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Modi expected to retain power but early India count suggests it won't be the landslide he hoped for
NEW DELHI (AP) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi's coalition led in a majority of seats Tuesday in India's general election, according to partial figures, but faced a stronger challenge from the opposition than expected after it pushed back against the leader's mixed economic record and polarizing...
Lawyers begin opening statements in Hunter Biden's federal firearms case
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Lawyers are making opening statements Tuesday in the federal gun case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter in a trial that is expected to feature testimony from his exes and highly personal details about his struggle with addiction. Hunter Biden has...
How Trump's deny-everything strategy could hurt him at sentencing
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has had plenty to say since his hush money trial conviction last week. He’s claimed the case was rigged, incorrectly linked President Joe Biden to the state prosecution, called the star witness against him a “sleazebag" and said the judge was a...
The Latest | Israeli strikes kill 11 overnight in Gaza, including a family of 3 at a refugee camp
Palestinian health officials in the Gaza Strip said Israeli strikes killed at least 11 people overnight into Tuesday, including a family of three in the built-up Bureij refugee camp and eight police officers. In the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military said it killed two...
Tractors rumble in streets again ahead of EU polls. Farming is a big issue and the far right pounces
BEERSEL, Belgium (AP) — The far-right Flemish Interest party had set up the demonstration in the picture-pretty rolling fields south of Brussels, ahead of the four-day European Union election starting Thursday. The goal was clear: Decrying how farmers would lose fertile land to what they see as...
Mexico’s next president faces 3 pressing challenges: money, dialogue and the US election
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s newly elected president, the first woman to win the job, faces a long list of challenges, including persistent cartel violence, a deeply divided country, cash-straitened social programs and the long shadow of her mentor, outgoing President Andrés Manuel López...
Silence and heavy security in China and Hong Kong mark 35th anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown
BEIJING (AP) — Checkpoints and rows of police vehicles lined a major road leading to Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Tuesday as China heightened security on the 35th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests. Hong Kong police took at least two people off the streets as the effort...
Centenarian veterans are sharing their memories of D-Day, 80 years later
COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — World War II veterans from the United States, Britain and Canada are in Normandy this week to mark 80 years since the D-Day landings that helped lead to Hitler’s defeat. Few witnesses remain who remember the Allied assault. The Associated Press...
Mourners can now speak to an AI version of the dead. But will that help with grief?
BERLIN (AP) — When Michael Bommer found out that he was terminally ill with colon cancer, he spent a lot of time with his wife, Anett, talking about what would happen after his death. She told him one of the things she'd miss most is being able to ask him questions whenever she...
She's the world's most expensive cow, and part of Brazil's plan to put beef on everyone's plate
UBERABA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil has hundreds of millions of cows, but one in particular is extraordinary. Her massive, snow-white body is watched over by security cameras, a veterinarian and an armed guard. Worth $4 million, Viatina-19 FIV Mara Movéis is the most expensive cow ever...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi says his coalition is on the path to a third straight term, calling it a 'historical feat'
NEW DELHI (AP) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi says his coalition is on the path to a third straight term, calling it a 'historical feat.'
After guilty verdict, Trump will appear on the ballot in the last presidential primaries of 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s name will appear on the ballot Tuesday for the first time since his historic conviction on felony crimes as a handful of states hold the last Republican presidential primary contests of 2024. The former president will be on the ballot in Republican...
Lawyers have started their opening statements in the federal firearms case against Hunter Biden in Delaware
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Lawyers have started their opening statements in the federal firearms case against Hunter Biden in Delaware.
Garland to slam attacks on the Justice Department, telling lawmakers: 'I will not be intimidated'
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland will forcefully rebuke what he described as “unprecedented” attacks on the Justice Department Tuesday, telling Republicans who have sought to hold him in contempt that he will “not be intimidated.” During a hearing before...
Lawyers begin opening statements in Hunter Biden's federal firearms case
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Lawyers are making opening statements Tuesday in the federal gun case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter in a trial that is expected to feature testimony from his exes and highly personal details about his struggle with addiction. Hunter Biden has...
Attorney General Garland to tell lawmakers he will "not be intimidated" by Republican attacks on the Justice Department
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Garland to tell lawmakers he will "not be intimidated" by Republican attacks on the Justice Department.
Mourners can now speak to an AI version of the dead. But will that help with grief?
BERLIN (AP) — When Michael Bommer found out that he was terminally ill with colon cancer, he spent a lot of time with his wife, Anett, talking about what would happen after his death. She told him one of the things she'd miss most is being able to ask him questions whenever she...
Cyprus president says a buffer zone splitting the island won't become another migrant route
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The president of Cyprus said Tuesday that he won’t “open another route” for irregular migration by letting through more than two dozen asylum-seekers now stranded in a U.N.-controlled buffer zone that bisects the war-divided island nation. President...
Stock market today: Wall Street slips as oil-and-gas stocks keep tumbling
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are edging lower Tuesday as the price of oil keeps tumbling. The S&P 500 was down 0.2% in early trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 63 points, or 0.2%, as of 9:40 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.2% lower. ...
Justice Department's 'deepfake' concerns over Biden interview audio highlights AI misuse worries
WASHINGTON (AP) — Releasing an audio recording of a special counsel's interview with President Joe Biden could spur deepfakes and disinformation that trick Americans, the Justice Department said, conceding the U.S. government could not stop the misuse of artificial intelligence ahead of this...
