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Over 100 inmates escape and 1 is killed as a quake prompts the evacuation of a Pakistan prison
KARACHI, Pakistan — More than 100 inmates escaped from a prison and at least one was killed in a shootout in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi overnight after they were temporarily moved out of their cells following mild earthquake tremors, officials said Tuesday. Kashif Abbasi, a senior police official,...
Zelenskyy condemns ‘brutal’ Russian rocket attack after 3 killed in Ukrainian city
KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Tuesday, in which at least three people were killed and many others injured, was described by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “brutal.” According to authorities, a barrage of multiple rockets struck apartment buildings and a medical facility in...
Gaza officials say Israeli forces killed 27 heading to aid site; Israel says it fired near suspects
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Palestinian health officials and witnesses say Israeli forces fired on people as they headed toward an aid distribution site on Tuesday, killing at least 27, in the third such incident in three days. The army said it fired “near a few individual suspects” who left the...
Former Homeland Security official fights back against Trump’s ‘unprecedented’ investigation order
WASHINGTON — A former Homeland Security official during President Donald Trump’s first administration who authored an anonymous op-ed sharply critical of the president is calling on independent government watchdogs to investigate after Trump ordered the department to look into his government service. Miles Taylor, once chief of staff at the...
Blackhawks hire Vellucci as an assistant coach under BlashillVideo
CHICAGO — The Chicago Blackhawks hired Mike Vellucci as an assistant coach for Jeff Blashill’s first staff with his new team. The Blackhawks announced the addition of Vellucci on Monday. He joins Michael Peca and Anders Sorensen as Blashill’s assistants. Goaltending coach Jimmy Waite, video coach Matt Meacham and assistant...
Dave’s Hot Chicken sold to Subway owner Roark Capital in a $1 billion deal
Dave’s Hot Chicken said Monday it has been acquired by the private equity firm Roark Capital in a deal valued at $1 billion. Dave’s Hot Chicken got its start in 2017 as a popup in a Los Angeles parking lot. It has grown exponentially since then and expects to end...
Trump appears to undercut U.S. proposal to Iran, declaring he won’t allow any uranium enrichment
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday appeared to undercut a proposal that was offered by his special envoy to Iran, saying he will insist that Tehran fully dismantle its nuclear enrichment program as part of any deal to ease crushing sanctions. Trump and Steve Witkoff, who is leading the...
Journalism opens as the Belmont favorite. Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty is the 2nd choiceVideo
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Kentucky Derby runner-up and Preakness winner Journalism opened as the 8-5 favorite in the Belmont Stakes when post positions were drawn Monday for the final leg of the Triple Crown. Derby winner Sovereignty was set as the second choice on the morning line at odds of...
Immigration official defends tactics against criticism of a heavy hand as arrests rise nationwideVideo
BOSTON — The head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday defended his tactics against criticism that authorities are being too heavy-handed as they ramp up arrests toward President Donald Trump’s promises of mass deportations. San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria said he was “deeply upset” by an ICE operation...
French Open: 361st-ranked Frenchwoman Boisson upsets No. 3 Pegula. Gauff, Djokovic and Sinner winVideo
PARIS — Loïs Boisson never had played at the French Open, let alone in the biggest arena at Roland-Garros. Nothing fazed the French wild-card entry, and now she is in the quarterfinals. Boisson, ranked just 361st, threw her head back and roared after beating No. 3 seed Jessica Pegula, 3-6,...
Bustling crowds, bus rides are part of annual peony pilgrimage to Michigan
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — It’s time to peek at the peak peonies. Visitors are making the annual pilgrimage to the University of Michigan this week to see — and smell — one of the world’s premier collections of the garden plant, featuring showy red, white and pink blooms of countless...
Coastal Carolina coach rips Florida’s Kevin O’Sullivan for expletive-filled tirade and calls him a ‘bully’Video
First-year Coastal Carolina baseball coach Kevin Schnall called Florida coach Kevin O’Sullivan a bully and disrespectful for his expletive-filled rant directed at site administrators before an elimination game at the NCAA Conway Regional. O’Sullivan was upset about the start time of his team’s Sunday elimination game against East Carolina being...
All international travelers should get measles vaccinations, CDC says
NEW YORK — U.S. health officials have changed their advice to international travelers about measles, saying that Americans should be vaccinated against the virus no matter where they’re going. U.S. residents are recommended to get measles-mumps-rubella shots, anyway. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention previously emphasized the importance...
China says U.S. moves on computer chips, student visas ‘seriously violate’ tariffs truceVideo
TAIPEI, Taiwan — China criticized the United States on Monday over moves it alleged harmed Chinese interests, including issuing AI chip export control guidelines, stopping the sale of chip design software to China, and planning to revoke Chinese student visas. “These practices seriously violate the consensus,” the Commerce Ministry said...
Trump asks Supreme Court to clear the way for federal downsizing plans
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday renewed its request for the Supreme Court to clear the way for plans to downsize the federal workforce, while a lawsuit filed by labor unions and cities proceeds. The high court filing came after an appeals court refused to freeze a California-based...
To prevent blackouts, Trump administration keeps an aging Pa. power plant online through summer
HARRISBURG — The Department of Energy has ordered another power plant, this time an oil and gas plant in Pennsylvania, to keep its turbines running through the hottest summer months as a precaution against electricity shortfalls in the 13-state mid-Atlantic grid. The department’s order to the grid operator, PJM Interconnection,...
Stabbing attack at Oregon homeless shelter sends 11 people to hospital, man in custody
SALEM, Ore. — A man police arrested on suspicion of stabbing multiple people at a homeless shelter became violent at the check-in desk, the center’s director said. Twelve people were injured and 11 were taken to a hospital as officers converged on the bloody scene. Five remained in the hospital...
4 additional victims identified in Boulder attack, bringing number of injured to 12
BOULDER, Colo. — Four additional victims have been identified in the Boulder attack in which a man is accused of throwing Molotov cocktails into a Colorado group that had gathered to bring attention to Israeli hostages in Gaza, District Attorney Michael Dougherty said Monday, bringing the number of injured to...
Supreme Court rejects 2 gun rights cases, but state assault weapons ban issue may be back soon
WASHINGTON — A split Supreme Court on Monday rejected a pair of gun rights cases, though one conservative justice predicted the court would soon consider whether assault weapons are constitutional. The majority did not explain its reasoning in turning down the cases over high-capacity magazines and guns like the AR-15,...
Sicily’s Mount Etna erupts in a fiery show of smoke and ash miles high
MILAN — Sicily’s Mount Etna put on a fiery show Monday, sending a cloud of smoke and ash several miles into the air, but officials said the activity posed no danger to the population. The level of alert due to the volcanic activity was raised at the Catania airport, but...
Exercise boosts survival rates in colon cancer patients, study shows
A three-year exercise program improved survival in colon cancer patients and kept disease at bay, a first-of-its-kind international experiment showed. With the benefits rivaling some drugs, experts said cancer centers and insurance plans should consider making exercise coaching a new standard of care for colon cancer survivors. Until then, patients...
West Virginia rallies to beat Kentucky, wins 2nd consecutive regional
CLEMSON, S.C. — Ben Lumsden had four RBIs, Gavin Kelly drove in three runs and Armani Guzman hit a two-out RBI single to cap a six-run rally in the eighth inning as West Virginia beat Kentucky, 13-12, on Sunday night to win the Clemson Regional. West Virginia, which won the...
What we know about the suspect and victims in the Boulder, Colorado, attack
BOULDER, Colo. — Six people calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza were injured at an outdoor mall in Boulder, Colorado, by a man who police say used a makeshift flamethrower and hurled an incendiary device into a crowd. The FBI immediately described Sunday’s violence as a “targeted...
RFK Jr. says autism ‘destroys’ families. Here’s what those families want you to know
WASHINGTON — Emery Eversoll and her mother shared a good laugh when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that some autistic children will never write poems. The 16-year-old’s bedroom is full of notebooks featuring her prose. Sometimes, she quietly recites poetry to get through an outburst...
Can Trump fix the national debt? Republican senators, many investors and even Elon Musk have doubts
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Republican senators, global investors, voters and even Elon Musk that he won’t bury the federal government in debt with his multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package. The response so far from financial markets has been skeptical as Trump seems unable to trim...
