By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the influential war Cabinet that has overseen the fighting in Gaza. The move comes days after a key member of the body bolted from the government over frustration with the Israeli leader’s handling of the war. The change was
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The University of Michigan failed to properly investigate dozens of incidents of alleged antisemitic behavior on campus over the past four years, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Education. The agency also expressed concern about lax response by the City University of New York to
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are rising toward more records in quiet trading Monday ahead of what could be a quiet, holiday-shortened week. The S&P 500 was 0.6% higher in afternoon trading and on track to close above its all-time high set on Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial
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UPDATED POST JUNE 18, 2024 – 9:50 A.M. The Lisa Fire is now 100% contained at 892 acres. UPDATED POST JUNE 17, 2024 – 9:00 P.M. The fire is now 95% contained, according to CAL FIRE. UPDATED POST JUNE 17, 2024 – 5:00 P.M. The fire is now 893 acres. It remains 50% contained. UPDATED
Continue ReadingBy ELLA JOYNER, LORNE COOK and SAMUEL PETRQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders have praised the record of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at a dinner summit in Brussels. The head of the bloc’s powerful executive branch appears on track to secure their endorsement later this month for a second
Continue ReadingSAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Five people have died in separate events that authorities in El Salvador attributed to heavy rains that have persisted since the weekend. In Tacuba, near the country’s border with Guatemala, three people died early Monday after they were buried in a landslide provoked by heavy rains. Juan Carlos Bidegaín,
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A lieutenant colonel with the Army Reserves says a reservist who committed the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history had a low threat profile when he left a psychiatric hospital prior to the killings. Lt. Col. Ryan Vazquez testified Monday in front of a state commission
Continue ReadingPONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A sheriff is planning to give an update Monday in the investigation of a weekend shooting that wounded nine people at a suburban Detroit splash pad. The random attack in Rochester Hills was one of at least four mass shootings in the U.S. on Saturday and early Sunday. Police say 42-year-old
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer The U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes. In a Monday opinion piece in the The New York Times, Dr. Vivek Murthy said that social media is a contributing factor in the mental
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer The U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes. In a Monday opinion piece in the The New York Times, Dr. Vivek Murthy said that social media is a contributing factor in the mental
Continue ReadingBy ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — More than 70 million people in the United States were under extreme heat alerts Monday as a heat wave moved eastward, and the mid-Atlantic and New England were likely to see highs in the 90s as the week progresses. Excessive humidity will make it feel even more
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The way the NFL can distribute its package of out-of-market games could be decided in federal court as the result of a class-action lawsuit. Subscribers to the NFL’s “Sunday Ticket” package are claiming the league broke antitrust laws by selling its package of out-of-market Sunday
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has said that his conservative Austrian People’s Party would remain in the current government coalition with its Green party junior partner. That’s even though the environment minister, who is from the Green party, voted in a European Union vote on Monday in favor of the so-called Nature Restoration
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s new Title IX rule expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students in six additional states. The ruling Monday deals another setback for a new policy that has come under legal attack by Republican attorneys general. U.S. District Judge Danny
Continue ReadingBy JOHN RABY Associated Press CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — The man accused of acting as lookout during the prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger was sentenced to time served after pleading guilty to a chare of lying to federal agents. Sean McKinnon was accused along with two other inmates in the 2018
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — A recently elected mayor has been shot and killed in southern Mexico, in the state of Guerrero. The Guerrero state prosecutor’s office said Salvador Villalva Flores was on a bus was he was fatally shot in the head early on Monday in the town of San Pedro las Playas. That beach
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters increased their containment of a large wildfire in mountains north of Los Angeles on Monday after a weekend of explosive, wind-driven growth along Interstate 5. The Post Fire was 8% surrounded after scorching more than 24 square miles (61 square kilometers) and forcing the evacuation of at least 1,200 campers,
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters increased their containment of a large wildfire in mountains north of Los Angeles on Monday after a weekend of explosive, wind-driven growth along Interstate 5. The Post Fire was 8% surrounded after scorching more than 24 square miles (61 square kilometers) and forcing the evacuation of at least 1,200 campers,
Continue ReadingBy Teele Rebane and Ivan Watson, CNN (CNN) — Sitting at the kitchen table, Matt struggles to recount the events of the past few months. “As soon as I found out that it was a suicide, I was 100% sure that it was the scam,” he says. “Our father was, from the day I was
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says a record 23 of NATO’s 32 member nations are hitting the Western military alliance’s defense spending target this year as Russia’s war in Ukraine has raised the threat of expanding conflict in Europe. Stoltenberg made the announcement Monday
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