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Biden rolls out migration order that aims to shut down asylum requests, after months of anticipation

Jun. 04, 2024 13:37 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled plans to enact immediate significant restrictions on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border as the White House tries to neutralize immigration as a political liability ahead of the November elections. The White...

India's popular but polarizing leader Narendra Modi is extending his decade in power. Who is he?

Jun. 04, 2024 12:54 PM EDT

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who claimed victory for his alliance in an election seen as a referendum on his decade in power, is a popular but polarizing leader who has presided over a fast-growing economy while advancing Hindu nationalism. Modi, 73, is...

Prosecutors play audio of Hunter Biden reading his memoir to set scene at his federal gun trial

Jun. 04, 2024 13:04 PM EDT

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday painted President Joe Biden’s son Hunter as deceptive and driven by addiction, a man whose dark habits ensnared loved ones and who knew what he was doing when he lied on federal forms to purchase a gun in 2018. Meanwhile,...

Wisconsin attorney general files felony charges against attorneys, aide who worked for Trump in 2020

Jun. 04, 2024 13:23 PM EDT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed felony forgery charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide who helped submit paperwork falsely saying that former President Donald Trump had won the battleground state in 2020. The charges were filed against...

Garland slams attacks on the Justice Department, telling lawmakers: 'I will not be intimidated'

Jun. 04, 2024 12:52 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland rebuked Republicans for what he described as unprecedented attacks on the Justice Department Tuesday, telling lawmakers who have sought to hold him in contempt that he will “not be intimidated.” Appearing before a House panel...

The Latest | Palestinians recover 360 bodies in north Gaza killed in Israeli offensive

Jun. 04, 2024 13:40 PM EDT

A spokesman for Gaza’s civil defense said Tuesday that first responders have recovered the bodies of 360 people, mostly women and children, killed in the northern refugee camp of Jabaliya during a recent three-week Israeli offensive there. Palestinian health officials in the Gaza...

Mexico’s next president faces 3 pressing challenges: money, dialogue and the US election

Jun. 04, 2024 09:30 AM EDT

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...

Tractors rumble in streets again ahead of EU polls. Farming is a big issue and the far right pounces

Jun. 04, 2024 05:25 AM EDT

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...

Many Americans are still shying away from EVs despite Biden's push, an AP-NORC/EPIC poll finds

Jun. 04, 2024 12:29 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Americans still aren’t sold on going electric for their next car purchase. High prices and a lack of easy-to-find charging stations are major sticking points, a new poll shows. About 4 in 10 U.S. adults say they would be at least somewhat likely to buy an...

Centenarian veterans are sharing their memories of D-Day, 80 years later

Jun. 04, 2024 07:04 AM EDT

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...

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The Latest | Palestinians recover 360 bodies in north Gaza killed in Israeli offensive

Jun. 04, 2024 13:40 PM EDT

A spokesman for Gaza’s civil defense said Tuesday that first responders have recovered the bodies of 360 people, mostly women and children, killed in the northern refugee camp of Jabaliya during a recent three-week Israeli offensive there. Palestinian health officials in the Gaza...

Biden rolls out migration order that aims to shut down asylum requests, after months of anticipation

Jun. 04, 2024 13:37 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled plans to enact immediate significant restrictions on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border as the White House tries to neutralize immigration as a political liability ahead of the November elections. The White...

Tech news site Gizmodo sold for third time in 8 years as European publisher Keleops looks to expand

Jun. 04, 2024 13:34 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime technology news and review site Gizmodo has been sold for the third time in the past eight years, this time to a European publisher looking to expand its coverage of the digital scene. Paris-based Keleops didn't disclose how much it paid for Gizmodo in its...

Chicago police tweak mass arrests policy ahead of Democratic National Convention

Jun. 04, 2024 13:32 PM EDT

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling on Tuesday touted the nation’s second-largest police department as fully prepared to handle crowds of protesters expected during the Democratic National Convention, including new ways to handle possible mass arrests. ...

Wisconsin attorney general files felony charges against attorneys, aide who worked for Trump in 2020

Jun. 04, 2024 13:23 PM EDT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed felony forgery charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide who helped submit paperwork falsely saying that former President Donald Trump had won the battleground state in 2020. The charges were filed against...

Maine company plans to launch small satellites starting in 2025

Jun. 04, 2024 13:16 PM EDT

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Representatives for a Maine company that plans to send small satellites into space from the Northeast's most rural state said they will start launches next year. Brunswick-based bluShift Aerospace hopes to turn Maine into a hub for the launching of commercial...

Justice Department's 'deepfake' concerns over Biden interview audio highlights AI misuse worries

Jun. 04, 2024 13:14 PM EDT

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...

Security clearance is restored for ex-FBI employee who testified on politicization claims

Jun. 04, 2024 13:11 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former FBI employee who accused the bureau of politicizing its work when he testified to Congress has seen his security clearance restored, his lawyers said Tuesday. Marcus Allen was one of three men who alleged overreach and retaliation by the FBI in May 2023...

Feds seek person who left bag of $120,000 with promise of more at home of food fraud juror

Jun. 04, 2024 13:09 PM EDT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities in Minnesota have confiscated cellphones and taken all seven defendants into custody as investigators try to determine who attempted to bribe a juror with a bag of cash containing $120,000 to get her to acquit them on charges of stealing more than $40 million from a...

Cyprus president says a buffer zone splitting the island won't become another migrant route

Jun. 04, 2024 13:07 PM EDT

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...