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The bodies of 3 more hostages are recovered from Gaza by the Israeli army

May. 24, 2024 06:51 AM EDT

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The bodies of three more hostages killed on Oct 7. were recovered overnight from Gaza, Israel's army said Friday, as the top United Nations court prepares to rule on whether Israel must halt its military operations and withdraw from the enclave. The bodies...

Trump swaps bluster for silence, and possibly sleep, in his hush money trial

May. 24, 2024 00:13 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump isn’t known for letting slights pass. Yet for weeks, the famously combative presumptive Republican nominee has sat silently — to the point of sometimes seeming asleep — in a sterile Manhattan courtroom amid a barrage of accusations and insults. ...

Top UN court orders Israel to halt military offensive in Rafah; Israel is unlikely to comply

May. 24, 2024 10:56 AM EDT

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top United Nations court ordered Israel on Friday to immediately halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah — but stopped short of ordering a cease-fire for the enclave. Although Israel is unlikely to comply with the order, it will ratchet...

'Green blitz': As election nears, Biden pushes slew of rules on environment, other priorities

May. 24, 2024 00:05 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — As he tries to secure his legacy, President Joe Biden has unleashed a flurry of election-year rules on the environment and other topics, including a landmark regulation that would force coal-fired power plants to capture smokestack emissions or shut down. The...

Hunter Biden is expected in court for a final hearing before his June 3 gun trial

May. 24, 2024 10:34 AM EDT

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden is due in court on Friday for the final hearing before he's expected to stand trial on federal firearms charges in Delaware as his father's reelection campaign unfolds. President Joe Biden's son is charged with lying about his drug use in...

Fire at chemical factory in India kills at least 9, with searchers looking for more victims

May. 24, 2024 03:15 AM EDT

THANE, India (AP) — Rescuers combed through piles of debris and wreckage Friday searching for bodies after an explosion and fire at a chemical factory in western India killed at least nine people and injured 64 others, officials said. The explosion in the factory’s boiler on...

Over 100 feared dead in landslide in remote part of Papua New Guinea, with rescue efforts underway

May. 24, 2024 10:52 AM EDT

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 people are believed to have been killed in a landslide Friday that buried a village in a remote, mountainous part of Papua New Guinea, and an emergency response is underway, officials in the South Pacific island nation said. The landslide...

Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who skewered fast food industry, dies at 53

May. 24, 2024 10:34 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar-nominee who made food and American diets his life's work, famously eating only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died. He was 53. Spurlock died Thursday in New York from...

King Charles III won’t be out and about much over the next six weeks amid election campaign

May. 24, 2024 07:19 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III won’t be out and about much over the next six weeks — and it’s not because of his ongoing cancer treatments. Shortly after U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called an early parliamentary election for July 4, Buckingham Palace said that all members...

With college athletes on cusp of revenue-sharing, there are Title IX questions that must be answered

May. 24, 2024 09:09 AM EDT

The looming athlete pay system that will upend the traditional college sports model and still-to-be-determined details about how millions of dollars will be distributed are certain to bring questions about gender equity. Of special interest will be whether schools must comply with...

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Top UN court orders Israel to halt military offensive in Rafah; Israel is unlikely to comply

May. 24, 2024 10:56 AM EDT

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top United Nations court ordered Israel on Friday to immediately halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah — but stopped short of ordering a cease-fire for the enclave. Although Israel is unlikely to comply with the order, it will ratchet...

Over 100 feared dead in landslide in remote part of Papua New Guinea, with rescue efforts underway

May. 24, 2024 10:52 AM EDT

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 people are believed to have been killed in a landslide Friday that buried a village in a remote, mountainous part of Papua New Guinea, and an emergency response is underway, officials in the South Pacific island nation said. The landslide...

Italian teenage computer wizard set to become the first saint of the Millennial generation

May. 24, 2024 10:51 AM EDT

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis paved the way for the canonization of the first saint of the millennial generation on Thursday, attributing a second miracle to a 15-year-old Italian computer whiz who died of leukemia in 2006. Carlo Acutis, born on May 3, 1991, in London and then moved...

Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who skewered fast food industry, dies at 53

May. 24, 2024 10:34 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar-nominee who made food and American diets his life's work, famously eating only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died. He was 53. Spurlock died Thursday in New York from...

Syrian Kurdish authorities hand over a British woman and 3 children linked to IS to a UK delegation

May. 24, 2024 10:43 AM EDT

QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — A British woman and three children linked to the militant Islamic State group in Syria were handed over to a U.K. delegation that visited the region this week, Syrian Kurdish-led authorities said Friday. The handover, which took place on Wednesday, is the...

Security Council approves resolution decrying attacks on UN and aid workers and demanding protection

May. 24, 2024 10:35 AM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council approved a resolution Friday that strongly condemns attacks on humanitarian workers and U.N. personnel, and demands that all combatants protect them in accordance with international law. The vote was 14-0 with Russia...

A murderous romance or a frame job? Things to know about Boston's Karen Read murder trial

May. 24, 2024 10:35 AM EDT

A highly publicized trial in Massachusetts involving a woman accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowbank is finishing its fourth week on Friday. John O’Keefe, 46, died in the Boston suburb of Canton on Jan. 29, 2022....

Hunter Biden is expected in court for a final hearing before his June 3 gun trial

May. 24, 2024 10:34 AM EDT

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden is due in court on Friday for the final hearing before he's expected to stand trial on federal firearms charges in Delaware as his father's reelection campaign unfolds. President Joe Biden's son is charged with lying about his drug use in...

European Union criticizes Russia for removing Estonian buoys, demand an explanation from Moscow

May. 24, 2024 10:31 AM EDT

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Friday called the removal of Estonian buoys by Russian border guards on a river separating the Baltic country from Russia “unacceptable,” and demanded an explanation from Moscow and the immediate return of the orange floats....

The Latest | Israel told to halt Rafah offensive, but UN court stops short of full Gaza cease-fire

May. 24, 2024 10:28 AM EDT

Israel was told to halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, but judges on the top United Nations court stopped short of ordering a full cease-fire throughout the Palestinian territory. The cease-fire request is part of a case filed late last year by South...