Netanyahu’s Cabinet votes to close Al Jazeera offices in Israel
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Australian police shoot dead armed teen after stabbing attack that had ‘hallmarks’ of terror
By Angus Watson and Chloe Liu, CNN (CNN) — Australian police shot dead a teenage boy after he stabbed an injured a man in an attack that had…
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Ukraine marked its third Easter at war, Russia launched a barrage of drones concentrated in Ukraine’s east where the…
Continue Reading Police tactics at campus protests reveal disparities in approaches to public order and lessons learned post-George Floyd
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Continue Reading Driver dies after crashing into White House perimeter gate, Secret Service says
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Continue Reading Many Florida women can’t get abortions past 6 weeks. Where else can they go?
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Continue Reading With a vest and a voice, helpers escort kids through San Francisco’s broken Tenderloin streets
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Continue Reading The American paradox of protest: Celebrated and condemned, welcomed and muzzled
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Continue Reading As Putin begins another 6-year term, he is entering a new era of extraordinary power in Russia
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Continue Reading A Holocaust survivor will mark that history differently after the horrors of Oct. 7
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Continue Reading China’s Xi Jinping is visiting Europe for the first time in five years – his goodwill tour will be an uphill struggle
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Continue Reading As US spotlights those missing or dead in Native communities, prosecutors work to solve their cases
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Continue Reading Panamanians vote in election dominated by former president who was banned from running
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Continue Reading What we learned from local votes ahead of looming UK general election
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Continue Reading King Charles III’s openness about cancer has helped him connect with people in year after coronation
By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III’s decision to be open about his cancer diagnosis has helped the new monarch…
Continue Reading They study next to one of Africa’s largest trash dumps. They’re planting bamboo to try to cope
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Continue Reading Anger mounts as Kenyans left homeless and searching for loved ones swept away in floods
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Continue Reading Australian police shoot dead a 16-year-old boy armed with a knife in Perth
By ROD McGUIRK Asspciated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian officials say a 16-year-old boy armed with a knife has been shot dead by…
Continue Reading Juro Kara, rebel playwright behind Japan’s modern underground theater, dies at 84
By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Juro Kara, who helped shape Japan’s postwar avant-garde theater, defiantly yet playfully…
Continue Reading Developing Taiwan’s own ‘Starlink’ crucial for island-wide emergency, space agency says
By Eric Cheung, CNN Hsinchu, Taiwan (CNN) — Taiwan’s leaders are working on an ambitious new satellite system to keep the island online in…
Continue Reading University of Mississippi opens student conduct probe after confrontation between Black student and counterprotesters
By Sara Smart, Dianne Gallagher, Sarah Dewberry and Denise Royal, CNN (CNN) — The University of Mississippi has opened a student conduct…
Continue Reading Frank Stella, artist renowned for blurring the lines between painting and sculpture, dies at 87
NEW YORK (AP) — Frank Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works served as landmarks of the minimalist and…
Continue Reading Jury foreperson in New Hampshire youth center abuse trial ‘devasted’ that award could be slashed
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Continue Reading Orthodox Russians mark Easter with night-time service in Moscow cathedral
MOSCOW (AP) — Worshippers including President Vladimir Putin have packed Moscow’s landmark Christ the Savior Cathedral for a night-time…
Continue Reading Georgian protesters against ‘Russia-style’ media law mark Orthodox Easter with candlelight vigil
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Several thousand Georgians have marked Orthodox Easter with a candlelight vigil outside Parliament in the capital, Tbilisi.…
Continue Reading Warren Buffett’s company rejects proposals, but it faces lawsuit over how it handled one last year
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Continue Reading Dick Rutan, who set an aviation milestone when he flew nonstop around the world, is dead at 85
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Continue Reading ‘Like wildfires underwater’: Worst summer on record for Great Barrier Reef as coral die-off sweeps planet
By Rebecca Wright, Ivan Watson and Tom Booth, CNN Great Barrier Reef, Australia (CNN) — As the early-morning sun rises over the Great Barrier…
Continue Reading Fans pack the track for the 150th Run for the Roses
By CLAIRE GALOFARO AP National Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — When Lori Hennesy imagined her outfit for the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby, she…
Continue Reading In Botswana, 44 victims of an Easter bus crash in South Africa are laid to rest
By SELLO MOTSETA Associated Press MOLEPOLOLE, Botswana (AP) — At least 44 people who died in a horrific bus crash during Easter weekend in South…
Continue Reading 3 bodies recovered likely those of 2 Australians and American who went missing, prosecutors say
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The state prosecutor’s office says three bodies recovered in an area of Mexico’s Baja California are likely to be those…
Continue Reading Angel Reese, Cardoso debuts watched widely on fan’s livestream after WNBA is unable to broadcast
By The Associated Press The WNBA debuts of Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso were widely watched on a social media livestream from a fan who stepped in…
Continue Reading I-95 overpass in Connecticut scorched during a fuel truck inferno has been demolished
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Continue Reading Japan and India reject Biden’s comments describing them as xenophobic countries
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan and India have decried remarks by U.S. President Joe Biden describing them as…
Continue Reading Berkshire’s profit plunges 64% on portfolio holdings as Buffett sells Apple
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Continue Reading Musk just slashed Tesla’s Supercharger team. What does that mean for America’s EV network?
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Continue Reading Escaped zebra captured near Seattle after gallivanting around Cascade mountain foothills for days
SEATTLE (AP) — A zebra that has been hoofing through the foothills of western Washington for days was recaptured Friday evening, nearly a week…
Continue Reading Rio de Janeiro set for Madonna’s massive Copacabana beach concert that will be her biggest ever
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Continue Reading Investigators say student killed by police outside Wisconsin school had pointed pellet rifle
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Continue Reading Boeing locks out its private firefighters around Seattle over pay dispute
By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Boeing has locked out its private force of firefighters who protect its aircraft-manufacturing plants in the Seattle…
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Continue Reading Small anti-war protest ruffles University of Michigan graduation ceremony
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press Protesters chanted anti-war messages and waved Palestinian flags during the University of Michigan’s…
Continue Reading A look at commencement ceremonies as US campuses are roiled by protests over the Israel-Hamas war
The Associated Press Some U.S. universities that have been roiled by protests over the Israel-Hamas war have taken steps to contain disruptions…
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Continue Reading Former security guard convicted of killing unarmed man during an argument at a Memphis gas station
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A former security guard has been convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting of an unarmed Black man during a dispute at…
Continue Reading Texas police officer dies after being injured when a tornado struck his home
CONROE, Texas (AP) — A Texas police officer has died of injuries he suffered when a tornado struck his home. The Conroe Police Department announced…
Continue Reading Russia puts Ukrainian President Zelenskyy on its wanted list
The Associated Press Russian state media say Moscow has put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on its wanted list, citing the interior…
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MIAMI (AP) — Airport security officers in Miami found a slithering surprise last week. It was a bag of snakes hidden in a passenger’s pants.…
Continue Reading London, meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Mayor Sadiq Khan wins historic third term
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Continue Reading Cheers and flames as Orthodox worshipers greet the ancient ceremony of the ‘Holy Fire’
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Continue Reading Missouri man charged in 1966 killing in suburban Chicago, based on DNA evidence
CREVE COEUR, Mo. (AP) — A 79-year-old Missouri man is accused of killing a woman in her suburban Chicago home — a crime that happened nearly six…
Continue Reading Senate races are roiled by campus protests over the war in Gaza as campaign rhetoric sharpens
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PARIS (AP) — A British-Palestinian surgeon who volunteered in Gaza hospitals says he was denied entry to France to speak at the French Senate. The…
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Continue Reading Sadiq Khan wins third term as London mayor, capping strong showing for Labour in English local elections
By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Sadiq Khan has won a third term as London’s mayor, capping a round of local elections across England that…
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Continue Reading After Roe, the network of people who help others get abortions see themselves as ‘the underground’
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By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Waiting in a long post office line with the latest shipment of “abortion aftercare kits,”…
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Continue Reading Pakistan records its wettest April since 1961 with above average rainfall
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s national weather center says the country has recorded its wettest April since 1961. The weather service said on…
Continue Reading Kevin Spacey denies new allegations of inappropriate behavior to be aired on UK television next week
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Kevin Spacey, the Oscar-winning actor, has denied new allegations of inappropriate behaviour from men…
Continue Reading Hamas in Cairo as Egyptian media report progress in cease-fire talks. Israel downplays the report
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Continue Reading The Kentucky Derby could be a wet one. Early favorites Fierceness, Sierra Leone have won in the slop
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By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUNA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan has removed recently imposed taxes and fees that had triggered the suspension…
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Continue Reading Bystander livestreams during Charlotte standoff show an ever-growing appetite for social media video
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Continue Reading Sunday’s presidential election in Panama is ‘most important’ in decades, say experts
By David Shortell, CNN (CNN) — Panama, the Central American nation at the crossroads of international trade and migration, will elect a new…
Continue Reading Georgia rocked by protests as government pushes Putin-style ‘foreign agent’ bill
By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — After spending his days making wine in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, Tsotne Jafaridze returns home…
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By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Officials say 14 people are dead after a flood and landslide hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi…
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Continue Reading Hawaii lawmakers wrap up session featuring tax cuts, zoning reform and help for fire-stricken Maui
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Continue Reading Congressman praises heckling of war protesters, including 1 who made monkey gestures at Black woman
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Continue Reading The SEC charges Trump Media’s newly hired auditing firm with ‘massive fraud’
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Continue Reading Arizona GOP wins state high court appeal of sanctions for 2020 election challenge
PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court has reversed lower court rulings that held the Arizona Republican Party responsible for more than $27,000…
Continue Reading Mexican forensic examiners are at a site in Baja California where 3 bodies were reportedly found
By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican forensic examiners are at a remote site in Baja California where three bodies were…
Continue Reading NYPD body cameras show mother pleading “Don’t shoot!” before officers kill her 19-year-old son
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Continue Reading Settlement could cost NCAA nearly $3 billion; plan to pay athletes would need federal protection
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Continue Reading A judge is forcing Hawaii to give wildfire investigation documents to lawyers handling lawsuits
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A judge is forcing the Hawaii attorney general’s office to turn over documents,…
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