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2 brothers condemned to die for the ‘Wichita massacre’ want a new sentencing hearing

April 22, 2024, 8:44am Nation & World

Attorneys for two brothers who were sentenced to die in a quadruple killing known as the “Wichita massacre” will argue Monday for a formal resentencing hearing, the latest in a long series of appeals. Read story

FILE - Ukrainian servicemen who recently returned from the trenches of Bakhmut walk on a street in Chasiv Yar, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Approval by the U.S. House of a $61 billion package for Ukraine puts the country a step closer to getting an infusion of new firepower. But the clock is ticking. Russia is using all its might to achieve its most significant gains since the invasion by a May 9 deadline.

Aid approval brings Ukraine closer to replenishing troops struggling to hold front lines

FILE - Ukrainian servicemen who recently returned from the trenches of Bakhmut walk on a street in Chasiv Yar, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Approval by the U.S. House of a $61 billion package for Ukraine puts the country a step closer to getting an infusion of new firepower. But the clock is ticking. Russia is using all its might to achieve its most significant gains since the invasion by a May 9 deadline.

April 22, 2024, 8:43am Nation & World

Ukrainian commander Oleksiy Tarasenko witnessed a frightening shift last month in Russia’s efforts to punch through Kyiv’s defense of the industrial region known as the Donbas. Read story

FILE - People relax in the Retiro park in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. Copernicus has reported that March marked the 10th straight month of record monthly temperatures. Europe is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average, two top climate monitoring organizations reported Monday, April 22, 2024, warning of the consequences for human health, glacier melt and economic activity.

Europe is the fastest-warming continent, at nearly twice the average global rate, report says

FILE - People relax in the Retiro park in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. Copernicus has reported that March marked the 10th straight month of record monthly temperatures. Europe is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average, two top climate monitoring organizations reported Monday, April 22, 2024, warning of the consequences for human health, glacier melt and economic activity.

April 22, 2024, 8:43am Nation & World

Europe is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average, two top climate monitoring organizations reported Monday, warning of the consequences for human health, glacier melt and economic activity. Read story

FILE - Nancy Wilson, left, and Ann Wilson, right, of the band Heart perform as Heart is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Nokia Theatre on Thursday, April 18, 2013 in Los Angeles.

Mary J. Blige, Cher, Ozzy Osbourne, A Tribe Called Quest and Foreigner get into Rock Hall

FILE - Nancy Wilson, left, and Ann Wilson, right, of the band Heart perform as Heart is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Nokia Theatre on Thursday, April 18, 2013 in Los Angeles.

April 22, 2024, 8:43am Entertainment

Mary J. Blige,Cher, Foreigner, A Tribe Called Quest, Kool & The Gang and Ozzy Osbourne have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a class that also includes folk-rockers Dave Matthews Band and singer-guitarist Peter Frampton. Read story

FILE - Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley speaks in London, Nov. 9, 2023. London&rsquo;s police commissioner will meet with senior members of the Jewish community on Monday April 22, 2024 after the force bungled its apology for suggesting an &ldquo;openly Jewish&rsquo;&rsquo; man&rsquo;s presence along the route of a pro-Palestinian march risked provoking the demonstrators.

London police to meet with Jewish leaders as protests spark concerns about the safety of Jews

FILE - Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley speaks in London, Nov. 9, 2023. London&rsquo;s police commissioner will meet with senior members of the Jewish community on Monday April 22, 2024 after the force bungled its apology for suggesting an &ldquo;openly Jewish&rsquo;&rsquo; man&rsquo;s presence along the route of a pro-Palestinian march risked provoking the demonstrators.

April 22, 2024, 8:35am Nation & World

London’s police commissioner will meet with senior members of the Jewish community on Monday after the force bungled its apology for suggesting an “openly Jewish’’ man’s presence along the route of a pro-Palestinian march risked provoking the demonstrators. Read story

FILE - Two lake sturgeons are set to be weighed near Black Lake in Cheboygan County, Mich., Feb. 4, 2017. Lake sturgeon don&rsquo;t need Endangered Species Act protections, federal wildlife officials announced Monday, April 22, 2024, saying that stocking programs have helped the prehistoric fish return to areas where they had vanished.

Prehistoric lake sturgeon is not endangered, U.S. says despite calls from conservationists

FILE - Two lake sturgeons are set to be weighed near Black Lake in Cheboygan County, Mich., Feb. 4, 2017. Lake sturgeon don&rsquo;t need Endangered Species Act protections, federal wildlife officials announced Monday, April 22, 2024, saying that stocking programs have helped the prehistoric fish return to areas where they had vanished.

April 22, 2024, 8:35am Nation & World

Lake sturgeon don’t need Endangered Species Act protections, federal wildlife officials announced Monday, saying that stocking programs have helped the prehistoric fish return to areas where they had vanished. Read story

Israel&rsquo;s U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan, left, addresses members of the United Nations Security Council at U.N. Headquarters Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Robert A. Wood, United States Ambassador to the United Nations is at right.

The US is expected to block aid to an Israeli military unit. What is Leahy law that it would cite?

Israel&rsquo;s U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan, left, addresses members of the United Nations Security Council at U.N. Headquarters Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Robert A. Wood, United States Ambassador to the United Nations is at right.

April 22, 2024, 8:34am Nation & World

Israel expects its top ally, the United States, to announce as soon as Monday that it’s blocking military aid to an Israeli army unit over gross human rights abuses in the Israeli-occupied West Bank before the war in Gaza began six months ago. Read story

New York Police officers arrest a protestor who participated in an encampment on the Columbia University campus, Thursday, April 18, 2024, in New York. The protestors were calling for the school to divest from corporations profiting from the war in the Middle East.

Columbia cancels in-person classes as demonstrations sprout up on US campuses to protest Israel war

New York Police officers arrest a protestor who participated in an encampment on the Columbia University campus, Thursday, April 18, 2024, in New York. The protestors were calling for the school to divest from corporations profiting from the war in the Middle East.

April 22, 2024, 8:33am Nation & World

Columbia University canceled in-person classes Monday and police arrested several dozen protesters at Yale University as tensions on college campuses across the country continues to grow over the war in the Middle East. Read story

2 killed and 7 injured in shooting at Memphis park party, police say

April 22, 2024, 8:33am Nation & World

Nine people were shot, including two men who were killed, at an unauthorized public party over the weekend in a Memphis city park, police said. Read story

People walk by a mural in downtown Flint, Mich., Monday, March 25, 2024.

Children of Flint water crisis make change as young environmental and health activists

People walk by a mural in downtown Flint, Mich., Monday, March 25, 2024.

April 22, 2024, 8:27am Nation & World

Their childhood memories are still vivid: warnings against drinking or cooking with tap water, enduring long lines for cases of water, washing from buckets filled with heated, bottled water. And for some, stomach aches, skin rashes and hair loss. Read story