By TIA GOLDENBERG, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden signaled that a cease-fire in Gaza could be at hand, saying that Israel has agreed to pause its offensive during the upcoming Muslim holy month of Ramadan if a deal is reached to release some hostages held by
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — While Joe Biden and Donald Trump are marching steadily toward their respective presidential nominations, Michigan’s primary on Tuesday could reveal significant political perils for both of them. Trump, despite his undoubted dominance of the Republican contests this year, is facing a bloc
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO and JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Mack Allen, an 18-year-old high school senior from Kansas, braces for sideways glances, questioning looks and snide comments whenever he has to hand over his driver’s license, which still identifies him as female. They’ve come from a police officer responding to a car
Continue ReadingHARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) — A man who had been scheduled for trial in the shooting deaths of two popular police officers at a Virginia college in 2022 has instead pleaded guilty and been sentenced to life in prison. News outlets report that Alexander Campbell pleaded guilty Monday to first-degree murder in the deaths of Bridgewater
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s New York hush-money criminal case have asked a judge to impose a gag order on the former president. They are citing what they call Trump’s “long history of making public and inflammatory remarks” about people involved in his legal cases. The
Continue ReadingBy ELISE MORTON Associated Press A veteran human rights campaigner who criticized the war in Ukraine was convicted Tuesday by a Moscow court of discrediting the Russian military and sentenced to 2½ years in prison. Oleg Orlov, the 70-year-old co-chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights group Memorial, said the case against him was
Continue ReadingBy Colin McCullough, CNN (CNN) — The US Coast Guard seized nearly 11,000 pounds of cocaine, worth over $143 million, in the eastern Pacific Ocean, according to a statement from the Coast Guard on Monday. The seizure, performed by the crew of the US Coast Guard Cutter Alert, was a part of a 59-day counter-narcotics
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thousands of farmers are marching in Poland’s capital to protest European Union agricultural policies and imports of cheap food from neighboring Ukraine, part of weeks of similar protests across Europe. The protesting farmers want Poland’s border with Ukraine sealed to the imports of grain and other food products that they say
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Macy’s is getting a new, smaller, but more luxurious look designed to turn around the troubled retailer and keep the century-and-a-half old brand relevant to rapidly changing demands from shoppers. First, Macy’s will have to downsize. The company is closing 150 underperforming stores — 50 by the
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is offering her strongest public support yet for the idea of liquidating roughly $300 billion in frozen Russian Central Bank assets and using them for Ukraine’s long-term reconstruction. The U.S. and its allies froze Russian foreign holdings in retaliation for Moscow’s invasion of
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Taxi drivers in the Greek capital have begun a 48-hour strike, with the second day timed to coincide with a nationwide strike by public and some private sector workers that is expected to disrupt public transport, flights and ferries. More than 200 taxis drove through the center of Athens on Tuesday
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, Michael Williams and Nikki Carvajal, CNN The meeting President Joe Biden held with four top congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday was “one of the most intense I’ve ever encountered,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters, as leaders in two branches of government attempt to compromise on Ukraine funding
Continue ReadingBy SARA RATHNER of NerdWallet If your family of origin didn’t teach you about credit cards, maybe it’s because they didn’t use them. You may have even been taught that credit cards are dangerous. Now that you’re managing your own finances, you’re ready for your own credit cards — only you don’t really know how
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Prosecutors in Thailand say they will indict a former national police chief on charges of impeding legal action against an heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune who was accused of killing a Bangkok police officer in a 2012 hit-and-run. Several government officials and police officers
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thousands of farmers are gathering in the Polish capital to protest the European Union’s agricultural policies and the imports of cheap food from Ukraine. The protesters say they are demanding that the Polish government withdraw from the EU’s Green Deal, a plan meant to help the environment and fight climate change
Continue ReadingBy KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — The prime ministers of the Czech Republic and Poland say their countries are united in their support for Ukraine and pledged to look for ways to increase their help in its fight against Russian military aggression. Poland says it is ready to contribute to a Czech plan
Continue ReadingBy Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — Antoinette Candia-Bailey loved Lincoln University. A proud alum of the historically Black college, Candia-Bailey — known as “Bonnie” to her friends — stuck a Lincoln University bumper sticker on her mom’s new car as a freshman. When she graduated in 1998, her mother bought a brick in her name. And
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Max Foster, CNN London (CNN) — Prince William will miss a memorial service for the late King Constantine of Greece because of a personal matter, a royal source has told CNN. The Prince of Wales, 41, had been expected to attend the remembrance event at Windsor Castle on Tuesday. The source
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say a former member of the disbanded left-wing militant Red Army Faction group who is accused of participating in a string of robberies has been arrested after more than 30 years on the run. The 65-year-old Daniela Klette was arrested at an apartment in Berlin
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Kensington Palace says Britain’s Prince William has pulled out of attending a memorial service for his godfather, the late King Constantine of Greece, because of a personal matter. The palace declined to elaborate on Tuesday but said his wife, the Princess of Wales, who is recovering from abdominal surgery, continues to do
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