Thefts of charging cables pose yet another obstacle to appeal of electric vehicles (apnews.com)
Southern Baptists expel Virginia church for believing women can serve as pastors (apnews.com)
Even as they prepare to vote on a formal ban on churches with women pastors, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to boot one such church from its ranks....
US will send Ukraine another Patriot missile system after Kyiv's desperate calls for air defenses (apnews.com)
The United States will send Ukraine another Patriot missile system, two U.S. officials said Tuesday, answering Kyiv’s desperate calls for more air defenses as it battles an intense Russian assault on the northeastern Kharkiv region....
Apparent pro-Palestinian activists splash red paint on homes of Jewish officials at Brooklyn Museum (apnews.com)
Blinken says some of Hamas’ proposed changes to a cease-fire plan in Gaza are workable and some not (apnews.com)
Linguist and activist Noam Chomsky hospitalized in his wife's native country of Brazil after stroke (apnews.com)
Oregon man who drugged daughter's friends with insomnia medication at sleepover gets prison term (apnews.com)
An Oregon man who drugged his daughter and her friends with fruit smoothies laced with a sleeping medication after they didn’t go to bed during a sleepover was sentenced to two years in prison....
Adult entertainment industry sues again over law requiring pornographic sites to verify users' ages (apnews.com)
An Indiana law that requires pornographic websites to verify users’ ages — one of numerous such statutes in effect across the country — is being challenged by an association of the adult entertainment industry....
Waffle House raises worker pay after strikes and pressure from labor organizers (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....
Singer sues hospital, says staff thought he was mentally ill and wasn't member of Four Tops (apnews.com)
The lead singer of the Four Tops said a Detroit-area hospital restrained him and ordered a psychological exam after refusing to believe that he was part of the Motown music group....
Waffle House raises worker pay after strikes and pressure from labor organizers (apnews.com)
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Heavy snows and drought of deadly 'dzud' kill more than 7 million head of livestock in Mongolia (apnews.com)
Iceland issues license for 128 fin whales to be hunted this year (apnews.com)
Iceland issues license for 128 fin whales to be hunted this year (apnews.com)
Florida jury finds Chiquita Brands liable for Colombia deaths by financing paramilitary group, must pay $38.3M to family members (apnews.com)
Justice Alito questions possibility of political compromise in secret recording (apnews.com)
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is heard questioning whether compromise between the left and right is possible in a conversation posted on social media Monday. The conservative justice is also heard agreeing with a woman who says the United States should return “to a place of godliness.”...
Union: 4 Florida police officers indicted for 2019 shootout that left UPS driver and passerby dead (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....
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....
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....
Apple expected to enter AI race with ambitions to overtake the early leaders (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)
Far-right parties rattled the traditional powers in the European Union and made major gains in parliamentary elections Sunday, dealing an especially humiliating defeat to https://apnews.com/article/france-macron-election-legislative-parliament-national-rally-07b742fe000170af8ee410e292bf23e2...
