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  • Residents confront a representative about opening up of their compound in Jingan district in Shanghai on May 25, 2022. Residents in China's largest city of Shanghai have become bolder in demanding the lifting or easing of coronavirus restrictions that have left millions locked up in their compounds for almost two months. (AP Photo)

    Shanghai lockdown: Residents demand release, and some get it

  • The Valhall oil field off the North Sea, Aug. 15, 2017. Europe’s frantic search for alternatives to Russian natural gas has dramatically increased the demand — and price — for Norway's oil and gas. As the money pours in, Europe’s second-biggest natural gas supplier is fending off accusations that it’s profiting from the war in Ukraine. (Haekon Mosvold Larsen/NTB Scanpix via AP)

    War surges Norway's oil, gas profit. Now, it's urged to help

  • In this photo released by official website of the office of Iranian Senior Vice-President, on Friday, May 27, 2022, Vice-President Mohammad Mokhber, second right, visits the site of a tower at under construction 10-story Metropol Building which collapsed on Monday, in the southwestern city of Abadan, Iran. Rescue teams at the site of the tower pulled five more bodies from the rubble on Friday, bringing the death toll in the disaster to 24. (Iranian Senior Vice-President Office via AP)

    Iran police disperse crowd gathered at collapsed building

  • FILE - Protesters wear yellow vests at a protest as they wave national flags and chant slogans against Libya's Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter, in Tripoli, Libya on April 19, 2019. Libya faces a serious security threat from foreign fighters and private military companies, especially Russia’s Wagner Group which has violated international law, U.N. experts said in a report obtained Friday, May 27, 2022 by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed, File)

    UN experts: Libya's security threatened by foreign fighters

  • Former president Donald Trump speaks during the Leadership Forum at the National Rifle Association Annual Meeting at the George R. Brown Convention Center Friday, May 27, 2022, in Houston. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

    NRA speakers unshaken on gun rights after Texas school massacre

  • Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw speaks during a press conference held outside Robb Elementary School on Friday, May 27, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. Nearly 20 officers stood in a hallway outside of the classrooms during this week's attack on a Texas elementary school for more than 45 minutes before agents used a master key to open a door and confront a gunman, authorities said Friday. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

    Police in Texas waited for 48 minutes to confront school shooter as students repeatedly called 911

  • A woman is carried from her home in an evacuation by volunteers of Vostok SOS charitable organisation in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, May 26, 2022. Residents in villages and towns near the front line continue to flee as fighting rages in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

    Ukraine fears repeat of Mariupol horrors in the Donbas

  • Miah Cerrillo, a 11-year-old survivor of the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas, feared the gunman would come back for her so she smeared herself in her friend's blood and played dead. (Miah Cerrillo family photo)

    She smeared blood on herself and played dead: 11-year-old reveals chilling details of the massacre

  • A Southwest Airlines flight prepares to land at Reagan National Airport, in Arlington, Va., Monday, Dec. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

    California woman gets 15 months in prison for punching flight attendant

  • Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, arrives for a news availability with Finland's Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto, after their meeting at the State Department, Friday, May 27, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

    U.S. says Turkey's NATO issues with Sweden, Finland will be fixed

  • This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. On Wednesday, May 18, 2022, Portuguese health authorities confirmed five cases of monkeypox in young men, marking an unusual outbreak in Europe of a disease typically limited to Africa. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP)

    WHO: Nearly 200 cases of monkeypox in more than 20 countries

  • In this image from Senate Television, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, speak on the Senate floor, Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at the Capitol in Washington. Schumer has quickly set in motion a pair of firearms background check bills in response to the school massacre in Texas. But the Democrat acknowledged Wednesday the refusal for years of Congress to pass any legislation aiming to curb a national epidemic of gun violence. (Senate Television via AP)

    Senate GOP blocks domestic terrorism bill, gun policy debate

  • Capri Isidoro, of Ellicott City, Md., looks at her one-month-old baby Charlotte, Monday, May 23, 2022, in Columbia, Md., during a lactation consultation. Charlotte was delivered via emergency c-section and given formula by hospital staff. Isidoro has been having trouble with breastfeeding and has been searching for a formula that her daughter can tolerate well. "If all things were equal I would feed her with formula and breastmilk," says Isidoro, "but the formula shortage is so scary. I worry I won't be able to feed my child." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

    Baby formula shortage highlights racial disparities

  • In this photo provided by Tasnim News Agency, debris hangs from the Metropol buildin,g a 10-story commercial building under construction, in the southwestern city of Abadan, Iran, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Rescuers dug through debris Tuesday of the collapsed building that killed at least 11 people, fearful that many more could still be trapped beneath the rubble as authorities arrested the city's mayor in a widening probe of the disaster. (Hossein Abdollah Asl, Tasnim News Agency via AP)

    Building collapse death toll in southwest Iran rises to 26

  • FILE - A teacher takes the body temperature of a schoolgirl to help curb the spread of the coronavirus before entering Kim Song Ju Primary School in Central District in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Oct. 13, 2021. According to North Korea, its fight against COVID-19 has been impressive: About 3.3 million people have been reported sick with fevers, but only 69 have died. (AP Photo/Cha Song Ho, File)

    Widespread disbelief over N. Korea's tiny COVID death rate

  • In this photo provided by the Unidad de Microscopía Electrónica del ISCIII in Madrid, on Thursday May 26, 2022, an electronic microscope image shows the monkeypox virus seen by a team from the Arbovirus Laboratory and the Genomics and Bioinformatics Units of the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII) in Madrid. Health authorities in Europe, North America, Israel and Australia have identified more than 100 cases of monkeypox in recent days. (Unidad de Microscopía Electrónica del ISCIII, via AP)

    Spanish LGBTQ groups wary of monkeypox stigma as Pride nears

  • Messages are written on a cross honoring Irma Garcia, a teacher who was killed in this week's elementary school shooting, in Uvalde, Texas, Thursday, May 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

    Grieving husband dies after wife is slain in Texas rampage