Police: 3 wounded in shooting in Chicago neighborhood
CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say three people were shot and wounded on Friday in Chicago. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that police say a man was…
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Algerian dissidents: Victims of crackdown, or outlaws?
By ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Mohamed Benhalima looks wary and frightened as he is led off a plane at Algiers airport, handcuffed…
Continue ReadingFleeing the Russians: Evacuations are slow, arduous, fraught
By ELENA BECATOROS and NICOLAE DUMITRACHE Associated Press BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) — To a threatening soundtrack of air raid sirens and booming…
Continue ReadingJapan terrorist group founder freed after serving time
By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Fusako Shigenobu, who co-founded the terrorist group Japanese Red Army, has been released from…
Continue Reading‘Triangle of Sadness’ wins Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Fest
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s class warfare comedy “Triangle of Sadness” won the Palme…
Continue ReadingAs US mourns shootings, NRA in turmoil but influence remains
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST, BRIAN SLODYSKO and JUAN LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — For a brief moment in 2012, it seemed like a national…
Continue ReadingRussia and China block UN statement on Myanmar crisis
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. diplomats say China and Russia have blocked the U.N. Security Council from issuing…
Continue Reading15 dead, 3 missing after torrential rains in southern China
BEIJING (AP) — At least 15 people have died in torrential rains across southern China. State media said Saturday that eight victims were found in…
Continue ReadingOfficials: Ex-Alaska attorney general faces abuse charges
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A special prosecutor says he has filed charges of sexual abuse of a minor in the third degree against former Alaska Attorney…
Continue ReadingAP source: Lakers choose Darvin Ham as next head coach
By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A person with knowledge of the decision says Darvin Ham has accepted an offer to be the next…
Continue ReadingMexican president wants to re-name drug growing area
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he wants to change the name of a notorious drug-producing area known as…
Continue ReadingJudge issues injunction against Mexico City bullfights
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican judge has issued an injunction against bullfighting in Mexico City, and ordered a hearing on whether to permanently…
Continue Reading17 years post-Katrina, New Orleans-area protections complete
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Seventeen years after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers has completed an extensive system of…
Continue ReadingNevada student says anonymous gun tips used to bully him
By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A high school honors student in Nevada says in federal court that he’s being bullied by students…
Continue ReadingGuilty plea in plot to firebomb California Democratic HQ
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California man pleaded guilty Friday to plotting to blow up the state Democratic…
Continue ReadingUvalde school police chief faulted in shooting response
By DAVE COLLINS and MICHAEL MELIA Associated Press The police official blamed for not sending officers in more quickly to stop the Uvalde, Texas,…
Continue ReadingNew independent Mexican union wins wage increase at GM plant
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A new independent union at a Mexican auto plant that won a historic organizing vote last year has negotiated an 8.5% wage…
Continue ReadingFlorida condo collapse settlement reached, tops $1 billion
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for the families who lost relatives or homes in last year’s collapse of…
Continue ReadingProsecutors: Chicago woman admitted smothering daughter, 8
CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors say a Chicago woman smothered her daughter with a plastic bag on her eighth birthday while the girl screamed “Momma,…
Continue ReadingGuest lineups for the Sunday news shows
WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.; Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill. __ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Sen. Cory…
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