Category Archives: World

US paused bomb shipment to Israel to signal concerns over Rafah invasion, official says
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. paused a shipment of bombs to Israel last week over concerns that Israel was approaching a decision on launching a full-scale assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah agai...
May 7, 2024

Spartz fends off Republican rivals to win contentious Indiana congressional primary
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Two-term U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz won a contentious Republican primary to defend her seat just months after she decided to run for reelection in a campaign that focused attention ...
May 7, 2024

Semi-automatic gun ban nixed in Colorado’s Democratic-controlled statehouse after historic progress
DENVER (AP) - A sweeping bill to ban the sale and transfer of semi-automatic firearms was nixed in Colorado's Democratic-controlled Legislature on Tuesday as lawmakers pressed forward with a slew of o...
May 7, 2024

Biden condemns current antisemitism in Holocaust remembrance during college protests and Gaza war
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden condemned the "ferocious surge of antisemitism in America and around the world" during a Tuesday ceremony to remember victims of the Holocaust at a time when the ...
May 7, 2024

The Latest | Stormy Daniels is expected to appear Tuesday as a witness in Trump's hush money trial
NEW YORK (AP) - As the third week of witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial takes place, all eyes are on who will be called next and whether the former president will be able to abide by...
May 7, 2024

Stormy Daniels is expected to appear at Trump's hush money trial on Tuesday
NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump returns to the hush money trial Tuesday facing a threat of jail time for additional gag order violations as prosecutors gear up to summon big-name witnesses including porn...
May 7, 2024

Police break up pro-Palestinian student protest in Berlin as demonstrations spread across Europe
AMSTERDAM (AP) - Berlin police on Tuesday broke up a protest by several hundred pro-Palestinian activists who had occupied a courtyard on Berlin's Free University earlier in the day. The protesters ha...
May 7, 2024

Police search Brussels office of prominent far-right German lawmaker over China spying allegations
BERLIN (AP) - Authorities were searching the European parliament office of a prominent German far-right lawmaker in Brussels on Tuesday, Germany's top prosecutor's office said. Maximilian Krah, the Al...
May 7, 2024

Putin begins his fifth term as president, more in control of Russia than ever
Vladimir Putin began his fifth term Tuesday as Russian leader at a glittering Kremlin inauguration, setting out on another six years in office after destroying his political opponents, launching a dev...
May 7, 2024

5 workers dead, 49 still missing after a building under construction collapsed in South Africa
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Rescue teams worked through the night searching for dozens of construction workers buried for more than 12 hours under the rubble of concrete after a multi-story apartme...
May 7, 2024