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Top UN court orders Israel to halt military offensive in Rafah, though Israel is unlikely to comply

May. 24, 2024 15:11 PM EDT

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations' top court ordered Israel on Friday to immediately halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, but stopped short of ordering a cease-fire for the enclave. Although Israel is unlikely to comply with the order, it will ratchet up...

Egypt agrees to send aid trucks through Israeli crossing to Gaza but impact is unclear

May. 24, 2024 15:47 PM EDT

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Egypt said Friday it has agreed to send U.N. humanitarian aid trucks through Israel’s main crossing into Gaza, but it remained unclear if they will be able to enter the territory as fighting raged in the southern city of Rafah amid Israel’s escalating offensive there....

Trump swaps bluster for silence, and possibly sleep, in his hush money trial

May. 24, 2024 00:13 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump isn’t known for letting slights pass. Yet for weeks, the famously combative presumptive Republican nominee has sat silently — to the point of sometimes seeming asleep — in a sterile Manhattan courtroom amid a barrage of accusations and insults. ...

As the election nears, Biden pushes a slew of rules on the environment and other priorities

May. 24, 2024 12:24 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — As he tries to secure his legacy, President Joe Biden has unleashed a flurry of election year rules on the environment and other topics, including a landmark regulation that would force coal-fired power plants to capture smokestack emissions or shut down. The...

Hunter Biden gun trial set for June 3 could last up to 2 weeks amid disputes over evidence

May. 24, 2024 15:49 PM EDT

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden 's trial on federal firearms charges in Delaware could last up to two weeks and likely include sharp disagreements over evidence as it plays out during his father's reelection campaign. President Joe Biden's son is charged with lying about his...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to undergo procedure at Walter Reed, will transfer power to deputy

May. 24, 2024 15:58 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will undergo a medical procedure at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Friday evening and will transfer power temporarily to his deputy, Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a statement. Austin is...

Young missionary couple from US among 3 killed by gunmen in Haiti's capital, police say

May. 24, 2024 15:08 PM EDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A U.S. missionary couple was shot and killed by criminal gang members in Haiti’s capital after they were abducted while leaving a youth group activity held at a local church, according to a police official and a religious group. A third person also...

Over 100 feared dead in landslide in remote part of Papua New Guinea, with rescue efforts underway

May. 24, 2024 10:52 AM EDT

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 people are believed to have been killed in a landslide Friday that buried a village in a remote, mountainous part of Papua New Guinea, and an emergency response is underway, officials in the South Pacific island nation said. The landslide...

More severe weather moves through Midwest as Iowa residents clean up tornado damage

May. 24, 2024 14:40 PM EDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Several tornadoes were reported in Iowa and Illinois as storms downed power lines and trees on Friday, just after a deadly twister devastated one small town. The large storm system began overnight in Nebraska before traveling across central Iowa and into...

Caleb Carr, military historian and author of bestselling novel 'The Alienist,' dies at 68

May. 24, 2024 15:14 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Caleb Carr, the scarred and gifted son of Beat poet Lucien Carr who endured a traumatizing childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and late-life memoirist of his devoted cat, Masha, has died at 68. Carr died of cancer Thursday,...

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West Virginia Gov. Justice ends nearly two-year state of emergency over jail staffing

May. 24, 2024 16:18 PM EDT

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said Friday he is ending the state of emergency over staffing in the state Department of Corrections. The Republican governor called on the state National Guard to help stop worker attrition at the state’s jails and prisons...

The Justice Department is suing Ticketmaster and Live Nation. What does that mean for concertgoers?

May. 24, 2024 16:12 PM EDT

Will the Justice Department's lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation give concertgoers, sports fan and theater patrons some relief from surging ticket prices? The lawsuit could potentially lead to a breakup of Live Nation Entertainment, a company that resulted from...

Democratic senators request meeting with Chief Justice Roberts over flags flown at Alito's homes

May. 24, 2024 16:12 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Democratic senators are requesting a meeting with Chief Justice John Roberts after reports that two separate flags carried by rioters at the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol had flown outside of houses owned by Justice Samuel Alito. Senate Judiciary...

A murderous romance or a frame job? Things to know about Boston's Karen Read murder trial

May. 24, 2024 16:10 PM EDT

A highly publicized trial in Massachusetts involving a woman accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowbank is finishing its fourth week on Friday. John O’Keefe, 46, died in the Boston suburb of Canton on Jan. 29, 2022....

Colorado governor signs bills regulating funeral homes after discovery of 190 rotting bodies

May. 24, 2024 16:09 PM EDT

DENVER (AP) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed two bills into law Friday that overhaul state oversight of the funeral home industry after a series of gruesome discoveries, including 190 discomposing bodies in a facility, families being sent fake ashes and the unauthorized sale of body parts. ...

The Latest | Israel must stop Rafah offensive and open border for aid, UN court rules

May. 24, 2024 16:03 PM EDT

The International Court ordered Israel to stop its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah and to open the vital border crossing for aid, saying Friday that “the humanitarian situation is now to be characterized as disastrous.” It also demanded access to Gaza for war crimes...

Republican AGs ask Supreme Court to block climate change lawsuits brought by several states

May. 24, 2024 16:03 PM EDT

Republican attorneys general in 19 states have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block several Democratic-led states from pursuing climate change lawsuits against the oil and gas industry in their own state courts. The unusual request comes as dozens of states and local governments...

UK Parliament breaks up ahead of election day with pomp, ceremony and hard-nosed politics

May. 24, 2024 16:02 PM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s lawmakers left Parliament on Friday for the last time before an election is held in six weeks. Some will never return. About 120 of the 650 members of Parliament are stepping down, and they and those who lose their seats on July 4 face an abrupt readjustment to life...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to undergo procedure at Walter Reed, will transfer power to deputy

May. 24, 2024 15:58 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will undergo a medical procedure at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Friday evening and will transfer power temporarily to his deputy, Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a statement. Austin is...

Vigil, butterfly release among events to mark the 2nd anniversary of the Uvalde school shooting

May. 24, 2024 15:58 PM EDT

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The 19 fourth-graders and two teachers killed at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, are being remembered as the second anniversary of the one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history is marked. “As we mark this solemn day, may we pray for those...