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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House, Feb. 10, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)

Trump visiting Gulf Arab states while crises flare in Gaza and Iran

U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East this week as scheduled won’t include a visit to Israel to discuss the war in Gaza, or talks with Iran about its nuclear program.
 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

House Republicans unveil Medicaid cuts that Democrats warn will leave millions without care

 
Bulldozers and heavy trucks are clearing the future site of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, May 30, 2023, in Atlanta. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Defendants in Georgia ‘Cop City’ case say they are in limbo as trial delays continue

 
Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traore attends the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 9, 2025, during celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany during the World War II. (Sergei Bobylev/Photo host agency RIA Novosti via AP)

Burkina Faso forces killed at least 100 civilians in a March attack, Human Rights Watch says

 
Students, faculty and members of the Harvard University community rally, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo)

Trump’s reshaping of higher education tests America’s appeal for international students

 

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Mother’s Day apartment building fire kills 4 and critically injures 4 others in Milwaukee

A Milwaukee apartment building fire that began in a common area and spread to multiple floors Sunday killed four people and critically injured four others. Several more were treated for lesser injuries in the fire that began sometime before 8 a.m. CDT (1300GMT) on Mother’s Day.
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Palestinians across Gaza struggle to feed themselves with Israel’s blockade in its third month

Former S.Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol arrives at court for hearing

Celebrations in Lahore after India and Pakistan reach ceasefire deal

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This photo released by the official Syrian news agency SANA, shows Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, right, meets with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, at the Sakhir Royal Palace in Manama, Bahrain, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (SANA via AP)

Syria’s president visits Bahrain and discusses regional affairs with the king

 
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., left, following a tour of the Texas A&M AgriLife Phenotyping Greenhouse in College Station, Texas on Tuesday, April 29, 2025.(Meredith Seaver /College Station Eagle via AP)

Experts call Kennedy’s plan to find autism’s cause unrealistic

 
FILE- President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman during a bilateral meeting, in Riyadh, May 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia raises the prospect of US nuclear cooperation with the kingdom

 

India and Pakistan confirm a ceasefire deal after US-mediated talks to end their conflict

 
A Department of Homeland Security building is seen Friday, May 9, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Authorities arrest over 100 people on Tennessee roads in support of Trump’s deportation plan

 

US President Donald Trump says India and Pakistan have agreed to a ceasefire but neither country confirms a deal

 

Amnesty International says at least 30 dead in separatist attack in southeastern Nigeria

 
Pope Leo XIV, left, is flanked by Monsignor Leonardo Sapienza, second from left, after his meeting with the College of Cardinals in the New Synod Hall at the Vatican, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP)

Pope Leo XIV lays out vision of papacy and identifies AI as a main challenge for humanity

 

Pope Leo XIV lays out his vision of papacy, identifies artificial intelligence as main challenge for humanity

 
Max Goodman, left, and Ross Brubeck walk on a trail near Princeton, N.J., as part of a Quaker march from New York City to Washington D.C. to protest President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigrants on Wednesday May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

Quakers march against Trump’s crackdown on immigrants carrying on their long faith tradition

 
Women and girls look on as President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order barring transgender female athletes from competing in women's or girls' sporting events, in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, in Washington.(AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

Transgender issues are a strength for Trump, AP-NORC poll finds

 
The multi-purpose floating work barge Hebo Lift 2 monitors the stretch of sea off Porticello, near Palermo, Sicily, Italy, Sunday, May 4, 2025, where the British superyacht Bayesian sunk on August 19, 2024 as the operations for its recovery start. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

The recovery of superyacht off Sicily is suspended after a diver dies

 
This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)

At least 20 people killed in Sudan after a suspected drone strike hits a prison

 

Ukraine and its allies ready for a ‘full, unconditional’ 30-day ceasefire starting Monday, Ukrainian FM says

 
In this photo provided by Myanmar Military True News Information Team on May 9, 2025, Myanmar military chief Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, center left, talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, center right, during their meeting in Moscow, Russia. (Myanmar Military True News Information Team via AP)

Myammar’s military government chief has first meeting with China’s leader since taking power in 2021

 
A local resident shows a piece of shell fired by Indian forces, at his damaged house in Haveli Kahuta, a district of Pakistan's administered Kashmir, Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Rashid Ahmed)

AP PHOTOS: Pakistan and India agree to a truce ending the worst military confrontation in decades

 
FILE- A man cries at the trolleybus after a Russian missile strike on Sumy, Ukraine, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Volodymyr Hordiienko, file)

Long-range Russian attacks continue to kill Ukrainians amid ceasefire deadlock

 
Russian President Vladimir Putin enters a hall to meet South Ossetian President Alan Gagloyev in the Grand Palace at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday, May 10, 2025, during celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany during the World War II. (Sergei Bobylev/RIA Novosti via AP)

Russia’s Putin proposes direct talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on May 15, ‘without preconditions’

 

Pakistan’s foreign minister says his country would consider de-escalation if India does not carry out further attacks

 

India says it is committed to non-escalation if Pakistan reciprocates

 

India says it targeted Pakistani military bases after Islamabad fired several high-speed missiles at Indian air bases

 
Protestors demand the release of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka after his arrest at an ICE detention prison, Friday, May 9, 2025, in Newark, N.J, (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

Newark mayor denies trespassing at immigration detention center following arrest

 

How US-China tariffs reached sky-high levels in 3 months

 
Switzerland's Economy Minister Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin, left, shakes hands with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, right, next to Switzerland's President Karin Keller-Sutter, center, during a bilateral meeting between Switzerland and China, in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday, May 9, 2025. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, Pool)

US-China tariff talks to continue Sunday, an official tells AP, as Trump touts ‘great progress made’

 
Meridah Nandudu, Bayaaya specialty coffee ltd founder, holds fried roasted coffee beans in Mbale, Uganda, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

In coffee-producing Uganda, an emerging sisterhood wants more women involved

 
Michelle and Richard Beck, right, stand outside their Atlanta-area home Thursday, May 1, 2025. They are Gen Xers who speak with southern accents while their Gen Z sons, Dylan and Richard, left, do not. (AP Photo/ Sharon Johnson)

Is the Southern accent fixin’ to disappear in parts of the US South?

 
Pope Leo XIV, then Apostolic Administrator of Chiclayo Robert Prevost, preaches during a Corpus Christi celebration in a stadium in Chiclayo, Peru, Friday, June 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Julio Reano)

‘Leo will follow Francis.’ Amazon Catholics hope the new pope will protect the rain forest

 
Just in time for bathing suit season, the Waves of Style Swimwear Through the Decades exhibit is shown at HistoryMiami Museum Wednesday, May 7, 2025, in advance of opening Saturday in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Miami museum opens a new exhibit that examines a century of swimwear and its connection to Florida

 
Cardinal Robert Prevost celebrates Mass at St. Jude Parish in New Lenox, Ill., in 2024. (Photo courtesy of the Midwest Augustinian Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel via AP)

Pope Leo XIV’s Creole heritage highlights complex history of racism and the church in America

 

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