Residents of a small central Illinois city on Tuesday mourned the loss of three children and a teenager killed in a crash in which a car barreled through a building used for a popular after-school camp. Authorities said it didn’t appear to be a targeted attack.

The car left a road, crossed a field and smashed into the side of the building in Chatham on Monday, according to Illinois State Police. It traveled through the building, striking numerous people before exiting the other side. Six children were also hospitalized, including one left in critical condition.

The Sangamon County coroner identified the victims as 18-year-old Rylee Britton of Springfield and three Chatham children: Ainsley Johnson, 8, and Kathryn Corley and Alma Buhnerkempe, both 7.

The driver, a 44-year-old Chatham woman, wasn’t injured but was taken to a hospital for evaluation. Police said toxicology reports were pending. She was not in custody on Tuesday and was not identified. State police declined to offer further details, saying the crash remains under investigation.

“This does not appear to be a targeted attack,” state police said.

Iberian blackouts remain a mystery

The cause of Spain and Portugal’s widespread blackouts Monday remained a mystery on Tuesday, with some isolated disruption remaining after power was largely restored.

One of Europe’s most severe blackouts grounded flights, paralyzed train systems, disrupted mobile communications and shut down ATMs across the Iberian Peninsula on Monday.

By 11 a.m. on Tuesday, the Spanish electrical system was functioning normally, electricity operator Red Eléctrica said. Portuguese grid operator REN said power had been restored to all 6.4 million customers.

As life began to return to normal, authorities in Spain had yet to provide further explanation for why the nation of 49 million people lost 15 gigawatts — equivalent to 60% of its national demand — in five seconds.

Disgraced cardinal resigns from conclave

The Italian cardinal at the heart of the Vatican’s “trial of the century” announced Tuesday he was withdrawing from participating in the upcoming conclave to elect a new pope.

Cardinal Angelo Becciu’s status has dominated discussions in the days after Pope Francis’ death last week amid questions about whether he would participate in the conclave to elect his successor.

After his 2020 downfall, Becciu had said he would not participate in any future conclave. But in recent days he had asserted he had a right to enter the Sistine Chapel with other cardinals on May 7.

On Tuesday, the 76-year-old Italian issued a statement through his lawyers that said he had “decided to obey” the will of Pope Francis.

In 2023, a church court found Becciu guilty of fraud and embezzlement and sentenced him to 5 1/2 years in prison. He is appealing his conviction and denies any wrongdoing. But the more relevant strike against him for conclave participation came in a single line from the Vatican press office in 2020, when Francis stripped him of what the Vatican called “his rights connected to the cardinalate.”

Witness recounts Weinstein attacks

Miriam Haley, a former television production assistant, on Tuesday afternoon took the stand in a Manhattan courtroom for a second time to begin recounting how she said Harvey Weinstein overpowered and sexually assaulted her in his apartment nearly 20 years ago.

Haley said she initially met Weinstein, then a powerful Hollywood producer, at a film premiere in London in 2004. She has said she reconnected with him years later at the Cannes Film Festival as she was looking for an opportunity as a production assistant in New York.

Defense lawyers carefully listened Tuesday as Haley spoke, a transcript of what she said during Weinstein’s first trial five years ago on hand, waiting to pounce on any differences in her retelling.

In 2020, Weinstein was convicted in New York of rape and a criminal sexual act based on the complaints of two women, one of them Haley. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison, but his conviction was overturned last year and a new trial was ordered. In the interim, prosecutors added a new indictment.

GOP to fund $46.5B border wall in tax bill

As part of their big tax bill, Republicans in Congress are pumping billions of dollars into President Donald Trump’s mass deportation and border security plan with nearly 20,000 new officers, stark new fees starting at $1,000 on migrants seeking asylum and $46.5 billion for a long-sought border wall.

Tuesday launched the first of back-to-back public hearings as House Republicans roll out the fine print of what Trump calls his “ big, beautiful bill ” — which is focused on $5 trillion in tax breaks and up to $2 trillion in slashed domestic spending. But it also pours some $300 billion to beef up the Pentagon and border security as the Trump administration says it’s running out of money for deportations.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is pushing to have the bill wrapped up by Memorial Day and then send it to the Senate, which is drafting its own version.

“We are on track,” Johnson, R-La., said at his weekly press conference.

Mich. ‘hockey doc’ gets 10 years for abuse

A doctor known as the “hockey doc” for his work with youth teams in the Detroit area was sentenced to at least 10 years in prison Tuesday for sexual assault and other crimes involving adults and teenagers.

Victims say Zvi Levran groped them when they sought sports physicals or treatment for injuries and showered with them after workouts. One man said Levran performed oral sex during an appointment for a hip injury.

The allegations drew comparisons to another Michigan sports doctor, Larry Nassar, who is in prison for assaulting teens and young women, including Olympic gymnasts, and for possessing images of sexual exploitation of children.

“As I stand here in front of you, and I see the individual victims who were affected either directly or indirectly from my actions, it is very difficult to try and say anything for myself, and I’m not going to,” Levran, 68, said in court.

He recently pleaded no contest to 28 crimes in Oakland County, including third-degree criminal sexual conduct. A no-contest plea in Michigan is treated as a conviction at sentencing. Levran will be eligible for parole after 10 years in custody.

Britain joins U.S. in air attacks on Houthis

The British military launched airstrikes with the United States targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels, officials said early Wednesday, their first involvement with America’s new intense campaign targeting the Iranian-backed group.

The United Kingdom offered a detailed explanation of its reason to launch the strike, in a departure from the U.S., which has offered few details about the more than 800 strikes it has conducted since beginning its campaign March 15.

“This action was taken in response to a persistent threat from the Houthis to freedom of navigation,” said John Healey, the U.K.’s secretary of state for defense. “A 55% drop in shipping through the Red Sea has already cost billions, fueling regional instability and risking economic security for families in the U.K.”

— From news services