Both sides suffer heavy casualties as Ukraine strikes back against Russia, UK assessment says
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine are suffering high numbers of military casualties as Ukraine fights to dislodge the Kremlin’s forces from occupied areas in the early stages of its counteroffensive, British officials said Sunday.
Parking lot party shooting leaves 1 dead and 19 people hurt in suburban Chicago
WILLOWBROOK, Ill. (AP) — At least 20 people were shot, one fatally, early Sunday during a gathering in a parking lot in suburban Chicago, authorities said.
It’s almost time to resume student loan payments. Not doing so could cost you
NEW YORK (AP) — After three years, the pandemic-era freeze on student loan payments will end in late August.
The woman who founded Father’s Day was a renegade, great-granddaughter says
LOS ANGELES (AP) — You could call her the mother of Father’s Day.
Let it bee: The women on a mission to save Mexico City’s bees
MEXICO CITY (AP) — “Knife,” Adriana Velíz says with the concentration of a brain surgeon.
Suicides and homicides among young Americans jumped early in the pandemic, study says
NEW YORK (AP) — The homicide rate for older U.S. teenagers rose to its highest point in nearly 25 years during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the suicide rate for adults in their early 20s was the worst in more than 50 years, government researchers said Thursday.
Visually impaired people in Ukraine struggle to cope during Russian missile attacks
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Sunlight filters through shattered windows, casting a glow upon the dusty furniture and fragments of glass strewn across the floor of the office belonging to Oleksandr Vinkovskyi, director of a Kyiv business where visually impaired people worked.
Heat wave has US South sweltering, from tornado-ravaged West Texas town to Florida beaches
Communities from Houston to New Orleans opened cooling centers to bring relief as steamy hot temperatures settled across a broad swath of the U.S. South on Saturday, and beachgoers fled a waterspout that swept ashore on a Florida beach.
Pennsylvania trooper, suspect killed in shootout; 2nd trooper seriously wounded
LEWISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A state trooper and a suspect were killed Saturday in a shootout in central Pennsylvania, hours after the suspect seriously wounded another trooper, state police said.
Blinken arrives in Beijing on high-stakes mission to cool soaring US-China tensions
BEIJING (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Beijing early Sunday on a high-stakes diplomatic mission to try to cool exploding U.S.-China tensions that have set many around the world on edge.
