Government offices, the stock market and schools are closed Monday in observance of Presidents Day, but most big retailers are open. The official designation for the holiday is Washington’s Birthday after first President George Washington, although it has come to be known informally as Presidents Day.
BEIRUT (AP) – Germany moved to assure Lebanon on Monday that it will support the Lebanese government even after pulling out German troops deployed as part of U.N. peacekeepers along the Lebanon-Israel border when their mission ends later this year.
SYDNEY (AP) – A man accused of killing 15 people in a mass shooting at a Jewish festival on Sydney’s Bondi Beach appeared in court Monday for the first time since his release from the hospital. Naveed Akram appeared in Sydney’s Downing Center Local Court via a video link from the maximum security Goulburn Correctional Center 200 kilometers (120 miles) away.
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
Anderson Cooper, who has reported for CBS’ “60 Minutes” for the past two decades in addition to hosting a weeknight news program on CNN, said Monday that he’s leaving the CBS broadcast to spend more time with his family.
LONDON (AP) – Elon Musk’s social media platform X faces a European Union privacy investigation after its Grok AI chatbot started spitting out nonconsensual deepfake images, Ireland’s data privacy regulator said Tuesday.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Greece said Monday it will seek to obtain a series of photos that appear to show the final moments of 200 Greeks who were executed by a Nazi firing squad in Athens during World War II, after the previously unknown pictures appeared on an online sale site.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – The Australian government will not repatriate from Syria a group of 34 women and children with alleged ties to the Islamic State group, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday. The women and children were supposed to fly from the Syrian capital Damascus to Australia but Syrian authorities on Monday turned them back.
ATLANTA (AP) – The NAACP is asking a judge to protect personal voter information that was seized by the FBI from an elections warehouse just outside Atlanta. Georgia residents entrusted the state with their “sensitive personal information” when they registered to vote, and the Jan. 28 seizure of ballots ” infringed constitutional protections of privacy”.
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