AP National News

By KRISTIN M. HALL and JUSTIN PRITCHARD Associated Press America’s armed services will have to keep better track of their guns and explosives under changes Congress is set to require. It’s one response to an Associated Press investigation that showed firearms stolen from U.S. bases have resurfaced in violent crimes. Under the proposals, the Department

PONTOON BEACH, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a man shot and seriously wounded a police officer Tuesday at a gas station in an Illinois suburb of St. Louis. Police say the Pontoon Beach officer was shot at around 8 a.m. at a Speedway gas station along Route 111 near its junction with Interstate 270 and

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia’s health minister says the Baltic country is considering new coronavirus restrictions on top of the ones that took effect Monday but is seeking to avoid a general lockdown like the one imposed by neighboring Latvia. The Estonian government will discuss additional restrictions, particularly ones aimed at

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A government statement says Pakistan’s prime minister has approved the appointment of the country’s new spy chief ending speculation about his differences with the military. The appointment of the new head of the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency is likely to defuse weekslong tension between Imran Khan and army chief Gen. Qamar Javed

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Mystery still swirls around Gustav Klimt’s “Portrait of a Lady” nearly a quarter-century after the painting was stolen from an Italian museum. Who stole the 1917 artwork and how it wound up stashed inside the museum’s outer walls before a gardener accidentally discovered it in December 2019

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 69-year-old Las Vegas woman is accused of defrauding the Social Security Administration of over $120,000 after she allegedly dismembered her dead husband’s body and threw his remains in the trash. A criminal complaint alleges Nancy Shedleski continued to deposit her husband’s retirement benefits after his 2015 death. The complaint says

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A man convicted of killing nine people in arson fires in his Ohio neighborhood has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Judge Christine Croce also ordered Tuesday that Stanley Ford, of Akron, serve the terms consecutively. The 62-year-old Ford has maintained his innocence. He was found guilty last month

By LISA MASCARO, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democrats’ idea for a new billionaires’ tax to help pay for President Joe Biden’s social services and climate change plan has run into criticism among lawmakers. But party leaders continued to insist on Tuesday that agreement was still within reach. With

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has overhauled his Cabinet and named prominent women to the foreign affairs and defense posts in the gender-balanced group of the government’s top officials. He also said Tuesday that he intends to lead his party into the next election. Trudeau named Mélanie

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Jordan’s King Abdullah II of Jordan has traveled to Poland for talks with Polish President Andrzej Duda. The two leaders met at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw to discuss security and defense cooperation, according to the president’s office. The office said the high-level contacts on Tuesday reflected that “Jordan is a

By STEFANIE DAZIO, LINDSEY BAHR and ANTHONY MCCARTNEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Experts predict a tremendous legal fallout after Alec Baldwin pulled the trigger on a prop gun while filming “Rust” in New Mexico and unwittingly killed a cinematographer and injured a director. In addition to Baldwin, a call sheet for the day

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama apartment complex was paid a visit by an unusual guest as children were coming home from school: an alligator that crawled out of a storm drain. Kenisha Miller and her boyfriend, Anthony Patterson, told WKRG-TV that they were driving home Monday afternoon when they stopped to do a double-take

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Department of Health has switched off comments on its social media accounts, saying it was doing so to combat the spread of misinformation. The agency says in a statement that its social media accounts “will continue to be a source for sharing verified

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX is resolving toilet spills in its capsules before it launches another crew for NASA. Liftoff is currently set for early Sunday from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. But SpaceX and NASA want to make sure the toilet trouble won’t compromise the capsule that’s about

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A powerful atmospheric river storm that swept through California set rainfall records and helped douse wildfires. But it remains to be seen how much of a dent it made in the state’s drought. The weather system weakened as it moved south but still dropped enough

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer A new documentary on the late snowboarding pioneer Jake Burton is more than a glossy retrospective of his life. It’s a raw, unflinching examination of the trials and tribulations Burton went through over a four-decade career in which he shaped both the snowboard and the billion-dollar industry that forever

By SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Caetano Veloso had written so many songs that he truly believed he was done creating music almost a decade ago. But at 79, the Brazilian legend has more things to say. Veloso is back with “Meu Coco,” his first solo album since 2012. Released Friday by

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s state news agency says the electricity ministry has signed a $115 million contract with an Iranian company to rehabilitate a power station in a central province in the war-torn country. Tuesday’s agreement involving the two allies — who are both under U.S. sanctions — will see the Iranian company rehabilitate

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement officials in the U.S. and Europe have arrested 150 people and seized more than $31 million in an international drug trafficking investigation stemming from sales on the darknet. The Justice Department says the arrests are connected to a 10-month investigation between federal law enforcement officials

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has testified in court for the first time in one of several cases against her, but details of what she said are not available because of a gag order on her lawyers. All of the defense lawyers in Suu Kyi’s