By PHILIP MARCELO and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press Students protesting the ongoing war in Gaza left a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Southern California early Sunday after they were surrounded by police and told they could face arrest if they didn’t go. The move, days before commencement was set to begin, came after the
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says a major crossing point used to deliver humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip has come under fire, forcing it to close. The Israeli military reported 10 launches at the Kerem Shalom crossing on Sunday. It gave no details on the source of the fire, but said it had come from
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial is full of terms you don’t typically hear in a courtroom. Centering on allegations Trump falsified his company’s records to conceal the nature of hush money reimbursements, it’s the first ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president and
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A teenager has surrendered to police over an attack on a candidate from the party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz that has fueled concern about intimidation and violence in the run-up to next month’s election for the European Parliament. The 17-year-old turned himself in at a police station in the eastern city of
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Virtually every day of his hush money criminal trial, former President Donald Trump talks about how he can’t talk about the case. A gag order bars Trump from commenting publicly on witnesses, jurors and some others connected to the matter. The New
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his government has voted unanimously to shutter the offices of the Qatar-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera in Israel. Netanyahu announced the decision on X on Sunday. Details on when it would go into effect or whether it
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A church volunteer stood at an apartment door, beckoning inside a Congolese family for their first look at where they would live in America. “Your new house!” volunteer Dan Davidson exclaimed as the couple and the woman’s brother stepped into the two-bedroom apartment in South Carolina’s
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press Police have surrounded a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Southern California, days before commencement events are set to begin on the Los Angeles campus. The university said early Sunday that the Los Angeles Police Department was clearing the area and that people who don’t leave will
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — A driver died after a vehicle crashed into an outer perimeter gate of the White House complex, and the incident late Saturday was being investigated as a traffic crash, police said. President Joe Biden was spending the weekend in Delaware, and the Secret Service said there was no threat to the White
Continue ReadingLONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A shooting in the Los Angeles area has left seven people injured, including four who were listed in critical condition. Long Beach Police Department officers responded to a reported shooting around 11:15 p.m. Saturday in the area of South Street and Paramount Boulevard, the department said in a statement posted
Continue ReadingLONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A shooting in the Los Angeles area has left seven people injured, including four who were listed in critical condition. Long Beach Police Department officers responded to a reported shooting around 11:15 p.m. Saturday in the area of South Street and Paramount Boulevard, the department said in a statement posted
Continue ReadingBy Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — On a Sunday morning in 2020, while Rev. Andi Woodworth welcomed her congregation to the Neighborhood Church in Atlanta, Georgia, she had an epiphany. For years, Woodworth said she and her wife and co-pastor, Anjie, worked to build a United Methodist Church community that was “radically inclusive” of everyone
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his government has voted unanimously to shutter the offices of the Qatar-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera in Israel. Netanyahu announced the decision on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday. Details on when it would go into effect or
Continue ReadingTEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his government has voted unanimously to shutter the offices of the Qatar-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera in Israel. Netanyahu announced the decision on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday. Details on when it would go into effect or whether it was permanent or temporary were not
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle, Way Mullery, Annette Choi and Gillian Roberts, CNN (CNN) — In the first criminal trial of a former president of the United States, jurors found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Judge Juan Merchan has set a sentencing hearing for July
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju and Melanie Zanona, CNN Washington (CNN) — GOP Rep. Don Bacon has had it with the far-right of his conference. They’ve thrown out one House speaker and are trying to dump another one, all while scuttling their leadership’s agenda and now actively campaigning against incumbent Republicans — including himself. After House Freedom
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Worshippers including President Vladimir Putin have packed Moscow’s landmark Christ the Savior Cathedral for a nighttime Easter service. The traditional sung service began late on Saturday with an address from Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church and an outspoken Kremlin supporter. It was set to last well into the
Continue ReadingBy Angus Watson and Chloe Liu, CNN (CNN) — Australian police shot dead a teenage boy after he stabbed an injured a man in an attack that had the “hallmarks” of terror, authorities said. The teenager, described as a 16-year-old Caucasian male, was armed with a knife when he carried out the attack in a
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Ukraine marked its third Easter at war, Russia launched a barrage of drones concentrated in Ukraine’s east and claimed its troops took control of a village they had been targeting. Ukraine’s air force said Sunday that Russia had launched 24 Shahed drones, of which 23 had been shot down by
Continue ReadingBy Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — As universities and colleges turn to police to clear their campuses of protests over Israel’s assault on Gaza that continue to ripple across the nation, the response by law enforcement is under heightened scrutiny after thousands were arrested since mid-April. Footage captured from the physical – and in some
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