April 29, 2025
Millions without power as outages hit Spain, Portugal and parts of France, Spanish officials say
Millions of people in Spain, Portugal and parts of southern France lost power on Monday following a "severe disruption" in the European electrical system, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said. The cause of the disruption is still unknown,…
April 28, 2025
Trump has lowest 100-day approval rating in 80 years according to Polls
Donald Trump has the lowest 100-day job approval rating of any president in the past 80 years, with public pushback on many of his policies and extensive economic discontent, including broad fears of a recession, according to a new ABC…
April 28, 2025
Mourners bid farewell to Pope Francis
Pope Francis was laid to rest Saturday at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome after dying at 88 years old on April 21. More than 250,000 people turned out to bid farewell to the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. The crowd at St. Peter's…
April 28, 2025
Trump asks Supreme Court to lift block on transgender military ban
The Trump administration has made a new emergency request of the U.S. Supreme Court seeking an immediate stay of a nationwide injunction blocking the ban on openly transgender military service members. Solicitor General John Sauer said the…
April 28, 2025
Teen charged with allegedly starting massive New Jersey wildfire
A 19-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of starting a massive New Jersey wildfire that has consumed at least 15,100 acres and continued to burn Thursday afternoon, authorities said. In a statement released Thursday morning, New Jersey…
April 21, 2025
King Charles and Queen Camilla greet crowds after Easter service
LONDON, April 20 (Reuters) - Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla briefly greeted onlookers after an Easter service at St George's Chapel in Windsor, an important fixture in the calendar of the monarch, who is supreme governor of the Church of…
April 21, 2025
Pope Francis, whose tenure was marked by turbulence and division, dies at 88
VATICAN CITY, April 21 (Reuters) - Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died on Monday, ending an often turbulent reign in which he sought to overhaul an ancient and divided institution. He was 88, and had…
April 17, 2025
California becomes the first state to sue Trump over tariffs
California is suing President Donald Trump's administration over the tariffs it has imposed on most of the U.S.'s trading partners, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Wednesday, the first state to do so since Trump announced…
April 16, 2025
Judge orders Trump officials to testify about efforts to return wrongly deported man
GREENBELT, Maryland, April 15 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday demanded U.S. officials provide documents and answer questions under oath about what it had done to secure the return of a man wrongly deported to El Salvador, ramping up an inquiry…
April 11, 2025
NYC sightseeing helicopter plunges into river, killing 6, including family of Spanish tourists
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City sightseeing helicopter broke apart in midair Thursday and crashed upside-down into the Hudson River, killing the pilot and a family of five Spanish tourists in the latest U.S. aviation disaster, officials said. Mayor…