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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona would step directly into immigration enforcement by making it a state crime to cross the Arizona-Mexico border anywhere except a port of entry, under a proposal that’s up for a final vote by lawmakers on Tuesday. If approved, voters would decide in November if the measure becomes law. The measure, scheduled

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Amanda Knox will be back in an Italian courtroom this week to defend herself against a 16-year-old slander conviction that she hopes to beat once and for all. The opportunity for Knox, who turns 37 next month, was made possible when a European court ruled that Italy

BEIJING, China (AP) — Checkpoints and rows of police vehicles lined a major road leading to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square as China heightened security on the 35th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests. China has long quashed any memory of the killings, when the Chinese government ordered in the army to end the months-long

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s newly elected president, the first woman to win the job, faces a long list of challenges, including persistent cartel violence, a deeply divided country, cash-straitened social programs and the long shadow of her mentor, outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. But for some analysts it

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States urged the U.N. Security Council on Monday to support the three-phase plan announced by President Joe Biden aimed at ending the nearly eight-month war in Gaza, freeing all hostages and sending massive aid into the devastated territory. U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tuesday’s Democratic primary in heavily Democratic Washington D.C. will largely focus on crime, policing and law enforcement — hot-button issues in a city where violent crime spiked dramatically last year. Although the numbers for homicides and carjackings are down so far in 2024, the political dynamics and

By SCOTT SONNER and ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Parts of California, Nevada and Arizona are expected to bake this week as the first heat wave of the season arrives with triple-digit temperatures forecast for areas including Phoenix, which last summer saw a record 31 straight days of at least 110 degrees Fahrenheit

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — When Michael Bommer found out that he was terminally ill with colon cancer, he spent a lot of time with his wife, Anett, talking about what would happen after his death. She told him one of the things she’d miss most is being able

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s name will appear on the ballot for the first time since his historic conviction on felony crimes as a handful of states hold the last Republican presidential primary contests of 2024. The ex-president will be on the ballot in Tuesday’s Republican contests in

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says his country will expand development aid to Africa and pursue deeper cooperation with the region on critical minerals and technology. Yoon made the remarks as he hosted a meeting Tuesday with dozens of African leaders in Seoul. In

By DAN MERICA and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says it’s concerned that releasing audio of President Joe Biden’s interview with a special counsel about his handling of classified documents could lead to deepfakes that trick Americans. It’s the latest argument by the administration to fight the release of

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A trial is set to begin for a man charged with using flaming torches to intimidate counterprotesters during a gathering of white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia, seven years ago. The trial is expected to begin Tuesday for 29-year-old Jacob Joseph Dix, of Clarksville, Ohio. It’s the first test of a 2002

By CLAUDIA LAUER, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, COLLEEN LONG and RANDALL CHASE Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Lawyers will make their opening statements Tuesday in the federal gun case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter after a jury was seated for the trial while the first lady watched from the courtroom and the president sent a

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BEERSEL, Belgium (AP) — The far-right Flemish Interest party had set up the demonstration in the picture-pretty rolling fields south of Brussels, ahead of the four-day European Union election starting Thursday. The goal was clear: Decrying how farmers would lose fertile land to what they see as overbearing environmentalists trying