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By SAM MEDNICK, JOSEF FEDERMAN and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas announced its acceptance Monday of an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal, but Israel said the deal did not meet its “core demands” and that it was pushing ahead with an assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Still, Israel said it would
Continue ReadingBy KAREN MATTHEWS and STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters that had been blocked by police from accessing an encampment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Monday broke through fencing, linked arms and encircled tents that remained there, as Columbia University canceled its university-wide commencement ceremony following weeks of demonstrations.
Continue ReadingNEW ORLEANS (AP) — An extra day and the lure of an appearance by the Rolling Stones pushed attendance at the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival to a half a million people, organizers said Monday. That was the second highest attendance in the festival’s history — just behind the 600,000 attendees in 2001.
Continue ReadingCNN By Jeremy Herb, Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle, Eric Levenson and Sabrina Souza, CNN (CNN) — Judge Juan Merchan has found former President Donald Trump in contempt for violating the gag order in his hush money trial for the 10th time and said he’ll consider jail time going forward. “Going forward, this court will
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By Abeer Salman, Christian Edwards, Becky Anderson and Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — Israel said the terms of a ceasefire proposal Hamas accepted on Monday remained “far from” meeting its demands and warned its military operations in Rafah would continue, even as it sent negotiators to talk to mediators. In a statement Monday, Hamas said
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department on Monday released an ambitious new cybersecurity strategy that seeks to curb Russia and China’s digital influence in the developing world and blunt those countries’ alleged efforts to interfere in elections. With roughly half of the world’s population holding elections in 2024, their vulnerability to
Continue ReadingBy LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s Met Gala time and the fashion parade of A-listers Monday included a swirl of flora and fauna looks on a green-tinged carpet surrounded by foliage. Jennifer Lopez went for silver leaves in a second-skin goddess gown and Zendaya was all vamp and fantasy. Both
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Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Israel dijo que los términos del acuerdo de alto el fuego aceptado este lunes por Hamas están “lejos” de satisfacer sus demandas y advirtió que sus operaciones militares en Rafah continuarían, incluso cuando envió negociadores a las conversaciones con los mediadores. En un comunicado este lunes, Hamas afirmó que el jefe
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An American soldier visiting a girlfriend in Russia’s port city of Vladivostok was arrested on charges of stealing from her and remains in custody, according to several U.S. officials. U.S. officials said Monday the soldier, Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, 34, was stationed in South Korea and
Continue ReadingBy JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer CHICAGO (AP) — When Justin Steele got hurt on opening day, the big question for the Chicago Cubs centered on the state of their rotation without their ace left-hander. That concern faded away over time. Steele returned to one of baseball’s best rotations on Monday night, starting the opener
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia State Supreme Court candidate has filed a federal lawsuit claiming a state agency is unconstitutionally trying to block him from talking about abortion. John Barrow sued Monday ahead of a deadline to reply to a complaint that he is violating state judicial ethics rules. The
Continue ReadingCLOVIS, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say a Texas man has been arrested in connection with the shooting deaths of two New Mexico women, the wounding of a 5-year-old girl and the kidnapping of an infant. At a news conference Monday afternoon, Clovis police said the 26-year-old man from the Houston area was taken into custody
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it has opened an investigation into Boeing after the beleaguered company reported that workers at a South Carolina plant falsified inspection records on certain 787 planes. Boeing said its engineers have determined that misconduct did not create “an immediate safety of
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK, JOSEF FEDERMAN and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas announced its acceptance Monday of an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal, but Israel said the deal did not meet its “core demands” and that it was pushing ahead with an assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Still, Israel said it would
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By Meron Moges-Gerbi and Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — Phi Delta Theta has removed an individual from its fraternity following a heated exchange between a group of pro-Palestinian protesters and a much larger group of counter protesters at the University of Mississippi last Thursday. In a statement shared with CNN Monday, the fraternity said while
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — A 10-month-girl police said was abducted Friday from a New Mexico park where her mother and another woman were discovered dead has been found and a suspect is in custody, the FBI announced Monday morning. The bureau did not provide further details on Eleia Maria Torres’ condition and the
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE L. PRICE and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is accusing Joe Biden of offering a weak response to antisemitism, wielding the clashes on colleges campuses over the war in Gaza as a campaign issue. But Trump’s attacks ignore his own long history of rhetoric that invokes the
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal judges who threw out a congressional election map giving Louisiana a new mostly Black district have told state lawyers to determine whether the Legislature could draw up a new map in time for this year’s elections. The order was spelled out in a federal court
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Hamas accepted the Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal on Monday. Senior Hamas leader Taher Al-Nono says it, “includes a ceasefire, reconstruction, the return of the displaced, and the liberation of prisoners.” Israel has responded to Hamas’ acceptance of the proposal, saying the deal does not fully meet their “core demands.” Israel remains a part of continued negotiations
Continue ReadingHONOLULU (AP) — In a story published May 3, 2024, The Associated Press reported that a Hawaii attorney general report in April about the devastating 2023 Maui wildfire said the former head of Maui’s emergency management agency dragged his heels about returning to the island amid the unfolding crisis. The story should have made clear
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