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Poll: Americans are the unhappiest they’ve been in 50 years
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Spoiler alert: 2020 has been rough on the American psyche. Folks in the United States are more unhappy today than they’ve been in nearly 50 years. This bold — yet unsurprising — conclusion comes from the COVID Response Tracking Study, conducted by NORC at the University...
Rep. Omar announces father’s death from covid-19 complications
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on Monday announced the death of her father due to complications from covid-19. In a statement, Omar said Nur Omar Mohamed died Monday. She gave no additional information. “No words can describe what he meant to me and all who knew him,” Omar...
Fire breaks out on Japanese cruise ship docked near Tokyo
TOKYO — A fire broke out on a cruise ship docked at a port near Tokyo on Tuesday, with crew members and dozens of firefighters and coast guard personnel taking hours to extinguish it. The cause of the fire was not immediately known, and the coast guard reported no injuries....
North Korea blows up inter-Korea liaison office, raising tensionsVideo
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday in a dramatic display of anger that sharply raises tensions on the Korean Peninsula and puts pressure on Washington and Seoul amid deadlocked nuclear diplomacy....
Man shot during protest over New Mexico statue
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A man was shot Monday night as protesters in New Mexico’s largest city tried to tear down a bronze statue of a Spanish conquistador outside the Albuquerque Museum. The man was taken to a hospital but his condition was not immediately known, Albuquerque police spokesman Gilbert Gallegos...
New policy requires NYPD to release body camera footage
NEW YORK — A new policy will require New York City police to release all body camera footage of shootings and other instances when force is used and injury or death occurs, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday in what he billed as an additional step toward police reform. The...
‘When does it stop?’ Rayshard Brooks’ family makes tearful pleaVideo
ATLANTA — Pleading through tears Monday, the family of a black man killed by Atlanta police outside a drive-thru demanded changes in the criminal justice system and called on protesters to refrain from violence amid heightened tensions across the U.S. three weeks after George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. An autopsy...
Police: Missing Black Lives Matter activist, 19, and woman, 75, found dead
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A 19-year-old woman who recently sought justice over police killings has been found dead after going missing earlier this month, Tallahassee police said. The bodies of Oluwatoyin Salau, and Victoria Sims, 75, were discovered on Saturday night in Tallahassee, police said in a news release sent Monday....
NYPD to disband plainclothes anti-crime unitsVideo
NEW YORK — New York City’s top cop said Monday afternoon he was disbanding the NYPD’s plainclothes precinct anti-crime units, which has often been accused of heavy-handed tactics by minority communities. Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said the 600 cops in the units would be moved to other responsibilities. “This is...
Feds: eBay staff sent spiders, roaches to harass couple
Six former eBay Inc. employees have been charged with waging an extensive campaign to terrorize and intimidate the editor and publisher of an online newsletter with threats and disturbing deliveries to their home, including live spiders and cockroaches, federal authorities said Monday. Executives were upset about the newsletter’s coverage, so...
Students urge Trump to maintain training options for international graduates
Graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, Penn State and more than five dozen other top universities say efforts to eliminate a training program for international graduate students could have an unintended impact on the U.S. economy. The program, known as the Optional Practical Training program, permits international...
EU urges U.S. to join new Mideast peace effortVideo
BRUSSELS — European Union foreign ministers on Monday urged the United States to join a new effort to breathe life into long-stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, but they rejected President Donald Trump’s Middle East plan as the basis for any international process. Trump’s proposal, which was unveiled...
Supreme Court for now stays out of police immunity debate
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is for now declining to get involved in an ongoing debate by citizens and in Congress over policing, rejecting cases Monday that would have allowed the justices to revisit when police can be held financially responsible for wrongdoing. With protests over racism and police brutality...
EU, U.K. leaders agree ‘new momentum’ needed in Brexit talksVideo
BRUSSELS — A video conference between EU officials and British Prime minister Boris Johnson focusing on their post-Brexit relationship produced only a declaration of good will, with both parties acknowledging Monday that a “new momentum was required” to break the deadlock in negotiations. Following Britain’s political departure from the bloc,...
Supreme Court rejects several gun rights cases for next term
The Supreme Court on Monday passed up several challenges to federal and state gun control laws, over the dissent of two conservative justices. Gun rights advocates had hoped the court would expand the constitutional right to “keep and bear arms” beyond the home. Instead, the justices left in place restrictions...
Landmark civil rights law extends to LGBTQ employees, Supreme Court rulesVideo
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court declared Monday that the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBTQ employees from workplace discrimination. In a major victory for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer workers, the justices said the law’s ban on job discrimination on the basis of “sex” can be read...
Alabama city’s Confederate statue relocated to a museum
MOBILE, Ala. — A Confederate statue removed from Alabama’s port city earlier this month has been relocated to a museum, the city’s mayor said. The History Museum of Mobile has received the bronze likeness of Admiral Raphael Semmes, which stood in a middle of a downtown street near the Mobile...
First lady announces youth art project on women’s suffrage
WASHINGTON — Melania Trump wants to use art to help children learn about women’s suffrage. The first lady on Monday announced a youth art project to coincide with the ratification nearly 100 years ago of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. The project, “Building the Movement:...
Japan to scrap costly land-based U.S. missile defense system
TOKYO — Japan’s Defense Ministry said Monday that it has decided to stop unpopular plans to deploy two costly land-based U.S. missile defense systems aimed at bolstering the country’s capability against threats from North Korea. Defense Minister Taro Kono told reporters that he decided to “stop the deployment process” of...
Europe’s borders reopen but long road for tourism to recoverVideo
BERLIN — Borders opened up across Europe on Monday after three months of coronavirus closures that began chaotically in March. But many restrictions persist, it’s unclear how keen Europeans will be to travel this summer and the continent is still closed to Americans, Asians and other international tourists. Border checks...
Reports: Chinese billionaire held hostage, rescued by police
BEIJING — The billionaire founder of the world’s biggest appliance manufacturer, Midea Group, was held hostage by intruders in his home in southern China but was rescued by police, news reports said Monday. Police received a call Sunday evening that intruders had broken into a home in Foshan, near Hong...
American sentenced to 16 years in Russia on spying charges
MOSCOW — A Russian court on Monday sentenced an American businessman to 16 years in prison on spying charges, a sentence that he and his brother rejected as being political. The Moscow City Court read out the conviction of Paul Whelan on charges of espionage and sentenced him to 16...
Pilot of U.S. Air Force jet that crashed in North Sea is dead
LONDON — The pilot of a fighter jet that crashed into the North Sea, off the coast of northern England, has been found dead, the U.S. Air Force said Monday. In a statement hours after the crash, it said “the pilot of the downed F-15C Eagle from the 48th Fighter...
Hank Williams Jr.’s 27-year-old daughter killed in accident
PARIS, Tenn. — The 27-year-old daughter of country singer Hank Williams Jr. was killed in a highway accident in Tennessee, police said. Katherine Williams-Dunning of Springville was the driver of an SUV that was towing a boat when it crossed the median and rolled over Saturday night on U.S. Route...
Elected officials call for independent investigation into hanging death of black man in California
LOS ANGELES — Two state officials have joined a Los Angeles County supervisor in calling on California Atty. Gen. Xavier Beccera to investigate the death of a young black man found hanging from a tree in a park near Palmdale City Hall. “”The attorney general, as the lead attorney and...
