Teacher grants resumed
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Ukraine accepts 30-day truce plan as diplomacy to end war speeds up
(CN) — Ukraine on Tuesday agreed to accept a U.S. proposal for an immediate 30-day ceasefire during talks with Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Saudi Arabia in what could be a first step toward ending the war in Europe through diplomacy. In return for agreeing to the...
Second Circuit revives Holocaust victim heirs’ artwork ownership claims
MANHATTAN (CN) — A Second Circuit panel on Tuesday reversed a lower court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit from heirs of an Austrian Jewish performer, in which they claim The Art Institute of Chicago stole a World War II-era drawing by Egon Schiele that rightfully...
‘We’re gonna arrest your tail’: House Speaker berates detained Palestinian activist — but won’t point to a crime
WASHINGTON (CN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday would not say whether he believed a pro-Palestinian activist detained by ICE had committed a crime that would warrant his arrest or the Trump administration’s suggestion that it could take away his resident...
Prosecutors point finger at Iran in trial over foiled assassination plot
MANHATTAN (CN) — Two men charged in a failed plot to assassinate journalist and Iranian exile Masih Alinejad had planned to “gun her down at home, right here in New York City,” prosecutors told a Manhattan jury on Tuesday, until they were foiled by law...
The bite that hits
I sent a text to a friend when last week’s tariffs went into effect: “As far as hammering American businesses that offshored their jobs, I’m OK with that.” There remains something visceral in the experience of workers — like those at a San Diego defense contractor...
London crossbow killer gets life sentence for murdering ex-partner, her sister and mother
(CN) — An English former soldier who raped his ex-girlfriend before murdering her, and then murdered her sister with a crossbow and mother with a knife, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday at Cambridge Crown Court. Before sentencing Kyle Clifford, a 26-year-old...
Advocate general calls for EU first: Throwing out Poland’s Constitutional Court
(CN) — Poland faces an unprecedented legal mess where its Constitutional Court and hundreds of rulings it issued over the past nine years may be deemed unlawful — a prospect that became even more probable Tuesday after an advocate general at the European Court of...
Ships blaze after North Sea crash, government rules out foul play
GRIMSBY, England (AFP) — Two ships were still on fire in the North Sea on Tuesday after a cargo vessel slammed into a tanker carrying flammable jet fuel, with the U.K. government ruling out foul play. Questions remained, however, about how the accident happened and...