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FILE - The control tower at Logan Airport, on Dec. 9, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

FAA investigates incident that forced a Delta flight to abort landing

Jessica Hill, The Associated Press 2 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 10:18 PM CDT

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a close call between two commercial flights that were in danger of colliding Saturday morning at Boston Logan International Airport.

A Delta Air Lines flight from Dallas had to execute a go-around, or aborted landing, to avoid an American Airlines plane departing from an intersecting runway, according to the FAA and flight logs.

The crew of Delta flight 2351 coordinated with air traffic control to perform the go-around, an airline spokesperson said. The plane, which had 129 passengers and six crew members on board, landed safely and deplaned normally, according to the spokesperson.

American Airlines and the airport referred requests for comment to the FAA.

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In this photo provided by Ukraine's 65th Mechanized Brigade press service, a soldier practices military skills at a training ground near the frontline in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Saturday, June 20, 2026. (Andriy Andriyenko/Ukraine's 65th Mechanized Brigade via AP)

Ukrainian attacks prompt Russian-held Crimea to halt civilian gasoline sales

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Ukrainian attacks prompt Russian-held Crimea to halt civilian gasoline sales

The Associated Press 3 minute read 4:44 AM CDT

Officials in Russia-occupied Crimea suspended civilian gasoline sales Sunday as Ukraine ramped up attacks on fuel supplies on the Black Sea peninsula.

Gov. Sergey Aksyonov, the Kremlin-appointed head o Crimea, said that overnight Ukrainian strikes killed four people and wounded 28 others. He did not specify the target of the attack.

He later wrote on social media that local gas stations would halt all sales to non-state companies and individuals for an undefined period.

“Fuel will be sold only to government agencies that ensure the functioning and security of the Republic of Crimea,” Aksyonov said. “I ask everyone to remain calm and to only trust official sources of information.”

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Emergency personnel work on a train on the tracks outside Bedford, England, after a train from Corby to London St. Pancras and another from Nottingham to London St. Pancras, collided on Friday June 19, 2026. (Jamie Lashmar/PA via AP)

UK police probe cause of train collision that killed driver and left 9 in critical condition

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UK police probe cause of train collision that killed driver and left 9 in critical condition

The Associated Press 2 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 8:45 AM CDT

LONDON (AP) — Nine people were in critical condition on Saturday after a collision between two passenger trains in central England the night before killed the driver of one of the locomotives, police said.

British Transport Police Chief Constable Lucy D'Orsi said more than 80 people were treated in hospitals after the crash late Friday afternoon, and 28 remained hospitalized a day later.

Buckingham Palace said King Charles III “is greatly saddened” by the crash. It said “his thoughts and sympathies are with the family of the deceased and with all those injured or affected by such a tragic incident."

Police and accident investigators are working to understand why a commuter train bound for London’s St. Pancras Station slammed into the back of another train headed for the same destination on Friday afternoon.

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Vice President JD Vance speaks to reporters at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Saturday, June 20, 2026, en route to Switzerland. (Elizabeth Frantz/Pool Photo via AP)

Vance and Iranian officials arrive in Switzerland to launch talks on Tehran’s nuclear program

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Vance and Iranian officials arrive in Switzerland to launch talks on Tehran’s nuclear program

Aamer Madhani, Seung Min Kim, And Jamey Keaten, The Associated Press 6 minute read Updated: 7:05 AM CDT

OBBUERGEN, Switzerland (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance and senior Iranian officials arrived in Switzerland on Sunday to formally launch negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program, build out the fragile interim deal to end the war in Iran and keep the Strait of Hormuz open.

The framework was signed last week, and now top American and Iranian negotiators are in a 60-day sprint to reach an agreement on the technical details that hold massive implications for the world economy and global security.

Yet only days after signing the agreement, it is being stress-tested after fighting escalated in Lebanon between Israel and the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah — and by the subsequent announcement by Iran’s military that it had again closed the vital waterway that transits one-fifth of the world’s traded oil and natural gas. A renewed ceasefire in Lebanon, brokered on Saturday, appeared to be holding up.

Separate meetings kick off first

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FILE - The Kaibab Trail, running right to left at center, at Grand Canyon National Park on Jan. 20, 2001. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Extreme heat expected again at the Grand Canyon after 3 hikers die in heat-related incidents

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Extreme heat expected again at the Grand Canyon after 3 hikers die in heat-related incidents

The Associated Press 4 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 9:16 PM CDT

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Visitors to Grand Canyon National Park are being warned about extreme temperatures that will hit the popular destination early next week after a recent increase in heat-related incidents in the inner canyon, including the deaths of three hikers.

The National Weather Service issued an extreme heat watch at the Grand Canyon for midday Monday through Tuesday, forecasting temperatures that could reach or exceed 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) at the low-elevation Phantom Ranch.

People are “strongly advised” to avoid hiking in the middle of the day, the National Park Service said this week in a statement following a “recent influx of heat-related incidents.”

An extreme heat watch was in effect June 16 when two hikers, ages 67 and 68, were found dead on the North Kaibab Trail, which the NPS describes as the most difficult of the major inner canyon trails. The service said they appeared to have succumbed to symptoms of heat-related illness.

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President Donald Trump speaks with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at a working lunch with leaders of G7 and the Middle East in Evian-les-Bains, France, Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump deepens the dustup with Italy’s Meloni, who says his ‘unprovoked attacks are senseless’

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Trump deepens the dustup with Italy’s Meloni, who says his ‘unprovoked attacks are senseless’

Seung Min Kim, The Associated Press 4 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 5:46 PM CDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday lashed out at Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, insisting that she asked “over and over” for a photo with him at the recent Group of Seven summit and criticizing what he said was Italy’s lack of cooperation during the Iran war.

The remarks deepen the spat that began this week with the Republican president’s interview with an Italian broadcaster, during which Trump claimed Meloni “begged” for the photo during the G7 meeting in France. Meloni has called that “completely fabricated.” The dustup led Italy’s foreign minister to cancel a planned trip to the United States as Meloni’s government lined up in her defense.

“Italian Prime Minister Gigiorgia Meloni asked, over and over, for a picture with me during the G-7 meeting in France,” Trump wrote on his social media platform while spending the weekend at the Camp David presidential retreat. He misspelled her first name in the initial post, which he later corrected.

He continued: “She is doing poorly in Italy with her level of popularity, possibly because she turned down the United States of America, a Country that truly loves and protects Italy, when it came to denying Iran from obtaining or developing a Nuclear Weapon (But so did NATO, for that matter!).”

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FILE - The logo of French video game publisher Ubisoft is pictured at the Paris games week in Paris, Nov. 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

A founder of Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft killed in a plane crash in western France

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A founder of Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft killed in a plane crash in western France

Angela Charlton, The Associated Press 2 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 2:33 PM CDT

PARIS (AP) — A founder of global gaming company Ubisoft, maker of Assassin’s Creed, was killed in a plane crash in western France, authorities said Saturday.

The twin-motor Cessna 421 carrying Claude Guillemot and a flight instructor crashed Friday evening near La Baule airport on the Atlantic coast, Mayor Franck Louvrier said in a statement. Both were licensed and experienced pilots. The instructor also was killed, the mayor said. An investigation is underway.

Ubisoft confirmed Guillemot's death but did not comment further.

The plane crashed in a field just before landing at La Baule-Escoublac Airport, an airport official told The Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to be publicly named.

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In this photo realised by Iran Presidentcy Office, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signs a memorandum of understanding already signed by U.S. President Donald Trump aimed at ending the war and launching negotiations on a broader agreement, in Tehran, Iran, early Thursday, June 18, 2026. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

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Nicole McLennan first started collecting matchbooks as a teenager. She now sells multi-coloured, high-quality matches imported from Europe and displayed in vintage bottles and vessels. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)

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Natasha Jacka evaluates a glass of wine during the period it matures in oak in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, June 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Neil Shaw)

This woman ‘managed to not be bored’ during the COVID lockdown and planted a vineyard at home

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This woman ‘managed to not be bored’ during the COVID lockdown and planted a vineyard at home

Gerald Imray, The Associated Press 4 minute read Updated: 7:02 AM CDT

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Like millions of others, Natasha Jacka went stir-crazy during a COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, until it dawned on her that there might be great opportunity in having nowhere to go.

Jacka used the pandemic and the suspension of her studies at an agricultural college to plant her own vineyard at her family home in South Africa. It was a way to fast forward her dream of becoming a winemaker by bringing it, literally, within reach.

Nothing in the wine world moves too fast, though, and it was four years before the first harvest and vintage.

Jacka's debut wines from grapevines she planted, cared for and harvested in the yard of her parents' sea-facing home in Cape Town — also stomping the grapes herself — were greeted with high praise by critics.

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Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and his wife Begona Gomez arrive before a Mass celebrated by Pope Leo XIV at the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, June 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Spanish judge orders prime minister’s wife to face corruption trial and surrender her passport

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Spanish judge orders prime minister’s wife to face corruption trial and surrender her passport

Joseph Wilson, The Associated Press 3 minute read Yesterday at 11:22 AM CDT

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A judge on Saturday ordered the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to face trial on charges of influence peddling and corruption, and to surrender her passport.

Investigative judge Juan Carlos Peinado issued the ruling, arguing that Begoña Gómez represented a flight risk. In addition to surrendering her passport, she must also appear before a court every two weeks. A trial date hasn't been set.

The decision touched off a heated political confrontation, with calls from the opposition for Sanchez's Socialist government to resign.

Gómez is accused of using her position to influence government contracts given to a group of technology companies. The judge also accused her of the misuse of public funds in the hiring of a consultant, and the inappropriate use of software while she was a professor at a public university.

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Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh's press conference appears on screens on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Warsh’s gamble: A quieter Federal Reserve could mean volatile markets, higher rates

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Warsh’s gamble: A quieter Federal Reserve could mean volatile markets, higher rates

Christopher Rugaber, The Associated Press 6 minute read Yesterday at 7:45 AM CDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve has for decades moved steadily from a remote, opaque government agency that shared little about what it did or why to a more transparent institution willing to explain how it makes decisions and what it thinks about the economy.

But in his first press conference Wednesday, new chair Kevin Warsh began to reverse some of those steps. Warsh, like many economists, thinks the financial markets have become too dependent on Fed guidance, and that such direction is more effective in financial crises or economic downturns.

Warsh quickly made changes: The Fed's statement on its interest-rate decision was slashed to 132 words, from 341 in April. And Warsh pointedly noted that the statement excluded any hints, or “forward guidance,” about what the Fed's next moves might be.

In short, Warsh rapidly delivered on a promise to slash the Fed's communications, particularly the guidance it gives to financial markets about its next interest-rate moves. Yet such an approach carries the risk of more violent swings in stock and bond prices, analysts say, and ultimately could lead to higher interest rates for consumers and businesses.

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Young boys prepare to dive in the Seine river, in Samois-sur-Seine, south of Paris, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

France restricts public alcohol consumption and outdoor sports as heat wave bakes parts of Europe

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France restricts public alcohol consumption and outdoor sports as heat wave bakes parts of Europe

Angela Charlton, The Associated Press 4 minute read Updated: 5:44 AM CDT

PARIS (AP) — France put emergency services and military forces on wildfire alert, restricted public alcohol consumption and canceled some outdoor sports events to cope with a heat wave unfurling across parts of Europe. Multiple drowning deaths have been reported.

About a third of France is under the heat red alert Sunday and temperatures are expected to reach 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) on Sunday in some areas, in a country where air-conditioning isn't widespread. The forecast for Monday is even hotter.

The Eiffel Tower and other Paris venues set up misting stations to cool crowds, among a raft of measures announced by national and local authorities to minimize risks. Tourists in Rome sought relief in fountains. Spain's Basque Country canceled some sports and cultural events.

More than 200,000 people across Europe died from heat-related causes over the last four years, and most of the fatalities were preventable, the World Health Organization’s Europe office said this month. More above-average temperatures are expected this summer, which can cause heat exhaustion and life-threatening heat stroke.

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Dominican authorities help foreign tourists affected by a massive resort fire return home

Martín Adames, The Associated Press 2 minute read Yesterday at 5:00 PM CDT

LA ALTAGRACIA, Dominican Republic (AP) — Dominican authorities on Saturday were working to ensure that foreign tourists caught up in a massive fire that almost completely destroyed a luxury resort the day before could return to their home countries.

The blaze at the Viva Dominicus Beach by Wyndham resort in Bayahibe — a popular destination for U.S. and international tourists on the Dominican Republic ’s southeastern coast — forced the evacuation of nearly 1,700 tourists and caused the death of an Italian national, authorities said.

“Unfortunately, they lost their identity documents, including their passports,” said Amanda Santana, a hotel executive. “We have been coordinating with the embassies and governments of those countries to facilitate the entry of those guests.”

Hotel management officials said they are working with the police to expedite the filing of reports online for guests who need them. They added that tourists have been relocated to hotels in Punta Cana and Bayahibe.

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In Taylor Swift’s beach town, every clue becomes a wedding rumor

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In Taylor Swift’s beach town, every clue becomes a wedding rumor

Leah Willingham, The Associated Press 5 minute read Updated: 6:50 AM CDT

WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) — When a large tent appeared next door to Taylor Swift’s Watch Hill estate this week, it didn’t take long for speculation about the superstar's impending nuptials to ripple through the affluent New England seaside village — and the internet.

Soon, fans were swapping theories online, photographers were staking out vantage points and residents found themselves fielding questions about a wedding that never was. Or at least, a wedding that seems yet to happen.

The rumors, so far, have proved unfounded. But they offered a glimpse into life in Watch Hill, the Rhode Island beach community in the town of Westerly, close to the Connecticut border, where Swift has owned a home for more than a decade and where curiosity about the singer has become woven into everyday life.

Rumors take hold

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