US quietly expands asylum limits while preparing to end them
By ELLIOT SPAGAT and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration has begun expelling Cubans and Nicaraguans to…
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Fox chews through fence, kills 25 flamingos at National Zoo
By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Zookeepers at the National Zoo made a macabre discovery this week, when they entered the…
Continue ReadingRapper Kidd Creole sentenced to 16 years for fatal stabbing
NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Kidd Creole, who was a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in…
Continue ReadingIowa Democrats seek to keep caucus the 1st presidential test
By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Democrats have begun making their case for why the Iowa caucus should remain the first…
Continue ReadingTens of thousands rally to demand Armenian PM’s resignation
By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters have blocked streets and gathered around government…
Continue ReadingAbortion battles in states fire up after Supreme Court leak
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST, HOLLY RAMER and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press The Supreme Court’s apparent intention to abolish a nationwide right to…
Continue ReadingDutch king lays wreath, thousands attend remembrance event
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Dutch King Willem-Alexander has laid a wreath at a war memorial in Amsterdam during the first national commemoration of the…
Continue ReadingCalifornia moves to embrace cryptocurrency and regulate it
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is the first state to formally begin examining how to broadly adapt to…
Continue ReadingMovies love a comeback story. This summer, it’s their turn.
By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer This summer at the movies, Tom Cruise is back in the cockpit behind those iconic aviators. Doctors Grant, Sattler and…
Continue ReadingHow higher Fed rates stand to affect Americans’ finances
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Record-low mortgages below 3% are long gone. Credit card rates will likely rise. So…
Continue ReadingAdvocate: Massachusetts system ‘failed’ missing girl Harmony
By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press An independent review has found the Massachusetts child protection system failed to prioritize the needs of a…
Continue ReadingFed raises key rate by a half-point in bid to tame inflation
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve intensified its fight against the worst inflation in 40 years by…
Continue ReadingDHS disinformation board’s work, plans remain a mystery
By AMANDA SEITZ and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A newly formed Disinformation Governance Board remains shrouded in secrecy a…
Continue ReadingBiden says Olympians brought a bit of unity to weary nation
By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden praised Team USA for bringing a bit of unity to a pandemic weary nation as…
Continue Reading‘Corrupt to core’ Caribbean premier gets bond in drug case
By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The premier of the British Virgin Islands, whom U.S. prosecutors described as “corrupt to the…
Continue ReadingKansas gamer pleads guilty for role in fatal ‘swatting’ case
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man will be sentenced in July for his role in a hoax call that led to a fatal police shooting in 2017. Shane Gaskill…
Continue Reading$61 million in refunds for customers in SC nuclear debacle
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina judge has approved a second round of refunds for customers of a utility that poured billions of dollars into…
Continue ReadingRights group: Russians tortured people in C.African Republic
By CARLEY PETESCH Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Human Rights Watch has accused Russian mercenaries of executing, torturing and beating…
Continue ReadingAttorney: Pardoned Chicago man reaches $7.5M settlement
By RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A Chicago man who was pardoned after spending more than seven years in prison for an armed…
Continue ReadingWHO: COVID continues to decline, except in Americas, Africa
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says the number of newly reported coronavirus cases and deaths continued to fall in the last week,…
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