Turkish parliament approves contentious election law changes
By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s parliament has approved electoral law amendments that critics maintain could pave…
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Police: Student kills peer at South Carolina middle school
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a 12-year-old student has been shot and killed by another 12-year-old student at a South Carolina middle…
Continue ReadingAlex Jones agrees to appear at deposition in Sandy Hook case
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has agreed to appear at a deposition in Connecticut to answer questions in…
Continue ReadingWill Smith’s Oscars slap felt by comedians beyond Chris Rock
By LYNN ELBER AND DAVID BAUDER The Associated Press When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock over an Oscars ceremony punchline, other comedians felt the…
Continue ReadingScientists finally finish decoding entire human genome
By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer Scientists say they have finally assembled the full genetic blueprint for human life, adding the missing pieces to a…
Continue ReadingEXPLAINER: What is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
By DAVID KOENIG and CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Business Writers DALLAS (AP) — President Joe Biden is again dipping into the nation’s petroleum stockpile…
Continue ReadingGot a dime? Businesses seek Treasury help with coin shortage
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Got a spare dime? Coins are in short supply again. Retailers, laundromats and other businesses…
Continue ReadingSurviving hostage relates ordeal in Islamic State captivity
By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A hostage who survived more than a year as a captive of the Islamic State is testifying…
Continue ReadingUS returns smuggled ancient artifacts to Libya
By YOUSEF MURAD Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The United States has returned a cache of smuggled ancient artifacts to Libya as the…
Continue ReadingMigrants hopeful, suspicious at US reopening to asylum
By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Migrants have been expelled more than 1.7 million times from the U.S.…
Continue ReadingBrazil officials resign to seek new posts, boost Bolsonaro
By DÉBORA ÁLVARES and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Ten Cabinet members and other top officials of Brazil’s President…
Continue ReadingPakistan’s embattled PM Khan defiant, says he won’t resign
By KATHY GANNON Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s embattled Prime Minister Imran Khan is defiant and has told nation in a televised…
Continue ReadingPostmaster General says he’s been cleared in federal probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says the Justice Department has closed without criminal charges an investigation into political…
Continue ReadingCIA director tests positive for COVID-19, has mild symptoms
WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA Director William Burns has tested positive for COVID-19. A statement Thursday by the agency says Burns is experiencing mild…
Continue ReadingNSA employee charged with mishandling classified material
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A National Security Agency employee has been charged with emailing classified national security information to…
Continue ReadingMedical charity says 5 abducted workers are freed in Nigeria
By CARLEY PETESCH Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The French medical organization Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, says that five of its…
Continue ReadingCrews work to contain wildfire near Smoky Mountains
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say firefighters from across Tennessee are working to contain a wildfire near the Great Smoky Mountains…
Continue ReadingUN chief names panel to probe companies’ climate efforts
By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The head of the United Nations has announced the appointment of an expert panel to scrutinize…
Continue ReadingOhio officer killed trying to stop fleeing car on highway
BLUFFTON, Ohio (AP) — Authorities in Ohio say a police officer has been killed by a fleeing car on Interstate 75. It happened during a chase…
Continue Reading‘Gold mine’ of census records being released from 1950
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Genealogists and historians can get a microscopic look at sweeping historical trends when individual records from…
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