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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — At Books & Books, the nonprofit store Judy Blume and her husband have run for the past seven years, you will find her own work in various sections: from general fiction, among the other “B”-named authors, to a shelf dedicated exclusively to her —

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the United States will begin training Ukrainian forces on how to use and maintain Abrams tanks in the coming weeks, as the U.S. continues to speed up its effort to get them on the battlefield as quickly

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Bullets sprayed out from a speeding car in Connecticut’s capital, killing an innocent 12-year-old bystander and wounding three other people who have have rap sheets that include gun crimes, authorities said Friday. The suspects in the drive-by shooting appeared to target three males who were standing

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Burkina Faso’s government has opened investigations into allegations of human rights abuses by its security forces after a video surfaced that appeared to show the extrajudicial killing of seven children in the country’s north. A government spokesman said Thursday that “the conclusions of the said investigations

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, MATTHEW LEE and TARA COPP Associated Press RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — The Pentagon has deployed forces and is developing options to assist in the possible evacuation of U.S. Embassy personnel from Sudan, but the White House said Friday there are no plans for now for a broader pullout of

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court has convicted a Lebanese-Canadian academic in absentia on terrorism charges over a bombing outside a Paris synagogue in 1980 that killed four and wounded 46. The court also sentenced Hassan Diab to life in prison on Friday, and issued an arrest warrant for him after a trial that marked

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The guardians of Champagne will let no one take the name of the bubbly beverage in vain, not even a U.S. beer behemoth. For years, Miller High Life has used the “Champagne of Beers” slogan. This week, that appropriation became impossible to swallow. At the request of

PARIS (AP) — French Open tournament director Amélie Mauresmo says night sessions at this year’s event will begin 30 minutes earlier. Late finishes during last year’s matches caused problems for fans using public transport and meant less rest for tired players. The clay-court Grand Slam takes place at Roland Garros from May 28-June 11. More

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks barely moved in morning trading on Wall Street Friday as investors close out a quiet week of mostly mixed corporate earnings reports. The S&P 500 was mostly unchanged as of 10:20 a.m. Eastern. The benchmark index has been wavering over the last several days and is on

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will join business, political and philanthropic leaders, as well as celebrities, including Hugh Jackman and John Legend, for this year’s edition of the Global Citizen NOW conference in

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana woman now faces a federal hate crime in the stabbing of an Indiana University student of Chinese descent on a public bus. Fifty-six year-old Billie R. Davis of Bloomington was indicted Thursday on a charge of willfully causing injuries to the victim due to her race and national origin.

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Prosecutors have requested a 10-year prison sentence for a dissident Belarusian journalist who was arrested after a warplane forced down a commercial airliner he was taking to Lithuania. Raman Pratasevich is on trial in Belarus on charges of organizing unrest and plotting to seize power. He

BERLIN (AP) — German police have released pictures of a man suspected of carrying out a stabbing attack at a gym in which four people were seriously wounded. One of them remains in a life-threatening condition. Police in the western city of Duisburg said they were able to obtain footage from a surveillance camera near