By The Associated Press Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel on Monday, drawing retaliatory strikes. The Israeli military said 35 projectiles were launched at one of its bases, striking the sources of the rocket fire, without causing any casualties. Hezbollah said its attack was in response to recent Israeli strikes on towns and
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy the U.S. will send badly needed air defense weaponry once the Senate approves a massive national security aid package that includes $60 billion for Ukraine. Zelensky said in a posting on X on Monday that Biden also assured
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments this week with profound legal and political consequences: whether former President Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a federal case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. In addition
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — An appeals court in Texas ruled in favor of Sidney Powell last week, upholding a state court judge’s ruling that tossed out an attorney discipline petition against the lawyer for her involvement in former President Donald Trump’s election reversal efforts. Powell stands out as a Trump-aligned attorney who has
Continue ReadingBY MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A lawyer for a military contractor being sued by three survivors of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq says the plaintiffs are suing the wrong people. Lawyers for Virginia-based CACI told jurors Monday that the Army is responsible for any abuse. The lawsuit by the
Continue ReadingBy EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer In the two years before the World Anti-Doping Agency cleared 23 Chinese swimmers of doping allegations, that country’s government contributed nearly $2 million in additional funding to WADA programs, including one designed to strengthen the agency’s investigations and intelligence unit. The Associated Press obtained confidential minutes from meetings of
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court wrestled Monday for more than two and a half hours with the question of whether ticketing homeless people is a “cruel and unusual” punishment that violates the Eighth Amendment. Several of the justices appeared concerned about the prospect of criminalizing homelessness but they also worried about
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY and DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Columbia University canceled in-person classes on Monday and new demonstrations broke out on other U.S. college campuses as tensions continue to grow over Israel’s war in Gaza. Protesters rallied throughout the weekend at the Ivy League school’s New York City campus, where police last week arrested more
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged that deportation flights to Rwanda would begin this summer as he called on the unelected House of Lords to stop blocking his key policy for ending the tide of small boats carrying migrants across the English Channel. Legislation clearing the way
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST and CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court wrestled with major questions about the growing issue of homelessness on Monday as it considered whether cities can punish people for sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking. It’s the most significant case before the high court in decades on the
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST and CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court wrestled with major questions about the growing issue of homelessness on Monday as it considered whether cities can punish people for sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking. It’s the most significant case before the high court in decades on the
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York state lawyers and an attorney for former President Donald Trump have settled their differences over a $175 million bond that Trump posted to block the collection of a large civil fraud judgment while he pursues appeals. The agreement reached Monday cut short a potential
Continue ReadingBy Ivonne Valdes and Fidel Gutierrez, CNN (CNN) — Mexican authorities have detained the brother of the drug kingpin known as “el Mencho,” a federal source with knowledge of the case told CNN Monday. Abraham Oseguera – alias “Don Rondo” – was detained in the western state of Michoacán and is currently in the custody
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A $12 billion high-speed passenger rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area has started construction, officials said Monday, amid predictions that millions of ticket-buyers will be boarding trains by 2028. “People have been dreaming of high-speed rail in America for decades,” U.S. Transportation
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A $12 billion high-speed passenger rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area has started construction, officials said Monday, amid predictions that millions of ticket-buyers will be boarding trains by 2028. “People have been dreaming of high-speed rail in America for decades,” U.S. Transportation
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — In opening statements in Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial, prosecutors said Monday that the former president “orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt” the 2016 presidential election. Defense attorneys countered, calling Trump “innocent” and saying the Manhattan district attorney’s office “should never have brought this case.” The commencement of the proceedings
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — An independent review of the neutrality of the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received annually since 2011. The review was carried out after Israel alleged that a dozen employees of the
Continue ReadingBERLIN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Investigators in Michigan need more time to collect information before charges are filed in the deaths of two young siblings who were killed by a suspected drunken driver at a birthday party. The Monroe County prosecutor says he anticipates charges Tuesday. A 66-year-old woman drove into the Swan Creek Boat
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A driver who plowed through the wall of a Liverpool classroom shortly before the start of school has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs. Merseyside police say a 39-year-old woman crashed into the Beacon Church of England Primary School on Monday. A passenger in the car had
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A crackdown on how some of the nation’s largest utilities spend customers’ money faces a do-or-die vote Monday in the California Legislature. Californians already pay some of the highest electricity rates in the country, in part because of the expensive work required to maintain and upgrade
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