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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Teachers, families of Mexico’s 130,000 missing people, animal rights groups and a range of other social movements in Mexico are capitalizing on impending FIFA World Cup celebrations next week to put pressure on authorities and make demands. Protesters from the country’s teachers’ union, CNTE, blocked main throughways in Mexico City, bringing central parts of the city to a standstill this week to demand better working conditions. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Defense announced on Friday a significant reduction in the number of religious affiliations it officially recognizes. The new list of 31 is down from more than 200 previously recognized traditions that troops could choose from. The list no longer includes atheists, Unitarian Universalists, pagans and Wiccans. “This decrease in religious affiliation codes is not designed to make any claims on the legitimacy of any […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Water has started flowing into the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after President Donald Trump’s renovation, which included painting the basin a deep shade he called “American flag blue.” This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Dan Catchpole SEATTLE, June 5 (Reuters) – As Boeing increases production of its best-selling 737 MAX from 42 to 47 jets a month, the U.S. planemaker is looking at how it can climb to 70 a month, its highest ever, CEO Kelly Ortberg told CNBC on Friday. “We’ll look at that to understand where our constraints are, what the resilience is of the supply chain, but that’s a study […]

By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY, June 6 (Reuters) – Pope Leo leaves on Saturday for a week-long visit to Spain, his first to an EU country outside Italy, where he will inaugurate a new tower in Barcelona’s famed Sagrada Familia basilica and meet migrants who braved dangerous Atlantic waters to reach Europe. The first American head of the Catholic Church is expected to draw large crowds on the June 6-12 […]

June 5 (Reuters) – A seven-month-old Palestinian baby was killed and his parents were wounded by Israeli gunfire in the Tel Rumeida area south of the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday evening, the Palestinian health ministry said. The ministry identified the infant as Sam Fahd Abu Haikal and said he was killed at the scene, while his parents were wounded in the shooting and were in moderate condition. […]

June 5 (Reuters) – Marvell Technology is set to join the benchmark S&P 500 index, S&P Dow Jones Indices said on Friday, sending the chipmaker’s shares up 6% in extended trading. The company will join the benchmark index later this month, after it recently cleared a key profitability hurdle riding a blistering AI-fueled rally. The stock will replace swimming pool equipment distributor PoolCorp on the benchmark index before the start […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes have spent months regrouping quickly after losses and they have proven unshaken by the challenge of playing in hostile arenas or in next-goal-wins extra time. Those responses in the most pressure-packed of scenarios helps explain why they’re back to even in the Stanley Cup Final after losing the opener to the Vegas Golden Knights heading into Saturday’s Game 3 on the road. If […]

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump confirmed he will attend Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday at Madison Square Garden, but said he doesn’t have much sympathy for ordinary basketball fans who can’t afford sky-high ticket prices to do the same. “They can watch it on television,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Friday as he flew to Wisconsin for an event with […]