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Vatican and State Department stress solid ties after Rubio’s fence-mending visit over Trump attacks
VATICAN CITY | The Vatican raised the “need to work tirelessly in favor of peace” in talks Thursday with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who came to Rome on a fence-mending visit after President Donald Trump’s criticisms of Pope Leo XIV over the Iran war. Both the Vatican and the U.S. State Department stressed […]
Dozens of passengers left hantavirus-stricken cruise ship after 1st fatality
MADRID | More than two dozen passengers from at least 12 different countries left a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak without contact tracing nearly two weeks after the first passenger died on board, the ship operator and Dutch officials said Thursday. Health authorities on at least four continents are now tracking down […]
Clarence Thomas becomes the second longest-serving justice in Supreme Court history
WASHINGTON | The first baby boomer on the Supreme Court hit a milestone on Thursday, becoming the second-longest serving justice in history at a time when his influence has never seemed greater. Once an outlier on the nation’s highest court, Justice Clarence Thomas has become a towering figure in the conservative legal movement over the […]
In Gaza, some Palestinian children find respite and catharsis in breakdancing
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip | As the music comes on in a Gaza refugee camp, a group of boys and girls start showing off their breakdancing moves, kicking and spinning with intense focus on their fast footwork. Two young girls grin at each other as they nailed a tricky part of the routine. It’s a […]
Southern Poverty Law Center attorneys make first court appearance in fraud case
MONTGOMERY, Ala. | Lawyers for the Southern Poverty Law Center will appear in court Thursday for the first time since the civil rights group was charged with defrauding donors by failing to disclose that money would be paid to informants inside extremist groups. The grand jury indictment filed April 21 by the U.S. Justice Department […]
Worries about AI’s risks to humanity loom over the trial pitting Musk against OpenAI’s leaders
OAKLAND, Calif. | At the heart of the trial pitting Elon Musk against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a moment when they found common cause on an ever more pressing question: how to protect humanity from the risks of artificial intelligence. It turned sour, and the jury is charged with settling the ensuing legal dispute […]
Chief Justice John Roberts says Supreme Court is not political
HERSHEY, Pa. | Supreme Court justices are not “political actors,” Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday, insisting unpopular court decisions are based solely on the law. “I think, at a very basic level, people think we’re making policy decisions, we’re saying we think this is how things should be, as opposed to what the law […]
US military strike on alleged drug boat kills 3 in the eastern Pacific
WASHINGTON | The U.S. military launched another strike Tuesday on a vessel suspected of transporting drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three men. The attack came a day after U.S. forces struck an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea, killing two people. The Trump administration’s campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in […]
Trump again assails Pope Leo, potentially complicating Rubio’s visit to the Vatican this week
WASHINGTON | President Donald Trump has renewed his criticism of Pope Leo XIV, potentially complicating a fence-mending visit that Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to make this week to the Vatican. In an interview with conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt, Trump said the first American-born pontiff is helping Iran and also making the world less […]
Gasoline costs 50% more in the US than it did before the Iran war
NEW YORK | The price of a gallon of regular gasoline climbed 31 cents in the past week, spiking to an average of $4.48 per gallon Tuesday, according to AAA, hitting the wallets of drivers after rising 50% since the war with Iran began. The main reason drivers are paying more at the pump is […]