North Korea calls for troops’ greater loyalty to Kim
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has urged its 1.2 million troops to unite behind leader Kim Jong Un and…
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Fire damages front doors of Australia’s Old Parliament House
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A fire has damaged the front doors and exterior of the Old Parliament House in Canberra, the capital of Australia. The…
Continue Reading 6 provinces in Canada report new daily highs for coronavirus
TORONTO (AP) — Coronavirus infections have set new one-day highs in six Canadian provinces, prompting several provinces to impose more restrictions…
Continue Reading Panama sentences two men in 2020 killings of 7 young people
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Two men in Panama have been given long prison terms for killing seven young people in 2020, bloodshed that shocked a country…
Continue Reading Former Alabama Secretary of State Nancy Worley dies
By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Former Alabama Secretary of State Nancy Worley has died. She was 70. Worley later became…
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More cracks found in Mexico City subway line that collapsed
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Officials in Mexico say inspectors have found 21 more cracks in welds or steel structural pieces on a Mexico City elevated…
Continue Reading SD committee investigating AG subpoena crash investigators
By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lawmakers have subpoenaed law enforcement officials and crash…
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Mexico approves use of Cuba’s Abdala coronavirus vaccine
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s health safety council has approved the use of Cuba’s three-dose Abdala coronavirus vaccine. The council…
Continue Reading Publix grocery chain starts offering paid parental leave
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Officials at the Publix grocery store chain says that they will start offering paid parental leave to employees who are new…
Continue Reading Gun attack in Mexico kills 8 at two homes, including baby
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in north-central Mexico says a shooting attack has killed eight people at two homes, including a baby boy. Officials…
Continue Reading Schwarzenegger and Shriver divorce final after 10 years
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver’s marriage is officially over, 10 years after…
Continue Reading WWII veteran who was member of ‘Buffalo Soldier’ unit dies
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — A World War II veteran who was one of the last living members of an all-Black cavalry regiment has died in Florida. Steve…
Continue Reading Nevada casinos go record 9 months with $1B in house winnings
By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada casinos set a record in November, reporting a ninth straight month of $1 billion or more in…
Continue Reading DA: Death of Kansas teen in custody not necessarily criminal
By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas prosecutor says an autopsy’s finding that the death of a Black teen in custody at a…
Continue Reading Correction: California-Medicaid Overhaul story
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In a story published December 29, 2021, about California’s Medicaid overhaul, The Associated Press erroneously reported…
Continue Reading Court: Woman who threatened Black child violated law
DOVER, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire court has found that a woman violated the state’s civil rights law when she called Black child by a racial…
Continue Reading Black newspaper publisher Mary Alice Jervay Thatch, 78, dies
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The third-generation editor and publisher of a historic Black newspaper in North Carolina and a driving force behind the…
Continue Reading Police: Teen charged in triple killing is loose, dangerous
GARLAND, Texas (AP) — Dallas-area police have charged a 14-year-old with capital murder in a triple killing at a gas station and are warning that…
Continue Reading Officials: Vegas fireworks show will go on, 300,000 expected
By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas isn’t canceling or scaling back plans for big New Year’s gatherings amid concerns…
Continue Reading Late Senate leader Harry Reid remembered as `man of action’
By KEVIN FREKING, LAURIE KELLMAN and KEN RITTER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidents and former colleagues are lauding longtime Senate…
Continue Reading Virus postpones Westminster Kennel Club’s annual dog show
NEW YORK (AP) — A surge of coronavirus cases in New York has forced the postponement of another signature event, the Westminster Kennel…
Continue Reading NYC Mayor-elect Eric Adams to take oath in Times Square
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York police captain Eric Adams will take his oath of office in Times Square in…
Continue Reading US affirms new interpretation for high-level nuclear waste
By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Biden administration has affirmed a Trump administration interpretation of high-level…
Continue Reading Fire and ice: Crews battle cold along with apartment fire
ENNIS, Mont. (AP) — Firefighters faced cold temperatures that caused their equipment to ice up as they battled a fire in a four-unit apartment…
Continue Reading Business manager to Kardashians killed, boyfriend charged
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say a Los Angeles business manager whose clients had included Nicki Minaj and the Kardashians has been killed, and…
Continue Reading A look at de Blasio’s NYC mayoral tenure and what’s next
By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Bill de Blasio swept into the New York City mayor’s office eight years ago promising a…
Continue Reading ‘Slow-motion insurrection’: How GOP seizes election power
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Supporters of Donald Trump are trying to remove some of the guardrails that stopped him from overturning the…
Continue Reading 2 men charged in shooting at packed Chicago-area mall
CHICAGO (AP) — Two Chicago men have been charged in a shooting at a suburban Chicago shopping mall that wounded four bystanders and sent thousands…
Continue Reading Texas oil billionaire William ‘Tex’ Moncrief Jr. dead at 101
By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — William Alvin Moncrief Jr., a Texas wildcatter who helped build a father-son venture into an oil…
Continue Reading Judge postpones penalty trial for Parkland school gunman
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A judge has postponed the penalty trial for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz to Feb. 21. Circuit Judge Elizabeth…
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