El Salvador extends anti-gang emergency decree for 24th time. It’s now been in effect...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s lawmakers have granted a request by President Nayib Bukele for the 24th consecutive one-month extension of...
Biden signs a package of spending bills passed by Congress just hours before a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $460 billion package of spending bills approved by the Senate in time to avoid...
A paramilitary group at war with Sudan’s military endorses a cease-fire during holy fasting...
CAIRO (AP) — A Sudanese paramilitary group battling the country’s military in a nearly yearlong ruinous conflict endorsed Saturday a resolution by the U.N....
Weather beatdown leaves towering Maine landmark surrounded by crime scene tape
SKOWHEGAN, Maine (AP) — Crime scene tape surrounds the Skowhegan Indian, a local landmark in Maine, after an assault by Mother Nature.The towering wooden...
Gangs attack police stations in Haiti as Caribbean leaders call an emergency meeting Monday
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Police and palace guards worked Saturday to retake some streets in Haiti’s capital after gangs launched massive attacks on at...
Irish prime minister concedes defeat in vote over constitutional amendments about family and women
DUBLIN (AP) — Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar conceded defeat Saturday as two constitutional amendments he supported that would have broadened the definition of...
On eve of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City offers little festivity as Gaza war rages
JERUSALEM (AP) — On the eve of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City bears few of its usual hallmarks of festivity.Nearly...
A French frigate ‘destroys’ a German sub in Norway’s waters in NATO’s biggest drills...
ABOARD THE FRENCH FRIGATE NORMANDIE (AP) — Large NATO drills in the frigid fjords of northern Norway may be just war games meant to...
Pakistan’s lawmakers pick Asif Ali Zardari as the country’s president for a second time
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's lawmakers elected Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday as the country’s president for the second time.He is the widower of assassinated...
A surge of illegal homemade machine guns has helped fuel gun violence in the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eleven-year-old Domonic Davis was not far from his mom's Cincinnati home when a hail of gunfire sprayed out from a passing...
