May 26, 2025 4:55 am
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump has paid tribute to fallen service members during a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. He honored what he called the “great, great warriors” Monday, yet veered into politics, boasting that he’s fixing the country after “a long and hard four years.” Although the holiday is typically a solemn one, Trump began it with an all-caps Memorial Day message that attacked his predecessor and called federal judges who have blocked his deportation initiatives “monsters who want our country to go to hell.” More than 400,000 are laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, and there he commemorated the sacrifice of the fallen.
May 26, 2025 4:59 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says the U.S. will delay implementation of a 50% tariff on goods from the European Union from June 1 until July 9 to buy time for negotiations with the bloc. That agreement came after a call Sunday with Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission. Trump says she told him she “wants to get down to serious negotiations.” Trump told reporters later Sunday that he had told “anybody that would listen, they have to do that.” He said Von der Leyen vowed to “rapidly get together and see if we can work something out.”
May 27, 2025 4:57 am
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — King Charles III says Canada is facing unprecedented challenges in a world that’s never been more dangerous. Charles opened the Canadian Parliament on Tuesday with a speech widely viewed as a show of support in the face of annexation threats by U.S. President Donald Trump. Prime Minister Mark Carney invited Charles to give the speech outlining the Liberal government’s priorities for the new session of Parliament. The king is the head of state in Canada, which is a member of the Commonwealth of former colonies. Canadians are largely indifferent to the monarchy, but Carney has been eager to show the differences between Canada and the United States.
May 27, 2025 4:53 am
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — British police are holding a 53-year-old man over a collision that turned a joyous soccer celebration in Liverpool to tragedy and sent more than two dozen people to hospitals. The city’s mayor says four people are in very serious condition. Police said they are not treating Monday evening’s incident as terrorism and are not looking for other suspects. Detectives on Tuesday were piecing together how a minivan plowed into crowds. It happened after the players of Liverpool Football Club celebrated the Premier League championship with an open-topped bus parade. The North West Ambulance Service said a total of 47 people were injured, of whom 27 were taken to local hospitals. (Photo: AP)
May 26, 2025 9:22 am
LITTLE RIVER, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say at least 11 people were taken to hospitals after a shooting in a South Carolina beach town. Horry County Police did not give the conditions of anyone hurt or detail how they were injured in the incident, which happened about 9:30 p.m. Sunday in Little River. Investigators were getting reports of more people arriving at the hospital in private vehicles. About 90 minutes after the shooting, police called it an isolated incident and said there is no risk to the community. They didn’t release any information on possible suspects or what led to the shooting about 20 miles northeast of Myrtle Beach.
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BEIJING (AP) — A huge explosion rocked a chemical plant in China’s eastern Shandong province around noon Tuesday, killing at least five people and injuring 19, according to state broadcaster CCTV. An additional six people remain missing. The blast was powerful enough to knock out the windows at a storage warehouse more than two miles (three kilometers) away from the factory, according to a video shared by a local resident, who declined to give his name out of concern for retaliation. His home shook from the blast, he said. As he went to the window to see what was wrong, he saw a tall column of smoke from the site, more than seven kilometers (4.3 miles) away. The explosion happened at the Gaomi Youdao Chemical Co., which is located in an industrial park in the city of Weifang. It manufactures pesticides as well as chemicals for medical use, and has more than 500 employees, according to corporate registration records.
May 27, 2025 5:18 pm
(AP) – Guitarist and singer Rick Derringer has died. The musician who shot to fame at 17 when his band The McCoys recorded “Hang On Sloopy” died Monday in Ormond Beach, Florida. He was 77. Derringer had a hit with “Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo” and earned a Grammy Award for producing “Weird Al” Yankovic’s debut album. Derringer’s decades in the music industry spanned teen stardom, session work for bands like Steely Dan, supplying the guitar solo on Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and producing Cyndi Lauper. In 1985, he produced the World Wrestling Federation’s “The Wrestling Album,” which would give Hulk Hogan his theme song, “Real American.” (Photo: AP)
May 26, 2025 4:22 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says the U.S. will delay implementation of a 50% tariff on goods from the European Union from June 1 until July 9 to buy time for negotiations with the bloc. That agreement came after a call Sunday with Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission. Trump says she told him she “wants to get down to serious negotiations.” Trump told reporters later Sunday that he had told “anybody that would listen, they have to do that.” He said Von der Leyen vowed to “rapidly get together and see if we can work something out.”
May 26, 2025 4:19 am
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Health officials in Gaza say Israeli strikes over the past 24 hours have killed at least 38 people, including children. There is no data available for a second straight day from Gaza’s now-inaccessible hospitals in the north. Meanwhile, more details have emerged of the local doctor who lost nine of her 10 children in an Israeli strike. A relative says the children’s charred remains were brought to the morgue in a single body bag. The Health Ministry says 3,785 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel ended a ceasefire in March. The U.S. Homeland Security secretary is visiting Israel.
