Month: June 2024

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Dozens of students protesting the war in Gaza walked out of the University of Chicago’s commencement Saturday as the school withheld the diplomas of four seniors over their involvement with a pro-Palestinian encampment. The disruption to the rainy two-hour outdoor ceremony was brief, with shouts, boos and

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and MARCOS ALEMAN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The Biden administration has sent a high-level delegation to El Salvador to attend President Nayib Bukele’s inauguration to a second term. The delegation led by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is a sharp break from the White House’s past criticism of

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — A New York woman has pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the 2018 death of an anti-gang activist during a dispute over a memorial for the activist’s slain daughter. Prosecutors say Annmarie Drago entered the plea Friday in a Long Island courtroom and is expected to be sentenced to five years

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A crowd of tens of thousands has gathered in Hungary’s capital in a show of strength behind Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. The Saturday demonstration took place a week before the European Parliament election. It’s a contest that Orbán has cast as an existential turning point between

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A court run by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has sentenced 44 people to death, including a businessman working with aid groups, on spying charges. A defense lawyer said Saturday they were among 49 people who were detained by the Iran-backed rebels and accused of collaborating with the enemy,

LONDON (AP) — Voters in Iceland are choosing a president and selecting from a field of 12 people including a former prime minister. The candidates in Saturday’s election are vying to replace outgoing President Gudni Th. Johannesson who didn’t seek reelection for the largely ceremonial post. The winner will be the seventh president of Iceland

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A jury in Idaho unanimously agreed Saturday that convicted killer Chad Daybell deserves the death penalty for the gruesome murders of his wife and his girlfriend’s two youngest children, ending a grim case that began in 2019 with a search for two missing children. The 55-year-old Daybell, wearing a dress shirt

By WILL GRAVES AP National Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Gymnast Skye Blakely says working on her mental health has helped put her in the mix for the 2024 Olympics. The 19-year-old says she went to a “dark place” after getting injured at the 2021 Olympic trials. At the gentle urging of her parents,

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state TV is reporting a high-ranking general in the Revolutionary Guard has died after an illness. Gen. Vajihollah Moradi was one of the commanders of the foreign wing of the Guard, TV said. He was also a comrade of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was slain in a U.S. drone strike

The Associated Press Live Nation is investigating a data breach at its Ticketmaster subsidiary, which dominates ticketing for live events in the United States. Live Nation, based in Beverly Hills, California, said in a regulatory filing Friday that on May 27 “a criminal threat actor” offered to sell Ticketmaster data on the dark web. Other

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A German court ordered a 25-year-old man born in Afghanistan held on suspicion of attempted murder in connection with a knife attack that left six people injured. But there’s no word yet on the motive. Police say the suspect who was shot by police isn’t in a condition to be questioned.