LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada’s largest labor union concluded a 48-hour strike Sunday meant to pressure Virgin Hotels Las Vegas to agree to a five-year contract on wages and benefits. More than 700 workers with Culinary Union Local 226 walked off the job at the 1,500-room hotel-casino near the Las Vegas Strip on Friday morning
Continue ReadingCNN By Greg Hughes, Dana Bash and Courtney Pence, CNN (CNN) — Standing in front of a ruined warehouse in tornado-ravaged Marietta, Oklahoma, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell was full of questions. “Have you gotten any sleep yet?” she asked the mayor. To the sheriff: “Your home is okay? Your family?” “Do you have any questions
Continue ReadingBy Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Less than 24 hours after Arizona’s near-total abortion ban was repealed, Kari Lake challenged Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego, her likely opponent for the state’s US Senate seat, to a debate on the issue – ideally over Mother’s Day weekend. “We owe it to the people of this state not
Continue ReadingAssociated Press EUCLID, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say an Ohio police officer was shot and killed while answering a disturbance call over the weekend. Police in the Cleveland suburb of Euclid said officers were dispatched just before 10 p.m. Saturday to a home and the officer was shot and later died at a hospital. Ohio’s
Continue ReadingBARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish rail authorities say commuter rail service serving Barcelona and northeastern Spain has suffered major disruption because of the theft of copper cables from a train installation. Thousands of commuters were stranded at train stations in and around Barcelona on Sunday after trains couldn’t run on several commuter lines. The disruption
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A massive fire broke out in a vast shopping complex in the Polish capital that housed some 1,400 shops and service outlets. Many of the vendors were from Vietnam. Huge plumes of black smoke could be seen rising over the vast area on Sunday morning. The
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press VILCHA, Ukraine (AP) — Thousands more civilians have fled Russia’s renewed ground offensive in Ukraine’s northeast that has targeted towns and villages with a barrage of artillery and mortar shelling, officials said Sunday. The intense battles have forced at least one Ukrainian unit to withdraw in the
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s campaign will deploy Hollywood star power at a fundraiser in Los Angeles next month – with Barack Obama adding some additional Democratic wattage. The event – set to feature the former president, George Clooney and Julia Roberts, among others – will seek to expand Biden’s cash advantage
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — “Please don’t shoot,” Notan Eva Costa, a 48-year-old Bangladeshi immigrant living in Queens, begged the two New York City police officers who entered her home after her teenage son called 911. Lying on the floor, the mother of two stretched her hand out to the officers, terror and distress
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press An apartment block partially collapsed in the Russian border city of Belgorod on Sunday, leaving at least eight people dead and 20 others injured. Officials blamed Ukrainian shelling for the building’s destruction. Online footage showed rescuers searching for survivors among the remnants of the building’s stairwell, then fleeing the scene as
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK Associated Press REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday delivered some of the Biden administration’s strongest public criticism yet of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, saying Israeli tactics have meant “a horrible loss of life of innocent civilians” but failed to neutralize Hamas leaders and
Continue ReadingBy MASSINISSA BENLAKEHAL Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Hooded police raided Tunisia’s bar association headquarters and arrested a lawyer as authorities escalated a broad government crackdown that’s ensnared political dissidents, non-governmental organizations and Black migrants. Sonia Dahmani, known as a prominent critic of the government, was arrested after making sarcastic remarks about Tunisia on
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Nobody has anything nice to say about Michael Cohen. Donald Trump’s former fixer and lawyer is expected to take the stand Monday as the key witness in the Manhattan district attorney’s case against the former president, prepared to give testimony connecting to Trump the $130,000
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Brenden Rice already had plenty to prove as the son of Pro Football Hall of Famer Jerry Rice. Not being selected until the 225th pick in the NFL draft two weeks ago added more fuel to the fire. Many thought Rice would be a
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU and DAN IKPOYI Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s fashion and traditional dances were at full display on Sunday as Prince Harry and Meghan arrived in its largest city, Lagos, as part of their three-day visit to the country to promote mental health for soldiers and empower young people. The couple,
Continue ReadingBy LEAH WILLINGHAM and JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — When West Virginia Republicans vote in Tuesday’s primary, they will have a hard time finding a major candidate on the ballot in any statewide race who openly acknowledges that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Embracing or skirting the line on election
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press VILCHA, Ukraine (AP) — Thousands more civilians have fled Russia’s renewed ground offensive in Ukraine’s northeast that has targeted towns and villages with a barrage of artillery and mortar fire, officials said Sunday. The intense battles have forced at least one Ukrainian unit to withdraw in the
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Halting arms exports to Israel is “not a wise path” and would only strengthen Hamas, Britain’s foreign secretary said Sunday. Asked whether the U.K. would follow the U.S. in threatening to cut the supply of offensive weapons to Israel if it carried out an attack on the southern Gaza city of Rafah,
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press An apartment block partially collapsed in the Russian border city of Belgorod on Sunday, leaving at least six dead and 20 injured. Officials blamed Ukrainian shelling for the building’s destruction. Online footage showed rescuers searching for survivors among the remnants of the building’s stairwell, then fleeing the scene as part of
Continue ReadingBy Kaila Nichols, CNN (CNN) — At first, it was the rare binding that caught the eye of Danielle Linn, a senior book specialist with Fleischer’s Auctions. While cataloging items once owned by the Union Army General, William Tecumseh Sherman, she came across a copy of a memoir written by Ulysses S. Grant. The book had
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