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This undated handout photo from Saffrine Duggan shows Daniel Duggan, right, and his wife, Saffrine, as they pose for a photo, in Australia. (Saffrine Duggan via AP)

Australian judge rejects US Marine pilot's appeal against extradition to US

9:46 PM on Wednesday, April 15

An Australian judge has rejected an appeal by former U.S. Marine Corps pilot Daniel Duggan to avoid extradition to the United States over allegations that he illegally trained Chinese military aviators more than a decade ago

FILE - A man walks out from a pavilion near the Xishiku Catholic Church during a rainy day in Beijing, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China raises pressure on underground Catholics to join official church, Human Rights Watch finds

8:38 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Human Rights Watch, in a detailed new report, says Chinese authorities are increasing pressure on underground Catholic communities to join the state-controlled official church while tightening surveillance and travel restrictions on all of China’s estimated 12 million Catholics

What to know about the Live Nation verdict and how it could affect concertgoers

7:47 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Music lovers who have long complained about Ticketmaster fees for concert tickets are surely reveling in a jury verdict that found its parent company Live Nation has been running a harmful monopoly over big venues

Rep. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during an address marking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani first 100 days in office at the Knockdown Center, Sunday, April 12, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Senate rejects effort to halt arms sales to Israel, but most Democrats vote to block them

7:35 PM on Wednesday, April 15

More than three dozen Democrats supported an effort by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday to block arms sales to Israel, signaling a growing discontent in the party with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the wars in Gaza and Iran

FILE - John Eastman, a California law professor, speaks to reporters after a Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

California attorney who tried to help overturn 2020 election loses law license

7:33 PM on Wednesday, April 15

A California attorney who aided President Donald Trump’s efforts to stay in power following his 2020 election loss is no longer licensed to practice in California

FILE - Police detain Emir Balat after he attempted to detonate an improvised explosive device during a counterprotest against far right influencer Jake Lang staging an anti-Islam protest outside Gracie Mansion on March 7, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Julius Constantine Motal, File)

2 men plead not guilty in alleged Islamic State-inspired bomb attempt outside New York mayor’s home

6:41 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Two men have pleaded not guilty to charges they brought homemade bombs to an anti-Muslim protest outside New York City’s mayor's home in a failed attempt at a terror attack inspired by the Islamic State group

Jury finds that Ticketmaster and Live Nation had an anticompetitive monopoly over big concert venues

2:10 PM on Wednesday, April 15

A jury has found that concert giant Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary engaged in an anticompetitive monopoly

Members of the 32BJ SEIU union vote to authorize a strike during a rally on Park Avenue, in New York, Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

New York City apartment building workers authorize a possible strike as contract talks stall

1:41 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Thousands of New York City apartment building doorpersons, superintendents and other workers have approved a potential strike in the coming days

This 2025 photo provided by Sunisa Kim Kipe shows Lauren Bullis at the Green Meadows Preserve in Cobb County, Ga. (Sunisa Kim Kipe via AP)

Homeland Security worker and another woman are killed in a series of Atlanta-area attacks

1:24 PM on Wednesday, April 15

A man has been charged in a string of attacks near Atlanta over a matter of hours that left two women dead and a man in critical condition

Jackie Robinson's granddaughter, Sonya Pankey Robinson, speaks as members of the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Mets gather for a ceremony before a baseball game Wednesday, April 15, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

MLB celebrates Jackie Robinson Day as every player wears No. 42 on anniversary of his historic debut

12:37 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Major League Baseball is celebrating Jackie Robinson Day with every player, coach and umpire wearing his No. 42 to mark the 79th anniversary of the infielder breaking the sport’s color barrier

An uprooted tree rests on a home following a severe storm Wednesday, April 15, 2026, in Ann Arbor, Mich. (AP Photo/Mike Householder)

Storms rip across Michigan, flooding streets and damaging ice arenas

11:19 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Powerful storms have ripped through parts of Michigan damaging two ice arenas and other structures and felling branches

FILE -President Donald Trump greets Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during summit to support ending the more than two-year Israel-Hamas war in Gaza after a breakthrough ceasefire deal, Oct. 13, 2025, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool, File)

After criticizing the pope, Trump slams Italy's Meloni over lack of support for Iran war

10:26 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni's relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump appears strained

This photo provided by Mathew Masga shows debris caused by a super typhoon, Thursday, April 16, 2026, on Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands. (Mathew Masga via AP)

Parts of Northern Marianas could be without power for weeks after super typhoon

8:46 AM on Wednesday, April 15

An official says some hard hit areas of the Northern Marianas could be without power and water for weeks after the Pacific Ocean islands were battered by a super typhoon

Glorianna Davenport, founder of the Living Observatory, overlooks a stream cutting through Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary in Plymouth, Mass., Saturday, March 14, 2026. (Julia Vaz/MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing via AP)

How a retired cranberry bog helped change the game for wetland restoration

7:57 AM on Wednesday, April 15

The largest restored wetlands in Massachusetts now cover hundreds of acres of what used to be cranberry farms

Paramedics attach a portrait over the grave of Ghadir Baalbaki, 19, who was killed on Tuesday in an Israeli airstrike, at a temporary mass grave in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Back-to-back Israeli strikes kill 4 Lebanese medics as Israel-Hezbollah war grinds on

6:59 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Paramedic groups say that the Israeli military has killed four Lebanese rescue workers and wounded six others in three consecutive, targeted strikes

American YouTuber sentenced to 6 months in South Korean prison for offensive stunts

6:57 AM on Wednesday, April 15

An American YouTuber who sparked outrage in South Korea for provocative stunts, including dancing on a statue honoring victims of wartime sexual slavery, was sentenced to six months in prison Wednesday

Peter Magyar, leader of the election-winning Tisza Party, talks to the media before meeting Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok in the presidential Alexander Palace in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday April 15, 2026. (Robert Hegedus/MTI via AP)

Hungary's Magyar says new government could take power at beginning of May

5:49 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar says the country's president has assured him that his new government could take power in the first week of May

Pope Leo XIV watches children perform a dance as he visits the Ngul Zamba (Power of God) orphanage in Yaounde, Cameroon, Wednesday April 15, 2026 on the third day of his apostolic journey to Africa. (Alberto Pizzoli, Pool Photo via AP)

Pope demands the 'chains of corruption' be broken during visit to Cameroon

1:38 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Pope Leo XIV has arrived in the central African nation of Cameroon on the second leg of his Africa tour

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on the village of Qlaileh, as seen from the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

The Latest: Iran threatens to disrupt Gulf trade in response to US naval blockade

12:32 AM on Wednesday, April 15

The leader of Iran’s joint military command has threatened to halt trade in the Gulf region if the U.S. does not lift its blockade of Iranian ports, while U.S. Central Command says no vessels have made it past U.S. naval forces during the first 48 hours of the blockade

Majuma Khatun, the mother of Rahela Begum, a Rohingya survivor, comforts her at their shelter after she was rescued on April 9, 2026 from a capsized boat, at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Suzauddin Rubel)

At least 250 people missing, including Rohingya and Bangladeshis, after boat sinks in Andaman Sea

11:30 PM on Tuesday, April 14

The United Nations says at least 250 people including Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi nationals are either feared dead or missing after a boat capsized in the Andaman Sea recently

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