Prospective jurors in Hunter Biden’s firearms case questioned on gun rights, addiction, politics
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Prospective jurors in the federal firearms case against Hunter Biden are being questioned on their thoughts about gun rights and addiction. The president’s son has been charged with lying on federal gun purchase forms when he said he wasn’t a drug addict. He has pleaded not guilty and argues he’s being unfairly targeted by the Justice Department. Prospective jurors are being asked about their knowledge of the case, their thoughts about gun ownership and whether they or anyone close to them have struggled with substance abuse or addiction or ever owned a gun. Other questions focused on the role politics may have played in the charges.
More women made the list of top paid CEOs in 2023, but their numbers are still small compared to men
More women are reaching the top ranks of the corporate suite of S&P 500 companies, but their numbers are still miniscule compared to their male counterparts. The AP’s and Equilar’s compensation study included pay data for 341 CEOs at S&P 500 companies who have served at least two fiscal years at their companies, which filed proxy statements between Jan. 1 and April 30. Of these, 25 were women. That’s the most women making the list since Equilar and AP started doing the study in 2011. But the numbers haven’t budged that much. The second highest tally was 21 in 2017.
Mexico awakes with joy, division to the first woman elected president, Claudia Sheinbaum
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s first female president held out an olive branch to the more than one-third of Mexicans who didn’t vote for her, but she faces a tough path toward reconciling a country left deeply divided by outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former Mexico City mayor, said “our duty will always be to look out for each and every Mexican, without distinctions.” Long-delayed initial vote counts gave her a crushing margin of victory, higher even than the one López Obrador won in 2018. With about 78% of votes counted, Sheinbaum was getting about 59% of votes, about twice as many as her nearest competitor Xóchitl Gálvez, who got around 28%.
As pharmacies shutter, some Western states, Black and Latino communities are left behind
Urban and rural communities have come to depend on pharmacies as a trusted care option and a place for advice. But CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid and independent pharmacies all are pulling back after waves of growth before the pandemic. An Associated Press analysis of state pharmacy licenses, data from the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs and the American Community Survey shows urban neighborhoods that are majority Black and Latino have fewer pharmacies per capita than white majority neighborhoods. The AP’s analysis also found Alaska, Oregon and New Mexico were among states with the fewest retail pharmacies per capita.
Proposed Gaza cease-fire puts Netanyahu at a crossroads that could shape his legacy
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The cease-fire proposal announced by President Joe Biden has placed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a crossroads. Either path would likely reshape the legacy of Israel’s longest-serving and deeply divisive leader. The proposal offers the possibility of ending the war and returning scores of hostages held by Hamas. But it would also likely shatter Netanyahu’s governing coalition, potentially sending him into the opposition. The full withdrawal of Israeli forces called for in the proposal could allow Hamas to claim victory and reconstitute itself. Rejection of the deal, on the other hand, could deepen Israel’s international isolation, worsen ties with the United States and expose Netanyahu to accusations of having abandoned the hostages.
The Latest | Israeli strikes in central Gaza kill at least 11 as the US pushes a cease-fire plan
Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes have killed 11 people including a woman and three children in central Gaza. Earlier Monday, the Israeli military said that the body of a man presumed to be a hostage was found in a community near the Gaza border that Hamas militants attacked on Oct. 7. Israeli forces are expanding their offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, once the main hub of humanitarian aid operations, as the country faces growing international criticism for the huge cost in civilian lives and the widespread destruction caused by its nearly 8-month-old war against Hamas.
Iran’s hard-line parliament speaker emerges as the theocracy’s top figure in the presidential vote
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s hard-line parliament speaker has registered for the country’s June 28 presidential election. Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf is the most-prominent candidate from within its Shiite theocracy in the race to replace the late Ebrahim Raisi after a helicopter crash that killed him and seven others. Monday’s entry of Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf brings a candidate with close ties to the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard into a race that saw the absence of other prominent figures. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei even gave a speech earlier Monday alluding to qualities that Qalibaf himself has highlighted, potentially signaling his support for the former Tehran mayor.
Populist campaigner Nigel Farage makes an about-face and says he will run in the UK election
LONDON (AP) — Pro-Brexit, anti-immigration campaigner Nigel Farage is returning to front-line British politics. He announced Monday that he will take the helm of the right-wing party Reform U.K. and run for Parliament in the July 4 election. Farage said he’ll run in the seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea in his eighth attempt to win a seat. The announcement came just days after Farage said he would not be a candidate because it was more important to support his ally Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election. On July 4 voters across the U.K. will elect lawmakers to fill all 650 seats in the House of Commons. The leader of the party that can command a Commons majority will become prime minister.
‘SNL’ lampooned men in artistic swimming. Bill May could be the sport’s first male Olympian
NEW YORK (AP) — Bill May might become the first man to compete in artistic swimming at an Olympics. The 45-year-old who lives in California will find out on Friday if he is picked by a five-person panel to represent the United States at the Paris Games in the team event for the sport that used to be called synchronized swimming. May has retired and unretired several times over the years. He has performed with Cirque du Soleil and coached at a club in Santa Clara. He always held out hope of a chance to go to the Olympics. Men are allowed to participate in artistic swimming for the first time at the 2024 Games.
How AP covered the D-Day landings and lost photographer Bede Irvin in the battle for Normandy
NEW YORK (AP) — On D-Day, The Associated Press had reporters, artists and photographers in the air, on the choppy waters of the English Channel, in London, and at English departure ports and airfields covering the Allied assault in Normandy. As men on either side of him were killed, AP correspondent Roger Greene waded ashore on June 6, 1944. Sheltering with his typewriter in a bomb crater, Greene pounded out the first AP report from the beachhead. He wrote: ““Hitler’s Atlantic Wall cracked in the first hour under tempestuous Allied assault.” The dead in the ensuing Battle of Normandy included AP photographer Bede Irvin, killed as he was photographing an Allied bombardment.
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