Pope voices willingness to return Indigenous loot, artifacts
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis said Sunday that talks were underway to return colonial-era…
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Immunity rejected for officer after overturned conviction
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama judge has rejected a former police officer’s claim that he should be immune under self-defense laws from a new…
Continue ReadingOfficial: 148 Somalis evacuated from Sudan via Ethiopia
By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Scores of Somalis fleeing violence in Sudan arrived in their Horn of Africa nation on…
Continue ReadingPope speaks of secret peace ‘mission,’ help for Ukraine kids
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday revealed that a secret peace “mission” in…
Continue ReadingPolice: Armed man wounded, 2 officers hit but saved by vests
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say an overnight standoff with an armed man in a Philadelphia home ended when he was shot and wounded by officers who…
Continue ReadingA powerhouse US doctor slain in Sudan, ‘killed for nothing’
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Bound to Sudan by ailing parents and his devotion to treating the poor there, American…
Continue ReadingArrest made in Minneapolis mosque fires that rattled Muslims
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis police have arrested a man suspected of setting two fires that damaged mosques in the city last week as part of what…
Continue Reading‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ hits $1B, is No. 1 for 4 weeks
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s still Mario Time at the box office. “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” led ticket sales for…
Continue ReadingRelatives bury children killed in Russian missile attack
By ANDREA ROSA Associated Press UMAN, Ukraine (AP) — Relatives and friends cried next to coffins as they buried children and others killed in a…
Continue ReadingBiden, Marcos set to meet as tensions grow with China
By AAMER MADHANI and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to host President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the…
Continue ReadingDNA ties man who died in prison to 1984 NJ killing, AG says
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say DNA evidence has proven that a man who died in prison several years ago was responsible for the 1984 murder of…
Continue ReadingBasketball legend Rivers, longtime Globetrotter, dies at 73
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Larry “Gator” Rivers, who helped integrate high school basketball in Georgia before playing for the Harlem Globetrotters…
Continue ReadingTornado flips cars, damages homes in coastal Florida city
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — A tornado touched down in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, on Saturday as a powerful storm system brought intense rain…
Continue ReadingMan kills 3, self, in dispute among Portuguese pigeon racers
MADRID (AP) — Portuguese police say a man fatally shot three other men before turning the gun on himself. Local media described the incident as a…
Continue ReadingSudan’s army and rival extend truce, despite ongoing clashes
By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s army and its rival paramilitary say they will extend a humanitarian cease-fire another 72…
Continue ReadingWhat’s behind shortages of Adderall, Ozempic and other meds?
By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Shortages of drugs like Adderall are growing in the United States, and experts see no clear path to resolving them.…
Continue ReadingWhat GOP’s plan for Medicaid work requirements would mean
By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a half million of the poorest Americans could be left without health insurance under…
Continue ReadingPakistan police allege 2 clerics raped boy in seminary
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say they have arrested two Muslim clerics for allegedly raping a 10-year-old boy in a religious school in…
Continue ReadingGOP election officials walking fine line on fraud, integrity
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Republican secretaries of state in Ohio, West Virginia and Missouri have promoted…
Continue ReadingDeadly heat waves threaten older people as summer nears
By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Paramedics summoned to an Arizona retirement community last summer found an 80-year-old woman slumped…
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