Pakistan PM’s son returns from exile to face graft charges
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A son of Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has returned home after four years in London to face corruption charges that were…
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Free for a month, Kherson still toils to clear Russian traps
By INNA VARENYTSIA and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — A hand grenade jerry-rigged into the detergent tray of a Kherson…
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As Brittney Griner visits a medical facility in Texas, one of the ‘Citgo 6’ says reintegration after captivity can be difficult
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Continue Reading Mark, Albania’s last ‘restaurant bear,’ arrives at sanctuary after over 20 years of captivity
By Zoe Sottile, CNN After over twenty years in captivity, Mark, the last of Albania’s “restaurant bears,” has safely arrived at his…
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By Josh Pennington, Julia Kesaieva, Tim Lister and Mariya Knight, CNN Multiple explosions have been reported in the Russian-occupied city of…
Continue Reading Tens of thousands protest in Bangladesh to demand resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
By Vedika Sud and Yong Xiong, CNN Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Dhaka on Saturday calling for the dissolution of parliament…
Continue Reading Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano eruption may end soon after producing dazzling lava displays
By Nouran Salahieh and Paradise Afshar, CNN The eruption of the world’s largest active volcano — Mauna Loa in Hawaii — may soon…
Continue Reading Facing COVID surge, China expanding hospitals, ICUs
By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Facing a surge in COVID-19 cases, China is setting up more intensive care facilities and trying to…
Continue Reading Scientists lower alert for Mauna Loa, say eruption could end
HONOLULU (AP) — Scientists lowered the alert level for the Mauna Loa volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island from a warning to a watch on Saturday and…
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Continue Reading Pioneering Black feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes dies at 84
By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering Black feminist, child welfare advocate and lifelong…
Continue Reading EU parliament chief takes action as lobbying scandal simmers
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A vice president of the European Union’s parliament was suspended from her duties on Saturday…
Continue Reading Twitter relaunching subscriber service after debacle
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Continue Reading Hae Min Lee’s brother is requesting a redo of the hearing that vacated Adnan Syed’s murder conviction
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Continue Reading Police arrest man wounded in Oklahoma pot farm slayings
By KEN MILLER Associated Press The survivor of a shooting at an Oklahoma marijuana farm that killed four people has been arrested after being…
Continue Reading After 25 years of wrongful imprisonment, 2 Georgia men set free after newly uncovered evidence exonerates them of murder charges
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Continue Reading Deputy in California slayings killed self with service gun
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Continue Reading Mauritanian indicted in 3 deadly 2015 terror attacks in Mali
NEW YORK (AP) — A Mauritanian national suspected of planning and coordinating three lethal attacks in 2015 on Westerners in Mali has been arraigned…
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By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s newest president has sworn in her Cabinet and asked each member to pledge not to…
Continue Reading Memorial to American writer Wahl placed at World Cup game
AL KHOR, Qatar (AP) — American soccer writer Grant Wahl has been honored with a tribute from FIFA on the desk where he was due to work at the World…
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN This Saturday just got twice as cute. The Toledo Zoo has announced the birth of two polar bear cubs, the first time polar bears…
Continue Reading Ecstatic Moroccans celebrate World Cup victory over Portugal
By TARIK EL-BARAKAH and BARBARA SURK Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Ecstatic Moroccans have poured into the streets of their capital and…
Continue Reading Man killed by troopers was hauling suspected cocaine
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana state trooper shot and killed a man who was reportedly hauling drugs after what started as a high-speed chase…
Continue Reading Freed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout says he ‘wholeheartedly’ supports Ukraine war and would volunteer if he could
By Darya Tarasova and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN Freed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout said on Saturday he “wholeheartedly” supports…
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Continue Reading Concerns of ‘more landslides’ in Southern California after portion of cliff collapses onto beach
By Taylor Romine and Ray Sanchez, CNN No injuries were reported after part of a cliff collapsed onto a beach Friday in coastal Palos Verdes Estates…
Continue Reading Concerns of ‘more landslides’ in Southern California after portion of cliff collapses onto beach
By Taylor Romine and Ray Sanchez, CNN No injuries were reported after part of a cliff collapsed onto a beach Friday in coastal Palos Verdes Estates…
Continue Reading Fifth teenager pleads guilty in shooting near Iowa school
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Another teenager accused in a fatal shooting near an Iowa high school has admitted to the crime, marking the fifth guilty…
Continue Reading A New Orleans Police Department employee is stabbed to death while driving for Uber
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Continue Reading Morocco reaches World Cup semifinals, tops Portugal, Ronaldo
By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Morocco became the first African country to reach the World Cup semifinals by beating Portugal…
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Continue Reading Kosovo postpones election in ethnic-Serb-dominated north
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Continue Reading ‘The trip of a lifetime.’ 95 residents of Tampa, Kansas, visit Tampa, Florida
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Continue Reading Court: Resentence mom who put newborn in trash at sorority
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Continue Reading Gas prices fall again in NJ, nation as demand remains low
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Continue Reading Mail carrier killed while delivering mail in Milwaukee
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Continue Reading Kansas man charged in 1980 killing of nursing student
GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a Kansas man in the 1980 shooting death of a 23-year-old neighbor after investigators who…
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Continue Reading Newcomer wins seat on Louisiana Public Service Commission
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Continue Reading German hostage freed after 2018 jihadi abduction in Niger
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Continue Reading Russian Nobel Peace laureate slams Putin’s ‘insane and criminal war’ on Ukraine
By Allegra Goodwin, CNN Russian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Yan Rachinsky blasted President Vladimir Putin’s “insane and criminal”…
Continue Reading Nobel Peace Prize winners blast Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
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Continue Reading Ronaldo fails again in likely last chance to win World Cup
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Continue Reading Biden called gay marriage ‘inevitable’ and soon it’ll be law
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Continue Reading House advances giant Texas storm surge project in water bill
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By Andy Rose, CNN A mail carrier was shot to death Friday evening in Milwaukee, police said. Police said the 44-year-old man had worked for the US…
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QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Police say a bomb exploded in a bakery in Pakistan’s restive southwestern Baluchistan province killing at least one…
Continue Reading Jersey explosion that left three dead and a dozen missing is now a recovery operation
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LONDON (AP) — Police on the Channel Island of Jersey say an explosion and fire in an apartment building has killed at least three people and left…
Continue Reading Court acquits Pakistan’s interior minister in drug case
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By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have turned the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut into ruins, President…
Continue Reading Julius’ Bar, the site of an essential 1960s LGBT protest, is officially a historic landmark
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s parliament on Saturday enacted a law to restrict malicious donation solicitations by…
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Continue Reading Deion Sanders has decided to stop coaching at a historically Black college. Here’s why people are so upset
By Amir Vera, CNN College football fans and HBCU alumni are still coming to terms with Deion Sanders announcing his departure from Jackson State…
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Continue Reading Ukraine utility crews adapt, overcome after Russian strikes
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Over the grinding wail of a chainsaw pruning trees, Oleh Braharnyk recalls how his crew…
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By Wayne Chang, Rhea Mogul and Jessie Yeung, CNN A Hong Kong court on Saturday sentenced jailed media mogul Jimmy Lai to five years and nine months…
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By Nectar Gan, Yong Xiong and Selina Wang, CNN The unprecedented protests that swept China late last month, posing the biggest challenge to leader Xi…
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By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — When Pedro Castillo won Peru’s presidency last year, it was celebrated as a victory by…
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By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court sentenced a pro-democracy media tycoon to five years and nine months in prison…
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By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Kari Lake, the Republican defeated in Arizona governor’s race, is formally challenging her…
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By RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer LUSAIL, Qatar (AP) — Grant Wahl, an American journalist who helped grow the popularity of soccer in the U.S. and…
Continue Reading No food in 9 days for 19 Nevada prisoners on hunger strike
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Continue Reading European Parliament vice president expelled by party amid corruption probe involving Gulf nation
By Niamh Kennedy and Chris Liakos, CNN Eva Kaili, one of the European Parliament’s vice presidents, has been expelled by her political party in…
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By Emma Tucker, CNN The investigation into the killings of four University of Idaho students has received an overwhelming amount of tips related to…
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors at the Los Angeles rape and sexual misconduct trial of Harvey Weinstein have been deliberating for a week without…
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PARIS (AP) — France will make condoms free in pharmacies for anyone up to age 25 in the new year, President Emmanuel Macron announced Friday. The…
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By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Spending in Pennsylvania’s 2022 gubernatorial race blew past the record set eight years ago,…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby; Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.; NASA Johnson…
Continue Reading Oregon lawsuit spotlights destruction of Black neighborhoods
By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press A home that was a fixture of Bobby Fouther’s childhood is now a parking lot, the two-story, shingle-sided…
Continue Reading Prosecutor: No evidence hiding in wrongful conviction case
By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis judge won’t sanction the city’s top prosecutor after Missouri’s attorney general…
Continue Reading Squirrel shooter arrested after bullet breaks child’s window
EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. (AP) — A 76-year-old Minnesota man is facing criminal charges because he was shooting at a squirrel and a bullet went…
Continue Reading Why this predominantly White county in Southern California is declaring racism a public health crisis
By Josh Campbell, CNN Andrew Do was afraid to play sports his last two years of high school. “I didn’t want to walk home alone after…
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