The document includes numerous claims about ballots and elections that have been widely debunked. Witnesses’ names were redacted before the affidavit was unsealed.

Palestine’s envoy to the United Nations has called on the international community to stop Israel’s recent moves to cement control over the occupied West Bank, which he said amounts to “the annexation of the land of the Palestinian people”.Flanked by representatives of Arab and Muslim-majority nations, Ambassador Riyad Mansour told...

Connecticut education leaders are expressing cautious optimism as the state Department of Education tries its hand at course development.The department announced the release of its first-ever “Course in a Box,” An American History of Rock and Soul, in January. It’s a one-semester elective de...

MILAN (AP) — Ilia Malinin playfully threw a couple of jabs at a TV camera while skating off the ice Tuesday night, the pressure of his first Olympics having seemingly vanished following a team gold medal and a near-perfect short program to begin the men’s competition.The American wunderkind...

PHOENIX (AP) — “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie and her siblings have posted a series of videos online since their mother, 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, went missing earlier this month in a mysterious case that has gripped the nation. In the Instagram videos, Savannah, Camron and Annie Guthri...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — When Bad Bunny said “God bless America,” a common English expression for the United States, during the Super Bowl halftime show and then began naming countries across the continent, the phrase functioned as both a play on words and a statement. In Spanish, América usually...

Immigrant rights groups are seeking to toss out a Republican lawsuit that would prohibit the U.S. Census Bureau from counting people who are in the U.S. illegally during the 2030 census. The groups said the lawsuit filed late last month by Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway would vi...

MIAMI (AP) — Less than three years after President Joe Biden pardoned a close ally of Nicolás Maduro, the Justice Department is once again targeting the businessman, The Associated Press has learned, an investigation that could bolster the U.S. prosecution of the deposed Venezuelan leader.Fe...

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. (AP) — When thousands of New York City nurses walked off the job last month in the city’s largest strike of its kind in decades, 9-year-old Logan Coyle was a patient in the cancer unit at NewYork-Presbyterian’s children’s hospital in Manhattan. Logan was recovering from...

President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to withhold some public health and transportation money from a group of Democratic-led states.Full details have not been released, including whether the states could take any steps to avoid losing the funding. The federal government cited c...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Political deadlock in South Sudan is sharply escalating violence, putting the world’s newest nation on a “dangerous precipice,” the United Nations’ peacekeeping chief warned Tuesday.Jean-Pierre Lacroix urged the U.N. Security Council and the broader international commun...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday called on the nation’s highest court to lift a suspension on an economic emergency decree that would grant his government the authority to raise taxes without congressional approval.In a televised Cabinet meeting, Petro sai...

United States President Donald Trump has continued to threaten Iran with possible military attacks if Tehran does not accede to his demands on issues ranging from nuclear enrichment to ballistic missiles.In comments to the Israeli outlet Channel 12, published on Tuesday, Trump hinted at aggressive actions if no deal comes together...

Egypt’s House of Representatives approved a cabinet reshuffle put forward by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, reshaping key economic posts as the country grapples with a floundering economy.The shake-up announced on Tuesday brings 13 new ministers to the government, including those overseeing housing, higher education, planning, inv...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Three Idaho families who are U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents are suing after they and hundreds of others were detained for hours during an aggressive immigration raid at a rural horse racing track last year. The families say state and federal law enforcement...

Nevada will pay $447,000 in court-ordered fines for continued delays in providing mental health care to criminal defendants in Clark County, the latest sign of its struggles to quickly provide treatment.Defendants deemed unfit for trial are supposed to be transferred to a mental health facil...

A federal civil jury issued a verdict Monday clearing three Richmond police officers of any liability in the 2021 in-custody death of 47-year-old Ivan Gutzalenko of Concord.The jury came back with its ruling less than two hours after hearing closing arguments in the trial, which began Feb. 2...

The owners of Colony Ridge, a Houston-area developer accused of running a predatory lending scheme that deceived Latinos, agreed to a sweeping legal settlement that will require them to invest in law enforcement and infrastructure on their properties and tighten selling practices to address...

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The mother of a U.S. Air Force airman shot and killed by a Florida sheriff’s deputy nearly two years ago says she doesn’t want people to forget about her son and is still seeking accountability so it doesn’t happen to someone else.Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 2...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz said Tuesday that he expects the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota will end in “days, not weeks and months,” based on his recent conversations with top Trump administration officials.The Democratic governor said at a news conference that he spoke Mon...

More than two dozen privacy and advocacy organizations are calling on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to remove a network of covert license plate readers deployed across Southern California that the groups believe feed data into a controversial U.S. Border Patrol predictive domestic intelligenc...

ATLANTA (AP) — The FBI obtained a search warrant to seize hundreds of boxes of ballots from election offices in Fulton County, Georgia, as part of a criminal investigation into possible “deficiencies or defects” in the vote count in the 2020 contest lost by President Donald Trump, according...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The nation’s largest public utility says it now would prefer to keep operating two coal-fired power plants it had planned to shutter, changing course before a meeting of its board, which has a majority of members picked by the coal-friendly Trump administration. In ne...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Donald Trump has the right to amend a permit for a new bridge between Canada and Michigan, prolonging the latest dispute between the U.S. and its northern neighbor hours after its prime minister signaled there could be a detente. The Gordie Ho...

MILAN (AP) — For fans of the Milan Cortina Olympic mascots, the eponymous Milo and Tina, it’s been nearly impossible to find a plush toy of the stoat siblings in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo.Many of the official Olympics stores in the host cities are already sold out, less than a week into th...

PREDAZZO, Italy (AP) — Slovenia defended its gold medal in mixed team ski jumping at the Milan Cortina Games on Tuesday, and sibling stars Domen and Nika Prevc became the first brother and sister to win a medal on the normal hill at the same Olympics.Norway took silver with a foursome that i...

MILAN (AP) — U.S. figure skater Amber Glenn has smoothed out copyright concerns with the artist behind one of the pieces of her free skate music, and the Olympic team gold medalist thinks she may have struck up a new friendship with him because of it.Canadian artist Seb McKinnon, who produce...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters throwing Molotov cocktails and flares during a demonstration Tuesday night in central Tirana by thousands of opposition supporters demanding the resignation of Albania’s government. Sixteen protesters were treat...

European Parliament passed new legislation letting member states deport migrants to designated “safe” countries outside the EU even if they are not from those nations.European lawmakers approved the measure on Tuesday with a vote of 396‑226 as centre and far-right members backed it.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Trum...

Washington, DC – Tom Malinowski, a moderate Democrat, has conceded defeat to progressive Analilia Mejia in a crowded primary race in New Jersey for the United States House of Representatives.But the race is being called a loss not just for Malinowski but also for the influential pro-Israel organisation that opposed him: the America...

The United States has imposed sanctions on a gold firm in Lebanon that it accused of having ties to Hezbollah as Washington pushes to choke off the group’s revenue streams.The administration of US President Donald Trump blacklisted Jood SARL on Tuesday, saying the company is helping convert Hezbollah’s “gold reserves into usable fu...

Zimbabwe’s ‌cabinet backed draft legislation that would change the constitution to extend presidential terms from five years to seven, allowing President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stay in office until 2030.Other proposed changes in the bill presented to the cabinet on Tuesday include ⁠a provision that the president be elected by parlia...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Six former players on the women’s basketball team at the University of Pittsburgh have sued coach Tory Verdi and the school over what they call abusive coaching methods and say their efforts to seek help were ignored. “These players aren’t soft. We aren’t talking about se...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s team posted and then deleted a message on social media about the Republican’s visit to a memorial paying tribute to early 20th century Armenians killed by the Ottoman Empire.The issue was the post using the term “Armenian genocide,” a designation the U.S. gover...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration has stopped flying a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument, angering activists who see the change as a symbolic swipe at the country’s first national monument to LGBTQ+ history. The multicolored flag, one of the world’s most well known emble...

LONDON (AP) — In an earlier era, Britain’s royal family might have tried to bury the scandal surrounding Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Not during the reign of King Charles III.Since October, the king has stripped his younger brother of the right to be called p...

Grammy-winning singer Chappell Roan has left the talent agency led by entertainment industry executive and 2028 Los Angeles Olympics chair Casey Wasserman, who appears in recently released government files on Jeffrey Epstein.Wasserman has not been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with...

Opposition to a deal that would allow U.S. companies access to critical minerals in Congo is growing after Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi returned from the U.S. minerals summit last week — with praises from U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. lawmakers.Tshisekedi has offered U.S. compan...

MILAN (AP) — Dustin Gazley grew up in Novi, Michigan, played hockey at Michigan State, led the ECHL in scoring one season and skated in more than 300 games in the American Hockey League. Then he took his talents to Europe and settled in Bolzano in the Italian Alps.“I haven’t looked back,” Ga...

YANOUH, Lebanon (AP) — Mourners in southern Lebanon on Tuesday buried a father and his young son killed in an Israeli drone strike that targeted a Hezbollah member.Hassan Jaber, a police officer, and his child, Ali, were on foot when the strike on Monday hit a passing car in the center of th...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Chile on Tuesday launched the first open-source artificial intelligence language model trained on the diverse cultures of Latin America, aiming to better reflect regional realities and strengthen the region’s presence in the global AI race.Latam-GPT is the resu...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Parents who owe a significant amount of child support soon could lose their ability to travel internationally as the Trump administration expands and steps up enforcement of a 30-year-old law that allows the federal government to revoke American passports until payments are...

Federal health officials said Tuesday they will reassess the safety of a chemical called BHA used in foods including potato chips, cereals, frozen meals and meat products. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a new request for information regarding butylated hydroxyanisole, a preserv...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man has been sentenced to four years in prison for acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government while working as a campaign adviser for a local politician.Yaoning “Mike” Sun, 65, was sentenced Monday in federal court in Los Angeles after pleading guil...

United States Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has played down his connections to child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein after newly released emails shared details about their interactions.Facing calls for his resignation, Lutnick told a Senate committee on Tuesday that he “barely knew” Epstein, although emails appear to contradict his...

Washington, DC – No other world leader has visited the United States in an official capacity over the past year more than Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.And the Israeli prime minister is set to break his own record when he embarks on yet another trip to the US this week – his sixth since President Donald Trump returned to the White Ho...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he will present Donald Trump with “principles” for negotiating with Iran as he heads to Washington, DC, for his sixth official visit with the US president over the past year.Netanyahu hailed the “unique closeness” between Israel and the United States and his own warm ties to Trump befo...

Israeli attacks on residential building, central Gaza has killed at least seven people.

Israeli attacks on residential building, central Gaza has killed at least seven people.

Israeli attacks on residential building, central Gaza has killed at least seven people.

TESERO, Italy (AP) — Competitors find it hard to fault Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo because he has it all: Technique, tactics, power and speed.On Tuesday, the Norwegian cross-country skiing phenomenon was unstoppable again as he earned his second Olympic gold medal in his second outing at the Mi...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Italy’s Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner won bronze in mixed doubles curling Tuesday, defeating Britain 5-3.It was a bittersweet result for the Italians, the defending Olympic champions whose fans packed the stands throughout the round-robin in hopes to s...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — When Bad Bunny said “God bless America” during the Super Bowl halftime show and then began naming countries across the continent, the line landed as both wordplay and statement. In Spanish, América often means the entire hemisphere, not a single nation, and the distinction...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Make that seven straight races without a medal for Mikaela Shiffrin at the Winter Olympics.The American skiing standout was given the ideal platform to win the new team combined event after partner Breezy Johnson led the opening downhill leg on Tuesday.Shiffri...

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has faced the biggest crisis of his leadership because of his decision to appoint a close ally of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to the plum job of U.K. ambassador to the United States.Many warned him not to appoint Peter Man...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Juan Pablo Guanipa, a close political ally of Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado, has been placed under house arrest, his family said on Tuesday, two days after he was released from prison.Guanipa, a former governor for the opposition, is at home in...

HIIUMAA, Estonia (AP) — Temperatures in northern Europe have been so low that citizens of Estonia can now drive across a 20-kilometer (12 1/2-mile) stretch of frozen sea linking the country’s two main islands. The so-called “ice road” connecting the islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, located i...

BRUSSELS (AP) — European lawmakers voted Tuesday to approve new immigration policies that allows nations to deny asylum and deport migrants because they either hail from a country designated safe or could apply for asylum in a country outside the 27-nation bloc.The vote at European Parliamen...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Under questioning from Democrats Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick acknowledged that he had met with Jeffrey Epstein twice after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a child, reversing Lutnick’s previous claim that he had cut ties with the late fina...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s parliament on Tuesday approved by a majority a Cabinet reshuffle as the North African country struggles with an ailing economy and mounting pressure from regional conflicts.The shake-up affected 13 portfolios, including housing, higher education, communications, youth an...

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — The mayor of Ecuador’s largest port city was arrested Tuesday on charges of money laundering and tax evasion, prosecutors in the South American country said.In a social media post, Ecuador’s Attorney General’s office said it detained an additional 10 people linked t...

BLAGOEVGRAD, Bulgaria (AP) — Illuminated by the flickering glow of candlelight, priests approached the tables arranged in the shape of a cross in the middle of a church, enveloped in the heady scent of incense wafting from a censer. On the tables were jars of honey, waiting to be blessed on...

More details are emerging daily from the January 30 release of more than three million pages of documents by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), exposing the extraordinary breadth of Jeffrey Epstein’s social and financial circle, which included some of the world’s most powerful people.Epstein was an American financier and convicted...

Israeli attacks on residential building, central Gaza has killed at least seven people.

Israeli attacks on residential building, central Gaza has killed at least seven people.

Israeli attacks on residential building, central Gaza has killed at least seven people.

PGA TourAT&T PEBBLE BEACH PRO-AMSite: Pebble Beach, California.Courses: Pebble Beach GL (Yardage: 6,972; Par: 72). and Spyglass Links GC (Yardage: 7,071; Par: 72).Prize money: $20 million. Winner’s share: $3.6 million.Television: Thursday-Friday, 3-7 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 1-3 p.m. (...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Republican Sen. Susan Collins announced her reelection bid Tuesday, betting that she can hold onto her coveted Maine seat despite a renewed Democratic effort to oust her in a race that could determine control of the U.S. Senate. The campaign will test Collins’ politica...

TULKAREM, West Bank (AP) — Hanadi Abu Zant has been unable to pay rent on her apartment in the occupied West Bank for almost a year after losing her permit to work inside Israel. When her landlord calls the police, she hides in a mosque.“My biggest fear is being kicked out of my home. Where...

LONDON (AP) — Keir Starmer fights another day.After indirect fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files sparked a dramatic day of crisis that threatened to topple him, the U.K. prime minister was saved by a pugnacious fightback and hesitation among his rivals inside the governing Labour Party ab...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Lindsey Vonn sustained a “complex tibia fracture that is currently stable but will require multiple surgeries to fix properly” after her devastating crash in the Olympic downhill, the skier said in a social media post late Monday.Vonn posted on Instagram about...

NEW YORK (AP) — Shoppers unexpectedly paused their spending in December from November, closing out the holiday shopping season and the year on a lackluster tone.The report, issued by the Commerce Department on Tuesday, surprised economists who were looking for growth despite mounting concern...

MILAN (AP) — The text message that popped up on Nathan Chen’s phone underscored the enormity of the moment, its arrival shortly after the American figure skater had won his long-awaited gold medal with a soaring free skate at the 2022 Beijing Olympics.“Congratulations,” it read. “Welcome to...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie pleaded for the public’s help at “an hour of desperation” in the search for her missing mother as the family’s latest attempts to reach the abductors failed to yield any proof she is alive or communication with the culprits.Guthrie and...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is drafting a list of concessions that it believes Russia must make to secure any long-term peace in Ukraine, the bloc’s top diplomat said Tuesday, as U.S.-run talks to end four years of war show little sign of progress.Russian forces used cluster munitions...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Two Palestinians on bicycles were killed in an Israeli drone strike on Tuesday, hospital officials said, marking the latest deaths since an October ceasefire that hasn’t halted deadly attacks in the Gaza Strip.Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said the two men were hi...

PARIS (AP) — A French prosecutor on Tuesday made public the identity of a 79-year-old man accused of raping and sexually assaulting 89 minors over more than five decades, launching an appeal for witnesses and possible victims in what authorities described as an unusually sprawling case spann...