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Pope's historic speech to Spain's parliament demands respect for migrants and gets 7-minute ovation

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM and NICOLE WINFIELD
Jun 08, 2026 10:46 am - Spanish lawmakers gave Pope Leo XIV a standing ovation on Monday after he called for respect for migrants' rights and international law in a historic address to parliament that signaled a new level of acceptance of the Catholic Church in the overwhelmingly secular country.
Ukrainian strikes hit oil sites in Russia and Crimea

By Associated Press
Jun 08, 2026 7:55 am - Ukrainian forces struck oil facilities in Russia and occupied Ukraine, Ukrainian and Russian officials said on Monday, as part of their campaign aimed at making Moscow pay an economic cost for the war.
Israel and Iran trade strikes, threatening to drag the region back into full-scale war

By JON GAMBRELL
Jun 08, 2026 7:20 am - Israel and Iran traded fire early Monday in their first attacks since the U.S. struck a ceasefire with Tehran two months ago. Hours later, Iran's military said that it would stop offensive operations.
Maverick Republican Sen. Bob Packwood of Oregon, who resigned after sexual harassment scandal, dies

Jun 07, 2026 3:09 pm - PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Former Sen. Bob Packwood, a moderate Oregon Republican whose reputation as a champion of abortion and women's rights was spoiled at the end of his c...
Female Navy officers say they fear a career cap after Hegseth cuts women from promotions list

By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN
Jun 06, 2026 8:25 pm - After Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cut nine Navy officers, including all the women, from a promotion list, several female officers say they see the unusual intervention as a sign that their careers now have a ceiling and worry for the future generation of female military leaders.
Trump issues pardon to former Republican congressman convicted of insider trading

Jun 06, 2026 8:18 pm - President Donald Trump has issued a pardon to Stephen Buyer, a former Republican congressman from Indiana who served nearly two years in prison for making illegal stock trades based on inside information after he left office.
Israeli troops kill 7-month-old baby in West Bank, Palestinian officials say

By MAHMOUD ILLEAN, SAMY MAGDY and SAM MEDNICK
Jun 06, 2026 8:09 pm - Israeli troops shot at a car in the occupied West Bank, killing a 7-month-old Palestinian baby and wounding his parents, the Palestinian health ministry said, with the bullet striking the boy in the face.
Israeli airstrikes kill 9 including Lebanese army officers after ceasefire deal

By BASSEM MROUE
Jun 06, 2026 8:01 pm - Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon on Saturday killed nine people including three members of the Lebanese military, the Lebanese army and state media said, days after the two sides reached a new ceasefire deal.
At least 12 people shot at an Ohio festival and a search for suspects is still ongoing, police say

By JAIMIE DING and THOMAS PEIPERT
Jun 06, 2026 6:59 pm - A shooting near a community festival in Toledo, Ohio, wounded at least 12 people, and police said a search for the suspects was ongoing following an outbreak of gunfire that sent crowds scrambling for cover.
Diabetes researchers ejected from conference after criticizing White House

By Carolyn Y. Johnson
Jun 06, 2026 6:35 pm - Five diabetes researchers, including the editor of a leading journal, were removed from the field’s premier conference in New Orleans on Friday morning, after handing out copies of an editorial criticizing the Trump administration’s “dismantling” of the biomedical research enterprise.

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