SOFIA, Bulgaria — Bulgarian President Rumen Radev announced his resignation as the country prepares for its eighth national election in five years, fueling speculation that he may enter the fray to end the entrenched political deadlock.

“Today’s political class betrayed the hopes of the Bulgarians in compromises with the oligarchy,” ...Read more

In the seven months since state Sen. John Hoffman was shot nine times in the doorway of his home, he has learned that healing from physical and emotional trauma is not linear.

“Recovery is a process,” Hoffman, DFL-Champlin said. “Physically, you have good days, and there are sometimes where you just hit the wall and I’m physically just ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — At 1 p.m. Friday, ABC News aired an interview with Abigail Adelsheim-Marshall, who owns St. Paul’s Mischief Toy Store with her parents Dan Marshall and Millie Adelsheim. She discussed the store’s decision to distribute free whistles that citizens have been using to alert neighbors of the presence of Immigration and ...Read more

DETROIT — The Michigan Department of Education is lobbying the Legislature to take the state's science of reading laws two big steps further.

The department sent legislators its annual legislative priorities letter on Jan. 14, advocating for making it harder for districts to avoid teaching the science of reading, a way of teaching reading ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed Board of Peace has got off to a rough start: questioned by Europe, criticized by Israel and celebrated by friends of the Kremlin.

France’s Emmanuel Macron, for one, has come right out of the gate to decline an invitation that was also extended to strongmen such as Belarus’ autocratic leader ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was invoked with immediacy at a breakfast Monday celebrating the late civil rights activist amid the surge of federal immigration agents in Minnesota.

“Here we are today, facing even more uncertainty in our own home, in our own street, our own neighborhood, and our own schools and ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Flyers advertising white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan were found in a downtown Lexington neighborhood late Sunday night and early Monday morning, according to the neighborhood association’s president.

The hate group’s flyers came in advance a federal holiday celebrating the life of Civil Rights Movement leader Dr. ...Read more

Donald Trump linked his claims on Greenland to not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in a letter the U.S. president sent to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store.

“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace,” Trump says ...Read more

Valentino Garavani, the Italian fashion designer who built a world-famous luxury brand around his first name, has died. He was 93.

Valentino died at his home in Rome “surrounded by his loved ones,” according to a statement on the fashion house’s social media pages. His cause of death was not released.

The Valentino brand became one of ...Read more

MIAMI — Miami Beach nightclub Vendôme has apologized for a “deeply offensive and unacceptable” video circulating online, which appears to show a group of popular and controversial influencers partying to Kanye West’s antisemitic song, “Heil Hitler.”

People took to social media platforms over the weekend including Instagram, TikTok ...Read more

DETROIT — A Belleville man is suing a former urologist convicted of sexually assaulting more than a dozen men and women under the guise of medical treatment, marking the first lawsuit filed against the ex-doctor.

Dr. Zvi Levran pleaded no contest to 28 counts of criminal sexual conduct involving 13 victims and was sentenced in April to 10 to ...Read more

Valentino Garavani, the Italian fashion designer who built a world famous luxury brand around his first name, has died. He was 93.

Valentino died at his home in Rome “surrounded by his loved ones,” according to a statement on the fashion house’s social media pages. His cause of death was not released.

The Valentino brand became one of ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Hugo Chávez called the United States “the empire,” and President George W. Bush “the devil.” Denouncing capitalism as “the road to hell,” he pushed an alternative economic model that nationalized key industries and redistributed wealth.

During his 14-year presidency of Venezuela, Chávez warned of a CIA plot to ...Read more

DETROIT — An 18-year-old who allegedly threatened to shoot people as classes were letting out last week at Ann Arbor's Haisley Elementary School faces up to 20 years in prison after he was charged with making terroristic threats, authorities said.

The incident happened at about 4 p.m. Friday, Ann Arbor police said in a statement.

"Officers ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Weeks after the administration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis steered $10 million from a legal Medicaid settlement to a charity spearheaded by the state's first lady, the Hope Florida Foundation gave $5 million apiece to two separate organizations that gave millions to a political committee waging an anti-marijuana campaign ...Read more

NEW YORK — The owner of one of the vehicles involved in the fatal Brooklyn hit-and-run of former child actor Kianna Underwood has been located, police sources said Monday.

The owner told police he was getting a lawyer and would not answer any questions, sources said.

Police seized his vehicle, a black 2021 Ford Explorer, and are examining ...Read more

BOSTON — Teamsters President Sean O’Brien kicked off a 2026 reelection bid in Charlestown on Sunday — defending his record, speaking to the future and warning his opponent that Teamsters politics are a “full contact sport.”

“We need a full court press going into Las Vegas in June,” said O’Brien to a lively packed crowd of ...Read more

MARTINEZ, Calif. — An inmate at the Martinez Detention Facility died in custody Sunday, authorities said.

A Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office deputy found 62-year-old Victor Jose Faria unresponsive in his cell in the B module of the facility about 5:10 p.m., the agency said in a statement. According to the sheriff’s office, the deputy ...Read more

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi officially called an early election next month and promised a temporary sales tax cut on food if she wins a fresh mandate for her new coalition.

The premier, who took power in October, is betting that her ruling Liberal Democratic Party can strengthen its slim majority in parliament in a Feb. 8 election. ...Read more