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By TOM KRISHER and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — General Motors and the United Auto Workers union have reached a tentative contract agreement that could end a six-week-old strike against Detroit automakers, two people briefed on the deal said Monday. The agreement follows the pattern set with Ford last week and Jeep maker

By MELINA WALLING and JOHN LOCHER Associated Press WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Whenever Amy Begaye’s extended family butchered a sheep, she was given what she considered easy tasks — holding the legs and catching the blood with a bowl. She was never given the knife. That changed recently. In the pale light of dawn

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A former Louisville police officer who fired into Breonna Taylor’s apartment the night she was killed is going on trial in federal court this week for violating Taylor’s civil rights during the botched 2020 raid. The trial will mark a second attempt by prosecutors to convict

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian authorities say more than 70 people were missing on Monday after their boat capsized in northern Taraba state. The boat was carrying traders returning from a fish market late Saturday when it capsized on the Benue River, which is one of Nigeria’s largest. Boat disasters

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has a two-book deal with Scribner, starting with a book reflecting on her years in government. Scribner announced Monday that Psaki’s “Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World” is scheduled for May 7. The

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin called a meeting of top security and law enforcement officials on Monday, the day after a mob stormed the airport in the region of Dagestan after a plane from the Israeli city of Tel Aviv landed there. Hundreds of angry men rushed onto the tarmac of the airport

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese high court on Monday said the North Korean government was responsible for the human rights abuses of plaintiffs who said they were lured to the North by Pyongyang’s false promise of living in the “paradise on Earth.” The Tokyo High Court ruled that a Japanese

By TOM KRISHER and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Pressure is rising on General Motors as the lone holdout in a strike targeting all three big Detroit automakers after a tentative contract agreement with Jeep maker Stellantis was reached with the United Auto Workers union over the weekend. The UAW reached a tentative

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Marine Rescue Service says the bodies of two people were found aboard a boat carrying more than 200 migrants that was located off the Canary Island of Tenerife. It was the third boat migrant boat to arrive in Tenerife in recent hours. They were carrying some 380 migrants in all, the

By ZIMO ZHONG and MATT OTT Associated Press Wall Street pointed toward gains before markets opened Monday ahead of another crush of corporate earnings and the Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates. Futures for the S&P 500 gained 0.7% before the bell, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.6%. McDonald’s shares jumped

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge who reimposed a narrow gag order on Donald Trump in his 2020 election interference case in Washington says one of his social media posts about ex-chief of staff Mark Meadows constituted an “attack.” Judge Tanya Chutkan on Sunday reimposed an

By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Aid groups and social justice activists have appealed to French authorities to protect the rights of thousands of migrants and others living on the streets as the Paris region prepares for next year’s Olympic Games. More than 70 nongovernmental organizations issued a letter Monday to Paris region

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say at least three construction workers died when scaffolding fell down an elevator shaft inside a building site in Hamburg. At least one worker was missing and another had life-threatening injuries. The scaffolding had been set up in the elevator shaft. There was no immediate word on why it collapsed