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DENVER (AP) — Two-time Pro Bowl safety Justin Simmons has retired following a nine-year career, including eight seasons with the Denver Broncos. The Broncos announced Simmons’ retirement on Wednesday and noted the news came exactly 10 years after the team selected the safety in the third round from Boston College in 2016. Though Simmons started 16 games for the Atlanta Falcons in his final season in 2024, when he had […]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — An alleged Islamic State group militant was convicted on Wednesday of a conspiracy charge in a deadly suicide bombing at a Kabul airport during the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Mohammad Sharifullah faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years after his one-count conviction in an international terrorism case that President Donald Trump heralded last year during a speech to a joint session […]

MEXICO CITY, April 29 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it has charged the governor of Mexico’s Sinaloa state, Ruben Rocha, and other current and former officials for their alleged involvement with the Sinaloa Cartel. The Justice Department said Rocha and the others allegedly conspired with leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel to import massive quantities of narcotics into the U.S. in exchange for political support and bribes. […]

By David Thomas April 29 (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors in Chicago plan to drop the main conspiracy count against four people, including a former Democratic congressional candidate, who are facing criminal charges in connection with a September protest during the height of a U.S. immigration crackdown, defense attorneys told Reuters.  Prosecutors said in a court hearing on Wednesday that they would drop the conspiracy count, which was the only felony […]

By Priyanshu Singh April 29 (Reuters) – Seven people have died after an 8-foot (2.5-metre) wall at a hospital complex collapsed in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru, a state official said on Wednesday. The collapse killed a child and four street vendors as well as two other people from the state of Kerala, D. K. Shivakumar, the deputy chief minister of the southern state of Karnataka, said in a […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Hundreds of South Africans took to the streets of Johannesburg on Wednesday to protest high levels of illegal immigration, which has fueled tensions between locals and foreign nationals. The demonstration is part of a broader wave of protests, including in the capital, Pretoria, on Tuesday. Anti-immigration groups are calling for the strict enforcement of immigration laws and mass deportations. As one of Africa’s most industrialized economies, South […]

By Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir WASHINGTON, April 29 (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday, but in its most divided decision since 1992 noted rising concerns about inflation in a policy statement that drew three dissents from officials who no longer feel the U.S. central bank should communicate a bias towards lowering borrowing costs. A fourth dissent at the meeting came in favor of a […]

April 29 (Reuters) – A group representing major U.S. broadcasters called the Federal Communications Commission decision to launch an early review of the eight ABC local station licenses owned by Disney “nearly unprecedented” and added th decision “creates significant uncertainty for all broadcasters.” The National Association of Broadcasters said Wednesday the “FCC must be careful to avoid actions that create further instability for the local stations viewers and listeners depend […]

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Utkarsh Shetti April 29 (Reuters) – Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is set to debut his new Pershing Square USA closed-end fund on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, offering retail investors a stock-picking strategy traditionally limited to the super rich for as little as $50 a share. The fund, Pershing Square USA, will trade under the ticker symbol PSUS. Ackman is also listing his management […]