Woman banned from Yellowstone after walking on thermal areas
By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Connecticut woman has been sentenced to seven days in jail and is banned from…
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Oklahoma seeks execution dates for 7 death-row inmates
By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s new attorney general is seeking execution dates for seven death-row inmates.…
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By NINIEK KARMINI and DON BABWIN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An attorney and an Indonesian official say a Chicago woman will be…
Continue ReadingMexico: help for US on migrants “can’t go on forever”
By MARIA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has again sidestepped questions about reinstating the U.S. “Remain in…
Continue Reading‘Making a Murderer’ subject Avery appeals latest defeat
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — “Making a Murderer” subject Steven Avery has appealed his latest unanimous legal defeat, asking the Wisconsin Supreme…
Continue ReadingFrance’s Macron pushes global tax deal on visit to Ireland
By MIKE FULLER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has held talks with top Irish officials in Dublin, focusing on a…
Continue ReadingRemains of WWII soldier found in Germany are identified
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Human remains found in a cemetery in Belgium have been identified as those of a U.S. Army…
Continue ReadingNorth Carolina Senate OK’s bill limiting racial teachings
By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Senate Republicans on Thursday passed a bill to limit how…
Continue ReadingFemale Afghan robotics team hopes to work for country
By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and ALEXIS TRIBOULARD Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — An all-woman Afghan robotics team known as the “Afghan Dreamers”…
Continue ReadingVirus surge breaks hospital records amid rising toll on kids
By SUDHIN THANAWALA and JAY REEVES Associated Press Kentucky and Texas have joined a growing list of states that have surpassed their record for…
Continue ReadingNew sinking in tilting San Francisco high-rise halts repair
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A $100 million fix to stop a San Francisco luxury high-rise from sinking and tilting even more is on hold while engineers try…
Continue ReadingInmate who helped kill prison staffers with hammer gets life
ANAMOSA, Iowa (AP) — An inmate who confessed in court to using a hammer to kill a nurse and correctional officer during an escape attempt at an…
Continue ReadingScotland dismisses Spain bid to extradite Catalan official
LONDON (AP) — A Scottish court has dismissed extradition proceedings against a Catalan politician sought by Spain over Catalonia’s failed…
Continue ReadingAfghanistan’s top high school graduate fears for her future
By TAMEEM AKHGAR and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press Salgy Baran got the highest score in all of Afghanistan on her university entrance exams this…
Continue ReadingIllinois requires educators, health workers to get vaccine
By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois will require all educators from kindergarten through college and health care workers to…
Continue ReadingRomania, Japan herald century of diplomacy at bridge site
By STEPHEN McGRATH AND NICOLAE DUMITRACHE Associated Press BRAILA, Romania (AP) — Romania and Japan have celebrated a century of diplomatic…
Continue ReadingBlue Origin launches artwork, moon-landing test into space
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Blue Origin has launched artwork painted on a capsule and a moon-landing navigation…
Continue ReadingQ&A: For McAvoy, Horgan ‘Together’ is an actor’s dream
By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan didn’t know one another before this year. But the two actors got very familiar very…
Continue ReadingTropical Storm Ida prompts hurricane watch for New Orleans
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Ida has formed in the Caribbean and forecasters say it’s aimed at the U.S. Gulf Coast, prompting Louisiana’s…
Continue Reading100,000 more COVID deaths seen unless US changes its ways
By CARLA K. JOHNSON and NICKY FORSTER Associated Press The U.S. is projected to see nearly 100,000 more COVID-19 deaths between now and Dec. 1.…
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