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By KEIRAN SMITH Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s online safety regulator has put social media giants on notice, requiring them to explain what they are doing to to protect people from violent extremists and terrorists. The country’s eSafety regulator announced Tuesday that it had issued legal notices to Google, Meta, X, WhatsApp, Telegram and

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Negotiators from Congress and the White House are scrambling to complete work on funding government agencies for the fiscal year and avoid a partial shutdown that could begin this weekend. Lawmakers passed the first portion of spending bills in early March, funding about 30% of the government.

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un supervised a live-fire drill of nuclear-capable “super-large” multiple rocket launchers designed to target South Korea’s capital. The report Tuesday came a day after South Korea and Japan said they detected North Korea firing multiple short-range ballistic missiles, adding

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Monday charged that Jews who vote for Democrats “hate Israel” and hate “their religion,” igniting a firestorm of criticism from the White House and Jewish leaders. Trump, in an interview, had been asked about Democrats’ growing criticism of Israeli Prime Minister

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and Japan are sponsoring a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on nations not to deploy or develop nuclear weapons in space. U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a council meeting Monday that placing nuclear weapons in orbit around Earth would be “dangerous, and

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press A Michigan attorney who unsuccessfully sued to overturn former President Donald Trump’s 2020 loss has been arrested after a hearing on a separate case in Washington, D.C. Stefanie Lambert had a bench warrant in Michigan for failing to appear at a hearing after being charged with illegally

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for a White House summit next month amid growing concerns about North Korea’s nuclear program, provocative Chinese action in the South China Sea and differences over a Japanese company’s plan to

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Two men who used high-powered rifles to kill three wild burros in Southern California’s Mojave Desert more than two years ago pleaded guilty on Monday to federal charges related to the shootings, prosecutors said. The men wore tactical gear including night vision goggles as they targeted the burros in a remote

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s government has protested as interventionist comments from the U.S. Embassy on the island following demonstrations against power blackouts and food shortages by hundreds of people in eastern Cuba. Cuba’s Foreign Ministry delivered a note expressing the complaint to the chargé d’affaires at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana, Benjamin Ziff.On Sunday,

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty to murder, about two years the decomposing body of his lover was found encased in concrete in a bathtub in one of Hawaii’s most exclusive gated communities. Twenty-five-year-old Juan Baron pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder in the death of 73-year-old

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man has been found guilty of murder in a 1980s cold case involving a college student. Prosecutors say Multnomah County Circuit Judge Amy Baggio found Robert Plympton of suburban Portland guilty Friday of first-degree murder in the death of Barbara Mae Tucker. Gresham police arrested Plympton in 2021 after