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ROME (AP) — Some journalists at Italy’s state-run RAI are on strike to protest budget streamlining and what they say is an increasingly repressive atmosphere in Italy for media. The 24-hour RAI strike Monday is the latest protest by Italian journalists against what they say are threats to freedom of the press and expression in
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE and JOVANA GEC Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping will spend most of his five-day tour in Europe this week in two small countries at the continent’s eastern half. It’s a region Beijing has used as a foothold for its expanding economic ambitions in Europe. Xi first stops
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Russia’s Defense Ministry has declared that the military will hold drills involving tactical nuclear weapons. It was the first time that such an exercise was publicly announced by Moscow. Tactical nuclear weapons for use against troops on the battlefield are less powerful than nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles that can destroy entire
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG and MATT OTT Associated Press Wall Street pointed toward gains early Monday, kicking off a quiet week for economic data but another full slate of corporate earnings reports. Futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average were both 0.4% higher before the bell. Meat processor Tyson Foods rose 2.6%
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — A busy stretch of Interstate 95 in southwestern Connecticut reopened to traffic this weekend, just a few days after a gasoline tanker fire damaged an overpass and forced the highway to close in both directions. Traffic was back up running in both directions Monday morning “at full capacity” in
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A former head of the Scottish National Party is expected to be Scotland’s next leader. John Swinney was confirmed Monday as leader of the SNP after no other candidate came forward. He’s expected to become Scotland’s first minister this week. He would be the third leader of
Continue ReadingWTAE, CNN By Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Hours before Bernard Polite allegedly tried to kill a Pennsylvania pastor in front of his congregation Sunday, the suspect shot and killed his cousin at their home, police said. Polite, 26, is now charged with criminal homicide in the death of Derek Polite, 56, and is awaiting arraignment.
Continue ReadingBy JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sure, she was a royal princess and all. But there’s no way Sleeping Beauty ever had quite the fabulous wardrobe that’s been assembled at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” is the Costume Institute exhibit that debuts at Monday’s Met Gala. It’s
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A report into a building fire that killed 76 people in South Africa last year has concluded that city authorities should be held responsible because they were aware of serious safety issues at the apartment block at least four years before the blaze. The
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Russia said Monday it plans to hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid rising tensions following comments by senior Western officials about the possibility of deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine. The announcement came on the eve of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration to a fifth term
Continue ReadingBy JIM GOMEZ and AARON FAVILA Associated Press ITBAYAT, Philippines (AP) — U.S. Marines and their Filipino counterparts have staged joint combat drills on the Philippines’ northernmost island along the strategic Bashi Channel off southern Taiwan, a flashpoint in the Washington-Beijing military rivalry. The maneuvers are part of annual military exercises that started last month,
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Prado Museum has confirmed that a painting that was due to be auctioned in Madrid in 2021 is in fact a work by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio that was considered lost. It will be unveiled to the public for the first time in
Continue ReadingBy GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Rita Moreno says it was always in her nature to be generous – to hold doors for people and help lighten a mother’s load if she was struggling with shopping bags and children. But Moreno, still the only Latina EGOT — winner of Emmy, Grammy,
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany has recalled its ambassador to Russia for a week of consultations in Berlin following an alleged hacker attack on Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party. Germany last week accused Russian military agents of hacking into the top echelons of Scholz’s Social Democrats’ party and other sensitive government and
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar, Holly Yan and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — An armed man gave no warning as he walked toward the front of Jesus’ Dwelling Place Church in Pennsylvania on Sunday, raised a gun toward the pastor’s face and pulled the trigger. What happened next may have been divine intervention, Pastor Glenn Germany said.
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive has decided to end its 6-year dispute with member state Poland. It says Prime Minister Donald Tusk has initiated the necessary changes to reverse what the bloc called the previous government’s backsliding on democratic principles. The EU’s decision to withdraw its case over rule of law complaints follows
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s photo voter identification law is going to trial. The trial starting Monday begins more than five years after the NAACP sued over the voter ID law enacted by the Republican-dominated General Assembly. The litigation and similar state lawsuits delayed
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — A 10-month-girl police said was abducted Friday from a New Mexico park where her mother and another woman were discovered dead has been found and a suspect is in custody, the FBI announced Monday morning. The bureau did not provide further details on Eleia Maria Torres’ condition and the
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS BEAUMONT and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans are returning to a strategy they hope could neutralize their Democratic rivals’ financial edge: Find rich people to run. But wealthy candidates running in Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin present a fresh set of challenges. One is hoping to recoup his own
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press World shares were mostly higher on Monday after Wall Street ended last week with the market’s best day in more than two months in a rally backed by cooler-than-expected U.S. employment data. European markets started the day with gains. Germany’s DAX edged 0.1% higher to 18,021.85 and the CAC 40
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