BY KIM CHANDLER MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law, a decision critics said could have sweeping implications for fertility treatment in the state. The decision was issued in a pair of wrongful death cases
BY BRIAN P. D. HANNON The funeral of a renowned transgender activist in a New York cathedral elicited a denunciation of the event by a senior church official, who called the mass a scandal within one of the preeminent houses of worship in U.S. Catholicism. The Roman Catholic
BY TRISHA THOMAS CASTEL VOLTURNO, Italy (AP) — Mamadou Kouassi’s searing, epic journey over African deserts, through illegal prisons and across the Mediterranean Sea in a smugglers’ boat informed Italian director Matteo Garrone’s Oscar–nominated film “Io Capitano.” Some episodes that the Ivorian migrant witnessed on his three–year odyssey
BY NICHOLAS PAPHITIS ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece on Thursday became the first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same–sex civil marriage, despite opposition from the influential, socially conservative Greek Church. A cross–party majority of 176 lawmakers in the 300–seat parliament voted late Thursday in favor of the landmark
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Members of the Kansas City community gathered Saturday afternoon to “demand a future free from gun violence” a day after authorities announced that two juveniles had been detained on gun–related and resisting arrest charges in the shooting after the Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration.
BY JUAN A. LOZANO AND JIM VERTUNO HOUSTON (AP) — The shooter who opened fire at a Houston megachurchbefore being gunned down by security officers used an AR–style rifle that police say she legally purchased despite a years–long criminal record, a history of mental illness and allegations she
BY JULIA FRANKEL JERUSALEM (AP) — It was a warm handshake between the unlikeliest of statesmen, conducted under the beaming gaze of President Jimmy Carter. Sunlight streamed through the trees at Camp David, Maryland, as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin solidified a landmark
BY ALANNA DURKIN RICHER AND ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — In Donald Trump’s federal 2020 election interference case, all eyes are on the Supreme Court, whose next moves could determine whether the former president stands trial in Washington ahead of the November election. An appeals court panel on
BY BABACAR DIONE AND CHINEDU ASADU DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Police made arrests and fired tear gas at opposition supporters during protests Sunday against the decision by President Macky Sall to postpone Senegal’s Feb. 25 elections as federal lawmakers prepared to debate a bill to formalize the postponement.
BY TARA COPP, LOLITA C. BALDOR AND ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian–backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Friday, in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that
BY CHINEDU ASADU ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — West African nations Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have withdrawn from the regional economic bloc known as ECOWAS, their respective juntas announced Sunday. They accused the bloc of “inhumane” sanctions to reverse the coups in their nations. ECOWAS said in a
BY NAJIB JOBAIN, JACK JEFFERY AND TIA GOLDENBERG RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Qatar said it was appalled Wednesday by leaked remarks made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which he criticized the country’s mediation efforts with Hamas, complicating already arduous negotiations meant to halt the hostilities
BY STEVE PEOPLES, THOMAS BEAUMONT AND HANNAH FINGERHUT DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Voting is set to begin Monday night in icy Iowa as former President Donald Trump eyes a victory that would send a resounding message that neither life–threatening cold nor life–changing legal trouble can slow his
BY ELLEN KNICKMEYER, MATTHEW LEE AND MELANIE LIDMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration keeps pressing Israel to reengage with Palestinians as partners once fighting in Gaza is over and support their eventual independence. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu keeps saying no. Even on actions to alleviate the
BY MIKE CORDER AND RAF CASERT THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Accused of committing genocide against Palestinians, Israel planned to defend its war in Gaza in front of the United Nations’highest court Friday, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted the allegations as hypocrisy that “screams to
BY GABRIELA MOLINA QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — José Adolfo Macías Villamar, leader of Los Choneros, one of the Ecuadorian gangs considered responsible for a spike in car bombings, kidnappings and slayings, was discovered missing from his prison cell where he was serving a sentence for drug trafficking. Macías
