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India begins counting votes in marathon election expected to bring Prime Minister Modi a third term

Jun. 03, 2024 23:59 PM EDT

NEW DELHI (AP) — India began counting more than 640 million votes Tuesday in the world’s largest democratic exercise, which was widely expected to return Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a third term after a decade in power. The 6-week election was seen as a referendum on Modi. If...

Jury is chosen in Hunter Biden's federal firearms case and opening statements are set for Tuesday

Jun. 03, 2024 20:08 PM EDT

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A jury was seated Monday in the federal gun case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, after prospective panelists were questioned about their thoughts on gun rights and drug addiction while the first lady watched from the front row of the courtroom. ...

China's spacecraft carrying rocks from the far side of the moon leaves the lunar surface

Jun. 03, 2024 23:09 PM EDT

BEIJING (AP) — China says a spacecraft carrying rock and soil samples from the far side of the moon has lifted off from the lunar surface to start its journey back to Earth. The ascender of the Chang’e-6 probe lifted off Tuesday morning Beijing time and entered a preset orbit...

Biden prepares an order that would shut down asylum if a daily average of 2,500 migrants arrive

Jun. 03, 2024 21:46 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is telling lawmakers that President Joe Biden is preparing to sign off on an executive order that would shut down asylum requests at the U.S.-Mexico border once the average number of daily encounters hits 2,500 between ports of entry, with the border reopening...

French children hail D-Day veterans as heroes as they arrive in Normandy for anniversary events

Jun. 03, 2024 21:53 PM EDT

DEAUVILLE AIRPORT, France (AP) — ‘’To our forever heroes: Thank you'' — those words inscribed by French schoolchildren on a big poster greeted dozens of U.S. World War II veterans, many in their 100s, as they arrived on Monday in Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day...

How Trump's deny-everything strategy could hurt him at sentencing

Jun. 03, 2024 20:10 PM EDT

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...

Fauci pushes back partisan attacks in fiery House hearing over COVID origins and controversies

Jun. 03, 2024 16:32 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert until leaving the government in 2022, was back before Congress on Monday, calling “simply preposterous” Republican allegations that he'd tried to cover up origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. A GOP-led...

With its top editor abruptly gone, The Washington Post grapples with a hastily announced restructure

Jun. 03, 2024 21:06 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The struggling Washington Post found itself in some turmoil on Monday following the abrupt departure of the newspaper's executive editor and a hastily announced restructuring plan aimed at stopping an exodus of readers over the past few years. Post publisher Will...

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

Jun. 03, 2024 15:46 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, giving Israel considerable stocks of weaponry and voicing its support. Nearly eight months...

Market jitters follow election of first woman as Mexico's president, Claudia Sheinbaum

Jun. 03, 2024 17:14 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hours after declaring victory, Mexico’s newly elected president, the first woman to win the job, faced a market meltdown Monday and a tough path toward reconciling a country deeply divided by outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Claudia Sheinbaum...

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She's the world's most expensive cow, and part of Brazil's plan to put beef on everyone's plate

Jun. 04, 2024 00:07 AM EDT

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...

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

Jun. 04, 2024 00:06 AM 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...

New Mexico primary holds implications for Legislature and prosecutor in Alec Baldwin case

Jun. 04, 2024 00:05 AM EDT

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico voters are picking their partisan favorites in Tuesday's primary to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November. The votes in the first Senate election since redistricting in 2021 hold implications for Native...

Today in History: June 4, World War II’s Battle of Midway begins in the Pacific

Jun. 04, 2024 00:01 AM EDT

Today in History Today is Tuesday, June 4, the 156th day of 2024. There are 210 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 4, 1942, the World War II Battle of Midway began, resulting in a decisive American victory against Japan and...

India begins counting votes in marathon election expected to bring Prime Minister Modi a third term

Jun. 03, 2024 23:59 PM EDT

NEW DELHI (AP) — India began counting more than 640 million votes Tuesday in the world’s largest democratic exercise, which was widely expected to return Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a third term after a decade in power. The 6-week election was seen as a referendum on Modi. If...

India's election concludes with the votes being counted Tuesday. Here's what to know

Jun. 03, 2024 23:51 PM EDT

NEW DELHI (AP) — The world’s largest election could also be one of its most consequential. India has close to 970 million voters among its more than 1.4 billion people, and its general election pits Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an avowed Hindu nationalist, against a broad...

South Korea is suspending a military deal with North Korea after tensions over North's balloons

Jun. 03, 2024 23:32 PM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government has approved the suspension of a contentious military agreement with North Korea, a step that would allow it to take tougher responses to North Korean provocations. The development came as animosities between the rival Koreas...

South Korea’s government has approved the suspension of a military agreement with North Korea

Jun. 03, 2024 23:35 PM EDT
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government has approved the suspension of a military agreement with North Korea.

Japan police search for suspects in spray-painting of graffiti at controversial war shrine

Jun. 03, 2024 23:31 PM EDT

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police are searching for the suspects who spray-painted the word “toilet” on a Tokyo shrine that commemorates the country's war dead, in an apparent protest against the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, officials and news...

Biden lays into Trump over convictions and says he now poses a greater threat than in 2016

Jun. 03, 2024 23:29 PM EDT

GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — President Joe Biden laid into his predecessor and likely opponent in November's election, Donald Trump, for being convicted by a Manhattan jury on 34 felony counts related to hush money payments, saying Monday night that “this campaign has entered uncharted territory.”...