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Guilty: Trump becomes first former US president convicted of felony crimes

May. 31, 2024 04:40 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump became the first former American president to be convicted of felony crimes Thursday as a New York jury found him guilty of all 34 charges in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who said the two had sex. ...

The Latest | Following Trump's conviction in hush money case, he is set to hold news conference

May. 31, 2024 07:24 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A day after a New York jury delivered a historic guilty verdict in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee will likely look to cast the conviction and his campaign in a new light. The former president is expected to...

Trump will try to turn his guilty verdict into campaign fuel

May. 31, 2024 07:08 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Being convicted of a felony — let alone 34 of them – is the kind of blow that would normally tank any politician's ambitions. Donald Trump will instead try to turn what might otherwise be a career-ending judgment into campaign fuel. Trump will...

Trump Media shares recover after post conviction sell-off

May. 31, 2024 08:21 AM EDT

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, rebounded before the opening bell Friday after former President Donald Trump was convicted in his hush money trial. A New York jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records in a...

Houthi rebels say at least 16 killed and 42 others wounded in joint US-British airstrikes in Yemen

May. 31, 2024 06:59 AM EDT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Joint British-U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen's Houthi rebels killed at least 16 people and wounded 42 others, the rebels said Friday, the highest publicly acknowledged death toll from the multiple rounds of strikes carried out over the rebels' attacks on...

Italy's migrant jails are squalid and chaotic. A young man from Guinea was desperate to escape

May. 31, 2024 07:18 AM EDT

ROME (AP) — It was still dark and quiet outside when Ousmane Sylla performed his last prayer in the courtyard of an Italian migrant jail. “I miss my Africa very much and my mother too,” read a scribble in French on the wall nearby. ”May I rest in peace." A few...

In Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, a hidden underground world is under threat by the Maya Train

May. 31, 2024 03:05 AM EDT

AKTUN TUYUL CAVE SYSTEM, Mexico (AP) — Rays of sunlight slice through pools of crystal water as clusters of fish cast shadows on the limestone below. Arching over the emerald basin are walls of stalactites dripping down the cavern ceiling, which opens to a dense jungle. These...

Barred from combat, women working as codebreakers, cartographers and coxswains helped D-Day succeed

May. 31, 2024 04:49 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — What did you do in the war, Granny? For British women who came of age during World War II, the answer to that question is often: quite a lot. The history of D-Day is often told through the stories of the men who fought and died when the Allies stormed...

Here's what you should know about Donald Trump's conviction in his hush money trial

May. 31, 2024 05:57 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts marks the end of the former president’s historic hush money trial, but the fight over the case is far from over. Now comes the sentencing and the potential for a prison sentence. A lengthy appellate process. And all...

Police with batons approach Israel-Hamas war protesters at UC Santa Cruz

May. 31, 2024 07:33 AM EDT

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Police approached arm-in-arm protesters early Friday at the University of California, Santa Cruz, a day after arrests at a pro-Palestinian encampment at a Detroit campus and a student walkout during commencement at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...

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Trump Media shares recover after post conviction sell-off

May. 31, 2024 08:21 AM EDT

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, rebounded before the opening bell Friday after former President Donald Trump was convicted in his hush money trial. A New York jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records in a...

Berlin lets Ukraine use German weapons against targets in Russia after the US also eases its stance

May. 31, 2024 07:56 AM EDT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Germany joined the United States on Friday in authorizing Ukraine to hit some targets on Russian soil with the long-range weapons they are supplying — a significant policy change that comes as depleted Ukrainian troops are losing ground in the war. Ukrainian...

The Latest | 12 killed in airstrikes in central Gaza as strikes targeting Houthi rebels kill 16

May. 31, 2024 07:56 AM EDT

At least a dozen people were killed in two airstrikes Friday in central Gaza. Two children and four women were among the dead. Palestinians in the border city of Rafah have reported heavy fighting in recent days as Israel’s military widened its offensive in the south, seizing...

Federal rule on Title IX is a ruse to require trans sports participation, GOP states say

May. 31, 2024 07:49 AM EDT

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Biden administration has put on hold a plan to prohibit across-the-board bans on transgender athletes on school teams during an election year in which Republicans are rallying around restrictions on trans youths. But GOP state leaders are making sure voters know the...

Police with batons approach Israel-Hamas war protesters at UC Santa Cruz

May. 31, 2024 07:33 AM EDT

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Police approached arm-in-arm protesters early Friday at the University of California, Santa Cruz, a day after arrests at a pro-Palestinian encampment at a Detroit campus and a student walkout during commencement at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...

Police say several people have been hurt in a stabbing in the German city of Mannheim

May. 31, 2024 07:24 AM EDT

BERLIN (AP) — An assailant with a knife attacked and wounded several people in a square in the southwestern German city of Mannheim on Friday, police said. Police shot at the attacker, who also was hurt. Police said the incident happened shortly after 11.30 a.m. They said that they...

The Latest | Following Trump's conviction in hush money case, he is set to hold news conference

May. 31, 2024 07:24 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A day after a New York jury delivered a historic guilty verdict in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee will likely look to cast the conviction and his campaign in a new light. The former president is expected to...

Shares in Trump Media slump after former president convicted in hush money trial

May. 31, 2024 07:23 AM EDT

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, slumped before the opening bell Friday after former President Donald Trump was convicted in his hush money trial. A New York jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records in a...

Italy's migrant jails are squalid and chaotic. A young man from Guinea was desperate to escape

May. 31, 2024 07:18 AM EDT

ROME (AP) — It was still dark and quiet outside when Ousmane Sylla performed his last prayer in the courtyard of an Italian migrant jail. “I miss my Africa very much and my mother too,” read a scribble in French on the wall nearby. ”May I rest in peace." A few...

Police say several people have been hurt in a stabbing attack in the German city of Mannheim

May. 31, 2024 07:17 AM EDT
BERLIN (AP) — Police say several people have been hurt in a stabbing attack in the German city of Mannheim.