A mechanic repairing a car takes a break to drink soda in the Doctores neighborhood of Mexico City, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Jon Orbach)

Nation

district of columbia

Capitol rioter gets life for molestation

WASHINGTON — A Florida handyman who was sentenced to life in prison for molesting two children had been convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but was pardoned by President Donald Trump.

Andrew Paul Johnson is among several Jan. 6 defendants who’ve been charged with new crimes since Trump’s sweeping act of clemency for Capitol rioters. A judge handed down Johnson’s life sentence on Thursday.

new york

Savannah Guthrie visits ‘Today’ show

NEW YORK — Savannah Guthrie made an off-camera appearance at offices of NBC’s “Today” show, her first time back since her mother Nancy went missing from her Arizona home.

Guthrie made the appearance Thursday morning. “Today” said Guthrie plans to return to the air eventually but remains focused now on supporting her family.

World

hungary

Zelenskyy reluctant

to repair oil pipeline

BUDAPEST — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he would rather not repair a damaged pipeline that carries Russian oil to Central Europe.

Oil flows to Hungary and Slovakia have stopped since Jan. 27, after drone strikes damaged the Druzhba line.

cuba

Millions left without power in blackout

HAVANA — A blackout has left millions of people without power in Havana and the rest of western Cuba in the latest outage on an island struggling with dwindling oil reserves and a crumbling electric grid.

Government radio station Radio Rebelde quoted an energy official as saying that it could take at least

72 hours to restore operations at one of Cuba’s largest thermoelectric power plants.