Germany’s interior minister makes risky run for state office
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s interior minister says she plans to run for governor of her home state this fall but to remain the country’s top…
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Tom Brady’s plate remains full after retirement announcement
By FRED GOODALL AP Sports Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tom Brady’s future figures to be busy. The seven-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback’s…
Continue ReadingJudges hear appeal from victim’s family in Adnan Syed case
By LEA SKENE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The protracted legal odyssey of Adnan Syed, whose murder case rose to prominence through the…
Continue ReadingUS releases Guantanamo prisoner once tortured at CIA sites
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A onetime al-Qaida courier has been released after serving more than 16 years at the…
Continue ReadingPolice now say no evidence of planned big Hollywood shooting
By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police on Thursday said there isn’t any evidence that a mass shooting was planned by a…
Continue ReadingHasty Pudding fetes Bob Odenkirk as its 2023 Man of the Year
By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Award-winning actor and bestselling author Bob Odenkirk was feted Thursday as 2023 Man of…
Continue ReadingYoung mother, councilwoman shot to death outside NJ home
By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press Authorities say a young mother who served on her borough council was found shot to death in an SUV parked outside…
Continue ReadingUS ambassador’s views on Hungary ‘irrelevant,’ minister says
By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s foreign minister says what the United States ambassador to Budapest…
Continue ReadingIsrael FM: Fully normalized ties with Sudan later this year
By ILAN BEN ZION and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister says the country expects to fully normalize ties…
Continue ReadingBeyond Phil: Other rodents that purport to ‘predict’ weather
By The Associated Press Rodents predicting weather trends. Why? Just as fair a Groundhog Day question, though, is this: Why not? And more…
Continue ReadingNFL prospects safeguarded from inappropriate team questions
By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — NFL prospects are facing the standard barrage of questions designed to probe their personality…
Continue ReadingIowa voids Illini students’ tickets when it discovers prank
By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer The Iowa athletic department voided the tickets an Illinois spirit group purchased under an assumed identity for the…
Continue ReadingUK to probe whether 1998 Omagh bomb could have been stopped
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government says it will hold a public inquiry into whether the deadliest bombing in…
Continue ReadingMajor textile factory in Haiti to close plant, lay off 3,500
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — One of Haiti’s biggest textile factories says it is closing an assembly plant and laying off 3,500 workers in yet…
Continue ReadingExuberant Springsteen, E St. Band launch 1st tour in 6 years
By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — It’s been six years since Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band embarked on a major…
Continue ReadingHawaii whale dies with fishing nets, plastic bags in stomach
By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A whale that washed ashore in Hawaii over the weekend likely died in part because it ate large…
Continue ReadingBiden’s top economic aide leaving White House
By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser, Brian Deese, is leaving his post. Biden says in a…
Continue ReadingWisconsin Supreme Court candidate focuses on parade crash
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A conservative candidate in a pivotal race for Wisconsin Supreme Court is using video images…
Continue ReadingFinancial misdeeds allowed in Alex Murdaugh murder trial
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press A judge has ruled that prosecutors can call witnesses to testify how Alex Murdaugh allegedly stole money as part…
Continue ReadingBryan Adams, crafting albums amid Grammy Award nomination
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bryan Adams may have nabbed his first Grammy nomination in over two decades, but he won’t…
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