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Layoffs Are Underway at Southwest Airlines
(WBAP/KLIF) - DALLAS, TX - Southwest Airlines has confirmed layoffs of about 75 employees as part of an operational restructuring to improve efficiency. The affected employees will have the opportunit...
May 16, 2026
Trump Administration Prepares to Seek Raúl Castro Indictment as It Pressures Cuba
MIAMI (AP) - The Justice Department is preparing to seek an indictment against former Cuban President Ral Castro, three people familiar with the matter tell The Associated Press. The indictment would ...
May 15, 2026 SANTIAGO DE CUBA, CUBA - JULY 26: Raul Castro, head of Cuba's Communist Party, gestures as he gives a speech during the political act to celebrate the 65th anniversary of Fidel Castro's rebels attack on the Moncada barracks, on July 26, 2018 in Santiago de Cuba. It is the first Moncada anniversary with the new President Diaz Canel, who was elected in April. (Photo by Sven Creutzmann/Mambo photo/Getty Images)
Judge Declares a Mistrial in Harvey Weinstein's Rape Retrial After Jury Deadlocks
NEW YORK (AP) - Harvey Weinstein's rape retrial has ended in a mistrial. A judge declared it Friday after the jury deadlocked. The former Hollywood mogul has been convicted of other sex crimes on two ...
May 15, 2026 Former Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan Supreme Court during his retrial in New York City on May 13, 2026. The retrial of Weinstein on a rape charge on which a jury was previously deadlocked began on April 14, although he will remain imprisoned for other offenses regardless of the verdict. Weinstein is accused of the third-degree rape of Jessica Mann, who starred in the 2015 romantic comedy "This Isn't Funny." (Photo by SARAH YENESEL / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)
Iran's top diplomat says a lack of trust is impeding talks to end war with the US
NEW DELHI (AP) - Iran's foreign minister says that a lack of trust remains the biggest obstacle in negotiations to end the war with the U.S. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said contradictory ...
May 15, 2026 NEW DELHI, INDIA - MAY 15: (----EDITORIAL USE ONLY MANDATORY CREDIT - 'RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY / HANDOUT' - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS----) Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on the sidelines of the BRICS foreign ministers meeting in New Delhi, India on May 15, 2026. (Photo by Russian Foreign Ministry/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Justice Department to Seek Death Penalty for Man Charged With Killing 2 Israeli Embassy Staffers
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department will seek the death penalty for the man accused of fatally shooting two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington outside a Jewish museum. Prosecutors...
May 15, 2026
Pentagon Halts Deployments to Poland and Germany to Cut Troop Numbers in Europe
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon is drawing down thousands of troops in Europe by stopping units from deploying to Poland and Germany as opposed to yanking those already stationed there. Several U.S. of...
May 15, 2026
Kyiv Mourns as Death Toll From Russian Attack in the Ukrainian Capital Rises to 24
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - The death toll from a Russian missile attack that flattened a Kyiv apartment building has risen to 24. It was one of the deadliest attacks on the capital in the 4-year-old war. Uk...
May 15, 2026 A section of a nine-storey apartment block in the Darnytskyi district is destroyed by a missile in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 15, 2026. The residential building was struck by a missile, reportedly a Kh-101, at around 3:00 a.m. local time on May 14. The missile detonated inside the building, causing an entire section to collapse, resulting in the deaths of 24 people, including three children, and injuring 48 others. The search and rescue operation lasted more than 28 hours, during which the State Emergency Service rescued 30 residents. (Photo by Yevhen Kotenko/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Texas High Court Rejects Removal of Democratic Lawmakers WHO LED Quorum Break Over Redistricting
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Supreme Court has refused to declare that Democratic state lawmakers who briefly left the state last year in a quorum break to stop a vote on new congressional voting ma...
May 15, 2026
Powell's Tenure as Fed Chair Marked by Fight for Independence While Trying to Tame Inflation
WASHINGTON (AP) - When Jerome Powell was sworn in as chair of the Federal Reserve eight years ago, economists worried that inflation and interest rates were too low and that too few Americans had jobs...
May 15, 2026
Berkshire Hathaway Triples Alphabet Stake and Invests in Delta and Macy's Under New CEO
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Berkshire Hathaway more than tripled the size of its investment in Google's parent company and bought over $2.6 billion worth of Delta Airlines stock as Greg Abel settled into the C...
May 15, 2026
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