By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA and DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police arrested on Sunday the men suspected of ordering the killing of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco in 2018, a long-awaited step after years of society clamoring for justice. The brutal assassination of the 38-year-old Black, bisexual Rio
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — The eldest son of one of America’s most infamous seditionists is building a new life since breaking free from his father’s control — juggling work, college classes and volunteer firefighting. And Dakota Adams has tossed one more ball in the air this year: a Democratic
Continue ReadingBy Ted Barrett and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Donald Trump-backed Senate Republican candidate Bernie Moreno, who won a tough primary race last week in Ohio, refused to say if he believes the 2020 presidential election was stolen from the former president. “Oh my gosh, are we talking about that? We’ve had like three elections since then,” he
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — House Democrats may save Mike Johnson’s speakership – but he first must outline a pathway to approving aid to Ukraine, multiple Democratic sources told CNN. If Johnson were to announce he would take up the Senate’s $95 billion aid package, Democrats would vote in droves to keep him in the
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — The eldest son of one of America’s most infamous seditionists is building a new life since breaking from his father’s control. Dakota Adams is juggling work, college classes, volunteer firefighting and now a campaign for Montana’s Legislature. Adams knows it won’t be easy running as
Continue ReadingBy ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Kevin Hart, who rose from the open mics and comedy clubs of his native Philadelphia to become one of the country’s most recognizable performers, will receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at a gala performance Sunday at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Hart,
Continue ReadingBy AMIR VAHDAT Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s currency fell to a record low on Sunday, plunging to 613,500 to the dollar, as its people celebrated the Persian New Year. On Sunday, people were trying to exchange rials for foreign currency at Tehran’s main hub of exchange shops in Ferdowsi Street, but most
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians who fled during an ongoing Israeli raid in and around the Gaza Strip’s main hospital described days of heavy fighting, mass arrests, forced marches past dead bodies and flattened buildings in interviews Sunday. The Israeli military says it has killed over
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 137 of nearly 300 Nigerian children abducted more than two weeks ago from their school in the northwestern state of Kaduna were released on Sunday, the West African nation’s military said. An earlier statement from the government suggested that all the students were freed.
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Kate, the Princess of Wales, and her husband, Prince William, are said to be “extremely moved” by the public’s warmth and support following her shocking cancer announcement as tributes continued to pour in Sunday from around the world. After weeks of frenzied speculation on social media about
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Justice was served this past week, a dozen years too late, when CJ Rice was legally exonerated by the Philadelphia district attorney’s office. The district attorney’s office dropped all charges against Rice for a 2011 shooting that sent him to prison for a crime he insists he did not — and was
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Family and friends of those still missing after an attack that killed over 130 people at a suburban Moscow concert hall waited for news of their loved ones as Russia observed a day of national mourning on Sunday. Events at cultural institutions were cancelled, flags were lowered, and TV entertainment and ads
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju, CNN Sen. Lisa Murkowski, aghast at Donald Trump’s candidacy and the direction of her party, won’t rule out bolting from the GOP. The veteran Alaska Republican, one of seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial amid the aftermath of January 6, 2021, is done with the former president and
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has decided at the last minute to skip his homily during Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square. He is avoiding a strenuous speech at the start of a busy Holy Week that will test his increasingly frail health. He has been hobbled by respiratory
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nearly 300 Nigerian schoolchildren were released more than two weeks after they were seized in the northwestern state of Kaduna and marched into the forests, officials said Sunday. At least 1,400 students have been kidnapped from Nigerian schools since 2014, when Boko Haram militants kidnapped hundreds
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Family and friends of those still missing after an attack that killed over 130 people at a suburban Moscow concert hall waited for news of their loved ones as Russia observed a day of national mourning on Sunday. Events at cultural institutions were cancelled, flags were lowered, and TV entertainment and ads
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Police in Indianapolis say one person was killed and five others including a police officer were wounded in an early morning shooting. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Chief Christopher Bailey says two officers were working off-duty at a bar on East Washington Street when a disturbance erupted in the parking lot around 1:30
Continue ReadingBy Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — The Prince and Princess of Wales expressed their gratitude for the outpouring of support they have received from the public after Catherine, Princess of Wales, announced she has cancer. “The Prince and Princess are both enormously touched by the kind messages from people here in
Continue ReadingBy AIJAZ HUSSAIN Assocaited Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Thousands of people in the remote region of Ladakh have been protesting for over two weeks in freezing temperatures, demanding constitutional provisions from the Indian government to protect their territory’s fragile ecology and to have autonomy over land and agriculture decisions. Top climate activist Sonam Wangchuk
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Family and friends of those still missing after an attack that killed more than 130 people at a suburban Moscow concert hall waited for news of their loved ones as Russia observed a day of national mourning on Sunday. Events at cultural institutions were canceled, flags were lowered to half-staff and television
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