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'Catch and kill' will be described to jurors in Donald Trump's hush money trial as testimony resumes

Apr. 23, 2024 07:29 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A longtime tabloid publisher was expected Tuesday to tell jurors about his efforts to help Donald Trump stifle unflattering stories during the 2016 campaign as testimony resumes in the historic hush money trial of the former president. David Pecker, the former...

Pro-Palestinian protests sweep US college campuses following mass arrests at Columbia

Apr. 23, 2024 07:39 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia canceled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at New York University and Yale, and the gates to Harvard Yard were closed to the public Monday as some of the most prestigious U.S. universities sought to defuse campus tensions over Israel's war with Hamas....

The Latest | Tent compound rises in southern Gaza as Israel prepares for Rafah offensive

Apr. 23, 2024 08:08 AM EDT

Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press appear to show a new compound of tents being built near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip as the Israeli military continues to signal it plans an offensive on the city of Rafah. Khan Younis has been targeted by repeated Israeli...

5 migrants have died while crossing the English Channel, hours after UK approved deportation bill

Apr. 23, 2024 07:39 AM EDT

PARIS (AP) — Five people, including a child, died while trying to cross the English Channel from France to the U.K., French authorities said Tuesday, just hours after the British government approved a migrant bill to deport some of those who entered the country illegally to Rwanda. ...

Modi is accused of using hate speech for calling Muslims 'infiltrators' at an Indian election rally

Apr. 23, 2024 07:22 AM EDT

NEW DELHI (AP) — India's main opposition party accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of using hate speech after he called Muslims “infiltrators" — some of his most incendiary rhetoric about the minority faith, days after the country began its weekslong general election. The...

Trump called this visa 'very bad' for Americans. Truth Social applied for one

Apr. 23, 2024 00:05 AM EDT

MIAMI (AP) — The social media company founded by former President Donald Trump applied for a business visa program that he sought to restrict during his administration and which many of his allies want him to curtail in a potential second term. Trump Media & Technology Group,...

A Russian strike on Kharkiv's TV tower is part of an intimidation campaign, Ukraine's Zelenskyy says

Apr. 23, 2024 06:19 AM EDT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a Russian missile strike that smashed a television tower in Kharkiv was part of the Kremlin’s ongoing effort to intimidate Ukraine’s second-largest city, which in recent weeks has come under increasingly frequent attack. ...

Aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan heads to the Senate for final approval after months of delay

Apr. 23, 2024 06:25 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is returning to Washington on Tuesday to vote on $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, taking the final steps in Congress to send the legislation to President Joe Biden’s desk after months of delays and contentious internal debate over how involved...

Haiti health system nears collapse as medicine dwindles, gangs attack hospitals and ports stay shut

Apr. 23, 2024 07:34 AM EDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — On a recent morning at a hospital in the heart of gang territory in Haiti’s capital, a woman began convulsing before her body went limp as a doctor and two nurses raced to save her. They stuck electrodes to her chest and flipped on an oxygen machine...

From pop to politics, what to know as Sweden prepares for the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest

Apr. 23, 2024 01:38 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — It’s springtime in Europe — time for the annual blossoming of spectacle and sound known as the Eurovision Song Contest. Taking place in May in Malmö, Sweden, the 68th annual competition will see acts from 37 countries vie for the continent’s pop crown in a...

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The Latest | Tent compound rises in southern Gaza as Israel prepares for Rafah offensive

Apr. 23, 2024 08:08 AM EDT

Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press appear to show a new compound of tents being built near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip as the Israeli military continues to signal it plans an offensive on the city of Rafah. Khan Younis has been targeted by repeated Israeli...

The Latest | 'Catch-and-kill' strategy to be a focus as testimony resumes in Trump hush money case

Apr. 23, 2024 07:58 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A veteran tabloid publisher was expected to return to the witness stand Tuesday in Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial. Prosecutors and defense attorneys in opening statements Monday painted competing portraits of the former president — one depicting him as...

Columbia switches to hybrid learning amid protests over Israel's war in Gaza

Apr. 23, 2024 07:58 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University's main campus will switch to hybrid learning for the rest of the semester amid protests over Israel's war with Hamas that have roiled colleges across the U.S., officials announced. “Safety is our highest priority as we strive to support our...

Police clear out a migrant camp in central Paris. Activists say it's a pre-Olympics sweep

Apr. 23, 2024 07:57 AM EDT

PARIS (AP) — French police evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps away from the River Seine on Tuesday, the latest operation in what aid groups call a campaign of ‘’social cleansing'' ahead of the Summer Olympics. Before dawn on an unusually cold April...

Pro-Palestinian protests sweep US college campuses following mass arrests at Columbia

Apr. 23, 2024 07:39 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia canceled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at New York University and Yale, and the gates to Harvard Yard were closed to the public Monday as some of the most prestigious U.S. universities sought to defuse campus tensions over Israel's war with Hamas....

5 migrants have died while crossing the English Channel, hours after UK approved deportation bill

Apr. 23, 2024 07:39 AM EDT

PARIS (AP) — Five people, including a child, died while trying to cross the English Channel from France to the U.K., French authorities said Tuesday, just hours after the British government approved a migrant bill to deport some of those who entered the country illegally to Rwanda. ...

Police in Bosnia arrest 23 people suspected of being part of global drug kingpin's 'inner circle'

Apr. 23, 2024 07:36 AM EDT

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Law enforcement officers in Bosnia arrested 23 people suspected of belonging to a “global drug kingpin's inner circle,” including police and security officials, in a clampdown on criminal networks controlling much of Europe’s cocaine trade, authorities...

Haiti health system nears collapse as medicine dwindles, gangs attack hospitals and ports stay shut

Apr. 23, 2024 07:34 AM EDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — On a recent morning at a hospital in the heart of gang territory in Haiti’s capital, a woman began convulsing before her body went limp as a doctor and two nurses raced to save her. They stuck electrodes to her chest and flipped on an oxygen machine...

'Catch and kill' will be described to jurors in Donald Trump's hush money trial as testimony resumes

Apr. 23, 2024 07:29 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A longtime tabloid publisher was expected Tuesday to tell jurors about his efforts to help Donald Trump stifle unflattering stories during the 2016 campaign as testimony resumes in the historic hush money trial of the former president. David Pecker, the former...

AP Sports Week in Pictures: Pitcher Randy Vazquez, Olympic flame and Nelly Korda's pond splash

Apr. 23, 2024 07:28 AM EDT

Associated Press photographers were there for San Diego Padres pitcher Randy Vazquez working in the shadows and the lighting of a cauldron with the Olympic flame at the ancient Parthenon temple in Athens. Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya raised her arms in triumph while crossing the finish...