Supreme Court allows Trump to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans who risk deportation

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to deportation. The court’s order Monday, with only one noted dissent, puts on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept in place Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans that would have otherwise expired last month. The status allows people already in the United States to live and work legally because their native countries are deemed unsafe for return due to natural disaster or civil strife.

Democratic Rep. McIver charged with assault after skirmish at ICE center, New Jersey prosecutor says

WASHINGTON (AP) — New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor says she’s charging Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver with assault after a skirmish with federal officers who arrested the Newark mayor outside an immigration detention center. Interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba announced the charge Monday on social media, but court papers providing details were not immediately released or publicly available online. Habba said McIver is charged with assaulting, impeding or interfering with law enforcement. Habba also announced that her office is dismissing a misdemeanor case brought against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. McIver denounced the charge as “purely political” and said prosecutors are distorting her actions in an effort to deter legislative oversight.

First few aid trucks enter Gaza but allies threaten Israel with sanctions and urge more

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The first few aid trucks have entered Gaza following nearly three months of Israel’s complete blockade of food, medicine and other supplies. That's as Israel acknowledges growing pressure from allies including the United States. Five trucks carrying baby food and other desperately needed aid entered the territory of over 2 million Palestinians on Monday. The U.N. humanitarian chief described it as a “drop in the ocean of what is urgently needed.” The U.K., France and Canada sharply criticized Israel's decision to allow just “minimal” aid. They are threatening “concrete actions” including sanctions for its activities in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Greece's top diplomat calls war in Gaza a 'nightmare'

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Greece’s top diplomat says the world is facing the most turbulent time since World War II, pointing to a crossroads in democracy and saying Europe is facing a “political identity crisis.” Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis told The Associated Press in a wide-ranging interview Monday that the “nightmare” and escalating death toll in Gaza must end and that Greece stands by Ukraine. He also says U.S. tariffs are not “good news.” Gerapetritis, whose country holds the presidency of the U.N. Security Council this month, said inequalities between nations and peoples are challenging “the essence of democracy and the rule of law.”

Trump says Russia-Ukraine ceasefire talks will begin immediately following call with Putin

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says Russia and Ukraine will “immediately” begin ceasefire negotiations. Trump spoke Monday after separate calls with the leaders of both countries meant to spur progress toward ending the three-year war. The conversations did not appear to yield a major breakthrough. It was not clear when or where any talks might take place or who would participate. Trump made the announcement days after the first direct engagement between Russian and Ukrainian delegations since 2022. Those negotiations Friday in Turkey brought about a limited exchange of prisoners but no pause in the fighting.

Trump is heading to Capitol Hill to persuade divided GOP to unify around his 'big, beautiful' bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is heading to Capitol Hill to seal the deal on his “big, beautiful bill.” Using his power of political persuasion, Trump will try to unify divided House Republicans on the multitrillion-dollar package that is at risk of collapsing ahead of planned votes this week. The president has implored GOP holdouts to “STOP TALKING, AND GET IT DONE.” But negotiations are slogging along. It’s not at all clear the package, with its sweeping tax breaks and cuts to Medicaid, food stamps and green energy programs, has the support needed. With all Democrats opposed, the Republicans can handle only a few defections from their slim House majority.

After a political career shaped by cancer, Biden faces his own grim diagnosis

WASHINGTON (AP) — The announcement that Joe Biden has prostate cancer is the latest example of how the final chapters of his political career have been shaped by the disease. One decade ago, his son Beau died from a brain tumor. Several years later, his wife Jill had two cancerous lesions removed in her own brush with the disease. Now the former president is facing his own diagnosis. Although the cancer can possibly be controlled with treatment, it is no longer curable. Biden wrote on social media that “cancer touches us all.” He had made increasing cancer research a priority for his administration.

Trump alleges 'genocide' in South Africa. At an agricultural fair, even Afrikaner farmers scoff

BOTHAVILLE, South Africa (AP) — Topping the agenda at President Donald Trump's meeting with South Africa's president at the White House this week is the extraordinary new U.S. refugee policy welcoming white Afrikaner farmers who the Trump administration claims are persecuted. The Associated Press visited a lively agricultural fair in South Africa's heartland days ahead of the U.S. meeting. Both white and Black farmers and even conservative white Afrikaner groups debunked the Trump administration’s “genocide” and land seizure claims that led the U.S. to cut all financial aid to South Africa. Farmers agree that violent crime is a problem, but for everyone.

More severe weather pummels the central US as thousands recover from deadly tornadoes

LONDON, Ky. (AP) — Another round of tornadoes has struck the central U.S. after four days of tornadoes, thunderstorms and heavy rain killed more than two dozen people. At least four tornadoes were confirmed in Oklahoma and Nebraska on Monday evening and thousands lost power in several states. The National Weather Service says the region can expect even more dangerous weather. Worst hit is Kentucky, where residents around the city of London were trying to clean up three days after a storm arrived near midnight. London's airport is a beehive of activity as people pick up water, food, diapers and other supplies.

Singer Dawn Richard says Sean 'Diddy' Combs threatened her with death after she saw him beat Cassie

NEW YORK (AP) — Singer Dawn Richard has told the jury in the sex trafficking and racketeering trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs that he threatened her with death if she told anyone that she saw the influential hip-hop promoter beat his longtime girlfriend, the singer Cassie. Prosecutors were using the testimony from Richard on Monday in Manhattan federal court to show that Combs used violence and threats to control others as he leveraged his fame to get what he wanted. He has pleaded not guilty and his lawyers say prosecutors are showing proof of domestic violence, but not the federal crimes with which he's charged.