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By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A grand jury was hearing from final witnesses Monday in the investigation into Donald Trump as law enforcement officials accelerated security preparations in advance of a possible indictment and as fellow Republicans staked out positions in a criminal probe expected to shake

By SYLVIE CORBET and ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Parliament has adopted a divisive pension bill raising the retirement age in France from 62 to 64, after lawmakers in the lower chamber rejected two no-confidence votes against the government. But the bill pushed through last week by President Emmanuel Macron without lawmakers’ approval

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Two students were injured in a shooting outside a Dallas-area high school on Monday morning and police arrested the person suspected of opening fire, officials said. The shooting began on a high school campus in the suburb of Arlington around 6:55 a.m., before many students arrived for the first day back

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A bill that would allow Idaho to execute condemned inmates by firing squad is headed to the governor’s desk after passing the Legislature with a veto-proof majority. Firing squads will be used only if the state cannot obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections. One death

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Police say a student has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing two staff members at a high school in Canada’s Atlantic coast city of Halifax.  The two victims and the student were taken to hospital for treatment, and the extent of their injuries remains unclear. Halifax Regional Police say the

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Officials say an international conference in London raised 4 million pounds ($4.9 million) to support the International Criminal Court in its investigations into alleged war crimes in Ukraine and its work to hold Russia to account. Justice ministers from over 40 countries met in London for Monday’s

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani police have arrested scores more supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan for attacking officers over the weekend outside an Islamabad court. The ousted premier was there to face graft charges. The violence was the latest amid legal cases facing Khan, now opposition leader, since his

By SETH BORENSTEIN and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Humanity still has a chance, close to the last, to prevent the worst of climate change’s future harms, a top United Nations panel of scientists said Monday. But doing so requires quickly slashing nearly two-thirds of carbon pollution by 2035, the Intergovernmental Panel on

MONTREAL (AP) — Montreal’s mayor is vowing to better regulate Airbnb in her city as the search continues for six people missingthrough a building that included Airbnb units in a historic city section where they are banned.  Firefighters initially thought there was one person missing in the blaze last Thursday in the eastern Canadian city.