Waffle House raises worker pay after strikes and pressure from labor organizers (apnews.com)
Heavy snows and drought of deadly 'dzud' kill more than 7 million head of livestock in Mongolia (apnews.com)
China's exports grow 7.6% in May, beating expectations despite trade tensions (apnews.com)
3 Nixon justices helped end his presidency. Will the 3 Trump appointees force him to stand trial? (apnews.com)
Fifty years ago, three of the justices Richard Nixon appointed to the Supreme Court joined in an 8-0 decision in the Watergate tapes case that effectively ended his presidency, ruling only 16 days after hearing the case. Nixon resigned from office just over two weeks later....
Florida jury finds Chiquita Brands liable for Colombia deaths by financing paramilitary group, must pay $38.3M to family members (apnews.com)
Anchorage Alaska police won't release bodycam video of 3 shootings. It's creating a fight over transparency (apnews.com)
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Apple expected to enter AI race with ambitions to overtake the early leaders (apnews.com)
Researchers find higher levels of dangerous chemical than expected in southeast Louisiana (apnews.com)
Researchers using high-tech air monitoring equipment rolled through an industrialized stretch of southeast Louisiana in mobile labs and found levels of a carcinogen in concentrations as much as 10 times higher than previously estimated, according to a paper published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Science & Technology....
What does Israel’s rescue of 4 captives, and the killing of 274 Palestinians, mean for truce talks? (apnews.com)
Iceland issues license for 128 fin whales to be hunted this year (apnews.com)
Union: 4 Florida police officers indicted for 2019 shootout that left UPS driver and passerby dead (apnews.com)
Malawi's vice president and 9 others have died in a plane crash, the president says (apnews.com)
Malawi’s vice president, Saulos Chilima, was among 10 people killed when a small military plane crashed in a mountainous region in the north of the country, the the president said Tuesday. Chilima was 51....
Georgia Republican convicted in Jan. 6 riot walks out during televised congressional primary debate (apnews.com)
A Georgia congressional candidate convicted of a misdemeanor for illegally demonstrating inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, walked out of a televised debate with a fellow Republican on Sunday ahead of a June 18 primary runoff....
UN food agency pauses its aid work at US pier in Gaza over security concerns, in latest setback (apnews.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The director of the U.N. World Food Program said Sunday the program has “paused” its distribution of humanitarian aid from an American-built pier off Gaza, saying she was “concerned about the safety of our people” after what had been one of the deadliest days of the war there....
Japan's economy is shrinking, although slightly less than previously thought (apnews.com)
Japan's economy is shrinking, although slightly less than previously thought (apnews.com)
Baltimore shipping channel fully reopens after bridge collapse (apnews.com)
The main shipping channel into Baltimore’s port has fully reopened to its original depth and width following the March 26 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which blocked most maritime traffic into the harbor....
Trump to make taped remarks to a Christian group that calls for abortion to be 'eradicated entirely' (apnews.com)
Donald Trump on Monday will make a virtual appearance before a Christian group that calls for abortion to be “eradicated entirely,” as the presumptive Republican nominee again takes on an issue that Democrats want to make a focus of this year’s presidential election....
Far-right gains in the EU election deal stunning defeats to France's Macron and Germany's Scholz (apnews.com)
A military plane carrying Malawi's vice president has gone missing and a search is underway (apnews.com)
A military plane carrying Malawi’s vice president and nine others went missing Monday and a search was underway, the president’s office said....
Nationalist parties, far-left on the rise ahead of Sunday’s federal elections in Belgium (apnews.com)
BRUSSELS (AP) — The last time federal elections were held in Belgium in 2019, it took nearly 18 months before a new prime minister could be sworn in to lead a seven-party coalition government....
Florida man pleads not guilty to kidnapping his estranged wife from her apartment in Spain (apnews.com)
A Florida businessman accused in the February disappearance of his estranged wife in Spain pleaded not guilty on Monday after federal prosecutors questioned his sale of several properties shortly before she disappeared, saying millions in proceeds would allow him to flee if he were released on bail....
Oregon closes more coastal shellfish harvesting due to 'historic high levels' of toxins (apnews.com)
Oregon authorities have expanded shellfish harvesting closures along the state’s entire coastline to include razor clams and bay clams, as already high levels of toxins that have contributed to a shellfish poisoning outbreak continue to rise....
What to know about Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier's first hearing in more than a decade (apnews.com)
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who has spent most of his life in prison since his conviction in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota, has a parole hearing Monday at a federal prison in Florida....
Martha's Vineyard is about to run out of pot. That's led to a lawsuit and a scramble by regulators (apnews.com)
