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Modi expected to retain power but early India count suggests it won't be the landslide he hoped for

Jun. 04, 2024 09:32 AM EDT

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...

Hunter Biden's federal firearms case opens after jury is chosen, with first lady again sitting in

Jun. 04, 2024 09:03 AM EDT

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Lawyers will make their opening statements Tuesday in the federal gun case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter after a jury was seated for the trial. Hunter Biden has been charged with three felonies stemming from a 2018 firearm purchase when he was,...

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...

The Latest | Israeli strikes kill 11 overnight in Gaza, including a family of 3 at a refugee camp

Jun. 04, 2024 09:45 AM EDT

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

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...

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...

Silence and heavy security in China and Hong Kong mark 35th anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown

Jun. 04, 2024 07:45 AM EDT

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

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...

Mourners can now speak to an AI version of the dead. But will that help with grief?

Jun. 04, 2024 07:00 AM EDT

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

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...

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

Jun. 04, 2024 09:50 AM 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...

The last WWII vets converge on Normandy for D-Day and fallen friends and to cement their legacy

Jun. 04, 2024 09:49 AM EDT

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — Under their feet, the sands of Omaha Beach, and in their rheumy eyes, tears that inevitably flowed from being on the revered shoreline in Normandy, France, where so many American young men were cut down 80 years ago on D-Day. Veterans of World War II,...

The Latest | Israeli strikes kill 11 overnight in Gaza, including a family of 3 at a refugee camp

Jun. 04, 2024 09:45 AM EDT

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...

Stock market today: Wall Street slips ahead of job market data

Jun. 04, 2024 09:38 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks drifted lower as investors await a trove of labor market data this week. The S&P 500 fell 0.2% in early trading Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 148 points, and the Nasdaq slipped 0.1%. A handful of companies are still reporting earnings. Designer...

Milwaukee schools superintendent resigns amid potential loss of millions in funding

Jun. 04, 2024 09:38 AM EDT

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools resigned Tuesday, with Wisconsin's largest school district in jeopardy of losing millions of dollars in state funding after not submitting required financial reports to the state. Keith Posley, a former teacher who has...

The Latest | India counts votes from a mega-election seen as a referendum on Modi

Jun. 04, 2024 09:34 AM EDT

NEW DELHI (AP) — India started counting votes Tuesday from its staggered, six-week election that was seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decade in power and was expected to give him a third term in office. Early leads showed fewer seats for Modi’s governing...

Modi expected to retain power but early India count suggests it won't be the landslide he hoped for

Jun. 04, 2024 09:32 AM EDT

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...

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...

Indian opposition calls its strong showing “moral and political loss” for Modi even though he's expected to be reelected

Jun. 04, 2024 09:26 AM EDT
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian opposition calls its strong showing “moral and political loss” for Modi even though he's expected to be reelected.

3-year-old dies in what police say was random stabbing in Ohio grocery parking lot

Jun. 04, 2024 09:25 AM EDT

NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio (AP) — A 3-year-old boy stabbed by a woman in a grocery store parking lot in Ohio has died in what investigators believe was a random attack, police said. The boy and his mother were going back to their vehicle after shopping at the Giant Eagle grocery on Monday...