Month: May 2024

By KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of Indian voters across 93 constituencies were casting ballots on Tuesday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi mounted an increasingly shrill election campaign, ramping up polarizing rhetoric in incendiary speeches that have targeted the Muslim minority. In recent campaign rallies, Modi has called

By ED WHITE, ALEXA ST. JOHN and SEAN MURPHY Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Severe storms battered the Midwest on Tuesday, unleashing a curtain of heavy rain, gusty winds and tornadoes throughout the region a day after a deadly twister ripped through a small Oklahoma town and killed at least one person. Tornadoes were spotted

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Voters in Northern Macedonia go to the polls Wednesday for a double election — presidential and parliamentary. Center-right candidates are favored to win both contests, which have focused in part on the country’s long struggle to join the European Union. The opposition center-right has pushed

By JOVANA GEC and DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to European ally Serbia falls on a symbolic date: the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy during NATO’s air war over Kosovo. Xi arrived Tuesday from France. On May 7, 1999 U.S. jets dropped five

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press President Vladimir Putin began his fifth term at a glittering Kremlin inauguration Tuesday, embarking on another six years as leader of Russia after destroying his political opponents, launching a devastating war in Ukraine and concentrating all power in his hands. At the ceremony in the gilded Grand Kremlin Palace, Putin

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press 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 on her opposition to sending aid to her native Ukraine. She defeated eight rival Republicans to secure her

By CHARLES REX ARBOGAST, PAT EATON-ROBB and STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the University of Chicago on Tuesday after administrators who had initially adopted a permissive approach said the protest had crossed a line and caused growing concerns about safety. University President Paul Alivisatos acknowledged the

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders will be Joe Biden’s most powerful emissary to progressives and to younger voters this election year. Sanders and Biden share a bond that was forged through a hard-fought Democratic presidential primary in 2020 and fortified through policy achievements over the last three years. The

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In April, Bernie Sanders repeatedly stood shoulder to shoulder with President Joe Biden, promoting their joint accomplishments on health care and climate at formal White House events while eviscerating Donald Trump in a widely viewed campaign TikTok video. Then just last week, Sanders was bluntly warning

By SIBI ARASU and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press CHENNAI, India (AP) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi has wielded near-total control over Indian politics since coming to power 10 years ago, with one exception: He has failed to win over the country’s wealthier southern region. Five states across southern India account for roughly 20% of the

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeannie Epper, a groundbreaking performer who did stunts for many of the most important women of film and television action of the 1970s and ’80s, including star Lynda Carter on TV’s “Wonder Woman,” has died. She was 83. Epper died of natural causes Sunday at