State voter fraud system fractures as Republicans opt out
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Election officials from states enrolled in a bipartisan effort to…
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Librarian fired for ‘unkind pushback’ at conservative event
HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee officials say a library director has been fired after the actor and evangelist Kirk Cameron accused him of…
Continue ReadingUS ships mega generators to ease outages in Puerto Rico
By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s governor says the U.S. government has shipped three mega generators…
Continue ReadingInternational court issues war crimes warrant for Putin
By MIKE CORDER and RAF CASERT Associated Press THE HAGUE (AP) — The International Criminal Court says it has issued an arrest warrant for Russian…
Continue ReadingOfficer who killed George Floyd pleads guilty in tax case
By STEVE KARNOWSKI and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The former Minneapolis police officer serving time for the 2020 murder of…
Continue ReadingJamaican government to increase minimum wage by 44%
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness says his administration is increasing the island’s minimum wage by 44% as the…
Continue ReadingSt. Patrick’s Day rites: Parades, bagpipes, clinking pints
By RUSS BYNUM and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press From New York City, to Savannah, Georgia, to the halls of the White House, thousands of people…
Continue ReadingFeds want justices to end Navajo fight for Colo. River water
By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press States that rely on water from the over-tapped Colorado River want the U.S. Supreme Court to block a lawsuit from…
Continue ReadingFarmworkers use Florida march to pressure other companies
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Farmworkers are leading a five-day, 45-mile trek on foot this week from one of the poorest communities in Florida…
Continue ReadingCalifornia buildings still in peril from tumbling cliff
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say about two dozen people forced to flee Southern California apartment buildings that are teetering on the…
Continue ReadingHaaland criticized over ‘difficult’ choice on Willow project
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In early March, President Joe Biden met with members of Alaska’s bipartisan congressional…
Continue ReadingPakistani court suspends arrest warrant for ex-PM Imran Khan
By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A top Pakistani court has suspended an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Imran Khan, giving…
Continue ReadingEPA tells states not to block waste from Ohio derailment
By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is ordering states to stop blocking contaminated waste from a fiery train…
Continue ReadingMan who hoped to kill Arab and Black people gets 20 years
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man who shot at two convenience stores hoping to kill Arab and Black people has been sentenced to serve 20 years in prison…
Continue ReadingBurundi officials detect polio outbreak linked to vaccine
By MARIA CHENG Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Health officials in Burundi have declared an outbreak of polio linked to the vaccine, the first time…
Continue ReadingGerman lawmakers approve plan to shrink bloated parliament
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Lawmakers in Germany have agreed to reduce the size of the country’s increasingly bloated…
Continue ReadingPosthumous album set from ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ rapper Coolio
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The estate of rapper Coolio plans to release a studio album later this year that the…
Continue ReadingNew COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market
By DAKE KANG and MARIA CHENG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Genetic material collected at a Chinese market near where the first human cases of…
Continue ReadingUN rights chief decries ‘systematic repression’ in Belarus
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief called on Belarus to end its “systematic repression” of critics and immediately release people held…
Continue ReadingGermany detains 42 in effort to prevent attacks on ATMs
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say police have detained 42 people as part of a crackdown on gangs suspected of blowing up cash machines.…
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