WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was on stage at the Iowa State Fairgrounds earlier this month, kicking off the country 's 250th anniversary celebration, when he heard what sounded like fireworks in the distance. "Did I hear what I think I heard?" Trump remarked as he spoke from...
The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post on the social media platform X that...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) – Three locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by the United Nations, Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization to its World Heritage List. The three locations were inscribed to the...
CAMARILLO, California (AP) — Federal immigration authorities said Friday they arrested about 200 immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally in raids a day earlier on two California cannabis farm sites. Protesters engaged in a tense standoff with authorities during an operation at one...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Fuel control switches for the engines of an Air India flight that crashed last month were moved from the “run” to the “cutoff” position moments before impact, starving both engines of fuel, a preliminary investigation report said early Saturday. The report, issued by...
ROME (AP) — The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 forced almost 10 million people to flee their homes, with about 3.8 million displaced within the country and 5.6 million abroad, but most of them want to stay close to their homes, the U.N. refugee agency 's representative for Ukraine said....
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — China has failed to intimidate rival claimant states into surrendering their sovereign interests in the disputed South China Sea despite its intensifying "bullying tactics" and the United States and other allied countries are ready to further boost deterrence against...
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon has no plans to have normal relations with Israel at the present time, and Beirut 's main aim is to reach a "state of no war" with its southern neighbor, the country 's president said Friday. President Joseph Aoun 's comments came as the Trump administration...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there were "areas of potential cooperation" between Washington and Beijing and stressed the importance of managing differences following his first in-person meeting with his Chinese counterpart as he wrapped up a two-day...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian attack on an air base in Qatar key to the U.S. military likely hit a geodesic dome housing equipment used by the Americans for secure communications, satellite images analyzed Friday by The Associated Press show. The U.S. military and Qatar did not...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 's trip to Washington this week netted President Donald Trump another nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize he covets, but the ceasefire the U.S. leader sought for the war in Gaza didn 't emerge. Despite Trump throwing his...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump will host his Philippine counterpart in the White House this month to discuss how the longtime treaty allies can further deepen their security and economic engagements, Philippine officials said Friday. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. 's...
