By TIA GOLDENBERG, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A top Israeli Cabinet minister headed to Washington on Sunday for talks with U.S. officials, sparking a rebuke from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to an Israeli official, in a sign of widening cracks in Israel’s wartime government nearly five
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The biggest winner of the Republican primary season so far, besides Donald Trump, might be Tim Scott. The South Carolina senator failed in his own bid for president. But his enthusiastic campaigning for the former president has been generating buzz about Scott’s prospects as Trump’s potential
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY MEYER Associated Press The Miami Archdiocese’s superintendent of schools says Catholic education is increasingly in demand in South Florida, now that all K-12 students regardless of income are allowed to use taxpayer-funded programs to pay for private school tuition. Against the backdrop of favorable decisions by the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court, Florida was
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY MEYER Associated Press The Miami Archdiocese’s superintendent of schools says Catholic education is increasingly in demand in South Florida, now that all K-12 students regardless of income are allowed to use taxpayer-funded programs to pay for private school tuition. Against the backdrop of favorable decisions by the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court, Florida was
Continue ReadingBy Manveena Suri, Lucas Lillieholm and Yoonjung Seo, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of doctors in South Korea took to the streets of Seoul on Sunday to protest the government’s plans to increase medical school admissions and what they see as a broader lack of support for the country’s medical system. The doctors say the government needs
Continue ReadingBy JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A court in Bangladesh has granted bail to Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus in a $2.3 million embezzlement case. Yunus, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for pioneering the use of microcredit to help impoverished people, was sentenced to six months in prison in
Continue ReadingBy VINCENT THIAN Associated Press LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — An airplane carrying Norway’s King Harald V has departed Malaysia, a day after he was implanted with a pacemaker. Europe’s oldest reigning monarch was hospitalized for an infection during a private vacation on the northern resort island of Langkawi, the royal house said Tuesday. He underwent
Continue ReadingBy GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Super Tuesday is almost here, with 16 states holding contests this coming week. It’s the biggest day on the election calendar. But for many Americans who live in places that hold primaries much later, it means they’ll often have little say in choosing the presidential contenders by
Continue ReadingCOLUMBUS, Texas (AP) — Police in Texas have arrested a man suspected in the disappearance of a girl who was missing for eight days before she was safely located. The Columbus Police Department says the 27-year-old Houston man was charged with evading authorities after he attempted to flee on Friday. Police say they learned early
Continue ReadingBy LINLEY SANDERS, JESSE BEDAYN and AMELIA THOMSON-DeVEAUX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A small but substantial chunk of Republican primary and caucus voters say they would be so dissatisfied if Donald Trump became the party’s presidential nominee that they would not vote for him in November’s general election, according to AP VoteCast. An analysis
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s government says it may renew the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 after a U.S. technology firm proposed a fresh search in the southern Indian Ocean where the plane is believed to have crashed. The plane with 239 people aboard vanished a decade ago while en route from
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson swiftly derailed the Senate’s bipartisan aid package for Ukraine, but he’s left the door open to a new proposal emerging in the House. Behind the scenes, Johnson has met privately with House Republicans who have been trying to build support for a new bipartisan foreign aid package that includes
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Lawmakers in Pakistan’s National Assembly on Sunday elected Shehbaz Sharif as the country’s new prime minister for the second time as allies of imprisoned former premier Imran Khan in parliament shouted in protest, alleging rigging in last month’s election. Khan is currently serving prison terms in multiple
Continue ReadingBy JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Officials say a key vote for control of Serbia’s capital, Belgrade is to be rerun later this year. The announcement follows months of soaring political tensions over claims that the ruling populists of President Aleksandar Vucic orchestrated a fraud in the vote for Belgrade’s city assembly.
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A top Israeli Cabinet minister headed to Washington on Sunday for talks with U.S. officials, sparking a rebuke from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to an Israeli official, in a sign of widening cracks in Israel’s wartime government nearly five
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Texas is no stranger to winter wildfires, but the ferocity of the Smokehouse Creek fire — the state’s largest on record after burning through more than 1 million acres — caught even the experts off guard. Its severity was due to a perfect storm of environmental factors: highly flammable
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — The former chairman of the state-owned Bank of Beijing is under investigation for corruption, the latest in a series of graft investigations focused on the country’s financial sector. Yan Bingzhu, who led the bank since its establishment in 1996 and until he retired in 2017, is among several top officials being probed
Continue ReadingBy SUSIE BLANN and JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The death toll rose to 11 on Sunday from a Russian drone strike that destroyed an apartment block in Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa the previous day when a local official reported the bodies of two more children and a young mother
Continue ReadingBy CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press ALBION, Pa. (AP) — “You are the Lighthouse in someone’s storm,” reads the message above a mural of a sailboat bobbing on ocean waves under a cloud-studded azure sky. It’s an unexpected slogan for a prison wall. On a nearby door painted deep blue, a bright yellow Minion character offers
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — In an industrial warehouse bathed in the chill of anticipation, Sean McGirr debuted as McQueen’s creative director, stepping into the vast shadow left by Sarah Burton. His collection, under the banner “Rough opulence,” aimed to “unveil the animal within,” marrying Gothic allure with historical nods and
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