内容摘要：An employee drives a forklift at Energy Vault, a company that is creating an emergency power system that relies on hydrogen and battery storage, on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, in Calistoga, Calif. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

An employee drives a forklift at Energy Vault, a company that is creating an emergency power system that relies on hydrogen and battery storage, on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, in Calistoga, Calif. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

, which finished second in the election and is now the biggest opposition party.Merz criticized the comments. He told ARD television last month that it isn’t the place of a U.S. vice president “to say something like that to us in Germany; I wouldn’t do it in America, either.”

Moulson reported from Berlin. Associated Press writer Josh Boak in Washington contributed to this report.NEWTON, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina local law enforcement expressed frustration on Wednesday that a man charged in connection with last weekend’s shooting around a house party that left one person dead and 11 others injured had been out of jail for unrelated charges lodged against him in April.Garon Nathaniel Killian, 20, of Lenoir, was arrested Tuesday and accused of one count of attempted first-degree murder related to the shooting in a residential neighborhood about 7 miles (11 kilometers) south of Hickory. Killian remained in the Catawba County jail after a hearing Wednesday before a district court judge who said he could be released awaiting trial if a $200,000 bond was posted. Prosecutors had requested that no bond be allowed, media outlets reported.

By late Wednesday, authorities announced they were seeking to apprehend two additional suspects, each wanted on a charge of attempted first-degree murder. And two other men each faced three counts of helping someone under age 21 by allowing the possession of alcoholic beverages were arrested, according to the Catawba County Sheriff’s Office. Killian was also expected to face additional charges, sheriff’s Maj. Aaron Turk said.A previous Hickory Police Department press release said Killian and another young man had been charged with several counts — including attempted first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill — for an April 6 altercation in a parking lot that led to shots being fired into a crowd. No one was injured.

The Charlotte Observer, citing court records, said that Killian had been free on a $100,000 bond. Killian’s attorney now and for the April case didn’t respond to phone and email messages Wednesday.

Catawba County Sheriff Don Brown told reporters that he was “outraged” by Wednesday’s $200,000 bond.The order, often referred to as the “Muslim ban” or the “travel ban,” was retooled amid legal challenges, until a version was

The ban affected various categories of travelers and immigrants from Iran, Somalia, Yemen, Syria and Libya, plus North Koreans and some Venezuelan government officials and their families.Trump and others have defended the initial ban on

, arguing it was aimed at protecting the country and not founded on anti-Muslim bias. However, the president had called for an explicit ban on Muslims during his first campaign for the White House.Follow the AP’s coverage of President Donald Trump at