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Jury in Trump hush money trial resumes deliberations after rehearing instructions, testimony

May. 30, 2024 12:02 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The jury in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial resumed deliberations Thursday after revisiting portions of the judge's instructions and rehearing testimony from multiple key witnesses about the alleged scheme at the heart of the history-making case. ...

The Latest | 2 soldiers are killed in a West Bank car-ramming attack, Israeli military says

May. 30, 2024 12:24 PM EDT

The Israeli military said Thursday that two soldiers were killed in a car-ramming attack in the occupied West Bank. Violence in the West Bank has surged throughout the war in Gaza as Israel raids Palestinian towns in the territory to crack down on militancy, with incursions killing...

Boeing reaches deadline for reporting how it will fix aircraft safety and quality problems

May. 30, 2024 10:17 AM EDT

Boeing is due to tell federal regulators Thursday how it plans to fix the safety and quality problems that have plagued its aircraft-manufacturing work in recent years. The Federal Aviation Administration required the company to produce a turnaround plan after one of its jetliners...

Stuck at sea for years, a sailor's plight highlights a surge in shipowner abandonment

May. 30, 2024 07:08 AM EDT

Abdul Nasser Saleh says he rarely got a good night’s sleep during the near-decade he spent working without pay on a cargo ship abandoned by its owner at ports along the Red Sea. By night, he tossed and turned in his bunk on the aging Al-Maha, he said, thinking of the unpaid wages...

Lab-grown meat isn't on store shelves yet, but some states have already banned it

May. 30, 2024 10:46 AM EDT

Lab-grown meat is not currently available in any U.S. grocery stores or restaurants. If some lawmakers have their way, it never will be. Earlier this month, both Florida and Arizona banned the sale of cultivated meat and seafood, which is grown from animal cells. In Iowa, the...

One Tech Tip: Want to turn off Meta AI? You can't — but there are some workarounds

May. 30, 2024 11:16 AM EDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If you use Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram, you've probably noticed a new character pop up answering search queries or eagerly offering tidbits of information in your feeds, with varying degrees of accuracy. It's Meta AI, and it's here to help, at least...

North Korea's trash rains down onto South Korea, balloon by balloon. Here's what it means

May. 30, 2024 11:16 AM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Manure. Cigarette butts. Scraps of cloth. Waste batteries. Even, reportedly, diapers. This week, North Korea floated hundreds of huge balloons to dump all of that trash across rival South Korea — an old-fashioned, Cold War-style provocation that the country has rarely...

NRA can sue ex-NY official it says tried to blacklist it after Parkland shooting, Supreme Court says

May. 30, 2024 12:54 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for a National Rifle Association lawsuit against a former New York state official over claims she pressured companies to blacklist it following the deadly 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Giving the...

A violent, polarized Mexico goes to the polls to choose between 2 women presidential candidates

May. 30, 2024 11:00 AM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico goes into Sunday’s election deeply divided: friends and relatives no longer talk politics for fear of worsening unbridgeable divides, while drug cartels have split the country into a patchwork quilt of warring fiefdoms. The atmosphere is literally heating up, amid a...

'Star Trek' actor George Takei is determined to keep telling his Japanese American story

May. 30, 2024 07:18 AM EDT

TOKYO (AP) — The incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans, including children, labeled enemies during World War II is an historical experience that has traumatized, and galvanized, the Japanese American community over the decades. For George Takei, who portrayed Hikaru Sulu...

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NRA can sue ex-NY official it says tried to blacklist it after Parkland shooting, Supreme Court says

May. 30, 2024 12:54 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for a National Rifle Association lawsuit against a former New York state official over claims she pressured companies to blacklist it following the deadly 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Giving the...

US sanctions Uganda's parliament speaker, her husband and others over corruption and rights abuses

May. 30, 2024 12:51 PM EDT

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on Uganda's parliamentary speaker, her husband and several other officials over corruption and serious abuses of human rights. Parliament Speaker Anita Among was sanctioned “due to involvement in significant...

Sacré bleu! The French Open banned alcohol in the stands after fans were called out for rowdiness

May. 30, 2024 12:50 PM EDT

PARIS (AP) — One player said a French Open spectator spat chewed gum toward him. Another, No. 1-ranked Iga Swiatek, chastised the crowd at the main stadium for making too much noise during points. So the folks in charge of the Grand Slam event at Roland Garros decided enough was...

Texas’ first-ever statewide flood plan estimates 5 million live or work in flood-prone areas

May. 30, 2024 12:41 PM EDT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — More than 5 million Texans, or one in six people in the state, live or work in an area susceptible to flooding, according to a draft of the state’s first-ever flood plan. The plan by the Texas Water Development Board is an effort to reduce the risk for those...

Ukraine's army chief says Russia is augmenting its troops presence in the Kharkiv region

May. 30, 2024 12:36 PM EDT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia conducted an array of aerial attacks on Ukraine with cruise missiles, drones and ballistic missiles, Ukraine's air force said Thursday, while the chief of the army said Russia is increasing its troop concentration in the Kharkiv region where Moscow's forces have made...

US military defends Africa strategy in light of coups and a drift toward Russia

May. 30, 2024 12:31 PM EDT

AGADIR, Morocco (AP) — The head of the U.S. military in Africa vigorously defended the country’s counterterrorism strategy on the continent and vowed to press forward with it despite a wave of criticism and a drift among African nations toward seeking security help from Russia instead. ...

The Latest | 2 soldiers are killed in a West Bank car-ramming attack, Israeli military says

May. 30, 2024 12:24 PM EDT

The Israeli military said Thursday that two soldiers were killed in a car-ramming attack in the occupied West Bank. Violence in the West Bank has surged throughout the war in Gaza as Israel raids Palestinian towns in the territory to crack down on militancy, with incursions killing...

Clerk over Alex Murdaugh trial spent thousands on bonuses, meals and gifts, ethics complaint says

May. 30, 2024 12:23 PM EDT

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina officials have filed 76 counts of ethics violations against the court clerk who handled the Alex Murdaugh murder trial. The 25 pages of allegations accuse former Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill of allowing a photo of Murdaugh in a...

US District Judge Larry Hicks dies at 80 after being struck by vehicle near Nevada courthouse

May. 30, 2024 12:22 PM EDT

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Larry Hicks, a federal judge in Nevada for more than 20 years, died after being struck by a vehicle near the courthouse in Reno, authorities and his family said. He was 80. Hicks was a pedestrian struck at an intersection Wednesday afternoon, taken to a hospital...

Supreme Court gives homeowners another chance in escrow dispute with Bank of America

May. 30, 2024 12:21 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday gave homeowners another chance to force Bank of America and other large banks to pay interest on mortgage escrow accounts. The court unanimously threw out an appeals court ruling in favor of Bank of America, which has refused to pay...