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Virginia man gets life in prison for double murder scheme in affair with Brazilian au pair
Judge orders detention for ex-CIA official accused of stashing $40M in gold bars
Fatal Virginia bus crash raises concerns about unfulfilled safety recommendations
Trump deepens dustup with Italy's Meloni, who says his 'unprovoked attacks are senseless'
US-Iran talks begin Sunday in Switzerland as Tehran closes the strait over Lebanon fighting
Republicans won redistricting battle. Now voters will decide if they win Congress
Bus driver in fatal Virginia crash had previous speeding charges
Today in History: May 31, the Tulsa Race Massacre begins
Italian FM cancels US trip after Trump's 'offensive' remarks toward Meloni
Two children, one aged four, killed in Israeli attack on central Gaza
Virginia man gets life in prison for double murder scheme in affair with Brazilian au pair
Judge orders detention for ex-CIA official accused of stashing $40M in gold bars
Fatal Virginia bus crash raises concerns about unfulfilled safety recommendations
Trump deepens dustup with Italy's Meloni, who says his 'unprovoked attacks are senseless'
US-Iran talks begin Sunday in Switzerland as Tehran closes the strait over Lebanon fighting
A no-holds-barred bout of partisan redistricting has been won by Republicans. Now it’s up to voters to decide whether it matters for control of Congress. Republicans could net about 10 additional U.S. House seats in the November elections if redrawn voting districts perform as they were intended.
A bus driver with a history of speeding accusations was indicted on additional charges Monday in a chain-reaction crash in Virginia that killed five people and injured dozens more. Jing Sheng Dong, 48, of Staten Island, New York, initially was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter after the crash early Friday morning on Interstate 95.
Today is Sunday, May 31, the 151st day of 2026. There are 214 days left in the year. Today in history: On May 31, 1921, a two-day massacre erupted in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as white mobs began looting and burning the affluent Black district of Greenwood over reports a Black man had assaulted a white woman in an elevator; though the exact number remains unknown, as many as 300 Black Tulsans were killed.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Reserve has for decades moved steadily from a remote, opaque government agency that shared little about what it did or why to a more transparent institution willing to explain how it makes decisions and what it thinks about the economy.
HAVANA (AP) – Observers on Friday called Cuba’s new free-market reforms the most sweeping economic overhaul of the island’s communist economy since the Cuban revolution, as the grandson of former President Raúl Castro said in an interview that Cuba must seek to move its economy forward.
TORONTO (AP) – Austrian-Canadian billionaire and automotive business founder Frank Stronach was found guilty Friday of sexual assault and indecent assault of two woman decades ago.
TYRE, Lebanon (AP) – Iran on Saturday said it had closed the Strait of Hormuz because of Israel’s continued attacks in Lebanon and warned that while negotiators were going to Switzerland for talks with the United States on their interim agreement, not much likely will happen if the fighting doesn’t stop.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump on Saturday lashed out at Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, insisting that she asked “over and over” for a photo with him at the recent Group of Seven summit and criticizing what he said was Italy’s lack of cooperation during the Iran war.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian bombs struck an apartment building on Saturday in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, killing at least one person and wounding nine, including a 6-year-old child, authorities said. A body was pulled from the rubble hours after the attack, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on Telegram.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump on Saturday lashed out at Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, insisting that she asked “over and over” for a photo with him at the recent Group of Seven summit and criticizing what he said was Italy’s lack of cooperation during the Iran war.
Eastern Washington wildfire forces evacuations and destroys homes
NASA unveils Artemis III astronauts to test technology for future moon landing
32,000 people displaced by the Philippine earthquake that killed at least 37
Hawaii's Kilauea sets record for lava fountaining episodes in any 1 eruption
Blue Origin says rocket explosion spared fuel tanks and key launch pad parts
Radio scans find no alien tech from latest interstellar comet
Taipei Zoo welcomes a pair of red pandas from China, first in over a decade
US to hold latest oil and gas lease sale for Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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