Israel is ready to halt its war in Gaza during Ramadan if a hostage...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — United States President Joe Biden said Israel would be willing to halt its war on Hamas in Gaza during...
Phones are distracting students in class. More states are pressing schools to ban them
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In California, a high school teacher complains that students watch Netflix on their phones during class. In Maryland, a chemistry...
By defining sex, some states are denying transgender people of legal recognition
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Mack Allen, an 18-year-old high school senior from Kansas, braces for sideways glances, questioning looks and snide comments whenever he...
Biden will urge Congress’ top leaders to keep the government open and send aid...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden was meeting Tuesday with the top four leaders of Congress to press them to act quickly to avoid...
San Francisco is ready to apologize to Black residents. Reparations advocates want more
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco's supervisors plan to offer a formal apology to Black residents for decades of racist laws and policies perpetrated...
Biden and Trump will face tests in Michigan’s primaries that could inform a November...
WASHINGTON (AP) — While Joe Biden and Donald Trump are marching toward their respective presidential nominations, Michigan's primary on Tuesday could reveal significant political...
What’s life like for Russia’s political prisoners? Isolation, poor food and arbitrary punishment
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Vladimir Kara-Murza could only laugh when officials in Penal Colony No. 6 inexplicably put a small cabinet in his already-cramped...
Bridgeport mayor wins do-over election in race marred by ballot irregularities
Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim won a do-over election Tuesday in Connecticut’s most populous city, months after a judge threw out the results of the...
Photographer accuses Taylor Swift’s dad of punching him in the face on Sydney waterfront
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A photographer told police he was punched in the face by Taylor Swift’s father on the Sydney waterfront on Tuesday,...
Witness at trial recounts fatal shooting of cinematographer by Alec Baldwin
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Testimony at trial Monday turned emotional and argumentative as an eyewitness recounted the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer...