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By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Protesters in Israel have blocked highways and thronged the country’s main international airport in a day of countrywide demonstrations against the government’s divisive plan to overhaul the judiciary. The demonstrations on Tuesday came hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s parliamentary coalition gave an initial approval to a

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jurors in the trial of a Las Vegas police officer accused in a series of casino heists are listening to opening statements Tuesday morning. Prosecutors for the federal government were expected to paint Caleb Rogers as a gambling addict who grew increasingly desperate as his debts

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A Romanian man who was part of an international human smuggling ring has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants who suffocated in a truck trailer in 2019. Marius Mihai Draghici was sentenced Tuesday in London’s Central Criminal

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Protesters gathered in the Iowa Capitol rotunda as the Legislature convened a special session Tuesday focused exclusively on abortion restrictions, where Republican lawmakers will work to pass a new ban on almost all abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy. The day will be a

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — NATO allies are pledging to spend at least 2% of their gross domestic product on their national military budgets but have set no timeframe for achieving the goal. After Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014, the organization agreed to halt spending cuts they had made after the Cold War and

The Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — No winning ticket drawn Monday means the Powerball jackpot is an estimated $725 million ahead of Wednesday’s drawing. No ticket matched the Monday drawing of white balls 7, 23, 24, 32, 43 and red Powerball 18. The new jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing is the seventh-highest in the

By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press A state judge has thrown out obstruction of justice charges against two of the five Louisiana lawmen indicted in the fatal 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, a death authorities initially blamed on a car crash before long suppressed body-camera video showed the white officers beating, stunning and dragging the Black

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — A multi-billion dollar agreement signed with France’s TotalEnergies could help resolve Iraq’s longstanding electricity crisis. It might also attract international investors and reduce Iraq’s reliance on gas imports from neighboring Iran. But that’s only if the parties implementing the agreement can overcome the endemic

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — New discoveries including gold ornaments and fine pottery at an ancient port city in Cyprus dating back more than 3,000 years indicate that the settlement was one of the Mediterranean’s most important trading posts in the late Bronze Age, an archeologist said Tuesday. Professor Peter M.

By CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Elina Svitolina reached the Wimbledon semifinals by beating top-ranked Iga Swiatek 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-2 three months after returning from maternity leave. The 28-year-old Ukrainian gave birth to her daughter in October and returned to the WTA tour in April. Swiatek is a four-time major

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has imposed sanctions on the pro-Russian head of Serbian intelligence. The Treasury Department says Aleksander Vulin is accused of involvement in illegal arms shipments, drug trafficking and misuse of public office. Vulin serves as spy chief for the Balkan state. He previously served as interior

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Protesters in Israel have blocked highways and thronged the country’s main international airport in a day of countrywide demonstrations against the government’s divisive plan to overhaul the judiciary. The demonstrations on Tuesday came hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s parliamentary coalition gave an initial approval to a

By LISA RATHKE and JOHN MINCHILLO Associated Press ANDOVER, Vt. (AP) — A storm that dumped up to two months’ worth of rain in two days in Vermont and other parts of the Northeast brought more flooding Tuesday in communites marooned by water, including the state capital, where a dam just upstream was threatening to

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer A federal judge has handed Microsoft a major victory by declining to block its looming $69 billion takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard. Regulators are seeking to ax the deal because they say it will hurt competition. U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said in a ruling that

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The prime ministers of Poland and Japan have held talks on security, Russia’s war on Ukraine and the strengthening of business ties. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, in Warsaw on his way to a NATO summit in Lithuania, which borders Poland. The talks focused

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are ticking higher Tuesday as Wall Street waits for updates later in the week on inflation and corporate profits. The S&P 500 was 0.3% higher in midday trading and looks to be on track for another quiet day after a listless Monday. The Dow

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, SEUNG MIN KIM and KARL RITTER Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — NATO leaders agreed Tuesday to allow Ukraine to join “when allies agree and conditions are met,” the head of the military alliance said, after President Volodymyr Zelenskky blasted the organization’s failure to set a timetable for his country as “absurd.”

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has failed to approve either of two rival resolutions authorizing the delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria’s rebel-held northwest from neighboring Turkey, officially ending the U.N. cross-border operation which had been vital to helping 4.1 million people. Russia vetoed a compromise resolution that would have extended the

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities have evicted a Palestinian family from a contested apartment in Jerusalem’s Old City after a decades-long legal battle. Activists say the Ghaith-Sub Laban family’s removal on Tuesday is part of a wider trend of Israeli settlers encroaching on Palestinian neighborhoods and cementing Israeli control by