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Facebook Tweet Email Link New York  —  Bill Martin says he has heard all kinds of concerns lately from people considering a visit to the United States. “Worries about getting in, worries about being detained at the border. I think there is a worldwide fear about what is happening here,” said the Australian, who spoke to CNN recently while on an open-air bus tour of New York City. Martin is on a six-week trip that’s included a cruise from Tokyo to Vancouver and a stopover in New York. Along the way he says he’s had lots of conversations with his…

WHITTIER, Alaska (AP) — They were born on U.S. soil, are entitled to U.S. passports and allowed to serve in the U.S. military, but 11 people in a small Alaska town are facing criminal charges after they tried to participate in a fundamental part of American democracy: voting.The defendants, who range in age from their 20s to their 60s, were all born in American Samoa — the only U.S. territory where residents are not automatically granted citizenship at birth. Prosecutors say they falsely claimed American citizenship when registering or trying to vote.The cases are highlighting another side of the debate…

WHITTIER, Alaska (AP) — Squeezed between glacier-packed mountains and Alaska’s Prince William Sound, the cruise-ship stop of Whittier is isolated enough that it’s reachable by just a single road, through a long, one-lane tunnel that vehicles share with trains. It’s so small that nearly all its 260 residents live in the same 14-story condo building.But Whittier also is the unlikely crossroads of two major currents in American politics: fighting over what it means to be born on U.S. soil and false claims by President Donald Trump and others that noncitizen voter fraud is widespread.In what experts describe as an unprecedented…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The tax cuts in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act would likely gouge a hole in the federal budget.The president has a patch handy, though: his sweeping import taxes — tariffs.The Congressional Budget Office, the government’s nonpartisan arbiter of tax and spending matters, says the One Big Beautiful Bill, passed by the House last month and now under consideration in the Senate, would increase federal budget deficits by $2.4 trillion over the next decade. That is because its tax cuts would drain the government’s coffers faster than its spending cuts would save money.By bringing in…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghans in Kabul have marked Eid al-Adha over the past two days with traditional prayers, animal sacrifices and family gatherings as the city observed the fourth such celebration since the Taliban returned to power in 2021. Early in the morning, there were some open-air prayer grounds across the capital. Taliban police patrolled the streets and stood guard near prayer sites as crowds moved through the city. Taliban fighters stand guard in front of the former U.S. embassy the day before Eid al-Adha, or “Feast of the Sacrifice”, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, June 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim…

The UK and France will abandon previous plans to recognise a Palestinian state at an upcoming conference, according to diplomats. France had been lobbying the UK and other European allies to recognise a Palestinian state at the conference in New York, due to be held between 17 and 20 June. President Emmanuel Macron had described the move as “a moral duty and political requirement”, suggesting it could come in return for Saudi Arabia recognising Israel at the conference. However, The Guardian has reported that French officials briefed their Israeli counterparts this week that the conference would not be the moment for recognition.…

Liverpool have stepped up their pursuit of Florian Wirtz by lodging an improved £113 million ($153m) bid for the Bayer Leverkusen playmaker, sources have told ESPN.Bundesliga side Leverkusen value Wirtz at £126m, but Liverpool’s latest move has seen the Premier League champions make a slight increase on their initial £109m offer, with the bid consisting of £100m plus an additional £13m in add-ons.Liverpool are in pole position to sign Wirtz after the Germany international made it clear that he favoured a move to Anfield ahead of Manchester City and Bayern Munich.The 23-year-old, regarded as one of the rising talents in…

FA Community ShieldBy virtue of winning the title in 2024-25, Liverpool earned a spot in the annual curtain-raiser for the footballing season.They will meet Emirates FA Cup winners Crystal Palace. A date for that occasion is yet to be announced.Champions LeagueThe draw for the league phase will take place on Thursday August 28. There, Liverpool – who are confirmed to be in pot one – will discover their eight opponents (four at home, four away) in the section.The dates for those matches are as follows: Matchday 1: September 16/17/18Matchday 2 September 30/October 1Matchday 3: October 21/22Matchday 4: November 4/5Matchday 5:…

Paris, France AP  —  Four people were killed in an “extremely violent” blaze seemingly caused by a battery-powered electric scooter that tore through a 10-story housing block in Reims, the capital of France’s Champagne region, authorities said Saturday. A 13-year-old jumped to his death from the 4th floor apartment where the fire started in the early hours of Friday and a burned body found inside is believed to be that of his older brother, aged 15, said Reims prosecutor François Schneider. An 87-year-old woman and her 59-year-old son who lived on the 8th floor suffocated to death in the smoke,…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Jan Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he realized its cacophony of creaks and rumbles was getting louder. He dropped his work, turned up the sound and found himself unable to look away. “The whole screen exploded,” he said. Beutel, a computer engineer specializing in mountain monitoring, had just witnessed a glacier collapse. On May 28, an avalanche of millions of tons of ice and rock barreled down the slope, burying Blatten, a centuries-old village nestled in the valley below. Local authorities had already evacuated…