Author: AP

Reunification Ride transports children three hours from Chicago to visit their mothers at Logan Correctional, Illinois’ largest state prison for women and transgender people. (2 June 2023)

A Syria-backed Palestinian militant group held a funeral in Damascus for five fighters who died in a blast under mysterious circumstances. (Jun. 2)

Claressa Shields, the self-anointed “Greatest Woman Of All Time” and current undisputed middleweight champion, is fighting for gender equality in boxing (June 2) (AP video: Mike Householder)

The U.S. Senate gave final approval late Thursday to a debt ceiling and budget cuts package, grinding into the night to wrap up work on the bipartisan deal and send it to President Joe Biden’s desk to become law before the fast-approaching deadline tha…

The AP has obtained more than 4,000 pages of documents related to Epstein’s death from the federal Bureau of Prisons under the Freedom of Information Act. They include a detailed psychological reconstruction of the events leading to Epstein’s suicide, …

Here’s the latest for Thursday, June 1: Senate debates budget and debt ceiling deal; Biden takes a spill on stage; Trump campaigns in Iowa; Reports of problems before Iowa building collapse.

Authorities in northern Mexico found 45 bags containing human remains in a gorge on the outskirts of Guadalajara and are trying to determine how many bodies are there. (June 1)

Here’s the latest for Thursday June 1: House passes debt ceiling bill; Fatal missile attack in Kyiv; 3 shot dead in in eastern Pennsylvania; NASA holds public meeting on UFOs.

The Ventanas copper smelter in Chile’s Quintero Bay has been shut down after decades of polluting. (1 June 2023) (AP video: Mauricio Cuevas)

Veering away from a default crisis, the House approved a debt ceiling and budget cuts package late Wednesday, as President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy assembled a bipartisan coalition of centrist Democrats and Republicans against fierce conser…