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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would strip private schools and colleges of their tax-exempt status if they provide targeted help to students based on their race, a significant escalation in the White House’s campaign to eradicate diversity programs directed at Black, Hispanic and other minority students. The Treasury Department proposed the change Thursday in a new regulation that, if made final, would kick […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — More than six decades after South African apartheid police opened fire on an unarmed crowd protesting pass laws in Sharpeville, a township south of Johannesburg, survivors and relatives of the victims announced on Thursday they would launch a class-action lawsuit against the government. At a media briefing held in Sharpeville, lawyers said the case seeks compensation and asks a court to strike down the 1961 Indemnity Act, […]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A pregnant woman in a black dress stood at the head of her 21-year-old husband’s casket Tuesday in Kyiv, mourning the man she met when they were both soldiers fighting Russia’s full-scale invasion of their country. Yeva Smyrnova and Danyil Smyrnov both joined the army in 2023, at 18, and married two years later, in July 2025. Young as they were, decided they needed to hurry […]

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Lisbon inaugurated a memorial Thursday to the 16 people killed in a funicular derailment a year ago, as questions persist about the safety of the city’s iconic hillside streetcars, which remain at a standstill. Near the crash site, a 150-year-old olive tree stood at the center of a ring of limestone blocks laid into the ground featuring the names of the victims. Foreign ambassadors laid wreaths […]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Hundreds of opposition lawmakers and activists protested in Sri Lanka’s capital Thursday to demand that the government withdraw legislation that would add top judges and allow them longer terms, calling it an attempt to control the judiciary. The demonstration comes nearly two weeks after the government of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake submitted the proposed constitutional amendment on judicial reform to Parliament, which has been dominated […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Investigators on Thursday were scouring the scene of the downtown Minneapolis shooting that left three people dead, including the suspect, and five others injured. Dozens of law enforcement officers were at the apartment building where the shooting occurred Wednesday evening, along with a mobile crime scene unit from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the state investigative agency. The five wounded by gunfire included two Minneapolis police […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Precisely 180 years ago, a handful of New York news executives looking to save money on coverage had an idea. Today, it is called The Associated Press. Five newspaper publishers in New York City agreed in 1846 to pool resources in order to speed the delivery of news about the U.S. war with Mexico using a pony-express relay through Alabama to a telegraph office. Those beginnings […]

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Nothing has shaped what it means to be Venezuelan today more than oil. For more than 100 years, in good times and bad, Venezuelans’ identity has been built around the belief that their country’s bountiful oil resources belong to the people, not a government or a company. This belief, and a troubled nation’s pride, took a bruising last week when acting President Delcy Rodríguez agreed to […]

Former first lady Jill Biden, writers and social justice activists are lauding Gloria Steinem as a revolutionary and inspiring figure. The celebrated author and activist, who became one of the most visible symbols and potent voices of the U.S. women’s movement, died Wednesday at her home in New York City. She was 92. “Gloria Steinem understood that women’s equality begins with the freedom to make decisions about our own bodies, […]