By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Manhattan prosecutors are urging the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case to keep the gag order that stops the former president from making statements about jurors, prosecutors and their family members in place, arguing threats against prosecutors have increased since the start of the trial. Prosecutors from
Continue ReadingBy ED DAVEY Associated Press BATANGAS, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines is engaged in a major buildout of natural gas power at a time when scientists say the world needs to urgently phase out fossil fuel use because of climate change. Analysts say Filipinos will likely pay more for their electricity and that additional future
Continue ReadingBy ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian security official says that Ukraine’s military struck three oil refineries and a drone launch site inside Russia overnight. Despite improvements in Russia’s air defenses, Ukraine has continued its campaign to strike oil infrastructure across the border, hitting multiple sites in 2024, as part of
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss criminal court has cleared four members of a billionaire family of charges that they engaged in illegal human trafficking of their servants mostly illiterate Indians who were employed at their luxurious lakeside villa in Geneva. But the court on Friday convicted Indian-born tycoon Prakash Hinduja
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has thanked Romania for its president withdrawing from the race to lead NATO, saying the move would help ensure the Western military alliance stays properly focused. Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered the message to his Romanian counterpart Friday, just a day after
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Steve Bannon, a conservative podcast host and former strategist for Donald Trump, asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause his prison sentence while he appeals his conviction for contempt of Congress. A federal appeals court on Thursday night rejected his bid to delay the start of his sentence. Bannon’s longshot
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, asked the Supreme Court on Friday to delay his prison sentence while he fights his convictions for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the attack on U.S. Capitol. The emergency application came after a
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. general election is nearly two weeks away. The left-of-center Labour Party is the clear favorite to defeat Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives on July 4 with Keir Starmer looking set to replace him as U.K. leader. Another week is ending in controversy for Sunak. This
Continue ReadingBy PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Steeplechase runner Mason Ferlic is taking aim at the stars both on the track and in his field. Ferlic’s focus was on the U.S. Olympic Trials, but a tweaked hamstring kept him out of his first-round heat in the steeplechase. Tumbles, plunges and injuries happen,
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine and Mallika Kallingal, CNN (CNN) — A California man accused of deliberately driving himself, his wife and two children off a cliff on a coastal highway in January 2023 was granted a mental health diversion, meaning the criminal trial is now suspended, the San Mateo County District Attorney’s office said in a news release
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors on Friday urged the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case to uphold provisions of a gag order that bar him from criticizing jurors and court staff, while agreeing to lift a restriction on his public statements about trial witnesses. In court papers filed
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has a lot of work left to do and one week left to do it. The court has about a quarter of the cases heard this year undecided, including ones that could reshape the law on everything from abortion to social
Continue ReadingBy GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA and DIARLEI RODRIGUES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro is famous for its beaches and vibrant parties in the Southern Hemisphere’s summer. The city now has a growing attraction for winter: humpback whales. The tourism agency of Rio sister city Niteroi across the Guanabara Bay on Thursday
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer As temperatures and humidity soar outside, what’s happening inside the human body can become a life-or-death battle decided by just a few degrees. The critical danger point outdoors for illness and death from relentless heat is several degrees lower than experts once thought, say researchers who put people in
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By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court upheld a federal law Friday that bars guns for domestic abusers, rejecting an argument pressed by gun rights groups that the prohibition violated the Second Amendment. The 8-1 decision in one of the court’s most closely watched cases limited the scope of a blockbuster ruling the
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal gun control law that is intended to protect victims of domestic violence. In their first Second Amendment case since they expanded gun rights in 2022, the justices ruled 8-1 in favor of a 1994 ban on firearms for people
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Washington Post says that Robert Winnett, who had been named to take over the organization’s core newsroom functions later this year, will not take the job after all. The newspaper has been in turmoil since publisher and CEO Will Lewis announced a reorganization plan
Continue ReadingBy FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A park on the south side of Mexico’s capital lights up with a multicolored glow of lightsabers as a man slashing a white saber through the air shouts: “Check the defense!” Onlookers watch curiously and a dog walker asks about the duel, which breaks out four
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says Ukraine’s military is allowed to use longer-range missiles provided by the U.S. to strike targets inside Russia across more than just the front lines near Kharkiv if Kyiv is acting in self-defense. Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder says Ukraine can fire back wherever
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors have rested in the case of a woman accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend by hitting him with her SUV. Karen Read is charged with second-degree murder and other crimes in the 2022 death of Officer John O’Keefe. The defense will present its case
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