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Detroit-area city bans LGBTQ+ Pride flags on public property
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — A Detroit-area community has banned LGBTQ+ flags from publicly owned poles after a tense hourslong meeting that raised questions about discrimination, religion and the city’s reputation for welcoming newcomers. In protest, a woman speaking during the public comment portion of the Hamtramck City Council meeting kissed a...
Southern Baptists refuse to take back megachurch because it has women pastorsVideo
NEW ORLEANS — The Southern Baptist Convention has refused to welcome Saddleback Church back into its fold, rejecting an appeal by the California megachurch over its February ouster for having women pastors. Southern Baptist church representatives at their annual meeting here also rejected a similar appeal by a smaller church,...
Elizabeth Holmes objects to $250 monthly restitution payments
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors want Elizabeth Holmes to pay $250 each month to victims of her failed blood testing startup after she leaves prison, but her attorneys are pushing back citing “limited financial resources” available to the disgraced founder of Theranos. The U.S. filed a motion last week asking the...
Stove wars: Republican-controlled House takes up bills to protect gas stoves
WASHINGTON — Venturing back into the nation’s culture wars, the Republican-controlled House is taking up legislation that GOP lawmakers say would protect gas stoves from overzealous government regulators. A bill approved Tuesday would prohibit use of federal funds to regulate gas stoves as a hazardous product, while a separate bill...
U.S. beefs up campaign to ensure accurate animal welfare claims on meat, poultry packaging
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday it hopes to weed out false or misleading animal-welfare claims on meat and poultry packaging with new guidance and testing. The claims — such as “pasture-raised,” “humanely raised,” and “raised without antibiotics” — are increasingly popular with consumers and allow producers to charge...
What to know about Trump’s appearance in federal court in Miami to face felony charges
Donald Trump made a first appearance Tuesday in federal court in Miami facing 37 counts related to the mishandling and retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. Here’s a look at the charges, the special counsel’s investigation and how Trump’s case differs from those of other politicians known to...
Army renames Louisiana base for Black WWI hero who received Medal of Honor
FORT JOHNSON, La. — A U.S. Army base in western Louisiana was renamed Tuesday to honor Sgt. William Henry Johnson, a Black hero of World War I who received the Medal of Honor nearly a century later. Fort Johnson had previously been named after a Confederate commander, Leonidas Polk. The...
Trump’s CNN remarks allowed in accuser E. Jean Carroll’s expanded lawsuit
The New York author who won a $5 million sexual abuse trial against Donald Trump was allowed to expand an earlier defamation lawsuit to add remarks he made about her on a CNN town hall and seek at least $10 million more in damages. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on...
Mexican president picks veteran diplomat to be next foreign minister
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president on Tuesday named Alicia Bárcena, the country’s current ambassador to Chile, as the next foreign relations secretary, replacing Marcelo Ebrard who resigned to pursue the presidential nomination. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador noted the solid background of the Harvard-educated Bárcena, who served for almost 14...
Minibus slams into parked pickup killing 15 in Southern Egypt
CAIRO — A speeding minibus slammed into a pickup parked on the side of a desert road in Southern Egypt on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people, authorities said. The fatal crash occurred on the eastern bank of the Nile River near the Egyptian town of al-Saff, roughly 34 miles...
Trump pleads not guilty to federal charges that he illegally kept classified documentsVideo
MIAMI — Donald Trump became the first former president to face a judge on federal charges as he pleaded not guilty in a Miami courtroom Tuesday to dozens of felony counts accusing him of hoarding classified documents and refusing government demands to give them back. The history-making court date, centered...
Relatives fight for custody of Indigenous kids who survived Amazon plane crash
BOGOTA, Colombia — A custody battle has broken out among relatives of four Indigenous children who survived a plane crash and 40 harrowing days alone in the Amazon rainforest in an extraordinary showing of youthful resilience that captivated people around the world. The siblings, ranging in age from 1 to...
Buttigieg, other officials to visit collapsed section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will visit the site in Philadelphia on Tuesday where an out-of-control tractor-trailer hauling gasoline flipped over on an Interstate 95 off-ramp, caught fire and destroyed a section of the East Coast’s main north-south highway. One body was pulled from the wreckage. Buttigieg was...
German curator on a mission to return silver heirlooms stolen from Jewish families by the Nazis
MUNICH — Matthias Weniger put on a pair of white cloth gloves and carefully lifted a tarnished silver candleholder, looking for a yellowed sticker on the bottom of it. The candlestick is one of 111 silver objects at the Bavarian National Museum that the Nazis stole from Jewish families during...
Panic, yelling as tour boat capsizes inside Erie Canal water tunnel in western New York
LOCKPORT, N.Y. — A passenger thrown from a boat that flipped over with 29 people aboard during a tour of a dimly lit cavern system said he fought to breathe in the chilly water under the capsized craft. The flat-bottomed boat carrying local hospitality workers capsized Monday during a tour...
What to expect when Trump appears in federal court in Miami to face felony charges
Donald Trump makes his first appearance in a Miami federal court on Tuesday facing 37 counts related to the mishandling and retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. Here’s a look at the charges, the special counsel’s investigation and how Trump’s case differs from those of other politicians known...
U.S. lawmakers ask Biden Administration to punish South Africa for alleged support for Russia
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers wants the Biden Administration to punish South Africa for what they call its support for Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine by relocating an important trade meeting to another country, according to a letter published Tuesday in The New York...
Playground slides doused with pool acid, injuring 2 children
LONGMEADOW, Mass. — Two children suffered what were described as “burn-like injuries” after playing on slides that had been doused with acid at a Massachusetts park, authorities said. Police and firefighters responded to Bliss Park in Longmeadow on Sunday morning for a report of a suspicious substance on the playground...
Transgender, nonbinary people are often sidelined at Pride; this year is different
HARTFORD, Conn. — Kara Murphy, a transgender woman helping to organize the Union County Pride in a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina, is heartened to see Pride celebrations across the country, big and small, shining a spotlight on transgender rights this year. “When we look and see who’s standing up...
Lower house of Japan’s parliament passes bill to promote LGBTQ+ awareness, but not guarantee rights
TOKYO — The powerful lower house of Japan’s parliament on Tuesday passed a bill to promote understanding of LGBTQ+ issues amid protests by activists that last-minute revisions by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s conservative party favored opponents of sexual equality instead of guaranteeing equal rights. The passage followed only a few...
Russian missile attack on Ukraine kills at least 11 in Zelenskyy’s hometown
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian missiles hit civilian buildings in a central Ukrainian city overnight, killing at least 11 people and wounding more than two dozen in a warehouse and an apartment building, regional officials said Tuesday. The devastation in Kryvyi Rih, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown, come as Ukrainian forces are...
Beijing criticizes new U.S. sanctions on companies over pilot training, weapons development
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China on Tuesday criticized new sanctions imposed by the U.S. on companies believed to be involved in training Chinese military pilots and aiding weapons development. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin urged Washington to “stop abusing export control measures” to hobble Chinese companies. “The United States has...
Police find 3 dead and 3 other people struck by van in U.K. city of Nottingham
LONDON — A man was arrested on suspicion of murder in the English city of Nottingham on Tuesday after three people were found dead in the street and three others were hit and injured by a van in related early-morning incidents, police said. “This is an horrific and tragic incident...
10 wounded in Denver mass shooting after Nuggets win and suspect taken into custody, police say
DENVER — Ten people were wounded in a mass shooting early Tuesday in Denver in an area where basketball fans had been celebrating the Nuggets first NBA title win, police said, and a suspect was taken into custody. The shooting happened about 12:30 a.m. — about 3½ hours after the...
Trump arrives at Miami court for historic appearance over charges he hoarded secret documents
MIAMI — Former President Donald Trump arrived Tuesday at the federal courthouse in Miami to surrender to authorities ahead of a historic court appearance on charges that he illegally hoarded classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. He was expected to face a magistrate judge, kickstarting a legal process...
