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By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched peacefully through central London on Saturday, even as right-wing counter-protesters clashed with police, after a week of angry debate over whether to permit the event on a day when Britain honored its war dead. The day unfolded in a backdrop of tensions fueled by

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s ruling party has named its candidates for eight governorships and the mayorship of Mexico City. But after ruling out the most popular candidate for the capital, questions remain about whether the party can avoid desertions. The Morena party, founded by charismatic President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is made up of

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Volunteers are taking part in an effort to extend the habitat of the most emblematic and endangered species of Rio de Janeiro’s rural interior — the golden lion tamarin. The small, copper-colored monkey whose face is framed by a silken mane can only be found in this

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group says his fighters have introduced new weapons including a missile with a heavy warhead in the ongoing fighting along the Lebanon-Israel border. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Saturday Hezbollah will keep using the tense frontier to pressure Israel. Nasrallah blasted the

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — No. 2 Michigan will be without coach Jim Harbaugh on Saturday against No. 9 Penn State, after a judge did not issue a ruling on the school’s attempt to at least temporarily lift the Big Ten’s penalty against the Wolverines for a

KEN MILLER One Texas police officer was killed and a second officer was wounded in a shooting at a home in Austin that also left the suspected gunman dead. That is according to a post on the City Council message board. The post from Mayor Kirk Watson by Chief of Staff Colleen Pate says a

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW. Poland (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have marched through Warsaw in an event organized by nationalist groups as Poland celebrates its Independence Day holiday. Participants in the Independence March carried Poland’s white-and-red flag and some burned flares. While many patriotic events take place across the nation of

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Danica Roem is accustomed to opponents using her transgender identity as a cudgel in Virginia legislative races. As part of a broad attack from the right, a national organization distributed mass mailers giving out her personal cellphone number and imploring people to call it to “put the

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press ABOARD THE USS CARL VINSON (AP) — Japan is leading an annual multinational naval exercise that includes the Philippines as an observer for the first time. The Annualex exercises that began Saturday off Japan’s coast also include the United States, Australia and Canada. Their aim is to demonstrate and increase

DETROIT (AP) — Police have released a suspect in the fatal stabbing of a Detroit synagogue leader. The suspect’s lawyer, Allison Kriger, confirmed the release but declined to elaborate further. No charges have been filed in the case. Samantha Woll was president of Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue. She was found dead outside her Detroit home

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday forcibly removed the bishop of Tyler, Texas, a firebrand conservative prelate active on social media who has been a fierce critic of the pontiff and has come to symbolize the polarization within the U.S. Catholic hierarchy. A one-line statement from the Vatican said

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Donald Trump is pushing for his federal election interference trial in Washington to be televised, joining media outlets that say the American public should be able to watch the historic case unfold. Federal court rules prohibit broadcasting proceedings, but The Associated Press and other news organizations say the unprecedented