EXPLAINER: What’s at stake for China on South Pacific visit?
BEIJING (AP) — China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi is visiting the South Pacific with a 20-person delegation this week in a display of…
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El Salvador extends anti-gang emergency for another month
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s congress has granted a request by President Nayib Bukele for a second one-month extention of the…
Continue ReadingBrazil’s Bolsonaro to attend Americas Summit after doubts
By DÉBORA ÁLVARES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Close allies of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro say he has decided to attend the…
Continue ReadingEx-Illinois House leader Arroyo sentenced for bribery scheme
CHICAGO (AP) — A former Democratic leader in the Illinois House has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for his role in a bribery scheme.…
Continue ReadingOklahoma governor signs the nation’s strictest abortion ban
By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed into law the nation’s strictest abortion ban,…
Continue ReadingLiterary ‘superagent’ Mort Janklow dies at 91
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Literary ‘superagent’ Mort Janklow, whose clients included Ronald Reagan and Barbara…
Continue ReadingAdministration opposes airlines in lawsuit over crew breaks
By The Associated Press The Biden administration is siding against the airline industry in a case that involves whether California-based flight crews…
Continue ReadingTrial begins for ex-Virginia Tech football player in killing
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — A trial has begun for a former Virginia Tech football player accused of fatally beating a Tinder match he originally…
Continue ReadingBoeing capsule lands back on Earth after space shakedown
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing’s crew taxi returned to Earth from the International Space Station on…
Continue ReadingEXPLAINER: Social media and the Texas shooter’s messages
By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writers Could technology companies have monitored ominous messages made by a gunman who Texas…
Continue ReadingStrong earthquake shakes south Mexico; no injuries reported
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A strong magnitude 5.5 earthquake has shaken southern Mexico, setting off alarms and driving anxious residents of Oaxaca into…
Continue ReadingLawyer: 5 of 6 subway shooting witnesses couldn’t ID gunman
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man accused of randomly murdering a fellow passenger on a New York City subway train has…
Continue ReadingBrazil toughens environmental fines in reaction to a lawsuit
by FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree Tuesday that creates stricter…
Continue ReadingTexas court spares man who killed girl, 11, from execution
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Texas’ top criminal appeals court has ordered a man convicted of killing an 11-year-old Fort Worth girl be removed…
Continue Reading‘Horrifying’ conspiracy theories swirl around Texas shooting
By DAVID KLEPPER and ALI SWENSON Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — By now it’s as predictable as the calls for thoughts and prayers: A…
Continue ReadingTwitter to pay $150M penalty over privacy of users’ data
By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter will pay a $150 million penalty and put in new safeguards to settle federal…
Continue Reading‘How to Murder Your Husband’ writer found guilty of murder
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A jury in Portland has convicted a self-published romance novelist — who once wrote an essay titled “How to Murder Your…
Continue ReadingFirefighters rescue ‘Cinder’ the elk calf from fire’s ashes
MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Firefighters have rescued an abandoned newborn elk calf from the ashes of the nation’s largest…
Continue Reading6 migrants die, 25 injured in Mexico bus crash
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in northern Mexico say six migrants have died and 25 were injured after a bus they were riding in plunged through a…
Continue ReadingTexas massacre casts shadow over hearing for ATF pick
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press Less than a day after a gunman massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas, a…
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