Dairy cattle in Texas and Kansas test positive for bird flu (apnews.com)
Milk from dairy cows in Texas and Kansas has tested positive for bird flu, U.S. officials said Monday....
High school teacher and students sue over Arkansas' ban on critical race theory (apnews.com)
A high school teacher and two students sued Arkansas on Monday over the state’s ban on critical race theory and “indoctrination” in public schools, asking a federal judge to strike down the restrictions as unconstitutional....
Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses after ship struck it, sending vehicles into water (apnews.com)
BALTIMORE (AP) — A portion of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed after a large boat collided with it early Tuesday morning....
Florida's DeSantis signs one of the country's most restrictive social media bans for minors (apnews.com)
Senegal’s incumbent-backed candidate concedes to opposition contender in presidential election (apnews.com)
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s little-known, 44-year-old opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye appeared set Monday to become the country’s next president, less than two weeks after being released from prison to run in the election....
Geomagnetic storm from a solar flare could disrupt radio communications and create a striking aurora (apnews.com)
Space weather forecasters have issued a geomagnetic storm watch through Monday, saying an ouburst of plasma from a solar flare could interfere with radio transmissions on Earth. It could also make for great aurora viewing....
Storm threatens snow in the Midwest, thunder in the South. Other parts of the US dig out (apnews.com)
A major spring storm threatened parts of the central U.S. on Monday with heavy snow in its northern reaches and thunderstorms and possible tornadoes in the South....
Senior doctors in South Korea submit resignations, deepening dispute over medical school plan (apnews.com)
Senior doctors at major hospitals in South Korea began submitting their resignations en masse Monday in support of medical interns and residents who have been on a strike for five weeks over the government’s push to sharply increase medical school admissions....
European regulators investigate Apple, Google and Meta under new digital law (apnews.com)
European Union regulators opened investigations into Apple, Google and Meta on Monday, in the first cases under a sweeping new law designed to stop Big Tech companies from cornering digital markets that took effect earlier this month....
Oath Keepers’ son emerges from traumatic childhood to tell his own story in a long shot election bid (apnews.com)
KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — The eldest son of one of America’s most infamous seditionists is building a new life since breaking free from his father’s control — juggling work, college classes and volunteer firefighting....
Some of nearly 300 abducted schoolchildren in Nigeria’s north are freed after weeks in captivity (apnews.com)
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nearly 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren have been released, local officials said Sunday, more than two weeks after the children were seized from their school in the northwestern state of Kaduna and marched into the forests....
Memorial marks 210th anniversary of crucial battle between Native Americans and United States (apnews.com)
ALEXANDER CITY, Ala. (AP) — Prayers and songs of remembrance carried across the grassy field where more than 800 Muscogee warriors, women and children perished in 1814 while defending their homeland from United States forces....
A pro-West diplomat and an ally of populist premier to meet in runoff for Slovakia’s presidency (apnews.com)
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A pro-western career diplomat defeated a close ally of Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico in the first round of the presidential election Sunday to set up a runoff between the two to decide who will succeed Zuzana Čaputová, the country’s first female president....
Senegal votes Sunday in a presidential election that has fired up political tensions (apnews.com)
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal votes Sunday in a tightly contested presidential election that has fired up political tensions and tested one of West Africa’s most stable democracies....
What we know after the Islamic State group claims responsibility for Moscow massacre (apnews.com)
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed at least 133 people, the most deadly attack in Russia in years. Though the U.S. says it has evidence backing up the jihadists’ claim, that didn’t stop Moscow and Kyiv from pointing the finger...
Mexico's president says he won't fight drug cartels on US orders, calls it a 'Mexico First' policy (apnews.com)
California's unemployment rate rises to the highest level in the nation. Slower job growth is to blame (apnews.com)
Laurent de Brunhoff, ‘Babar’ heir and author, dies at age 98 (apnews.com)
NEW YORK (AP) — “Babar” author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father’s popular picture book series about an elephant-king and presided over its rise to a global, multimedia franchise, has died. He was 98....
85 years after a racist mob drove Opal Lee's family away, she's getting a new home on the same spot (apnews.com)
When Opal Lee was 12, a racist mob drove her family out of their Texas home. Now, the 97-year-old community activist is getting closer to moving into a brand new home on the very same tree-lined corner lot in Fort Worth....
Chinese coast guard hits Philippine boat with water cannons in disputed sea, causing injuries (apnews.com)
Chinese coast guard ships hit a Philippine supply boat with water cannons Saturday in the latest confrontation near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, causing injuries to its navy crew members and heavy damage to the wooden vessel, Philippine officials said....
Canadian governments commit millions to landfill search for remains of slain Indigenous women (apnews.com)
Canada’s federal government and the provincial Manitoba government agreed Friday to spend tens of millions to help search a landfill for the remains of two slain Indigenous women....
'I will not feed a demon': YouTuber Ruby Franke's child abuse case rooted in religious extremism (apnews.com)
The malnourished and badly bruised son of a parenting advice YouTuber politely asks a neighbor to take him to the nearest police station in newly released video from the day his mother and her business partner were arrested on child abuse charges in southern Utah....
Trial starts for Arizona border rancher charged with killing migrant on his property (apnews.com)
An Arizona rancher went on trial Friday in the fatal shooting of a migrant on his property near Mexico, with his defense attorney maintaining his innocence as the national debate over border security heats up ahead of this year’s presidential election....
US says it has not received a formal request by Niger junta to leave military bases (apnews.com)
A top Pentagon official told Congress on Thursday that the U.S. has not received a formal request from Niger’s junta to depart the country, saying it has received mixed signals on whether the hundreds of U.S. troops there are no longer welcome....
West Virginia governor signs law removing marital assault exemption (apnews.com)
Certain sexual assaults against a spouse will now be criminalized in West Virginia for the first time under a law signed Friday by Republican Gov. Jim Justice....
