By Steve Contorno, Kristen Holmes and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump will return to the campaign trail on Tuesday with events in Michigan and Wisconsin, two critical Midwest battlegrounds that he won eight years ago but that have mostly vexed Republicans ever since. The former president is scheduled to first appear in Grand
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer There were plenty of people at a movie theater in central Iowa on Monday night, though very few of them were watching an actual movie. They were there to see Caitlin Clark. And they weren’t alone. Not even close. Millions of people — 12.3 million, the most to ever
Continue ReadingBy TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jeremiah Armstead moved around so much he wasn’t even eligible to play high school basketball until his senior year. He never lost faith through all the nights his family slept in their car when they couldn’t get a hotel room or into a shelter.
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Enterprise Minister Simon Coveney, one of Ireland’s highest-profile government members, is stepping down ahead of the election of a new leader. Prime Minister Leo Varadkar announced his resignation last month and Simon Harris is due to be confirmed as Ireland’s new leader next week by lawmakers. Coveney said Tuesday that stepping aside
Continue ReadingBy ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Scammers look for ways to trick people into giving them money year-round, but tax season can be particularly fraught. One of the most common tax scams is identity theft. Taxpayers usually know their identity has been stolen when they try to file their tax returns and
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway is to increase the number of conscripted soldiers from the present 9,000 to 13,500. Norwegian Defense Minister Bjørn Arild Gram said Tuesday that “we must have enough people with the right skills at the right time.” He did not specify precisely how much oil-rich Norway will spend on upgrading a
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A court says nine suspects, among them a self-styled prince and a former far-right lawmaker, will go on trial next month in the most prominent of three cases connected to an alleged plot to topple the German government that came to light in late 2022. The Frankfurt state court said Tuesday the
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An apparent Israeli airstrike killed seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen, leading the charity to suspend delivery Tuesday of vital food aid to Gaza, where Israel’s offensive has pushed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to the brink of starvation. The
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Russian authorities say Ukrainian drones have attacked industrial facilities in the province of Tatarstan, in what would be Kyiv’s deepest strike inside Russian territory since the war began more than two years ago. Russian regional authorities said seven people were injured in the attack on facilities some 1,200 kilometers (745 miles)
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Two managers of a Saudi oil exploration company were going on trial Monday in Switzerland for alleged fraud and money laundering over a scandal years ago linked to a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund that the U.S. Justice Department once described as the “biggest kleptocracy case” ever. The
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Global stocks were mixed on Tuesday after Wall Street retreated as surprisingly strong U.S. manufacturing data cast doubts over how soon the Federal Reserve might cut interest rates. European markets opened mostly higher, but Germany’s DAX then slipped, losing 0.1% to 18,525.79. In Paris, the CAC
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A failed Australian taxi-industry disruptor has told a court that Uber began illegally operating its ridesharing service in Australia a decade ago to gain an unfair advantage over competitors. Taxi Apps is an Australian startup that developed taxi-hailing app GoCatch. Taxi Apps filed the suit in
Continue ReadingBy Eve Brennan and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — A child has died and two others have been seriously injured in a school shooting in Finland, according to the country’s national police. The victims were 12 years old. A suspect, also aged 12 and a student at the same school, fled on foot but was
Continue ReadingBy JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — A 12-year-old student opened fire at a secondary school in southern Finland and wounded three other students on Tuesday, police said. The suspect was later arrested. Heavily armed police cordoned off the lower secondary school, with some 800 students, in the city of Vantaa, just outside the
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An apparent Israeli airstrike killed six international aid workers with the World Central Kitchen and their Palestinian driver, the charity said Tuesday, in a potentially major setback to efforts to deliver aid by sea to Gaza, where Israel’s offensive against Hamas
Continue ReadingHELSINKI (AP) — A shooting at a school in southern Finland wounded three children on Tuesday and police said a suspect was detained. Police said they received an alert at 09:08 a.m. over a shooting incident at a lower secondary school with some 800 pupils in the city of Vantaa, just outside the capital, Helsinki.
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian shares were mixed on Tuesday after Wall Street retreated as surprisingly strong U.S. manufacturing data cast doubts over how soon the Federal Reserve might cut interest rates. Hong Kong gained 2.2% to 16,906.15. The Shanghai Composite index edged 0.1% lower to 3,074.96. China real estate
Continue ReadingHELSINKI (AP) — Finnish police say a number of people were wounded in a shooting at a school in Helsinki and a suspect was detained. They said the shooting took place Tuesday at Viertola school in the city of Vantaa outside Helsinki. No other details were immediately available.
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ministers and officials from dozens of countries are gathering in the Netherlands for a conference on restoring justice in Ukraine, as the war sparked by Russia’s invasion drags on in its third devastating year. Among speakers Tuesday will be the chief prosecutor of the International
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Watson and Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — Two men in New York have been charged with distributing fentanyl-laced heroin that allegedly caused the death of transgender activist Cecilia Gentili in February, prosecutors announced Monday. “Cecilia Gentili, a prominent activist and leader of the New York transgender community was tragically poisoned in her Brooklyn
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