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By ADAM BEAM and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press Nigerian leaders Sunday mourned the death of the CEO of one of the country’s largest banks after he and five others were killed Friday in a helicopter crash in Southern California’s Mojave Desert. Herbert Wigwe, chief executive of Access Bank, and his wife and son were among

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Ex-Prime Minister Alexander Stubb has narrowly won Finland’s presidential election runoff on Sunday against former Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto. As head of state, Stubb’s main task will be to steer the Nordic country’s foreign and security policy now that it is a member of NATO, following Russia’s

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The population of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank grew nearly 3% in 2023, according to a new report based on population statistics from the Israeli government. The report, released Sunday by the pro-settler group WestBankJewishPopulationStats.com, found the settler population jumped to 517,407 as of Dec.

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — As chances rise of a Joe Biden-Donald Trump rematch in the U.S. presidential election, America’s allies are bracing for a bumpy ride. Many worry that a second term for Trump would be an earthquake, but tremors already abound — and concerns are rising that the U.S. could

KINGFISHER, Okla. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to killing four workers at an Oklahoma marijuana farm in 2022. Court records show that Chen Wu pleaded guilty at a court hearing Friday to four counts of first-degree murder and to one count of assault and battery with

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As former President Donald Trump and a growing number of Republicans oppose U.S. aid to Ukraine, the Senate’s leaders argued in strong terms on Sunday that the money is crucial to pushing back against Russian President Vladimir Putin and maintaining America’s global standing.

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man convicted in the killing of a rookie New York City police officer at the height of the city’s crack epidemic decades ago has been denied parole. Todd Scott had been serving 25 years to life for his role in the shooting death of Officer

By SARAH TETAUD Associated Press ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Madagascar’s Parliament has passed a law allowing for the chemical and in some cases surgical castration of those found guilty of the rape of a minor. That has prompted criticism from international rights groups but has also found support from activists in the country who say

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Ex-Prime Minister Alexander Stubb is projected to win Finland’s presidential election runoff on Sunday against the former Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto. Finnish public broadcaster YLE projected that center-right candidate Stubb of the conservative National Coalition Party wins the Finnish presidency with 51.4% of the votes, while independent

By WALTER BERRY Associated Press The remnants of a slow-moving atmospheric river storm that pummeled California last week delivered the first notable snowfall of the season across eastern New Mexico, with the National Weather Service warning Sunday of snowpacked and icy roads as the system headed toward the Texas Panhandle and central Oklahoma. A winter

BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. Customs and Border Protection says one of its dogs sniffed out something unusual in a traveler’s luggage in Boston — dead monkeys. Agents say the passenger returning from a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo reported that the luggage contained dried fish, but an inspection at Boston Logan Airport

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden’s personal attorney said Sunday he went to both the special counsel and the attorney general to register concerns over what he viewed to be pejorative and unnecessary digs at the president’s memory. “This is a report that went off the rails,” Bob Bauer

By NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel should not conduct a military operation against the Hamas militant group in the densely populated Gaza border town of Rafah without a “credible and executable” plan to protect civilians, U.S. President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, the