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  • Pope Leo Urges Peace in First Easter Mass
Investigation into managers of Swiss bar where fire killed 40

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) – Swiss authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the managers of the bar where a fire at a New Year’s party left 40 people dead, authorities said Saturday.

It's time for Artemis II to break Apollo 13's distance record

HOUSTON (AP) – The Artemis II astronauts are already the champions of a fresh new era of lunar exploration. Now it’s time to set a new distance record. Launched last week on humanity’s first trip to the moon since 1972, the three Americans and one Canadian are chasing after Apollo 13’s maximum range from Earth.

Investigators Believe Candles Atop Wine Bottles Ignited Fatal Bar Fire

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) – Investigators said Friday that they believe sparkling candles atop Champagne bottles ignited a fatal fire at a Swiss ski resort when they came too close to the ceiling of a bar crowded with New Year’s Eve revelers.

Screenwriters union and Hollywood studios reach four-year tentative agreement

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The screenwriters union and Hollywood studios reached a surprise four-year tentative agreement after roughly three weeks of negotiation. The Writers Guild of America West said on X that its negotiating committee unanimously approved a tentative agreement with The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents studios.

US Housing market trends favor home shoppers, but Iran war clouds outlook

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The economic fallout from the war with Iran is driving up the cost of buying a home, even as other housing market trends in many parts of the country favor home shoppers this spring.

European ministers call for profit caps on energy companies as Iran war drives price surge

The finance ministers of Spain and four other European countries are urging the European Union to impose a bloc-wide windfall tax on energy companies, concerned that surging oil and gas prices driven by the war in Iran will fuel inflation and strain households.

Trump: "Open the Fuckin' Strait, You Crazy Bastards, or You'll be Living in Hell"

WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday made new, expletive-laden threats to escalate strikes on Iran and its infrastructure if it doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz by his deadline, after American forces rescued an aviator whose Iran-downed plane fell behind enemy lines. A defiant Iran showed no sign of backing down.

Pope Leo urges peace in first Easter Mass as Christians celebrate

VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Easter Mass as pontiff with a call Sunday to lay down arms and seek peace to global conflicts through dialogue, but he departed from a tradition of listing the world’s woes by name in the Urbi et Orbi blessing from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica.

It's time for Artemis II to break Apollo 13's distance record

HOUSTON (AP) – The Artemis II astronauts are already the champions of a fresh new era of lunar exploration. Now it’s time to set a new distance record. Launched last week on humanity’s first trip to the moon since 1972, the three Americans and one Canadian are chasing after Apollo 13’s maximum range from Earth.

GILCHING, Germany — Two years ago, Anastasia, a 35-year-old Ukrainian IT worker, fled her hometown of Zaporizhzhya, leaving behind her mother and sister to seek out work in Germany. Russia's all-out war on Ukraine had compelled her to leave her job in the southeastern Ukrainian city beset by routine electricity outages, not to mention regular bombardments.