SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A man in southwestern Puerto Rico fatally shot his former girlfriend and two members of her family before killing himself, police said Thursday.

The incident occurred late on Wednesday in the coastal town of Yauco, where the bodies of the man’s former girlfriend, 30, her brother, 28 and their mother, 51, were found inside a house.

Police said they later found the body of 33-year-old Wilfredo Hiram Santiago, who is suspected

In today’s Big Story Podcast, experts predict the Bank of Canada will begin to lower interest rates later this year — just not Wednesday when it held the rate flat . But as inflation has slowed in many areas, it’s created an interesting problem for the bank and a troubling one for many Canadians.

“We have to understand what the motivations of the bank are. The bank is not targeting employment. They are not targeting GDP growth. They don’t, in the end, care what happens

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Thousands of Indians flocked to a recruitment center on Thursday for jobs that would take them to Israel despite the three-month that is devastating Gaza and threatening to ignite the wider Middle East.

Many among the crowd of men, mostly skilled construction workers and laborers, said they would take their chances in a country embroiled in war as they are struggling to find jobs in India, where despite a swelling economy.

Anoop Singh, a college graduate and construction worker, was told he would make

SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP) — President Joe Biden returned to on Thursday to make the case that his administration is following through on its pledge to fix the critical link between the port cities of Superior, Wisconsin and Duluth, Minnesota.

Biden, who visited the bridge at the tip of Lake Superior two years ago when he promoted his , used his election-year stop to announce nearly $5 billion in federal money for the bridge and dozens of infrastructure projects nationwide.

With Biden trying to persuade voters to reward him

DENVER (AP) — An American founder of a Haitian orphanage who has been was investigated by a grand jury about a decade ago but not indicted, according to a court document filed by his attorney on Thursday.

The revelation was included in a filing requesting that Michael Geilenfeld be released from custody while the current case proceeds. The detention hearing was delayed until Friday.

Geilenfeld, 71, was indicted on Jan. 18 by a grand jury in Florida and accused of traveling from Miami to Haiti “for the purpose

MIAMI (AP) — Lionel Messi has won global futbol’s biggest prize. He’ll now be part of American football’s biggest day.

The Inter Miami star, World Cup champion and global soccer icon will for Michelob Ultra, the brand announced Thursday. A teaser to what will be a 60-second spot shows Messi ordering a beer as he walks up to a beachside bar, and his reaction when the tap stops pouring.

It’ll be Messi’s first Super Bowl commercial and adds

Six nuns have been released, the archbishop of Port-au-Prince told The Associated Press on Thursday.

The group was released late Wednesday, and everyone is in good condition, said Archbishop Max Leroy Mésidor.

“Thanks to God for helping us,” he said.

He declined to say whether a ransom was paid or to provide other details, including who was responsible. This latest high-profile kidnapping criticizing the government for its inaction toward Haiti’s surge in gang-related violence.

The Associated

NURPUR NOON, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan must invest in climate resilience for its survival, prime ministerial hopeful Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press.

He said he had been ready to quit the government while he was because there were no new climate-resilience projects in the federal budget following that killed more than 1,700 people in 2022.

“I was ready to leave,” he said Wednesday, adding it was only after he threatened to

LONDON (AP) — A 32-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia who fatally stabbed two college students and a man just months away from retirement in the city of Nottingham, in central England, was told Thursday that he would “most probably” spend the rest of his life in a high-security medical facility.

The sentencing of Valdo Calocane followed three days of hearings in which family members of the victims, including those of three people he deliberately tried to run over in a van stolen from one of