AP National News

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Rivers swollen by days of downpours flooded some towns in northern Italy on Tuesday, forcing some residents to rooftops, while in Venice, authorities prepared to activate a mobile barrier in the lagoon in hopes of sparing the city from a rare May high-tide flooding. After the Savio

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian authorities say customs police and a dog with a fine nose for cocaine found more than 2,700 kilos (about 3 tons) of the drug hidden in 70 tons of boxed bananas shipped from Ecuador. Police estimated the cocaine could have brought traffickers more than 800 million

ST. CHARLES, Ill. (AP) — Police say a girl who was allegedly abducted by her mother in suburban Chicago nearly six years ago has been found safe hundreds of miles away in North Carolina after she was spotted at a business Officers found a woman and a minor child at the business in Asheville, North

By DÉBORA REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernández has made it official that she will not be running for president again, putting the brakes on an effort by members of her party to push her to become a candidate in the October election. Fernández, who was president 2007-2015,

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A seat on the Supreme Court is one of four appellate judicial positions for which voters are choosing party nominees in Pennsylvania primaries. On the Democratic ticket in Tuesday’s race are Dan McCaffery of Philadelphia and Deborah Kunselman of Beaver County. Both of them currently sit

By ED KOMENDA and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington lawmakers approved and Gov. Jay Inslee quickly signed a major new drug policy, saying it strikes a balance between public order and compassion for those struggling with substance abuse. Democratic and Republican leaders reached a compromise between liberals who believe drugs should

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri officials terminated the Republican attorney general’s emergency rule that would have placed limits on transgender care for minors and some adults. The move was announced Tuesday without explanation on the Missouri Secretary of State’s website. The website says: “This emergency rule terminated effective May

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, GARY D. ROBERTSON and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s Republican-controlled Senate voted Tuesday to override the Democratic governor’s veto of a bill banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy in the first of two steps necessary to enact the policy over Gov. Roy Cooper’s opposition. House

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When researchers at a nonprofit that studies social media wanted to understand the connection between YouTube videos and gun violence, they set up accounts on the platform that mimicked the behavior of typical boys living in the U.S. They simulated two nine-year-olds who both liked video games.

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro is facing questions at the Federal Police headquarters in Brasilia as part of an investigation into alleged falsification of COVID-19 vaccine cards. Officers are trying to determine whether vaccines cards were altered in order to comply with U.S. vaccine requirements

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — A jury has gone home for the evening after beginning deliberations in the trial of a limousine company manager accused of deadly indifference to safety rules before a crash that killed 20 people in upstate New York. Nauman Hussain is charged with criminally negligent

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Body-camera footage released Tuesday shows a Baltimore police officer shot an armed teenager from behind during a foot pursuit. The chase lasted less than a minute before the officer fired four shots, leaving the teen hospitalized in critical condition. The officer who pulled the trigger was later

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press PACARAIMA, Brazil (AP) — More than 7.2 million people have left Venezuela since the country’s political, economic and social crisis began last decade. Most have gone to Spanish-speaking countries of South America — with 2.4 million in Colombia alone — and many to the U.S. and Spain. Further down

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press New York (AP) — New York City has begun housing asylum seekers in public school gymnasiums. The move marks its latest effort to shelter a growing migrant population that has overwhelmed the shelter system and stoked tensions with city residents and neighboring officials. Twenty school gyms are currently being considered

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins will resign following a monthslong investigation by the Justice Department’s inspector general into her appearance at a political fundraiser and other potential ethics issues, her attorney said Tuesday. The Justice Department’s watchdog has yet to release its report

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A prosecutor at the trial of actor Danny Masterson says he drugged women so he could rape them, then used his prominence in the Church of Scientology to avoid consequences. Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Ariel Anson urged jurors during closing arguments at Masterson’s trial

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press An Alabama man has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol and invading the Senate floor with a knife on his hip and a gaping wound on his face. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Tuesday sentenced 47-year-old Joshua Matthew Black to 22

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins’ attorney says she will resign after a monthslong ethics investigation by the Justice Department’s inspector general into her appearance at a political fundraiser and other potential issues. The Justice Department’s watchdog has yet to release its report detailing

By LISA MASCARO, FATIMA HUSSEIN and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and top congressional leaders opened their second meeting Tuesday in talks over raising the nation’s debt limit as the White House said it was reevaluating parts of Biden’s overseas trip that is scheduled to begin later this week.