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Senegal's government suspends mobile internet access amid days of deadly clashes 06/04/2023 12:09pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) ��� Senegal's government temporarily suspended mobile phone data on Sunday as the country reels from days of deadly clashes between police and supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko. The ministry of communication, telecommunications and digital economy said that because o Soccer fan arrested for wearing offensive jersey to FA Cup final referring to Hillsborough tragedy 06/04/2023 11:45am • LONDON (AP) ��� London police said that a soccer fan was charged Sunday with wearing an offensive jersey to the FA Cup final that apparently referred to the 1989 Hillsborough Stadium disaster where 97 Liverpool fans died. James White, 33, of Warwickshire, will appear in court June 19 on a charge of Biden's 2024 pitch highlights pragmatism over Trump's pugilism 06/04/2023 11:42am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden promised voters in 2020 that he knew how to get things done in Washington and could bring stability to the capital. It seemed like a message out of step with the more combative era brought on by Donald Trump. But Biden prevailed, and as he seeks a second term, Vigilantes in Haiti strike back at gangsters with brutal street justice 06/04/2023 11:07am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Old cars, used tires and barbed wire block off the biggest neighborhood in the capital of Haiti. Gun-toting gangsters have been robbing, raping and murdering the innocent. Weak or corrupt police and officials have done little, or worse. Now, the people are taking actio DeSantis hits Trump from the right while the ex-president looks ahead to the general election 06/04/2023 10:48am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� In his first week on the campaign trail as a presidential candidate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis repeatedly hit his chief rival, Donald Trump, from the right. ���This is a different guy than 2015, 2016,��� DeSantis told a conservative radio host before slamming the bipartisan crim Death toll from Senegal protests rises to 15 as opposition supporters clash with police 06/03/2023 06:12pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) ��� The number of people killed in days of clashes between Senegalese police and supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has now risen to 15, including two security officers, the government said on Saturday. While Dakar was calmer on Saturday, clashes continued into the ev Biden signs debt ceiling bill that pulls US back from brink of unprecedented default 06/03/2023 04:06pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� With just two days to spare, President Joe Biden signed legislation on Saturday that lifts the nation���s debt ceiling, averting an unprecedented default on the federal government���s debt. It was a decidedly low-key denouement to a monthslong drama that unnerved financial mar Pope warns of risk of corruption in missionary fundraising after AP investigation 06/03/2023 09:36am • VATICAN CITY (AP) ��� Pope Francis warned the Vatican���s missionary fundraisers on Saturday not to allow financial corruption to creep into their work, insisting that spirituality and spreading the Gospel must drive their operations, not mere entrepreneurship. Francis made the comments in a speech Donald Trump���s lawyers ask judge to exit criminal case, echoing claims of political bias 06/03/2023 01:32am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Within hours of his historic arraignment this spring, Donald Trump fixed his ire on the judge, complaining that he���s ���a Trump-hating judge" with a family full of ���Trump haters.��� On Friday, the former president���s lawyers doubled down on that criticism, demanding Judge Juan Biden celebrates a 'crisis averted��� in Oval Office address on bipartisan debt ceiling deal 06/02/2023 10:15pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden celebrated a ���crisis averted" in his first speech to the nation from the Oval Office Friday evening, ready to sign a budget agreement that eliminates the potential for an unprecedented government default that he said would have been catastrophic for the U.S. Silver says Morant not being charged with a crime won't prevent NBA penalties 06/02/2023 06:22pm • DENVER (AP) ��� Memphis guard Ja Morant not being charged with a crime for twice displaying a gun on social media will not prevent the NBA from handing down more discipline, Commissioner Adam Silver said Friday. Silver is preparing to announce whatever penalty is coming Morant���s way for the second Blinken warns Ukraine cease-fire now would result in ���Potemkin peace,' legitimizing Russian invasion 06/02/2023 04:37pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that the United States and its allies should not support a cease-fire or peace talks to end the war in Ukraine until Kyiv gains strength and can negotiate on its own terms. As an anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive appeared Clashes in Senegal kill at least 9; government bans social media platforms and closes university 06/02/2023 03:42pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) ��� Clashes between police and supporters of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko left nine people dead, the government said Friday, with authorities issuing a blanket ban on the use of several social media platforms in the aftermath of the violence. The deaths occurred mai Boxer Gervonta Davis jailed after moving without permission while on home detention 06/02/2023 02:51pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� A Baltimore judge has ordered professional boxer Gervonta Davis to serve the remainder of his hit-and-run crash sentence behind bars instead of in home detention after he moved to a luxury hotel and then a new home without the judge's permission, the state's attorney's office conf AP PHOTOS: As Spain's 'peasant farmers of the sea,' groups of women dig for clams 06/02/2023 03:46am • LOURIZAN, Spain (AP) ��� They fan out in groups, mostly women, plodding in rain boots across the soggy wet sands of the inlet, making the most of the low tide. Hustling along with rakes and buckets, they chat and laugh gaily. These are clam diggers, or as they call themselves, ���the peasant farmers