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‘Home is like a jail’: Afghan soldier weathers injuries, uncertainty in US asylum bid
By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The April visit to a Houston clinic was just one of a never-ending assembly line of medical…
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The April visit to a Houston clinic was just one of a never-ending assembly line of medical…
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — An 18-year-old graduate, Shawn Jackson, and his 36-year-old stepfather, Renzo Smith,…
Continue ReadingBy SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia regulators have voted to advance Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s plan to withdraw…
Continue ReadingBy BRITTANY PETERSON and DREW COSTLEY Associated Press As 30 environment and trade ministers, and 50 CEOs gather in Paris for the 8th international…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN FLESHER Associated Press BELLAIRE, Mich. (AP) — A man accused of supporting a foiled plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer plans to…
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — After a payment pause that has lasted more than three years, more than 40 million student…
Continue ReadingGLENDALE, Calif. (AP) — Protesters briefly scuffled and punches flew Tuesday as a Southern California school district decided whether to recognize…
Continue ReadingBy FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican federal official says the Attorney General’s Office is investigating a possible…
Continue ReadingBy ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — An Air India flight from New Delhi to San Francisco has been diverted to Russia after it…
Continue ReadingBy REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Leaders of Venezuela’s fractured opposition are shaking voters’ hands and…
Continue ReadingBy ANNIE MA, CLAUDIA LAUER and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press NOLENSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The first encounter with racism that Harmony Kennedy…
Continue ReadingBy Tara Subramaniam, CNN (CNN) — A teenage girl is stabbed and bludgeoned to death as members of the public walk by. An even younger girl…
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN HAIGH and WILSON RING Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — An ambitious push to decarbonize Canada’s grid and the nation’s growing…
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press ANKENY, Iowa (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence opened his bid for the Republican…
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s exports fell 7.5% from a year earlier in May and imports were down 4.5%, adding to…
Continue ReadingMOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. (AP) — Search crews on Mount Rainier have found and recovered the body of a man matching the description of an…
Continue ReadingBy MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — As many as eight young workers were confirmed dead Tuesday in Mexico after they apparently…
Continue ReadingBy Bertha Ramos, CNN (CNN) — Human remains found in 45 bags discovered in a suburb of Guadalajara belong to call center workers who went…
Continue ReadingBy Isabel Rosales and Jaide Garcia, CNN (CNN) — Three dozen migrants who were flown to Sacramento in recent days did so voluntarily, Florida…
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are using a grand jury in Florida as part of their investigation into the…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ and ROB GILLIES Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Smoke from Canadian wildfires poured into the U.S. East Coast and Midwest on…
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart, Rob Frehse and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Investigators in Boston have used DNA analysis to identify and charge a suspect in…
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Fiji’s leader indicated his nation is reconsidering its security ties with China at…
Continue ReadingDENVER (AP) — Former Colorado state senator Mike Johnston claimed victory as opponent Kelly Brough conceded Tuesday night in a runoff election to…
Continue ReadingBy Isabel Rosales and Jaide Garcia, CNN (CNN) — Three dozen migrants who were flown to Sacramento in recent days did so voluntarily, Florida…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard will resign his position next week to dedicate himself to seeking the…
Continue ReadingBy MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — As shelling from Russia’s war on Ukraine echoed overhead, dozens of evacuees on an…
Continue ReadingREDMOND, Ore. (AP) — Someone left a dead raccoon and a sign with “intimidating language” that mentioned a Black city councilor outside the law…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Democratic lawmakers stood on the steps of the state Capitol Tuesday and implored…
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin…
Continue ReadingBy Carlotta Dotto, Krystina Shveda and Lou Robinson, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Every day, countless mopeds criss-cross the congested city of Hanoi,…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette and Zoe Sottile, Michelle Watson and Jeremy Grisham, CNN (CNN) — A rural Texas high school that had postponed graduation after…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House conservatives staged a mini-revolt Tuesday in retaliation for Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s…
Continue ReadingBy RANDALL CHASE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Attorneys for Delaware’s largest county and three police officers are asking a federal…
Continue ReadingBy JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Françoise Gilot, a prolific and acclaimed painter who produced art for well more than a…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — One passenger was a caretaker from Jamaica known for her generous portions of…
Continue ReadingBy SARAH RANKIN and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Seven people were shot, two fatally, when gunfire rang out Tuesday outside…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A woman who received a desperate text from her husband indicating he had been taken hostage said…
Continue ReadingBy Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — It’s been four days since 35-year-old Ajike “AJ” Owens was shot and killed in central Florida after…
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The promotion of certain beliefs that some North Carolina lawmakers…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The James Webb Space Telescope set its sights on a galaxy 20 million light-years away, capturing a dazzling…
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart and Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — A gunman opened fire as hundreds of people stood outside after a high school graduation ceremony…
Continue ReadingBy Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, William Bonnett and Daria Markina Tarasova, CNN Kherson, Ukraine (CNN) — Nadejda Chernishova breathes a…
Continue ReadingBy WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal safety regulators are urging consumers to stop using baby pillows that have…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two former executives of a company known for offering “orgasmic meditation” sessions have…
Continue ReadingBy EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer The PGA Tour’s merger with rival LIV Golf has reignited a debate over sportswashing and drawn critics ranging…
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Once rivals in court, the PGA Tour and LIV Golf are now partners in business. The PGA Tour, Europe tour and Saudi…
Continue ReadingTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida law banning transgender youth from getting medical treatment is temporarily on hold after a surprise decision…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan’s top prosecutor has disavowed over 300 convictions tied to New York City police…
Continue ReadingBY BEN FINLEY Associated Press The mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher in Virginia is now facing federal charges that she used marijuana…
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Researchers at California State University, Long Beach, used drones to study juvenile white…
Continue ReadingBy JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan lawmakers are scheduled to introduce bipartisan legislation that would give…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A conservative American think tank says the past drug use that Prince Harry detailed in…
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a request to block a new Washington state law banning the sale…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have detected the most distant known organic molecules in the universe using the James Webb Space…
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, Paul P. Murphy and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — A resident of the Iowa apartment building that partially collapsed – killing…
Continue ReadingLIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian judge has affirmed this week’s planned extradition to the U.S. of the main suspect in the unsolved 2005…
Continue ReadingBy CURT ANDERSON and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities came under pressure Tuesday to arrest and charge a white woman…
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press Intense Canadian wildfires are blanketing the northeastern U.S. in a dystopian haze, turning the air acrid, the…
Continue ReadingBy ADRIAN SAINZ and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Questions remain over how a law designed to limit drag shows in…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Abortion providers have sued Kansas over what they are required to tell patients before a…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Black man who was shot in the mouth by a Mississippi…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — In an election that reflected strong global opposition to Russia’s war against…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press It was almost a year ago to the day that Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf teed off for the first time as the PGA Tour’s…
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — A Florida commission that oversees the conduct of the state’s judges recommended a formal…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Liakos, Tara John, Michael Conte and Uliana Pavlova, CNN (CNN) — An Air India flight from India to San Francisco was diverted due to a…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A British police motorcyclist is facing a criminal investigation over the death of a woman who was struck in a collision with the…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Italian state television and other media have reported that prosecutors based in Naples are investigating a former premier and some…
Continue ReadingUNION, Mo. (AP) — A 67-year-old man has pleaded guilty to strangling a woman in Missouri and leaving her bound body in the woods three decades ago,…
Continue ReadingBy TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is considering whether to join the 2024 Republican…
Continue ReadingBy TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Cleveland Browns coach Kevin Stefanski expressed relief that two of his defensive players were…
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press AMERICAN CEMETERY, Normandy, France (AP) — U.S. Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Mark Milley says fighting in Ukraine has…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico lowered the alert level on the Popocatepetl volcano Tuesday after more than two weeks of its eruptions of gas and ash had…
Continue ReadingBy Derek Van Dam and Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — New York City topped the list of the world’s worst air pollution for parts of Tuesday as…
Continue ReadingBy MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An official with Poland’s state broadcasting authority says it has received multiple…
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A top aide to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is joining Daniel Cameron’s…
Continue ReadingBy BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge temporarily blocked portions of a new Florida law championed by…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is weighing in on the controversy over Pink Floyd co-founder Roger…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal magistrate ruled Tuesday to make public the names of the cosigners on indicted Rep.…
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer The PGA Tour ended its expensive fight with Saudi Arabia’s golf venture and now is joining forces with it, making a…
Continue ReadingBy COURTNEY BONNELL and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The collapse of a major dam in southern Ukraine sent global…
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press MILLBURN, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s Canoe Brook Water Treatment plant produces 14 millions gallons of drinking…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — The Arctic could be free of sea ice roughly a decade earlier than projected, scientists warn – another clear…
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A Thai state enterprise that has been exporting electricity to neighboring Myanmar has cut…
Continue ReadingKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The European Union is urging Afghan authorities to follow up on the poisoning of schoolgirls in the country’s…
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Vegas Golden Knights and Florida Panthers didn’t have much of a joint…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court has set the date for a new trial of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny that could keep him in prison…
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is sanctioning a network of people and firms from Iran, China and Hong Kong…
Continue ReadingCOLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — World War II veteran Jake Larson, a 100-year-old American best known on social media under the name “Papa…
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN New York (CNN) — The past few months of robust grocery store sales would suggest that shoppers aren’t…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A Labrador and German shepherd mix named Zoey has claimed the record for the longest tongue on a living dog. At 12.7…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The first NASA spacecraft designed to study a metallic asteroid is now set to launch in October, according to…
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle and Chloe Melas, CNN (CNN) — Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. and a woman who accused him of rape have “resolved the matter” in…
Continue ReadingBy Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — There are an estimated 600 million domestic cats in the world, and 80% of them are feral or stray animals.…
Continue ReadingBy TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Merck is suing the federal government over a plan to negotiate Medicare drug prices, calling the program a sham…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press New Jersey voters will cast ballots in 21 primaries for state legislature on Tuesday. Democrats hold majorities in both…
Continue ReadingBy SARAH BRUMFIELD, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and BEN FINLEY Associated Press Only minutes into a doomed journey that ended on a remote Virginia mountain, the…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN (CNN) — A school board in Oklahoma has approved an application for a Catholic virtual charter school…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN (CNN) — A school board in Oklahoma has approved an application for a Catholic virtual charter school…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The global economy is likely slowing sharply this year, hobbled by high…
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