South Korea will consider supplying arms to Ukraine after Russia and North Korea sign strategic pact (apnews.com)
US aircraft carrier captain playfully counters Houthi's false online claims of hitting his ship (apnews.com)
US Navy faces its most intense combat since World War II against Yemen (apnews.com)
1 of 2 abducted Louisiana children is found dead in Mississippi after their mother is killed (apnews.com)
A Louisiana woman was found dead in her home Thursday, and her two young daughters were abducted and found hours later in Mississippi — one dead and the other alive, police said....
Iceland issues license for 128 fin whales to be hunted this year (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....
Far-right gains in the EU election deal stunning defeats to France's Macron and Germany's Scholz (apnews.com)
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....
Records tumble in Southwest US as temperatures soar well into triple digits and 122 in Death Valley (apnews.com)
Records tumbled across the Southwest United States on Thursday as temperatures soared past 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) from southeast California to Arizona, where the region’s first heat wave of the year was expected to maintain its grip for at least another day....
A mass parachute jump over Normandy kicks off commemorations for the 80th anniversary of D-Day (apnews.com)
Parachutists jumping from World War II-era planes hurled themselves Sunday into now peaceful Normandy skies where war once raged, heralding a week of ceremonies for the fast-disappearing generation of Allied troops who fought from D-Day beaches 80 years ago to Adolf Hitler’s fall, helping free Europe of his tyranny....
Andrew Tate loses appeal to relax judicial restrictions as he awaits human trafficking, rape trial (apnews.com)
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Andrew Tate, the divisive social media influencer awaiting trial in Romania on charges of human trafficking and rape, lost an appeal Thursday to have the court relax geographical restrictions preventing him from traveling outside the eastern European country....
Three people shot to death in tiny South Dakota town; former mayor charged (apnews.com)
Three people were shot to death in a small South Dakota town, and a former law officer who once served as the town’s mayor is charged in the killings....
New York's high court upholds requiring insurance to cover medically necessary abortions (apnews.com)
New York can continue to require companies with health insurance plans to cover medically necessary abortions, the state’s highest court ruled Tuesday....
Israeli officials seize AP equipment and take down live shot of northern Gaza, citing new media law (apnews.com)
US prisoners are being assigned dangerous jobs. But what happens if they are hurt or killed? (apnews.com)
Taiwan is selling more to the US than China in major shift away from Beijing (apnews.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Whether it’s tapioca balls or computer chips, Taiwan is stretching toward the United States and away from China — the world’s No. 2 economy that threatens to take the democratically ruled island by force if necessary....
The larger the nonprofit, the more likely it is run by a white man, says new Candid diversity report (apnews.com)
White men are most likely to lead the largest, best-funded nonprofits, while women of color tend to lead the organizations with the fewest financial resources, according to a study from the nonprofit data research organization Candid....
Defendants unmasked in court face cost of damage for allegedly felling famous 150-year-old tree (apnews.com)
17 states challenge federal rules entitling workers to accommodations for abortion (apnews.com)
Republican attorneys general from 17 states filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging new federal rules entitling workers to time off and other accommodations for abortions, calling the rules an illegal interpretation of a 2022 federal law....
US births fell last year, marking an end to the late pandemic rebound, experts say (apnews.com)
U.S. births fell last year, resuming a long national slide....
Owner of ship in Baltimore bridge collapse asks cargo owners to help cover salvage costs (apnews.com)
Ex-Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg will be sentenced for perjury and faces a second stint in jail (apnews.com)
Allen Weisselberg, a former longtime executive in Donald Trump’s real estate empire, is set to be sentenced Wednesday for lying under oath in the ex-president’s New York civil fraud case....
Boeing pays Alaska Airlines $160 million in compensation for the blowout of a panel during flight (apnews.com)
Alaska Airlines says Boeing has paid the carrier $160 million in “initial compensation” for a panel that blew out of an Alaska Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner in January....
Invaders from underground are coming in cicada-geddon. It's the biggest bug emergence in centuries (apnews.com)
This spring, an unusual cicada double dose is about to invade a couple parts of the United States in what University of Connecticut cicada expert John Cooley called “cicada-geddon.” The last time these two broods came out together in 1803 Thomas Jefferson, who wrote about cicadas in his Garden Book but mistakenly called them...
Gaza medical officials say Israeli strike kills 4 foreign aid workers, driver after delivering food (apnews.com)
An apparent Israeli airstrike killed four international aid workers with the World Central Kitchen charity and their Palestinian driver late Monday, hours after the group brought in a new shipload of food by a maritime route the United States has hoped would be an alternative lifeline for northern Gaza, isolated and pushed to...
