ROME (AP) — Police have arrested a Tajik national accused of being an active member of the Islamic State group. The man, identified only as S.I. was nabbed after he landed at Rome’s international airport on a flight from the Netherlands. An international arrest warrant accused him of having gone to Syria to fight for
Continue ReadingBy PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Precautions were in place Monday at the University of Connecticut designed to prevent a repeat of the violence and vandalism that marred the celebrations of the school’s 2023 NCAA men’s basketball championship. In advance of the Final Four, the school removed the aluminum light posts
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210 customers remained without electricity Monday morning after a Southern California Edison outage in Cathedral City. Crews were performing repairs and full service restoration was expected by 3:00 p.m. on Monday.. SCE blamed equipment problems for the service outage that began Sunday at 7:46 p.m. in the area of Crossley Road near the Cathedral
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri corrections officials are working to reduce Brian Dorsey’s risk of suffering during his execution scheduled for Tuesday. The settlement filed Saturday ends a federal lawsuit that said Dorsey could face tremendous pain if required to undergo what’s known as a cutdown procedure to find a
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Stunned Palestinians found their home city unrecognizable Monday as they filtered in to salvage what they could from the vast destruction left by Israeli troops who withdrew from southern Gaza’s Khan Younis a day earlier after months of fighting and bombardment.
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — All of the New Jersey clerks who opposed a federal court ruling requiring them to redraw Democratic primary ballots have withdrawn their appeals. Following the action, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals based in Philadelphia formally dismissed the appeal Friday. U.S. District Court Judge Zahid Quraishi had ordered Democrats to scrap a
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are ticking higher Monday after a roller-coaster end to last week left them a bit shy of their records. The S&P 500 was 0.3% higher in midday trading, coming off a stretch where a 1.2% drop immediately flipped to a 1.1% gain. The
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — The Spanish government says it will scrap so-called “golden visas” that allow wealthy people from outside the European Union to obtain residency permits on investing more than half a million euros (dollars) in real estate. Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said his minority coalition government would study the reform in the weekly
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Jonathan Majors has been ordered to complete a yearlong counseling program but avoided jail time Monday for assaulting his ex-girlfriend in a high-profile case that derailed the once-promising star’s career. The 34-year-old star of “Creed III” and other films had faced up to a year
Continue ReadingTBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The governing party in the country of Georgia has submitted to parliament a draft law calling for media and non-commercial organizations to register as being under foreign influence if they receive more than 20% of their budget from abroad. The measure is nearly identical to a proposal that the Georgian Dream
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards and Maria Kostenko, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine “will lose the war” if the United States Congress does not approve military aid to help it resist Russia’s invasion, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. “It’s important to specifically address the Congress: if the Congress doesn’t help Ukraine, Ukraine will lose the war,” Zelensky said Sunday
Continue ReadingBy Inke Kappeler, CNN (CNN) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has created a TikTok account—and he promises he will not dance on it. “I don’t dance. Promise,” Scholz said on X on Monday after his social media team published his first post on TikTok. In the first post on the account, a member of Scholz’s
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Jonathan Majors was sentenced to probation and ordered to complete a year-long counseling program but avoided jail time Monday for assaulting his ex-girlfriend in a high-profile case that derailed the once-promising star’s career. The 34-year-old star of “Creed III” and other films had faced up
Continue ReadingPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s National Police says it has recovered a hijacked cargo ship laden with rice following a gunbattle with gangs that lasted more than five hours. Authorities said Sunday that two policemen were injured and an undetermined number of gang members killed in the shootout off the coast of the Port-au-Prince capital.
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The former owner of a northeastern Wisconsin dinosaur-themed gas station chain was expected to announce a run for Congress in a heavily Republican district on Monday after receiving the endorsement of Donald Trump over the weekend. Tony Wied, who owned six Dino Stop gas stations and
Continue ReadingBy JOHN SEEWER and MARC LEVY Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — President Joe Biden could miss the deadline to be included on the ballot in Ohio this fall. The office overseeing Ohio’s elections says the deadline to certify presidential candidates for the general election is in August nearly two weeks before the Democratic National
Continue ReadingNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country music singer Morgan Wallen has been arrested after police say he threw a chair off the rooftop of a newly opened six-story bar in downtown Nashville. Wallen, 30, was booked into jail early Monday on three felony counts of reckless endangerment and one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct, Metro Nashville
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At least one person has died as heavy winds, storms and heavy rainfalls batter South Africa’s coastal of province Western Cape, which includes Cape Town. The severe weather led to the closure of schools and highways mainly in the Cape Winelands, Overberg and West Coast regions where
Continue ReadingBy LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuanian leaders have hailed a “historic event” as Germany began deploying troops in the Baltic country — a NATO member — the first time since World War II that German forces will be based outside the country on a long-term basis. About two dozen soldiers arrived
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are holding steadier Monday after a roller-coaster end to last week left them a bit shy of their records. The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged in early trading, coming off a stretch where a 1.2% drop immediately flipped to a 1.1% gain. The
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