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Biden says Hamas is sufficiently depleted. Israel leaders disagree, casting doubts over cease-fire

Jun. 03, 2024 14:47 PM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — At the start of its devastating offensive on the Gaza Strip, Israel set an ambitious goal: destroy Hamas. At the time, the Biden administration committed to the objective, lending Israel considerable stocks of weaponry and voicing its support. Nearly eight months...

Proposed Gaza cease-fire puts Netanyahu at a crossroads that could shape his legacy

Jun. 03, 2024 13:13 PM EDT

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The cease-fire proposal announced by President Joe Biden has placed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a crossroads, with either path likely to shape the legacy of Israel’s longest-serving and deeply divisive leader. The proposal offers the possibility...

Prospective jurors in Hunter Biden's firearms case questioned on gun rights, addiction, politics

Jun. 03, 2024 14:50 PM EDT

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Prospective jurors in a federal gun case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter were questioned Monday on their thoughts about gun rights and drug addiction while the first lady watched from the front row of the courtroom in a show of support for her son. ...

More women made the list of top paid CEOs in 2023, but their numbers are still small compared to men

Jun. 03, 2024 07:06 AM EDT

More women are attaining the top job at companies in the S&P 500, but their numbers are still minuscule compared to their male counterparts. Of the 341 CEOs included in the AP's annual compensation survey, 25 are women. That’s the most women making the list since the survey...

Mexico awakes with joy, division to the first woman elected president, Claudia Sheinbaum

Jun. 03, 2024 13:39 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s newly elected president held out an olive branch Monday to the more than one-third of Mexicans who didn’t vote for her, but the first woman to win the job faces a tough path toward reconciling a country left deeply divided by outgoing President Andrés Manuel...

As pharmacies shutter, some Western states, Black and Latino communities are left behind

Jun. 03, 2024 12:16 PM EDT

Opening stores used to mean everything to pharmacy chains. CVS Health once boasted of opening or buying more than 2,900 locations in a five-year period. Now it’s shuttering hundreds, while Walgreens, Rite Aid and independent drugstores also pull back. An industry...

Populist campaigner Nigel Farage makes an about-face and says he will run in the UK election

Jun. 03, 2024 12:59 PM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Pro-Brexit, anti-immigration campaigner Nigel Farage stepped back into front-line British politics on Monday, announcing he will take the helm of the right-wing party Reform U.K. and run for Parliament in the July 4 election. Farage said he'll run in the seaside town...

Kylian Mbappé finally joins Real Madrid in a union of soccer's top player and club

Jun. 03, 2024 14:48 PM EDT

MADRID (AP) — Kylian Mbappé is finally a Real Madrid player. Madrid said on Monday it reached a deal with the France star for the next five seasons, bringing together one of soccer’s top talents and its most successful club. The announcement came after years of...

How AP covered the D-Day landings and lost photographer Bede Irvin in the battle for Normandy

Jun. 03, 2024 11:01 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — When Associated Press correspondent Don Whitehead arrived with other journalists in southern England to cover the Allies' imminent D-Day invasion of Normandy, a U.S. commander offered them a no-nonsense welcome. “We’ll do everything we can to help you get your...

'SNL' lampooned men in artistic swimming. Bill May could be the sport's first male Olympian

Jun. 03, 2024 13:21 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Bill May chuckles at the mere mention of the words “Saturday Night Live,” knowing that the conversation is about to turn to the TV show's 1984 skit starring Martin Short as one of two brothers attempting to make it to the Olympics in what then was called synchronized swimming....

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University of Michigan regent's law office vandalized with pro-Palestinian graffiti

Jun. 03, 2024 15:01 PM EDT

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) — Pro-Palestinian graffiti spray-painted on the exterior of a Michigan law firm is being investigated as a hate crime, police in suburban Detroit said Monday. University of Michigan regent and attorney Jordan Acker called the vandalism “antisemitic” and...

Company that bred beagles for research pleads guilty to neglect, ordered to pay record $35M fine

Jun. 03, 2024 14:54 PM EDT

A company that bred beagles for medical research agreed Monday to pay a record $35 million as part of a criminal plea admitting it neglected thousands of dogs at its breeding facility in rural Virginia. Prosecutors said the penalties amount to the largest ever levied in an...

Israel declares 4 more hostages are dead in Gaza, including 3 older men who appeared in video

Jun. 03, 2024 14:51 PM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Four more hostages kidnapped on Oct. 7 were declared dead by the Israeli military — including three older adults seen in a Hamas video begging to be released. Monday's announcement heightens pressure on the Israeli government to agree to a U.S. cease-fire proposal that could...

Prosecutors ask judge to deny George Santos' bid to have some fraud charges dropped

Jun. 03, 2024 14:51 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to reject former U.S. Rep. George Santos ’ bid to have some of the fraud charges against him dropped as his trial approaches. The New York Republican, who last year became only the sixth lawmaker in history to be expelled...

Prospective jurors in Hunter Biden's firearms case questioned on gun rights, addiction, politics

Jun. 03, 2024 14:50 PM EDT

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Prospective jurors in a federal gun case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter were questioned Monday on their thoughts about gun rights and drug addiction while the first lady watched from the front row of the courtroom in a show of support for her son. ...

Biden says Hamas is sufficiently depleted. Israel leaders disagree, casting doubts over cease-fire

Jun. 03, 2024 14:47 PM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — At the start of its devastating offensive on the Gaza Strip, Israel set an ambitious goal: destroy Hamas. At the time, the Biden administration committed to the objective, lending Israel considerable stocks of weaponry and voicing its support. Nearly eight months...

Memorial for Baltimore bridge collapse victims vandalized

Jun. 03, 2024 14:46 PM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — A memorial for the six victims of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore was vandalized over the weekend. The elaborate display near the south end of the bridge has grown to include decorated wooden crosses and a red pickup truck suspended from nearby...

Technical issues briefly halt trading for some NYSE stocks in the latest glitch to hit Wall Street

Jun. 03, 2024 14:36 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A technical issue caused the temporary halt in trading for dozens of stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange Monday, including at least one whose price briefly fell nearly 100%. Berkshire Hathaway, the company run by famed investor Warren Buffett, saw its...

CEOs got hefty pay raises in 2023, widening the gap with the workers they oversee

Jun. 03, 2024 14:33 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The typical compensation package for chief executives who run companies in the S&P 500 jumped nearly 13% last year, easily surpassing the gains for workers at a time when inflation was putting considerable pressure on Americans' budgets. The median pay package...

New Jersey plans to drop the bald eagle from its endangered species list

Jun. 03, 2024 14:32 PM EDT

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey proposed Monday removing the bald eagle from its endangered species list, citing a rebound since more than four decades ago, when a single nesting pair in a remote county were the only of its kind in the state. The turnaround stems from the work of...