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  • FILE - RowVaughn Wells, mother of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by Memphis police officers, is comforted by Tyre's stepfather Rodney Wells, at a news conference with civil rights Attorney Ben Crump in Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 27, 2023. The parents of Tyre Nichols will attend President Joe Biden's State of the Union address next week. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

    'We're all Tyre': Family prepares to lay Nichols to rest

  • RowVaughn Wells, mother of Tyre Nichols, pauses as she listens during a news conference about the death of her son Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tenn. A funeral service for Nichols, who died after being beaten by Memphis police officers during a traffic stop, is scheduled to be held on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

    Tyre Nichols' family grieves 'on sacred ground' in Memphis

  • In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, center, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy look at the site of the recent Russian shelling in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

    Ukraine pushes for Western fighter jets after tank deals

  • Pope Francis arrives at Rome's Leonardo Da Vinci International airport in Fiumicino, Italy, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. Pope Francis opened a six-day visit to Congo and South Sudan on Tuesday, aiming to bring a message of peace to two countries riven by poverty, conflict and what Francis has called a lingering "colonialist mentality" that still considers Africa ripe for exploitation. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

    'Hands off Africa!': Pope blasts foreign plundering of Congo

  • The logo for OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, appears on a mobile phone, in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. OpenAI is launching a new tool in an effort to curb its reputation as a freewheeling cheating machine with a new tool Tuesday that can help teachers detect if a student or artificial intelligence wrote that homework. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

    Cheaters beware: ChatGPT maker releases AI detection tool

  • Travelers wade through the line to drop off bags at the Southwest Airlines check-in counter at Denver International Airport, Dec. 27, 2022, in Denver. Senators who want to impose tougher penalties when U.S. airlines strand or delay passengers say they finally might be able to turn their ideas into law because of outrage over debacles like the one at Southwest Airlines in December 2022. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

    Lawmakers aim to raise penalties for US airline disruptions

  • Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., leaves a House GOP conference meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

    George Santos steps down from House panels amid ethics issues

  • Protesters march during a demonstration against plans to push back France's retirement age, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023 in Paris. Labor unions aimed to mobilize more than 1 million demonstrators in what one veteran left-wing leader described as a "citizens' insurrection." The nationwide strikes and protests were a crucial test both for President Emmanuel Macron's government and its opponents. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

    Unions buoyant as 1.27 million French protest pension reform

  • Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto, right, and Foreign Minister of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu hold a joint press conference following their meeting in the former's office in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. (Tibor Illyes/MTI via AP)

    Hungary FM: Sweden should 'act differently' to join NATO

  • In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen speaks by phone with the Czech Republic's President elect Petr Pavel in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. China on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, accused Czech President-elect Petr Pavel of challenging its hard line on national sovereignty by affirming ties with self-ruled Taiwan in a phone with the island’s leader. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

    China scoffs at new Czech president's phone call with Taiwan

  • FILE - An anti-coup protester displays defaced images of Commander in chief, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing in Mandalay, Myanmar, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. As Feb. 1, 2023, marks two years after Myanmar’s generals ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government, thousands of people have died in civil conflict and many more have been forced from their homes in a dire humanitarian crisis. (AP Photo, File)

    How Myanmar is faring 2 years after army ousted Suu Kyi

  • FILE - Protesters march Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023, in Memphis, Tenn., over the death of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by Memphis police during a traffic stop. As Memphis police officers attacked Nichols, others held him down or milled about, even as he cried out in pain before his body went limp. Just like the attack on George Floyd in Minneapolis nearly three years ago, a simple intervention could have saved a life. Memphis and Minneapolis police departments are among many with “duty to intervene” policies. It’s also the law. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

    Tyre Nichols case shows officers still fail to intervene

  • Law enforcement officers are pictured at the scene of a reported shooting at a Target store in Omaha, Neb., on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. Omaha Police Chief Todd R. Schmaderer says city police confronted and shot a man with an assault rifle. (Chris Machian/Omaha World-Herald via AP)

    Omaha police fatally shoot armed man in Target store

  • FILE - In this photo provided by the Free Burma Rangers, a wounded woman rests in Lay Wah, one of the villages in Karen state's Mutraw district, Myanmar, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. Two years after seizing power, Myanmar's military continues to face stiff armed resistance on the ground, and is responding increasingly with air strikes that resistance forces have little defense against, says a report released Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, by a human rights monitoring group. (Free Burma Rangers via AP, File)

    Rights groups say Myanmar military is increasing air attacks

  • FILE - Elon Musk departs the Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Court House in San Francisco, on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. Tesla has received requests from the Justice Department for documents related to its Autopilot and “Full Self-Driving” features, according to a regulatory filing. (AP Photo/ Benjamin Fanjoy, File)

    Tesla gets Justice Department subpoena for self-driving cars

  • Case work supervisor Jessie Schemm looks over the first screen of software used by workers who field calls at an intake call screening center for the Allegheny County Children and Youth Services, in Penn Hills, Pa. The Justice Department is scrutinizing a controversial artificial intelligence tool used by a Pittsburgh-area child protective services agency following concerns that it could result in discrimination against families with disabilities, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

    Child welfare algorithm faces Justice Department scrutiny

  • FILE - A street sign is seen in front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

    US futures slide as corporate earnings pour in

  • Utility company workers push the waste to the shore of Lim river near Priboj, Serbia, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. Plastic bottles, wooden planks, rusty barrels and other garbage dumped in poorly regulated riverside landfills or directly into the rivers accumulated during high water season, behind a trash barrier in the Lim river in southwestern Serbia. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

    Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia do little to solve waste problem

  • FILE - A cargo ship passes the buildings of the banking district in Frankfurt, Germany, Dec. 14, 2022. Europe’s economy has scraped out meager gains at the end of last year as galloping inflation fed by high energy prices and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine deterred people from spending in shops and restaurants. The European Union statistics agency Eurostat reported Tuesday Jan. 31, 2023, that economic output crept 0.1% higher in the last three months of 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

    Europe scrapes out economic growth by dodging gas disaster

  • FILE- Dried branches of a tree stand outside Adani Corporate House in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. The closely watched $2.5 billion share sale launched by Asia’s richest man, Gautam Adani, was fully subscribed on Tuesday. The share sale and its success were seen as a crucial test of investor confidence in Adani, whose sprawling empire shed tens of billions of dollars within a week after Hindenburg Research accused the conglomerate of stock market manipulation and fraud. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File)

    Adani $2.5B share sale pushes through amid fraud claims