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Israel launches airstrikes on Yemen a day after Houthi rebels strike Israeli airport

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's military said Monday that it carried out airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen's Red Sea city of Hodeida, a day after the Iranian-backed rebels launched a missile that hi...

May 05, 2025

3 killed and 9 missing after small boat capsizes off San Diego, Coast Guard says

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Three people were killed, four were injured and nine others are missing after a small boat overturned early Monday in high surf off San Diego's coast. U.S. Coast Guard vessels and hel...

May 05, 2025

Romanian premier resigns after his coalition's candidate fails to advance to presidential runoff

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu announced his resignation on Monday, a day after the governing coalition's joint candidate failed to advance to the runoff in the Europ...

May 05, 2025

Upstate New York prison guard pleads guilty to manslaughter in an inmate's 2024 beating death

UTICA, N.Y. (AP) - A correctional officer pleaded guilty to manslaughter Monday in connection with the killing of inmate Robert Brooks, whose brutal beating while handcuffed at an upstate New York pri...

May 05, 2025

Trump administration says it will pay immigrants in the United States illegally $1,000 to go home

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration says it is going to pay immigrants in the United States illegally who've returned to their home country voluntarily $1,000 as it pushes forward with its mass...

May 05, 2025

The UN's top court dismisses Sudan's genocide case alleging the UAE funded RSF rebels

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The top United Nations court on Monday dismissed a case brought by Sudan accusing the United Arab Emirates of breaching the genocide convention by arming and funding the ...

May 05, 2025

Indigenous Catholics hope the next pope shares Francis' approach to Native people

SIMOJOVEL, Mexico (AP) - At a recent service in the remote southern Mexican community of Simojovel, Catholic and Mayan symbolism mingled at the altar as the deacon - his wife beside him - read the gos...

May 05, 2025

Israel approves plans to intensify Gaza operations, official says

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Israeli Cabinet ministers approved plans to intensify military operations in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli official said on Monday. The official confirmed the approval in the infl...

May 04, 2025

Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison

NEW YORK (AP) - President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island. In a message on his Truth Social site Sund...

May 04, 2025

Nicaragua withdraws from UNESCO in protest at press freedom award

PARIS (AP) - UNESCO on Sunday announced the withdrawal of Nicaragua from the U.N. cultural and educational body because of the awarding of a UNESCO prize celebrating press freedom to a Nicaraguan news...

May 04, 2025