By ANGELA CHARLTON and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press PARIS (AP) — People squeezed by inflation and demanding economic justice took to the streets of cities across Asia and Europe to mark May Day on Monday, in a global outpouring of worker discontent not seen since before the COVID-19 pandemic sent the world into lockdowns. French
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By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Headlines were bleak when results from the test known as the “Nation’s Report Card” came out last year. Local newspapers around the country documented their districts’ declining scores. Editorials warned that US schools had failed students during the pandemic. Officials described the exam as an alarming wake-up call. But one
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By Artemis Moshtaghian and Melissa Alonso, CNN Up to 100 homes are damaged and a state of emergency is in place in Virginia Beach, Virginia, after an EF3 tornado hit the city, prompting the closure Monday of at least three schools, officials said, as a South Florida community also recovers from a weekend tornado. No
Continue Reading By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli lawmakers reconvene Monday after a month-long parliament recess, resuming the fight over a contentious government plan to overhaul the judiciary that has split Israelis and drawn concern from Israel’s most important ally, the United States. The tensions will be on full display when the
Continue Reading By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Aerosmith will be touring a city near you for the last time to celebrate the rock band’s 50-plus years together. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band announced Monday the dates for their farewell tour called “Peace Out” starting Sept. 2 in Philadelphia.
Continue Reading By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to the news media and the impact it’s having on democracy and political polarization in the United States, Americans are likelier to say it’s doing more harm than good. Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults say the news media is increasing political polarization in this
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Today is the start of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month — a commemorative time designated by Congress to celebrate the more than 24 million people in the US with roots in East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, Hawaii, Samoa, Guam, Fiji, Tonga, the Marshall Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and other
Continue Reading Are you getting the most out of your credit cards? It’s easy to keep using the same plastic, but fees and benefits change all the time. Investigate all the benefits each card offers, since you may have forgotten some and some may have been added. Then total up other monetary benefits — such as cash
Continue Reading By ANGELA CHARLTON and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — People squeezed by inflation and demanding economic justice took to the streets of cities across Asia and Europe to mark May Day on Monday, in a global outpouring of worker discontent not seen since before the COVID-19 pandemic sent the world into
Continue Reading By LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The wide empty spaces in pews between parishioners at a Sunday service at Zion Baptist Church in South Carolina’s capital highlight a post-pandemic reality common among many Black Protestant churches nationwide. At its heyday in the 1960s, more than 1,500 parishioners filled every seat at
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By Gabe Cohen, CNN Desperate to find educators amid a nationwide shortage, an Arizona school district is breaking ground on an unusual recruitment tool: tiny homes for teachers. Chino Valley Unified School District is using federal money to build 10 studio units, each 400 square feet, on a vacant lot behind an elementary school, where
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The satellite news network Al Jazeera says that a correspondent for one of its channels held in Egypt since 2019 has been released after nearly four years in pre-trial detention. The Qatar-funded network in Doha said that Hisham Abdel Aziz had been released. It
Continue Reading By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations’ top official in Sudan says the country’s warring generals have agreed to send representatives for negotiations, potentially in Saudi Arabia. Volker Perthes told The Associated Press Monday the talks would first focus on establishing a “stable and reliable” cease-fire. Perthes, however, said they still
Continue Reading By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Regulators seized troubled First Republic Bank early Monday and sold all of its deposits and most of its assets to JPMorgan Chase Bank in a bid to head off further banking turmoil in the U.S. San Francisco-based First Republic is the third midsize bank to
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TODAY: It’s a bright and breezy day today, with abundant sunshine being just enough to get temperatures into the low 60s. Northwest winds sustained near 20 mph will keep us breezy and cool through Monday afternoon. TONIGHT: We’ll stay mostly clear, with a light breeze overnight. Temperatures will fall into the high 30s overnight. EXTENDED:
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By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge is expected to rule whether the Republican state attorney general’s unique rule can take effect that would require adults and children to undergo more than a year of therapy and fulfill several other requirements before they could receive gender-affirming treatments such as puberty
Continue Reading By OMAR AKOUR Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Regional leaders are meeting in Jordan to discuss Syria’s return to the Arab fold and a Jordanian proposal to reach a “political solution” to the Syrian conflict. The talks, attended by the top diplomats of Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Egypt, kicked off Monday with
Continue Reading By DAVID RISING Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say that Russia has launched its second large salvo of missiles at Ukraine in recent days. The attack damaged buildings and wounded at least 34 people in the eastern city of Pavlohrad but failed to hit Kyiv. Air raid sirens blared across the capital
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares advanced Monday in Tokyo and Sydney while most world markets were closed for May 1 holidays. Traditional Labor Day holidays around the globe limited initial global market reactions to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s announcement that regulators had seized troubled First Republic Bank and will sell its assets
Continue Reading By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Regulators seized troubled First Republic Bank and sold all of its deposits and most of its assets to JPMorgan Chase Bank in a bid to head off further banking turmoil in the U.S. San Francisco-based First Republic is the third midsize bank to fail in
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