Trump sends envoys to Islamabad as Iran rules out direct talks
ISLAMABAD (AP) — U.S. envoys are expected to travel to Pakistan on Saturday in a new bid to salvage ceasefire talks with Tehran, even as Iran ruled out direct negotiations with U.S. representatives as its top diplomat
Philadelphia museum brings Rocky statue inside after decades of tension
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Every day, visitors from around the world make their way to the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art — not necessarily for the galleries inside, but for a statue of a fictional boxer
New York’s new jails boss once served time in a cell block he now oversees
NEW YORK (AP) — Stanley Richards knows how bleak life can be at Rikers Island, New York City’s notorious jail complex. As a young man, he spent two years locked up there for robbery. Now, he runs
Despite Iran tensions, King Charles III will follow his mother’s lead in celebrating US-UK bonds
LONDON (AP) — The challenge for King Charles III as he embarks on this week’s state visit to the U.S. is, as always, to live up to his mother’s example. The late Queen Elizabeth II wowed Congress
Wildfires abound in US Southeast, Georgia suffers record property losses
By Steve Gorman April 24 (Reuters) – Georgia Governor Brian Kemp declared an emergency on Friday for 91 counties in his state, where authorities are battling two major wildfires that have caused record property damage as more
US military strike on alleged drug boat kills 2 in eastern Pacific
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said it launched another strike Friday on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people. The Trump administration’s campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels
Mississippi will reexamine judicial redistricts after US Supreme Court rules in voting rights case
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Friday announced he will call a special session for judicial redistricting once the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a Voting Rights Act case that has broad implications for
California to weigh tighter restrictions on voter registration amid US debate on election security
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A proposal that would require California to verify proof of citizenship when a person registers to vote — and require voters to provide identification at polling places — will appear on the November
Podcast helps Louisiana State Police arrest 4 suspects in decades-old murder of teenage girl
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana police say a podcast helped them solve the decades-old killing of a 16-year-old girl and announced Friday that four men now face criminal charges in connection with her rape and murder. In
Jury convicts New York man for 1993 killing following third trial in the case
A jury on Friday convicted a man in the 1993 killing of a woman near Buffalo, ending his third trial after a legal odyssey that has stretched on for decades. Brian Scott Lorenz, 56, was originally convicted