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BALTIMORE, April 27 (Reuters) – U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Monday that Congress would need to play a role in a request by U.S. budget airlines for $2.5 billion in government aid to address high jet fuel costs. “I don’t have that money – can’t just pull it out of the couch cushions. There would have to be a lot of government engagement and a bipartisan effort to […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Jackson once sang “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough.” For fans of the King of Pop’s music, it’s words to live by: Streams of his catalog jumped 95% in the U.S. over the weekend when compared with the same dates the previous weekend. That’s according to Luminate, an industry data and analytics company that provides insight into changing behaviors across music listenership. A blockbuster was […]

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s dominant parliamentary bloc on Monday nominated Ali al-Zaidi, a businessman and political newcomer, to be the country’s prime minister. The announcement by the Coordination Framework, a coalition of Shiite parties allied with Iran, followed a meeting at the government palace. It came after weeks of internal debate among its member parties aimed at selecting a compromise candidate to lead the next government. Even with the backing […]

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — An alliance of al-Qaida-linked fighters and separatists carried out the largest coordinated attack in over a decade in Mali, marking a dangerous escalation in the world’s deadliest region for extremism. It’s also a challenge for Russia, which Mali’s military-led government has embraced as its security partner after distancing itself from former allies like France. The scale of the weekend assault was unprecedented for both the number […]

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Workers in Brazil on Monday resumed the construction of the stage for the concert by Shakira next weekend on Rio de Janeiro’s famous Copacabana Beach, work that was halted the day before amid a police investigation into the death of a 28-year-old locksmith at the scene. The boundary-breaking Colombian singer and pop star has not commented on the death of the worker. According to police, […]

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man who managed problem-plagued voter registration drives in Pennsylvania ahead of the 2024 presidential election pleaded guilty Monday to three misdemeanor counts and was sentenced to a month in county jail. Phoenix resident Guillermo Sainz Gurrola was also fined $1,000 and will serve probation for three counts of solicitation of registration, which prosecutors described as offering financial incentives to canvassers who met quotas. The attorney […]

Donald and Melania Trump both called for ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel on Monday after a joke last week in which the late-night comic described the first lady as having “the glow of an expectant widow.” The remark about the president’s wife was part of a routine on Thursday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” where the host pretended to deliver a comedy routine at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. That event […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Jessica Mann once had reason to think she was done being publicly grilled about Harvey Weinstein. She had spent three daystelling a jury that the ex-movie mogul raped her, explaining why she continued a relationship with him afterward and discussing other deeply personal aspects of her life, once sobbing so hard that court ended early. Weinstein had then been convicted, in a 2020 verdict seen as […]

So much information, streaming out in so little time. And still: Within minutes, conspiracy theories flooded the internet. The shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner attended by President Donald Trump on Saturday night played out in front of some of the nation’s most powerful reporters and editors who snapped into action in real time to provide detailed accounts from the scene. What resulted was a steady stream of facts […]