Detention hearing waived in plot to kill George W. Bush
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A court document indicates a man being held on a charge of plotting to assassinate…
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Video of Brazil cops gassing man draws fury after his death
By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A video showing two officers of Brazil’s Federal Highway Police holding a Black man…
Continue ReadingDepeche Mode founding keyboardist Andy Fletcher dies at 60
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Andy “Fletch” Fletcher, the unassuming, bespectacled, red-headed keyboardist who…
Continue ReadingFlorida gov signs condo safety bill after building collapse
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida will require statewide recertification of condominiums over three stories…
Continue ReadingChile apologizes to woman forcibly sterilized for HIV status
By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Chile’s president publicly apologized to a woman who was sterilized without her…
Continue ReadingChina and Russia veto new UN sanctions on North Korea
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China and Russia have vetoed a U.N. resolution sponsored by the United States that would…
Continue ReadingNative students exercise right to wear regalia at graduation
By SAM METZ and RICK BOWMER Associated Press CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) — She walked up a red carpet and crossed a stage to accept her diploma wearing…
Continue ReadingMan convicted of 1st-degree murder in beheading case
By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A jury has convicted a New Hampshire man of first-degree murder for killing his wife’s…
Continue ReadingPlanned Parenthood workers in 5 Midwest states seek union
By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — About 400 workers at Planned Parenthood offices in five Midwestern states plan to unionize.…
Continue ReadingBiden to console families in Uvalde, press for action
By ZEKE MILLER and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Uvalde,…
Continue ReadingDaughter and her best friends ‘are all gone now,’ dad says
By ELLIOT SPAGAT and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Jacklyn Cazares hadn’t yet reached her 10th birthday, but she was…
Continue ReadingViolent protest in Greece over planned campus police force
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Riot police in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki have fired tear gas to disperse crowds attacking them with…
Continue ReadingAlan White, longtime drummer for prog rock’s Yes, dead at 72
By CHRIS GRYGIEL Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Alan White, the longtime drummer for progressive rock pioneers Yes who also played on projects…
Continue ReadingBoston Pops July Fourth show returns for 1st time in 3 years
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular, a July Fourth holiday tradition in the city, is returning to its full glory after a three-year…
Continue ReadingAlabama man ordered to pay $12M, serve 15 years for fraud
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man who pleaded guilty to using bank fraud to live an opulent lifestyle that included a private jet and luxury…
Continue Reading‘No future for babies:’ 842 US-bound Haitians end up in Cuba
By MILEXSY DURÁN and ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press VILLA CLARA, Cuba (AP) — Some of the more than 840 Haitians who tried to reach the United…
Continue ReadingMore Memorial Day travel expected, despite high gas prices
By STEFANIE DAZIO, CHRISTOPHER WEBER and TERRY TANG Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — To drive, or not to drive? This Memorial Day weekend, with…
Continue ReadingIOM: Up to 600 missing at sea in 3 months in Central Med
By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The International Organization for Migration says up to 600 people attempting to…
Continue ReadingDeath toll in Mexico migrant bus crash rises to 7
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities say the death toll in a bus crash in northern Mexico has risen to seven. All of the dead and the 24 injured were…
Continue ReadingPioneering Camille A. Brown creates a Broadway rainbow
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When choreographer Camille A. Brown is asked to describe her kind of movement, she uses an…
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