AP National News

By SYLVIE CORBET, JOHN LEICESTER and ALEX TURNBULL Associated Press NANTERRE, France (AP) — France sent tens of thousands of police officers into the streets on Thursday in an effort to head off widespread urban rioting following the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old that shocked the nation, with commuters rushing home before transport services

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A tech industry trade group is suing Arkansas over its law requiring parental permission for minors to create new social media accounts. NetChoice filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday over the measure that requires social media companies to contract with third-party vendors to perform age

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff’s deputy was acquitted Thursday of felony child neglect and other charges for failing to act during the 2018 Parkland school massacre, concluding the first trial in U.S. history of a law enforcement officer for conduct during an on-campus shooting. Former Broward County

By The Associated Press The president of Turkmenistan inaugurated a vast, multibillion-dollar development hailed as the isolated country’s first “smart city” and named after the president’s father who established a pervasive cult of personality when he was the longtime ruler. The city designed for 70,000 inhabitants is called Arkadag (Protector), a title used by former

By GRANT PECK and SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A quasi-independent review board is recommending that Facebook temporarily suspend the social media accounts of Cambodia’s prime minister. The Oversight Board, established by Facebook’s parent company, Meta, issued its nonbinding recommendation Thursday, saying Premier Hun Sen used language on his accounts that

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — From a block party in New York City to a movie screening outside of Denver, groups across the U.S. have found ways to merge Pride month and Juneteenth celebrations. Such gatherings help highlight the struggles against discrimination Black and LGBTQ+ people have faced while celebrating those whose

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are requesting voluntary testimony from nearly a dozen Justice Department officials involved in the investigation of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter. The request in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland comes as GOP lawmakers widen their scrutiny of what they claim is improper interference

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ Democratic governor says the state will keep allowing residents to change official documents to reflect their gender identities. Gov. Laura Kelly issued that statement Thursday despite a new state law aimed at preventing transgender people from altering their driver’s licenses and birth certificates. Kelly

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Federal health officials will start formally tracking infections caused by the rare but potentially deadly germ that sickened babies and triggered a nationwide shortage of infant formula last year. A group that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Thursday to add  cronobacter infection to the watchlist

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey political consultant has been sentenced to 24 years in federal prison for arranging the murder of a colleague. Sean Caddle was an important behind-the-scenes figure in Democratic campaigns. He pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit murder-for-hire in the killing of Michael Galdieri, the

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and MATÍAS DELACROIX Associated Press CHUAO, Venezuela (AP) — Dozens of people hop onto boats every day along Venezuela’s vast Caribbean coast to go fishing on 12-hour shifts. Their tanned bodies have scars or are missing fingers after years of fishing. Most of them are men, but in the coastal communities

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — In a story published June 28, 2023, The Associated Press reported that the submersible Titan was registered in the Bahamas. The story should have made clear that OceanGate Expeditions, a company that led the Titan’s dives to the Titanic, is registered in the Bahamas. The Titan was not.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The driver of a tanker truck hauling gasoline lost control on a curved off-ramp on Interstate 95, causing the truck to flip and catch fire, leading to the collapse of the northbound lanes in early June, federal safety officials said Thursday in a preliminary report. The National Transportation Safety Board’s brief report

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — A suspect in the stabbing of a professor and two students during a class on gender issues at a university in the Canadian city of Waterloo has been charged in what police are calling a hate-motivated attack. Waterloo Regional Police say Geovanny Villalba-Aleman faces three counts of

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies. The court’s conservative majority overturned admissions plans at Harvard and the University of

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British court has ruled that a government plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda in an attempt to deter migrants from making risky journeys across the English Channel is unlawful. Court of Appeal judges said Rwanda could not be considered a “safe third country” where migrants could

ATLANTA (AP) — Christine King Farris, the last living sibling of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died. Her niece, the Rev. Bernice King, tweeted that her “beloved aunt” died Thursday. She was 95. For decades after her brother’s assassination in 1968, Farris worked along with his widow, Coretta Scott King, to preserve and

By TARA COPP and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Gen. Sergei Surovikin, the deputy commander of the Russian group of forces fighting in Ukraine, is believed to have been detained days after mercenaries staged a revolt inside Russia, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Thursday, citing U.S. and