MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok has begun the trial of an American soldier arrested earlier this year on charges of stealing. U.S. officials and Russian authorities say Staff Sgt. Gordon Black flew to Vladivostok to see his girlfriend and was arrested after she accused him of stealing from
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Donald Trump returns to the campaign trail Thursday with a trip to Arizona, his first appearance in a battleground state since he was convicted in a hush money scandal. Trump is scheduled to speak at a town hall in Phoenix organized by Turning Point, a conservative
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A top ally and potential running mate of former President Donald Trump is launching a new effort to win over Black and other nonwhite working class voters he argues could be the deciding factor in November’s elections. South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press VER-SUR-MER, France (AP) — King Charles III is in northern France to honor the 22,442 British troops who died in the Battle of Normandy. He also came on Thursday for the 80th anniversary of D-Day to honor a generation that sacrificed and fought and died. They waited through five long
Continue ReadingBy Mark Morales, Brynn Gingras, Christina Maxouris, Lauren Mascarenhas, Carolyn Sung, Samantha Beech and Celina Tebor, CNN Riverhead, New York (CNN) — Gilgo Beach serial killings suspect Rex Heuermann now faces charges in the deaths of six women spanning three decades and multiple Long Island communities after he was indicted on two new murder charges Thursday —
Continue ReadingBy David G. Allan, CNN (CNN) — The NBA Finals are about to start, or so I’m told. It’s usually these professional sport high holidays where I’m cornered into admitting I’m sports agnostic. One summer afternoon in a Brooklyn park, while cheering on my daughter at a peewee softball game, another dad approached me because
Continue ReadingBy KEN MAGUIRE AP Sports Writer LONDON (AP) — Baseball at the highest club level in Britain is competitive but it’s a league in which babysitters are just as important as balls and strikes. Teams are a mélange of locals and expats some with college and minor league experience. Only one guy throws 90 mph.
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Opening arguments were expected to begin Thursday in federal court in a class-action lawsuit filed by “Sunday Ticket” subscribers claiming the NFL broke antitrust laws. The lawsuit was filed in 2015 and has withstood numerous challenges, including a dismissal that was overturned. The suit says
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Opening arguments were expected to begin Thursday in federal court in a class-action lawsuit filed by “Sunday Ticket” subscribers claiming the NFL broke antitrust laws. The lawsuit was filed in 2015 and has withstood numerous challenges, including a dismissal that was overturned. The suit says
Continue ReadingBy ANNE M. PETERSON AP Soccer Writer One of the most striking signs of the global rise of women’s soccer is the growing international transfer market and the fees club teams are shelling out for players. Case in point was the record transfer fee of $788,000 paid by National Women’s Soccer League expansion team Bay
Continue ReadingBy Kit Maher and Eva McKend, CNN (CNN) — South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, a contender to be former President Donald Trump’s running mate, is launching a multimillion dollar effort to recruit Black voters to support Republicans in 2024. The effort will target swing and low propensity Black and Latino voters. Scott will tour battleground
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is meeting with senior officials of the African National Congress to decide how to go about forming a government after the party lost its 30-year grip on power and left a post-election deadlock. The party’s National Executive Committee was
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike early Thursday on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in central Gaza killed at least 33 people, including 12 women and children, according to local health officials. The Israeli military said that Hamas militants were operating from within the
Continue ReadingBy MJ Lee, CNN (CNN) — The United States and 16 other countries whose citizens were taken hostage by Hamas on October 7 are set to release a joint statement Thursday calling on Israel and Hamas to come to an agreement on the most recent ceasefire and hostages proposal, according to a US official –
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vows that the country will start deporting criminals from Afghanistan and Syria again after a knife attack by an Afghan immigrant last week left one police officer dead and four more people injured. The brutal attack in Mannheim, which was captured on video
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Officials say Ukrainian drones have struck an oil refinery and a fuel depot in Russian border regions. The attacks are part of Kyiv’s ongoing effort to disrupt the Kremlin’s war machine. They occurred as Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sought further Western support in Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II. Zelenskyy
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — During his decades in the public eye, Donald Trump has stood before crowds as a builder of skyscrapers and casinos, a best-selling author, a reality television host, a husband and father, a New Yorker and Floridian, and a current and former president of the United States. On Thursday, he
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain became on Thursday the first European country to ask a United Nations court for permission to join South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza. South Africa filed its case with the International Court of Justice late last year. It alleged that Israel was
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Global markets rose Thursday after Wall Street barreled to records Wednesday as the frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology keeps sending stocks higher. European markets opened higher as investors awaited a decision by the European Central Bank. It is expected to cut its key interest rate from a
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike early Thursday on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in central Gaza killed more than 30 people, including 23 women and children, according to local health officials. The Israeli military said that Hamas militants were operating from within the
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