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Biden says he's restricting asylum to help 'gain control' of the border

Jun. 04, 2024 14:39 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...

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, show jury laptop in his federal gun trial

Jun. 04, 2024 14:41 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 14:21 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 state charges are the first to...

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

Jun. 04, 2024 14:23 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 | Israeli ground forces push into central Gaza refugee camp

Jun. 04, 2024 14:34 PM EDT

The Israeli military says ground troops backed by airstrikes have launched an operation in central Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp. Local hospital officials say a strike in the camp killed 11 Palestinians, including three children and a woman. The extent of the Israeli incursion into...

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

Jun. 04, 2024 14:53 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...

New Rhode Island law bars auto insurers from hiking rates on the widowed

Jun. 04, 2024 14:51 PM EDT

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A new Rhode Island law prohibits auto insurers from charging policyholders more solely because they have been widowed. The new law bans insurers from treating widows or widowers any differently than married people in terms of classification or rates...

Nebraska funeral home discovers hospice patient was still alive hours after being declared dead

Jun. 04, 2024 14:50 PM EDT

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska funeral home discovered that a 74-year-old hospice patient who was declared dead by her nursing home two hours earlier was actually still alive, so workers started CPR and she was rushed to a hospital, where she died hours later. It's not clear how...

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin announce TLC family reality series

Jun. 04, 2024 14:47 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria are the next family set to star in their own reality series. The actor and producer, who has seven kids under age 10 with his wife, announced the TLC reality show about their life as a party of nine. “The Baldwins,” the...

Biden says he's acting to restrict asylum to help 'gain control' of border and blames Trump for sinking bipartisan deal

Jun. 04, 2024 14:42 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden says he's acting to restrict asylum to help 'gain control' of border and blames Trump for sinking bipartisan deal.

Ippei Mizuhara, ex-interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani, pleads guilty in sports betting case

Jun. 04, 2024 14:41 PM EDT

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani pleaded guilty to bank and tax fraud on Tuesday and admitted to stealing nearly $17 million from the Japanese baseball player to pay off sports betting debts. Ippei Mizuhara ’s crimes...

Prosecutors play audio of Hunter Biden reading his memoir, show jury laptop in his federal gun trial

Jun. 04, 2024 14:41 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,...

Biden says he's restricting asylum to help 'gain control' of the border

Jun. 04, 2024 14:39 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...

UK military horses injured after bolting across London in April 'recovering with remarkable speed'

Jun. 04, 2024 14:37 PM EDT

LONDON (AP) — The five military horses that bolted and injured themselves as they ran loose through central London in April are all expected to return to duty, the British Army said Tuesday, with three of them already back to work. The horses were performing routine exercises near...

Man sentenced to life without parole in ambush shooting of Baltimore police officer

Jun. 04, 2024 14:37 PM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — A man convicted earlier this year of killing a Baltimore police officer and another victim was sentenced Tuesday to two life sentences without parole. The 2021 deadly shootings occurred just hours apart in separate areas of Baltimore. Prosecutors never established...