By Jason Hanna, Cheri Mossburg and Taylor Romine, CNN Public school educators in Oakland, California, went on strike Thursday after contract negotiations in which they’re seeking higher pay and more efforts to address social concerns failed to yield a deal — and the strike is set to extend into Friday, the district said. Oakland Unified
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By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israelis have blocked roads and demonstrated against a contentious government plan to overhaul the judiciary. The protesters hope Thursday’s events will ramp up pressure on lawmakers days after parliament reconvened following a month-long recess. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paused the overhaul in March after intense
Continue ReadingBy Ryan Young, Gary Tuchman, Elizabeth Wolfe, Sara Smart and Holly Yan, CNN An eight-hour manhunt that threw a major American city into fear and chaos ended when barking dogs at a suburban condo complex led to the arrest of a US Coast Guard veteran suspected of fatally shooting a woman and wounding four others
Continue Reading By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in the Netherlands on Thursday for a surprise visit to the city that is home to the International Criminal Court, which has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Zelenskyy’s visit to The Hague, which hosts the ICC
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The Missouri Senate wants to expand Interstate 70 from border to border.
Continue Reading By ISABEL DEBRE and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — Israeli troops on Thursday killed three Palestinian militants wanted in connection with a shooting attack that killed a British-Israeli woman and two of her daughters, the Israeli military said, the latest bloodshed in a relentless wave of violence. In a rare daytime
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Flores and Andy Rose, CNN Amid promises from Texas’ governor to pardon an Army sergeant convicted of murdering a protester at Black Lives Matter rally, a judge rejected a request from the defendant’s legal team for a new murder trial. Daniel Perry, a White man, shot and killed Garrett Foster, who was also
Continue Reading By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A playboy past that was once brushed under the carpet, a popular son whose telegenic family threatens to eclipse his own star, and endless leaks about his private life: Spain’s Juan Carlos I can empathize with the lot of Britain’s Charles III. The former Spanish head of
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — On his way to be crowned this week, King Charles III will travel by gilded coach through streets swathed in red, white and blue Union flags — and past a warning from history. At Trafalgar Square stands a large bronze statue of King Charles I, the 17th-century
Continue Reading By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — We were a diverse group of more than a dozen people, hunkered down in a small hotel in central Khartoum — a Sudanese family and the Sudanese hotel staff, a few British and French citizens, a Syrian family and a Lebanese man. In better times, the
Continue Reading PRAGUE (AP) — Police says eight people have died in an overnight fire in the second largest city in the Czech Republic. The fire broke out about two hours after midnight in Brno, located 200 kilometers (125 miles) southeast of Prague. Czech public television says those who have died were likely homeless people who had
Continue Reading CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian media and local officials say a passenger bus has slammed into a slowly moving truck on a highway in southwestern Egypt, killing at least 14 people and injuring 25. The crash Wednesday in the New Valley province was Egypt’s latest deadly traffic accident, which kills thousands of lives every year. Egypt
Continue Reading By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Partisan tensions in Oregon are skyrocketing this week because Republican state senators didn’t show up to work, denying a quorum to the Democrats who control the chamber. The move cast doubt on planned votes later this week on legislation about gun control, abortion rights
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By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press In Montana, a court rebuffed one abortion restriction, but the governor quickly signed others into law. In Maryland, the governor signed protection for access. Those are among the latest developments in the sprawling saga of abortion law in the aftermath of last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe
Continue Reading By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Courts this week blocked abortion restrictions from taking effect in two states, while lawmakers in a third are forging ahead with a plan for a new ban that’s less stringent than most. Those are some of the latest developments in an abortion landscape that is being crafted by lawmakers, governors
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, CNN Three suspects were each charged with first-degree murder in the killing of a 20-year-old woman on a Colorado highway last month, who died after a large rock was allegedly thrown at her car and smashed through her windshield, prosecutors said Wednesday. Nicholas Karol-Chik, Joseph Koenig and Zachary Kwak each face more
Continue Reading By MICHAEL CASEY and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press GOFFSTOWN, N.H. (AP) — As Ukrainian artists Jenya Polosina and Anna Ivanenko watched missiles descend on their country, the two decided to use their creativity to push back against Russia’s invasion. Working in the early days of the war from bunkers or sometimes without electricity and water
Continue Reading By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Taiwan’s chief trade representative says his country’s semiconductor makers will expand production in the U.S. as much as they can afford to do so, but he insists Taiwan remains an ideal place for that production and other U.S. trade, business and investment, despite tensions with China. John
Continue Reading By LAÍS MARTINS Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Jonathan Schmidt arrived at Federal Police headquarters in the center of Rio de Janeiro with a travel bag carrying a golden pistol and seven rifles, one peeking out of the zipper. “I’m in love with guns,” said Schmidt. “I’d have over 2,000 if the government allowed.”
Continue Reading By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Katie Britt says she hears about it constantly when she is at home in Alabama — at school track meets, basketball tournaments and on her regular morning walks with friends. And when she was running for the Senate last year, Britt says, “parent after parent”
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