Nation

District of Columbia

Labor secretary to leave Cabinet

WASHINGTON — Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is out of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, the White House said Monday, after multiple allegations of abusing her position’s power, including having an affair with a subordinate and drinking alcohol on the job.

Chavez-DeRemer is the third Trump Cabinet member to leave her post after Trump fired his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in March and ousted Attorney General Pam Bondi earlier this month.

California

Singer pleads not guilty to murder

LOS ANGELES — Singer D4vd pleaded not guilty Monday to a murder charge in the death of a 14-year-old girl who was last known to be alive nearly a year ago.

The charges revealed key details and were among the first concrete public moves made in a case that had been under investigation in the seven months since Celeste Rivas Hernandez was found dead in the entertainer’s apparently abandoned Tesla.

North Carolina

Teen fight turns into mass shooting

WINSTON-SALEM — A planned fight among young people escalated into a mass shooting at a North Carolina park Monday morning that left two teenage boys dead and five other people injured, authorities said.

Winston-Salem police Capt. Kevin Burns said a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old died at the scene after being shot about 10 a.m. at Leinbach Park, near a middle school.

World

Japan

7.7 quake sets off tsunami alert

TOKYO — A 7.7-magnitude earthquake Monday off northern Japan sparked a short-lived tsunami alert and an advisory of a slightly higher risk of a possible megaquake for its coastal areas.

The Cabinet Office and the Japan Meteorological Agency said there was a 1% chance for a megaquake, compared to a 0.1% chance during normal times, in the next week or so following the quake near the Chishima and Japan trenches.

Colombia

Rebel drone attack kills 3 soldiers

BOGOTA — Colombian rebels on Monday launched drone strikes that killed three soldiers and injured two others, authorities said, as the use of these weapons becomes increasingly common in the South American country.

Colombia’s army said that the attack took place in Ipiales, a municipality in the southwest of the country that borders Ecuador. It attributed the strike to the Comandos de la Frontera group.

United Kingdom

PM Starmer resists calls to step down

LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer acknowledged Monday that he made the wrong judgment when he picked Jeffrey Epstein ‘s friend Peter Mandelson as U.K. ambassador to Washington, batting away a barrage of calls to resign over a scandal that has left his leadership teetering.

Starmer said he would have withdrawn the appointment if he’d known Mandelson had failed security checks, as he tried to explain why Mandelson was given the U.K.’s most important diplomatic post.