Flint, business group settle lawsuit over boy's handcuffing

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan city and a business group have agreed to pay $40,000 to settle a lawsuit over the handcuffing of a 7-year-old boy at an after-school program in 2015.

Zimbabwe court bars top lawyer from representing journalist

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A Zimbabwean magistrate Tuesday barred Beatrice Mtetwa, a top human rights lawyer, from representing a jailed journalist and ordered that she be prosecuted for comments posted on a Facebook …

Senate panel concludes Russia interfered in 2016 US election

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia launched an aggressive effort to interfere in the 2016 presidential election on behalf of Donald Trump, and associates of the Republican candidate who were in regular touch with Russians th…

Ex-Lebanese PM: Family accepts ruling on father's killing

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Former Lebanese premier Saad Hariri says the family accepts the verdicts issued Tuesday by a U.N.-backed tribunal on the killing of his father 15 years ago.

In a first, Oman's sultan names foreign, finance ministers

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Oman's sultan on Tuesday named foreign and finance ministers for the first time, putting officials in positions long wielded by his late predecessor.

Senate panel finds Russia interfered in the 2016 US election

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate intelligence committee concluded that the Kremlin launched an aggressive effort to meddle in the 2016 presidential contest on behalf of Donald Trump as the Republican-led panel on Tuesd…

Former Lebanese PM Saad Hariri says family accepts court ruling on father's killing, demands implementation of justice.

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Former Lebanese PM Saad Hariri says family accepts court ruling on father's killing, demands implementation of justice.

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Thailand's student-led anti-government protests grow

NAKHON PATHOM, Thailand (AP) — High school students in Thailand's capital held blank signs and flashed three-fingered salutes to show opposition to the government, and about 2,000 university students joined a prote…

Woman drowns after rescuing children from Minnesota lake

BAGLEY, Minn. (AP) — An 18-year-old woman has drowned in a northwestern Minnesota lake after pulling several children from turbulent water, authorities said.

S&P 500 touches highest level ever as stocks drift upward

NEW YORK (AP) — The S&P 500 is once again flirting with its record levels, on pace to wipe out the last of its losses caused by the pandemic, as stocks drift a bit higher on Wall Street Tuesday.

Cesare Romiti, who steered Fiat in tense social times, dies

ROME (AP) — Cesare Romiti, an industrialist and champion of Italian capitalism who steered automaker Fiat through years of strikes and domestic terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s, died in Rome on Tuesday, Italian sta…

Court convicts 1 Hezbollah member in ex-Lebanon PM's killing

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A U.N.-backed tribunal on Tuesday convicted one member of the Hezbollah militant group and acquitted three others of involvement in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime M…

Stocks open higher on Wall Street, S&P 500 nears record high

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are nudging higher in the early going on Wall Street Tuesday, pushing the S&P 500 index slightly over the record high close it reached in February. Technology companies again led the way high…