
Woman plans to help fellow Rwandan amputees get prosthetics
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — A Rwandan woman who was orphaned during her country’s genocide and lost part of her leg…
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — A Rwandan woman who was orphaned during her country’s genocide and lost part of her leg…
Continue ReadingBy BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and DAVID PORTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As residents across the Northeast U.S. recover from the catastrophic…
Continue ReadingBy NOAH BERGER Associated Press QUINCY, Calif. (AP) — A man and his daughter are bringing donated motorhomes to people who have lost everything in…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Pakistan’s top diplomat has some ideas from his country on how to engage the new…
Continue ReadingBy ALAN FRAM and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top congressional Democrats say they and the White House have agreed to a…
Continue ReadingBy ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate negotiators say bipartisan congressional talks on overhauling policing practices have ended…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer The delta variant is causing a surge in infections among kids in the U.S. and elsewhere, but experts say there…
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO, MARIA VERZA and JULIE WATSON Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — A confluence of factors caused the sudden arrival of…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. food agency says 16 million people in Yemen are marching toward…
Continue ReadingBy PIA SARKAR Associated Press The inequity of COVID-19 vaccine distribution came into sharp focus Thursday as many of the African countries whose…
Continue ReadingBy KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile added another trophy to her…
Continue ReadingHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Robert Gentile, a mobster who for years denied suspicions from authorities that he knew anything about artwork stolen in a…
Continue ReadingBy MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Investigators in northern Mexico found six sets of skeletal remains and are performing tests…
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — A foreign business group in China says the ruling Communist Party’s campaign to tighten control…
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A mother is upset with an Indiana school after a staff member gave a haircut to her son who is autistic. Jonathan Battle-Hayum,…
Continue ReadingANGOLA, La. (AP) — A white man convicted of the apparently random killing of a Black men has been found dead shortly after being transferred to a…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A lawyer for several Arizona abortion providers urged a federal judge Wednesday to block a…
Continue ReadingTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Three people have been indicted in a multi-state conspiracy involving the forced labor of Mexican agricultural immigrants. A…
Continue ReadingBy DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will be the first state to bar mega-retailers from firing warehouse workers…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy certainly wasn’t the only world leader at this…
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — Federal authorities have accused an alleged top Mexican drug cartel lieutenant of helping smuggle tons of methamphetamine,…
Continue ReadingFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. government has released projections that indicate an even more troubling outlook for a river that serves 40…
Continue ReadingBROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota woman accused in the July 2019 starvation death of a 3-year-old girl has been sentenced to 75 years in…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Former U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis testified Wednesday in the trial of…
Continue ReadingBy JULIE WATSON Associated Press Army veteran Spencer Sullivan has never felt more victorious. Sullivan spent years fighting to get his Afghan…
Continue ReadingFAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s largest outdoor festival won’t have one of its main attractions this year because of the ongoing…
Continue ReadingBy KANTELE FRANKO Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed some of the biggest unsettled lawsuits filed by men who say…
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed two laws aimed at protecting the privacy of…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Melvin Van Peebles, a Broadway playwright, musician and movie director whose work ushered in the…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has so many criminals to deal with that critics are openly wondering why the government has sought to lock up 31…
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