Nation and World
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Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.
Jun 29, 2025 5:05 pm - The Trump administration has agreed to release from prison a three-time felon who drunkenly fired shots in a Texas community and spare him from deportation in exchange fo...
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Russia launches the biggest aerial attack since the start of the war, Ukraine says
Jun 29, 2025 5:01 pm - KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched its biggest aerial attack against Ukraine overnight, a Ukrainian official said Sunday, part of an escalating bombing campaign that ha...
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Pope Leo XIV marks feast day as Vatican launches campaign to help erase its $57-68 million deficit
Jun 29, 2025 4:02 pm - ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday celebrated a special feast day traditionally used by the Catholic Church to drum up donations from the faithful, with the Vatican under...
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Iran releases death toll of Israel’s Evin prison attack as officials remain suspicious of ceasefire
Jun 29, 2025 4:01 pm - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dozens of staff members, two inmates and a bystander were among the casualties of Israel's attack last week on Tehran's Evin prison, a ...
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Israelis love Trump. But some are unnerved by his vow to save Netanyahu from his corruption trial
Jun 29, 2025 6:00 am - JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump's call for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial to be thrown out has plunged the American leader into one of Israel's m...
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Immigrants drive population growth in a graying America, census shows
Jun 29, 2025 6:00 am - Immigration is driving U.S. population growth and helping offset a broader demographic shift as the baby boom generation ages, according to data from the U.S. Census Bure...
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Netanyahu denounces report that Israeli soldiers have orders to shoot at Palestinians seeking aid
Jun 28, 2025 6:25 pm - JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz emphatically rejected a report in the left-leaning Israeli daily Haaretz on Friday,...
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Biden, Harris and Walz attend funeral for former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman
Jun 28, 2025 5:03 pm - MINNEAPOLIS — Democratic former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman was honored for her legislative accomplishments and her humanity during a funeral Saturday where f...
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White House seeks to cut nation’s only federal after-school programJun 28, 2025 4:55 pm - The Trump administration is seeking to cut the only federal after-school programming in the nation. The 21st Century Community Learning Centers, a program created by the ...
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Beloved dog joined Minnesota lawmaker, husband as they lay in state
Jun 28, 2025 4:17 pm - Thousands of people lined up at the Minnesota Capitol to pay tribute to slain lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, as they lay in state Friday, ahead of Saturd...