By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The United Nations has urged South Sudan to remove newly imposed taxes and charges that led to the suspension of U.N. food airdrops for thousands of people who depend on outside aid. The U.N Humanitarian Affairs Agency said Monday that the pausing of airdrops in
Continue ReadingBy ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Morbidity and Mortality Report last week that documented the first instances of HIV transmissions contracted through unsterile injections used while receiving “vampire facials,” cosmetic procedures involving microneedling. Three women were diagnosed with HIV after getting the services at an unlicensed
Continue ReadingBy OLEG CETINIC Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French police detained actor Gérard Depardieu for several hours Monday for what media reports said was questioning over accusations by two women that he sexually assaulted them on movie sets. Broadcaster BFMTV and the daily Le Parisien reported that the 75-year-old actor was summoned Monday morning by
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A U.S. Navy ship and several Army vessels involved in an American-led effort to bring more aid into the besieged Gaza Strip are offshore of the enclave and building out a floating platform for the operation that the Pentagon has said will cost at least $320 million.
Continue ReadingWEBSTER, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York district attorney has apologized after police video showed her cursing at an officer who tried to give her a speeding ticket. Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley said she was sorry for the April 22 incident in which he refused to cooperate with Police Officer Cameron Crisafulli’s
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up at many college campuses after being inspired by demonstrators at Columbia University. The students are calling for universities to separate themselves from companies advancing Israel’s military efforts in Gaza and in some cases from Israel itself. Police have arrested hundreds nationwide since
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up at many college campuses after being inspired by demonstrators at Columbia University. The students are calling for universities to separate themselves from companies advancing Israel’s military efforts in Gaza and in some cases from Israel itself. Police have arrested hundreds nationwide since
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The City of Palm Springs is moving forward with three newly approved traffic calming projects. At the city’s last city council meeting, councilmembers approved the following traffic improvement projects: Two Speed Feedback Signs at E. Amado Rd. All-Way Stop at E. Sunny Dunes Rd. & S. Calle Palo Fierro All-Way Stop and Crosswalks at Farrell
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Ms. Grace Huscher has been selected as April’s One Class at a Time award winner. Huscher teaches choir at Shadow Hills High School in Indio and was nominated by freshman Taryn Ortega. Despite this beig her first year teaching at the school, Ms. Huscher has helped her students excel and receive a superior rating at
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators are moving to enact a ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care for minors and bar state employees from advocating social transitioning for transgender youth. The GOP-supermajority Kansas House is expected to vote Monday on overriding Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto only hours after the
Continue ReadingOregon authorities are set to reveal the winner of the $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot. The Oregon Lottery says it will identify the person Monday afternoon. The winning Powerball ticket was sold at a Plaid Pantry convenience store in Portland in early April. The winner had contacted the Oregon Lottery to claim the prize. But the
Continue ReadingBy YURAS KARMANAU TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The Belarusian service of German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle has been declared an “extremist” organization by Belarusian authorities and its activities are being banned in the country. It means anyone working with Deutsche Welle potentially faces a seven-year prison sentence. Peter Limbourg, Deutsche Welle’s director general, criticized the
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that Israel must still do more to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into the besieged Gaza Strip and that he would use his Middle East trip — his seventh to the region since the Israel-Hamas
Continue ReadingBy ERICK KAGLAN Associated Press LOME, Togo (AP) — People in Togo have voted in parliamentary elections that tested support for a proposed new constitution that would scrap presidential elections and give lawmakers the power to choose the president. The opposition and religious leaders say the legislation is an effort by President Faure Gnassingbe to
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department has determined that five Israeli security units committed gross violations of human rights prior to the outbreak of the war with Hamas in Gaza, but is still deciding whether to restrict military assistance to one of the units under US law. The other four “have
Continue ReadingBy DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Students protested what they saw as injustice and demanded change. Administrators were under pressure to get things back to normal. Police came onto the Columbia University campus and made arrests. This wasn’t this month — it was April 1968. The week-long protest that included building takeovers
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY and LEE KEATH Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United States stepped up pressure Monday for a cease-fire deal in Gaza as the secretary of state said a new proposal had been put to Hamas, whose officials were in Cairo talking to Egyptian mediators. Israeli airstrikes killed 26 people in Gaza’s southernmost
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and OLEG CETINIC Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French police have removed dozens of students from the Sorbonne university after pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the main courtyard of the elite institution in Paris. About 50 protesters set up tents at midday Monday at the elite university’s courtyard in support of the Palestinians echoing
Continue ReadingBy LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia and North Carolina’s refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory, a federal appeals court ruled Monday in a case likely headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 8-6 in
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Billie Eilish is hitting the road. The pop performer will embark on a worldwide arena tour this fall. It kicks off in Quebec City in Canada on Sept. 29 and concluding in Dublin on July 27, 2025. She’ll hit many major cities in North America
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