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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras has started an El Salvador-style mass sweep of prisons and arrested a suspect in a pool-hall shooting last week that killed 11 people. Police suggested the pool-hall killings may be related to last week’s gang-related massacre of 46 female inmates at a women’s prison. The Honduran government has vowed to

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT, PATRICK WHITTLE and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press As an international group of agencies investigates why the Titan submersible imploded while carrying five people to the Titanic wreckage, U.S. maritime officials say they’ll issue a report aimed at improving the safety of submersibles worldwide. Investigators from the U.S., Canada, France and the United

A white woman accused of firing through her door and fatally shooting a Black mother in front of her 9-year-old son in central Florida was charged Monday with manslaughter and assault. Susan Lorincz was arrested earlier this month following the fatal shooting of Ajike Owens in Ocala, Florida. She was formally charged with one count

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stock indexes drifted lower Monday as Wall Street’s pullback from its big recent rally carried into a second week. The S&P 500 fell 19.51 points, or 0.4%, to 4,328.82. It’s still close to its highest level in a year, reached a couple weeks ago. Technology

By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday blasted organizers of a weekend revolt, the gravest threat yet to his power, as traitors who played into the hands of Ukraine’s government and its allies. Speaking in a stern tone and looking tired in a five-minute TV address near midnight, Putin sought to project

By KAVISH HARJAI and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says high-speed internet is no longer a luxury but rather an “absolute necessity.” To that end, he pledged Monday that every household in the U.S. would have access by 2030, using cables made in the country. Biden says more than

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has left in place an appellate ruling barring a North Carolina public charter school from requiring girls to wear skirts to school. The justices declined without comment Monday to hear an appeal from the Charter Day School in the eastern North Carolina town of Leland. A federal appeals court

By JAKE BLEIBERG, KEN MILLER and ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Scorching temperatures brought on by a “heat dome” have taxed the Texas power grid and threaten to bring record highs to the state before they are expected to expand to other parts of the U.S. during the coming week, putting even more

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — James Meredith knew he was putting his life in danger in the 1960s by pursuing what he believes was his divine mission: conquering white supremacy in the deeply, and often violently, segregated state of Mississippi. A half-century later, the civil rights leader is still talking

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — John Goodenough, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work developing the lithium-ion battery that transformed technology with rechargeable power for devices ranging from cellphones, computers and pacemakers to electric cars, has died at 100. His death was announced Monday by the University

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A jury will soon decide the fate of a Florida sheriff’s deputy accused of failing to protect students during the 2018 Parkland school massacre. Prosecutors and defense attorneys gave their closing arguments Monday in the trial of former Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson. Prosecutors said

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s center-right leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been sworn in as prime minister for a second consecutive term. He trounced the left-wing opposition by a record margin in a Sunday election that also ushered new far-right parties into Parliament. With 99.7% of the vote counted on Monday,

By The Associated Press The leader of the Wagner mercenary group defended his short-lived insurrection in a boastful audio statement Monday as the Kremlin tried to project stability, with authorities releasing a video of Russia’s defense minister reviewing troops in Ukraine. Yevgeny Prigozhin said he wasn’t seeking to stage a coup but was acting to

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Yannick Nézet-Séguin is remaking the Metropolitan Opera from the bottom up. The 48-year-old conductor dyes his hair blond, wears patent leather Christian Louboutins and outfits designed by the Met costume shop and is pushing an expansion of contemporary compositions. He’s a stark contrast to the final

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT, STEVE LeBLANC and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press An international group of agencies is investigating what may have caused a submersible to implode while carrying five people to the Titanic wreckage. Working closely together on the probe of the June 18 accident are investigators from the U.S., Canada, France and the United Kingdom.