BREAKING: Biden and Putin shake hands at opening of daylong summit amid tensions over human rights, Ukraine and ransomware. apne.ws/FbtHiBW
Presidents Biden and Putin are meeting now in Geneva for the first time in a decade. Biden last met Putin when the Russian leader was prime minister and the American was serving as vice president. apne.ws/YtxIVGl
Opening summit, Putin says he hopes for 'productive' meeting, as Biden says 'it is always better to meet face to face'. apne.ws/LYn9IpM
For months, Biden and Putin have traded sharp rhetoric. Both sides set out to lower expectations ahead of the talks, which are expected to last four to five hours. apne.ws/ZXT45ye
The White House says that Biden was not suggesting to reporters that he trusts Putin with his reaction to a reporter's question.
Communications director Kate Beddingfield said there was a “chaotic scrum with reporters shouting over each other."
The Biden-Putin summit began with several minutes of unusually fierce shoving and shouting among U.S. and Russian journalists and security forces. One U.S. reporter was knocked to the ground before calm was restored. apne.ws/tyPBwwB
The European Union’s top diplomat warns the bloc’s testy relations with Russia will probably get worse and that EU member countries must not let Moscow divide them. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell spoke as Biden and Putin were meeting in Geneva. apne.ws/xquBhCX
BREAKING: The summit meetings between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have concluded after about four hours, the White House says. apne.ws/IcMbVpg
The Biden-Putin summit wrapped up more quickly than was expected. The two sides said they expected to meet for four to five hours ahead of the meeting in Geneva, but the two leaders spent less than three hours together. apne.ws/PPQpShe
BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin says meeting with President Joe Biden was constructive, countries agreed to return ambassadors to posts in bid to lower tensions. apne.ws/slAdZF4
Russian President Vladimir Putin says opposition leader Alexei Navalny got what he deserved when he was sentenced to prison. Navalny was arrested after recovering from a nerve agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin — an accusation Russia denies. apne.ws/th4sxAa
President Joe Biden says he told Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting that he will always raise issues of "fundamental human rights," including the treatment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and two Americans jailed in Russia. apne.ws/4fYzYD7
President Biden said he and Russian President Putin discussed keeping critical infrastructure off-limits to cyberattacks. Biden said after his summit meeting with Putin that 16 types of infrastructure should be off limits, including energy and water. apne.ws/R0kLIgM
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The Star Tribune of Minneapolis won the breaking news award for its reporting following George Floyd's killing. And the Pulitzer Prizes awarded a special citation to Darnella Frazier, the teen who filmed his killing.
Louise Erdrich has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for "The Night Watchman." Other winners for books included the late Les Payne and daughter Tamara Payne for for their Malcolm X biography “The Dead Are Arising.”
.@EmilioMorenatti, @AP's chief photographer in Spain, won the feature photography Pulitzer Prize. He patiently built trust with elderly people to document the toll of the pandemic.
A group of 10 @AP photographers won the breaking news Pulitzer for their work capturing the drama and raw emotion of protests that roiled U.S. cities after the May 2020 death of George Floyd.
The mayor of San Jose said several people were being treated for injuries after police and sheriff's officials responded to reports of a shooting at a railyard. Mayor Sam Liccardo said in a tweet that “the shooter is no longer a threat." apne.ws/9SGZ2Hg
A sheriff's spokesman says there are multiple fatalities and injuries in a shooting at a San Jose, California railyard and that the suspect is dead. apne.ws/xWNjTCY
BREAKING: Eight people were killed in shooting at a railyard in San Jose, California, authorities say. The suspect is also dead and a number of people were injured. apne.ws/MGjQ3GB
New AP-NORC poll: A majority of Americans across racial and ethnic groups believe discrimination has worsened in the last year against Asian Americans, who became the target of attacks after being unfairly blamed for the coronavirus pandemic. apne.ws/xB9MrAE
The AP-NORC poll finds 60% of Americans say discrimination against Asian Americans has swelled in the U.S. in the last year. That includes 71% of Asian Americans as well as majorities of Black, white and Hispanic Americans. apne.ws/cm5mneT
As documented Asian-targeted hate crimes rose substantially in 2020, the poll finds close to half of Americans “very” or “extremely” concerned that the COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase in violent acts against Asian Americans. apne.ws/9g9OdYY
Tulsa, Oklahoma, will soon begin marking the centennial of its storied and deadly race massacre. In 1921, a white mob carried out a scorched-earth campaign against a city business and residential district known as Black Wall Street. apne.ws/D0CZS43
Between May 31 and June 1, 1921, a mob of white Tulsans leveled over 35 city blocks, destroyed an estimated 191 Black businesses, and displaced roughly 10,000 Black residents from the neighborhood where they’d lived, learned, played, worked and prospered. apne.ws/JS9oKHG
The Tulsa Race Massacre is just one of the starkest examples of how Black wealth has been sapped by racism and racist violence. It forced generations to start from scratch while shouldering the burdens of being Black in America, @aaronlmorrison reports. apne.ws/T6BOuXB
• Israel carries out a wave of airstrikes, levelling a six-story building in Gaza City.
• Palestinian armed groups fire dozens of rockets into Israel.
• More than 210 Palestinians killed, 10 in Israel, since war began.
Palestinians in Israel, Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank observed a general strike to protest the war and other Israeli policies that some rights groups say constitute an overarching system of apartheid. Israel rejects that characterization, apne.ws/XWOCT4o
BREAKING: Israeli medics say 10 people wounded, 4 seriously, in attack in southern Israel. apne.ws/f01TGHN