Flight cancellations pile up on busy Memorial Day weekend

ATLANTA (AP) — Hundreds of flights worldwide were canceled by Sunday evening, adding to the mounting number of scrubbed flights during the busy Memorial DayRead More

Wildfires contaminating the West’s depleting water with ashy sludge

(CNN) — Officials in Las Vegas, New Mexico, had barely finished battling the massive Calf Canyon-Hermits Peak wildfire earlier this month before they had to point theirRead More

Pope names 21 new cardinals, from Asia, Africa, elsewhere

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis named 21 new cardinals Sunday, most of them from continents other than Europe — which dominated Catholic hierarchy forRead More

Russians storm city, shell east Ukraine as Zelenskyy visits

POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russian and Ukrainian troops engaged in close-quarter combat in an eastern Ukraine city Sunday as Moscow’s soldiers, supported by intense shelling,Read More

Justice Dept. to review response to Texas school shooting

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department said Sunday it will review the law enforcement response to the Texas school shooting, an unusual federal lookRead More

Biden visits memorial to victims of Texas school shooting

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden offered comfort Sunday to a city gripped by grief and anger as theyRead More

Police: 6 wounded in shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Tennessee said six people were wounded during an exchange of gunfire in a downtown Chattanooga business district. At leastRead More

Summer travel: Brace for hassles and high prices

   (CNN) — Gas prices and Covid cases are high as the US rolls into Memorial Day weekend and the busy summer travel season. The tangledRead More

US AG Merrick Garland issues call to public service at Harvard commencement ceremony in wake of shootings

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland told Harvard graduates Sunday that their generation has been asked to show “an impossible kind of resilience”Read More

Biden called again to mourn with a city stricken by grief

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are hoping to console a city stricken by grief and anger when theyRead More