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Aid groups warn Iran war is hindering food and medicine from reaching millions

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Aid groups are warning that the war in the Middle East has upended their ability to get food and medicine to millions of people around the world in need, and that the suffering will deepen if the violence continues. Not only has the conflict cut off vital shipping routes, creating a global energy crisis, it’s also disrupting supply chains for aid groups, forcing them to use costlier, more time-consuming routes. Key pathways such as the Strait of Hormuz have been effectively shuttered and routes from strategic hubs such as Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi have ...

U.S. carries out daring rescue of service member in Iran

(AP) — The United States pulled off a daring rescue of two aviators whose fighter jet was shot down by Iran, plucking the pilot from behind enemy lines before setting off a complicated extraction of the second service member who hid deep in the mountains as Tehran called for Iranians to help capture him. The CIA looked to throw off Iran’s government before the crew member was found, launching a deception campaign to spread word inside the Islamic Republic that the U.S. had already located him. Even as President Donald Trump and other U.S. officials described an almost cinematic ...

Trump issues a fiery, expletive-filled threat against Iran

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday made expletive-filled threats against Iran and its infrastructure if it doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz by his Tuesday deadline, after American forces rescued a wounded aviator whose Iran-downed plane fell behind enemy lines. A defiant Iran struck infrastructure targets in neighboring Gulf Arab countries and threatened to restrict another heavily used regional waterway, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off the Arabian Peninsula. Trump on social media vowed to hit Iran’s power plants and bridges and said the country would be ...

Workers plan to halt strike at major U.S. meatpacking plant and resume negotiations

(AP) — Workers at one of the nation’s largest meatpacking plants have agreed to return to work and halt a three-week strike after plant owner JBS USA agreed to resume negotiations, labor union representatives announced Saturday. The strike by thousands of workers at the Swift Beef Co. plant in Greeley, Colorado, began on March 16 in coordination with the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 union in a bid for higher wages and better health care. The strike came as U.S. cattle numbers hit a 75-year-old low this year, a decline driven in part by drought and low prices offered ...

Pope Leo urges peace in first Easter Mass as Christians celebrate

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Easter Mass as pontiff with a call Sunday to lay down arms and seek peace to global conflicts through dialogue, but he departed from a tradition of listing the world’s woes by name in the Urbi et Orbi blessing from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica. Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, emphasized Easter’s message of hope as a celebration of Jesus’ resurrection after being crucified. “Let us allow our hearts to be transformed by his immense love for us! Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power ...

UCLA women defeat South Carolina for first NCAA banner

PHOENIX (AP) — Lauren Betts forced herself to repeatedly watch last season’s Final Four debacle against UConn, using the lessons learned in this year’s return trip to the national semifinals. The two-time All-American did her homework following a season-low points in UCLA’s only loss of the season, applying what she gleaned from the game film to help take down Texas in the rematch. Betts opened up about her mental health issues, the honesty taking a weight off her shoulders while, hopefully, helping others facing their own darkness. This life of hers has been a pursuit of ...