US stocks drift to a mixed finish on Wall Street

NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks drifted to a mixed finish in a quiet return to trading following the Juneteenth holiday. The S&P 500 fell 0.2% Friday to close a second straight week of modest losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.5%.

Poland holds a pivotal presidential runoff

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Poland is set to hold a presidential runoff election on Sunday between two candidates offering starkly different visions for the country's future.

Trump says Gabbard was 'wrong' about Iran and Israeli strikes could be 'very hard to stop'

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump said Friday that his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was “wrong” when she previously said that the U.S. believed Iran wasn’t building a nuclear weapon, and he suggested that it would be “very hard to stop” Israel’s strikes on Iran in order to negotiate a possible ceasefire.

Poland holds presidential runoff election

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Poland's presidential election has come down to a stark ideological choice: a liberal pro-European mayor versus a staunch nationalist conservative. They are polling so close that the outcome is impossible to predict in the run-off round on Sunday.

Iran's internet blackout leaves public in dark

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – As the war between Israel and Iran hits the one-week mark, Iranians have spent nearly half of the conflict in a near-communication blackout, unable to connect not only with the outside world but also with their neighbors and loved ones across the country.

Poles rally behind competing visions in presidential runoff

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Poles traveled from across the country to join dueling patriotic marches in Warsaw on Sunday, led by the two men vying for the presidency in a June 1 runoff election expected to be both close and consequential for the nation's future.

Editorials from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and others

Editorials from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and others

9 EU countries want new interpretation of European rights to ease deportations

ROME (AP) - Leaders of 9 European Union countries say they want a reinterpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights in order to better tackle irregular migration to the continent and increase deportations.