By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has been criticized for a flag flown at his New Jersey vacation house that has ties to both the American Revolution and far-right ideologies. The “Appeal to Heaven” flag, as it is commonly called, also stands outside of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office in the Capitol
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has visited the site of a major landslide that is estimated to have buried hundreds of villagers in the South Pacific island nation’s mountainous interior a week ago. James Marape told hundreds who gathered near the devastated Yambali village on Friday
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa is heading closer to the reality of a national coalition government for the first time as partial election results put the ruling African Nation Congress well short of a majority. With more than half of votes counted across the country’s nine provinces
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — A court in Russia on Friday ordered a detained Russian American journalist to be held until at least Aug. 5, pending investigation and trial, a further step in the Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent and free speech. Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Tatar-Bashkir service, was taken
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A day after a New York jury delivered a historic guilty verdict in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee will likely look to cast the conviction and his campaign in a new light. The former president is expected to hold a news conference at Trump Tower
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The four members of the Swedish pop quartet ABBA, who triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the peppy love song “Waterloo,” are set to receive one of the most prestigious knighthoods in Sweden at a ceremony Friday. The Order of the Vasa will be handed out for the first
Continue ReadingBy DAVID RISING Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has met with his Chinese counterpart for more than an hour as the two countries seek to repair lines of communications between their militaries that could be critical as tensions continue to rise between them in the Indo-Pacific region. The meeting Friday
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has visited the site of a massive landslide that is estimated to have buried hundreds of villagers in the South Pacific island nation’s mountainous interior a week ago. James Marape told hundreds who gathered near the devastated Yambali village on Friday
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — Thai police say they have broken up a large network that illegally helped foreigners, mostly Russians, to stay in Thailand long-term through the use of company nominees or shell companies. Police said Friday that a Russian woman who came to Thailand in 2012 operated the scheme with a Thai woman who was
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — A manhunt is on for a suspect who took a woman hostage and fled after opening fire on officers trying to serve an arrest warrant Thursday night in Omaha, Nebraska, authorities said. Davenport is believed to be armed and may be injured, and anyone who sees him should call
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is pushing back against some NATO proposals that would allow Ukraine to use Western weapons to strike targets within Russia. Orbán said in a radio interview on Friday that such proposals have Europe “inching closer to destruction.” The nationalist leader has
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The French interior minister says French authorities in New Caledonia have regained full control of their Pacific territory’s capital after two weeks of unrest that left seven people dead. Gerald Darmanin said Friday in a post on X that “a major police operation has taken place successfully” in the last area
Continue ReadingBy ILLIA NOVIKOV, MATTHEW LEE and KAREL JANICEK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Germany has joined the United States in authorizing Ukraine to hit some targets on Russian soil with the long-range weapons they are supplying. Friday’s move is a significant policy change that comes as depleted Ukrainian troops are losing ground in the
Continue ReadingBy DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation ticked up to an annual 2.6% in Europe in May. The new figure released on Friday is more than expected as a painful spike in consumer prices takes its time to fade away. Yet that’s unlikely to stop the European Central Bank from making
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer World shares were mixed on Friday after an official survey showed Chinese factory activity weakening in May on slowing export orders. U.S. futures were little changed and oil prices slipped ahead of an OPEC meeting this weekend. Technology-related shares saw some of the biggest declines after Nvidia, recently a
Continue ReadingBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, has been released from a hospital where he was treated after an assassination attempt. Miriam Lapunikova, the director of the hospital, said on Friday that Fico was transported to his home, where he continues to recover from the attack. Lapunikova thanked Fico in a statement
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Former President Donald Trump has been found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records, which are all connected to the alleged cover up of hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. News Channel 3 is tracking local reaction to the verdict. Congressman Dr. Raul Ruiz, (D) 25th District: A representative from Ruiz’s office
Continue ReadingBy Edward-Isaac Dovere and Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — Well before the Manhattan jury finished deliberating on Thursday, most of President Joe Biden’s advisers concluded that a guilty verdict wouldn’t drastically alter their 2024 election strategy. But it has stoked some hopes among supporters of the president that if 12 people who focused on
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — What did you do in the war, Granny? For British women who came of age during World War II, the answer to that question is often: quite a lot. The history of D-Day is often told through the stories of the men who fought and died when
Continue ReadingBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, has been released from hospital where he was treated after an assassination attempt. Miriam Lapunikova, the director of the clinic in central city of Banska Bystrica said on Friday that Fico was transported to his home, where he continues to recover from the attack. Lapunikova
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