Ex-student charged in Houston school shooting that injured 1
HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a former student at a Houston public charter school has been charged after confessing to shooting and wounding the…
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PM vows to rebuild Spanish island hit by volcanic eruption
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s prime minister has vowed to rebuild the island of La Palma, where a volcano eruption has spewed molten lava and a thick…
Continue ReadingMan arrested in Utah football player’s shooting death
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police arrested a man early Sunday in connection with the shooting death of Utah sophomore cornerback Aaron Lowe. Homicide…
Continue ReadingYemen official: Rebel missiles hit key city, kill 2 children
BY AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni officials say Houthi rebels have fired three ballistic missiles at a government-held…
Continue ReadingProbe: Catholic Church in France had 3,000 child abusers
PARIS (AP) — An independent commission examining sex abuse within the Roman Catholic Church in France believes that 3,000 child abusers, two-thirds…
Continue ReadingBlaze destroys much of island off Honduras’ northern coast
By MARLON GONZÁLEZ Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — A blaze that ripped through a small, densely populated cay along a Honduran…
Continue Reading3rd victim dies after angry co-worker’s rampage
DAVENPORT, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a third victim has died following a violent attack where an angry electrician wielding a knife and baseball…
Continue ReadingProject aims to ID voting rights marchers of ‘Bloody Sunday’
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — The world knows the names of John Lewis and a few more of the voting rights demonstrators who walked across Selma’s Edmund…
Continue Reading3rd victim dies after angry co-worker’s rampage
DAVENPORT, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a third victim has died following a violent attack where an angry electrician wielding a knife and baseball…
Continue ReadingCrews race to limit damage from major California oil spill
By AMY TAXIN and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Crews on the water and on shore worked feverishly to limit…
Continue ReadingRussia hits record number of daily COVID-19 deaths
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has reported a record daily death toll from COVID-19, the fifth time in a week that deaths have hit a new high. The national…
Continue ReadingPuerto Ricans fume as outages threaten health, work, school
By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Not a single hurricane has hit Puerto Rico this year, but hundreds of thousands of…
Continue ReadingIsrael enlists army, security agency to halt Arab crime wave
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government says it is enlisting the military and the Shin Bet internal security agency as it tries to rein in a wave…
Continue ReadingSurvivors of 2013 shipwreck honor dead on Italian island
LAMPEDUSA, Sicily (AP) — Survivors of a 2013 capsizing have joined residents of a tiny Italian isle to honor 368 migrants who perished on the…
Continue ReadingFormer Marseille president, businessman Bernard Tapie dies
By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writers PARIS (AP) — Bernard Tapie, the charismatic president of French soccer club Marseille…
Continue ReadingAP: States and cities slow to spend federal pandemic money
By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Many states and cities across the U.S. are getting off to a slow start in spending money from this year’s…
Continue ReadingSyria’s Assad calls Jordan’s king amid thaw in relations
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s King Abdullah II has received a call from Syrian President Bashar Assad. Sunday’s call is the first between…
Continue ReadingDemocrats see political peril in replacing Minneapolis PD
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A proposal on the Minneapolis ballot about the future of policing in the city where George…
Continue ReadingPoland: police confiscate journalist’s computer equipment
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Police in Poland have confiscated the computer equipment of a journalist working for a…
Continue ReadingUS raises concern as China flies warplanes south of Taiwan
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The Chinese military flew 16 warplanes over waters south of Taiwan on Sunday as the United States expressed concern about…
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