Man fatally shot by police after call from N. Carolina home
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say a police officer in North Carolina shot and killed a man after responding to a caller’s report that…
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Ex-girlfriend who reported bomber ID files suit over reward
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The ex-girlfriend of the man who detonated an explosive in downtown Nashville last Christmas has filed a lawsuit saying she…
Continue Reading Democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson ending decades in Congress
DALLAS (AP) — Democratic Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas says she won’t seek reelection next year after spending 30 years in Congress. The…
Continue Reading Canada finds 4th body after British Columbia mudslide
By JIM MORRIS Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The British Columbia Coroners Service has confirmed the discovery of three more…
Continue Reading Families say Nicaragua prison conditions deteriorating
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Relatives of political figures held prisoner in Nicaragua since a series of arrests ahead of this month’s presidential…
Continue Reading Rittenhouse lawyers’ trial playbook: Don’t ‘crusade,’ defend
By AMY FORLITI Associated Press An attorney for Kyle Rittenhouse said after his client’s acquittal that he was determined to steer away from the…
Continue Reading A year later, Rhode Island buildings still say ‘Plantations’
By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island dropped “Providence Plantations” from its name a year ago, but not…
Continue Reading Army Corps completes reservoir for Everglades restoration
STUART, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed work on a $339 million reservoir constructed to cleanse water runoff before it…
Continue Reading Speeding Donald Tusk has license suspended for 3 months
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish police have temporarily suspended the driving license of former top European Union official Donald Tusk and fined him…
Continue Reading Ohio governor signs new congressional district map into law
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a new map of congressional districts into law. The map will be in effect for the…
Continue Reading Marchers across France decry violence against women
PARIS (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters are marching through Paris and other French cities to demand more government action to prevent…
Continue Reading Subdivision’s social posts reflected fear before Arbery shot
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Months before Ahmaud Arbery was killed, shooter Travis McMichael posted…
Continue Reading US climate pledge faces test in Senate with global impact
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration and Democrats talked the climate talk at U.N. negotiations in…
Continue Reading US congressmen in Lebanon over crippling economic crisis
BEIRUT (AP) — A group of U.S. congressmen have held meetings with Lebanon’s top leaders during a fact-finding mission to the Middle East nation…
Continue Reading New hurdle for COVID-19 home testing — the holiday season
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Holiday season could strain COVID-19 home test supplies as more Americans try to screen…
Continue Reading As tourism brightens, Times Square hopes to regain luster
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Even as visitors again crowd below the jumbo screens in New York’s Times Square, the…
Continue Reading Conflict over abortion laws won’t abate if Roe v. Wade falls
By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer On both sides of America’s abortion debate, activists are convinced that the 1973 Supreme Court ruling…
Continue Reading Poland PM to hold talks in Europe on Belarus border crisis
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister says he will hold a series of talks in Europe about the…
Continue Reading Fire guts 100 huts in slum in southern Pakistan’s Karachi
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani fire official says an early morning fire that erupted in a slum in the country’s south destroyed about…
Continue Reading Trial takeaways: Arbery’s killer testifies; pastors rally
By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery took the witness stand to tell jurors he pulled the…
Continue Reading Landrieu back in spotlight tackling infrastructure, equity
By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu oversaw billions of dollars in infrastructure repairs…
Continue Reading Iran says 44 million fully vaccinated, half its population
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran says it has now fully vaccinated 44 million people, which is more than half of its population of 85 million. The health…
Continue Reading Top US diplomat warns Russian group not to interfere in Mali
By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is warning a shadowy Russian group with…
Continue Reading Vietnam welcomes 1st tourists to resort island after 2 years
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has welcomed more than 200 foreign tourists to its largest island, the first to visit the Southeast Asian country…
Continue Reading Pope hopes charity match deals a “kick” to exclusion
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is hoping that a charity soccer match that includes Swiss Guards, Vatican employees, priests, a player with Down syndrome,…
Continue Reading Prominent Afghan doctor kidnapped, killed in northern city
By ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN and TAMEEM AKHGAR Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The family of a prominent Afghan doctor says he was kidnapped…
Continue Reading Russia hits record coronavirus deaths for 2nd straight day
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s record high coronavirus death toll has persisted for a second straight day, as the number of new infections declined. The…
Continue Reading Lebanese navy rescues distressed boat carrying migrants
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon says its navy has rescued a boat carrying migrants that had left the country heading west across the Mediterranean Sea, but…
Continue Reading Government favorite drops his bid to head UK media watchdog
LONDON (AP) — The man who was once Britain’s most powerful newspaper editor has dropped his bid to head the country’s broadcasting regulator.…
Continue Reading Protests erupt over virus rules in Austria, Italy, Croatia
By EMILY SCHULTHEIS and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters, many from far-right groups, have marched…
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