Things to know about a school shooting in the small Iowa town of Perry
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press A small town in Iowa is stunned but pulling together after a school shooting in which a 17-year-old killed a…
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Nearly 3,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents released, but some questions remain unanswered
NEW YORK (AP) — For nearly two decades, journalists, police detectives, FBI agents, lawyers and amateur sleuths have pried into the depraved world…
Continue ReadingHiker clung to small tree in freezing temperatures after falling hundreds of feet at night
By Brammhi Balarajan and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A single tree can take much of the credit for a woman surviving in frigid nighttime…
Continue ReadingCumbersome process and ‘arbitrary’ Israeli inspections slow aid delivery into Gaza, US senators say
By LEE KEATH Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — At Egypt’s Rafah border crossing, lines of hundreds of trucks carrying aid wait for weeks to enter…
Continue ReadingFlorida’s Greek community celebrates the Epiphany with annual dive into water to retrieve cross
TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — After thunderstorms moved past, Florida’s largest Greek Orthodox community celebrated the Epiphany on Saturday as…
Continue ReadingPolish farmers suspend their blockade at the Ukrainian border after a deal with the government
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s state news agency is reporting that Polish farmers who had blockaded a border crossing to Ukraine have ended…
Continue ReadingBoeing faces new questions about the 737 Max after a plane suffers a gaping hole in its side
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing faces new scrutiny about the safety of its best-selling plane after federal officials announced the…
Continue ReadingTrump downplays Jan. 6 on the anniversary of the Capitol siege and calls jailed rioters ‘hostages’
By MICHELLE L. PRICE, JILL COLVIN and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump, campaigning in Iowa…
Continue ReadingJordanian army says it killed 5 drug smugglers in clashes on the Syrian border
AMMAN (AP) — The Jordanian army says it has killed five drug and weapon smugglers and arrested 15 in a day of clashes with armed groups of…
Continue ReadingSenior Biden leaders, Pentagon officials unaware for days that defense secretary was hospitalized
By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior Biden administration leaders, top Pentagon officials and members of Congress were…
Continue ReadingBoeing faces new questions about the 737 Max after a plane suffers a gaping hole in its side
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing faces new scrutiny about the safety of its best-selling plane after federal officials announced the…
Continue Reading11-year-old killed in Iowa school shooting was a joyful boy known as ‘Smiley,’ his mother says
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Ahmir Jolliff dashed out of his home in Perry Thursday morning, eager to see his…
Continue ReadingFederal officials order grounding of Boeing 737-9 Max jetliners after a plane suffers a blowout midflight
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal officials order grounding of Boeing 737-9 Max jetliners after a plane suffers a blowout…
Continue ReadingFrancophone Belgian couple caught in bureaucratic struggle to prove they speak French
By Xiaofei Xu, CNN Paris (CNN) — A couple from the French-speaking part of Belgium wanted to become naturalized French citizens but found…
Continue Reading11 killed including 5 children in Russian strikes on eastern Ukrainian town
By Olga Voitovych, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — Eleven people including five children were killed in Russian S-300 missile…
Continue ReadingProminent Black church in New York sued for gender bias by woman who sought to be its senior pastor
By DARREN SANDS Associated Press Over its 215-year history, the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City has earned a reputation as the flagship of…
Continue ReadingFBI arrests 3 in Florida on charges of assaulting officers in Jan. 6 insurrection
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Three Florida residents are in FBI custody on charges that they assaulted officers…
Continue ReadingFamily of woman killed by deputy after calling for help seeks $30 million in claim against LA county, sheriff’s department
CNN By Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — The family of a woman who was shot and killed by a responding deputy after calling for help in a domestic…
Continue ReadingRussian shelling kills 11 in Donetsk region while Ukraine claims it hit a Crimean air base
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Eleven people were killed Saturday in Russian shelling in Ukraine’s partially occupied Donetsk province, according to…
Continue ReadingDeSantis and Haley are battling to emerge in Iowa as the preferred Republican alternative to Trump
By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — The rivalry between GOP presidential candidates Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley has become a…
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