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Russian attack kills 3 and injures 12 in Ukraine's capital
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - A mass Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine's capital early Thursday killed at least three people and injured 12, local authorities said. Among the dead was a 14-year-old child, said Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv's city administration. A residential building in one district was hit direc...
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will attend a military parade in Beijing next week
BEIJING (AP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will make a rare trip abroad next week to attend a military parade in the Chinese capital, North Korean and Chinese state media said Thursday. China will hold the parade in Beijing on Wednesday to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Xinhua said that 26 fo...
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Daniil Medvedev is fined $42,500 for unsportsmanlike conduct and racket abuse for US Open outburst
NEW YORK (AP) - Daniil Medvedev was fined a total of $42,500 by the U.S. Open on Wednesday - more than a third of his $110,000 tournament prize money - for his meltdown during a first-round loss after a photographer wandered onto the court during the match. Tournament referee Jake Garner docked Medvedev $30,000 for uns...
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Mass Shooting
Minneapolis Catholic school shooting injured victims will survive: officials
A shooter opened fire Wednesday morning during Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school, killing two children and injuring 17 other people before killing himself, officials said.Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said the shooter - armed with a rifle, shotgun and pistol - approached the side of the church and shot thro...
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Prominent Bolivian opposition leader to be transferred from jail to house arrest
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - Bolivian opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho won his release to house arrest Wednesday after two years and eight months of pretrial detention, a surprise move that empowered his supporters who long criticized his prosecution as unjust and disheartened his detractors who complained of politica...
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A shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school kills 2 children, injures 17 people
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A shooter opened fire with a rifle Wednesday through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis and struck children celebrating Mass during the first week of school, killing two and wounding 17 people in an act of violence the police chief called "absolutely incomprehensible." Armed wi...
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Top Florida official says 'Alligator Alcatraz' will likely be empty within days, email shows
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A top Florida official says the controversial state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades will likely be empty in a matter of days, even as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration and the federal government fight a judge's order to shutter the facility dubbed "Alligator...
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Authorities say Minneapolis school shooter has been 'contained'
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A shooting occurred Wednesday morning during the first week of classes at a Minneapolis Catholic school, Minnesota governor's said. Authorities gave no immediate information on the number of injuries, but Gov. Tim Walz called the shooting "horrific." The Minneapolis city government said the...
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers say he wants to seek asylum in the United States
WASHINGTON (AP) - Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has become the face of President Donald Trump's hardline immigration agenda, wants to seek asylum in the United States, his lawyers told a federal judge Wednesday. Abrego Garcia, 30, was detained Monday in Baltimore by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement after leaving a ...
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Handling crime a strength for Trump as many in US see a 'major problem' in big cities: AP-NORC poll
WASHINGTON (AP) - As armed National Guard troops patrol the nation's capital as part of an unprecedented federal takeover of Washington's police department, handling crime is now a relative strength for President Donald Trump, according to the latest AP-NORC poll. Americans who aren't happy about the Republican preside...
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Trump will chair a meeting on postwar Gaza as hospitals report 10 killed by strikes
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Israeli and American officials will meet in Washington on Wednesday to discuss the aftermath of war in Gaza, despite no sign that the conflict, which has killed tens of thousands and pushed its largest city into famine, is nearing its end. Their meeting comes as ceasefire talks show little ap...
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Flash floods leave 32 dead in Indian-controlled Kashmir as over 150,000 are displaced in Punjab
NEW DELHI (AP) - Intense rains have lashed parts of Pakistan and India and triggered flash floods in Indian-controlled Kashmir's Jammu region, leaving at least 32 people dead and many missing following a landslide on a Hindu pilgrimage route, news agency Press Trust of India reported Wednesday. The time frame of the fl...
Aug 27, 2025
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Denmark summons US envoy after report of Americans carrying out influence operations in Greenland
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Denmark's foreign minister had the top U.S. diplomat in the country summoned for talks after the main national broadcaster reported Wednesday that at least three people with connections to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland. Greenland, a hug...
Aug 27, 2025
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Some FEMA staff are put on leave after signing dissent letter
Some employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency who signed a public letter of dissent earlier this week were put on administrative leave Tuesday evening, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press. More than 180 current and former FEMA employees signed the letter sent to the FEMA Review Council a...
Aug 27, 2025
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European and Iranian diplomats fail to agree on how to avoid reimposition of UN sanctions
VIENNA (AP) - Representatives of three European countries threatening to reimpose U.N. sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program failed to agree with their Iranian counterpart Tuesday on how to avoid the measures days ahead of a deadline, a diplomat said. The talks in Geneva among representatives of Britain, France an...
Aug 26, 2025
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Federal judge allows case against Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan to proceed
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A federal judge on Tuesday allowed the case to proceed against a Wisconsin judge accused of helping a man evade U.S. immigration agents seeking to arrest him in her courthouse. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested at the county courthouse in April and indicted on federal charges...
Aug 26, 2025
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Israeli military says strike on Gaza hospital was targeting a Hamas camera
JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli military says its strike on a Gaza hospital that killed 20 people, including five journalists, was aimed at what military officials believed was a Hamas surveillance camera, as well as people they identified as militants. The military made the statement Tuesday as part of its initial inquir...
Aug 26, 2025
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Court throws out lawsuit by Trump administration against all Maryland federal judges
BALTIMORE (AP) - A federal judge on Tuesday threw out the Trump administration's lawsuit against Maryland's entire federal bench over an order by the chief judge that stopped the immediate deportation of migrants challenging their removals. U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen granted a request by the judges to toss the c...
Aug 26, 2025
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2 police officers killed and another shot in a rural Australian town
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Two police officers were killed and another seriously wounded in a shooting at a property in rural Australia and the suspect was at large Tuesday, authorities said. The shooting occurred in midmorning during a police visit to a property in Porepunkah, a town of just over 1,000 people in V...
Aug 26, 2025
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Iran directed antisemitic attacks in Australia, PM Albanese says
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accused Iran of directing at least two antisemitic attacks in Australia and said the country is expelling the Iranian ambassador on Tuesday. Albanese said that Australian intelligence services had connected Iran to attacks on a Sydney restaurant and...
Aug 26, 2025
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Judge rules Utah's congressional map must be redrawn for the 2026 elections
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Utah Legislature will need to rapidly redraw the state's congressional boundaries after a judge ruled Monday that the Republican-controlled body drew them in violation of voters' rights. The current map, drawn in 2021, divides Salt Lake County - the state's population center and a Democratic s...
Aug 26, 2025
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Venus Williams loses in 3 sets at the US Open in her 1st Grand Slam match in 2 years
NEW YORK (AP) - Even at age 45, even after two years away from Grand Slam tennis, Venus Williams displayed some big serves and powerful groundstrokes at the U.S. Open on Monday night in front of a supportive crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium, before losing 6-3, 2-6, 6-1 to Karolina Muchova. Williams was the oldest singles p...
Aug 26, 2025
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Maine clinics denied Medicaid funds during lawsuit after Trump cuts to abortion providers
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A network of clinics in Maine will not resume getting Medicaid funds to treat thousands of low-income patients during its lawsuit over Trump administration cuts to abortion providers, a judge ruled Monday. President Donald Trump's policy and tax bill, known as the " big beautiful bill,"...
Aug 25, 2025
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Long-elusive Mexican drug lord Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada pleads guilty in US
NEW YORK (AP) - Former Mexican cartel kingpin Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges related to his role in the violent drug trade that for years flooded the U.S. with cocaine, heroin and other illicit substances. Under the leadership of Zambada and Joaquín "El Chapo&quo...
Aug 25, 2025
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Humanitarian group says Libya's coast guard fired on its vessel in the Mediterranean
CAIRO (AP) - A humanitarian group said Monday that Libya's coast guard fired upon its vessel as it searched for a migrant boat in distress in the Mediterranean Sea. The nonprofit SOS Mediterranee said the confrontation occurred a day earlier, about 40 nautical miles north of the Libyan coast, and released details and i...
Aug 25, 2025
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia surrenders to ICE in Baltimore, faces possible deportation to Uganda
WASHINGTON (AP) - Kilmar Abrego Garcia surrendered to U.S. immigration authorities in Baltimore Monday and faces possible efforts by the Trump administration to deport him to Uganda, an African country with documented human rights abuses and a language he doesn't speak. The Maryland construction worker became the face ...
Aug 25, 2025
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Back home in Maryland, Kilmar Abrego Garcia faces deportation again as he reports to ICE office
BALTIMORE (AP) - Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose arrest and fight to stay in the U.S. has become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, arrived Monday morning to Baltimore in anticipation of reporting to U.S. immigration officials and then likely facing deportation proceedings. The Salvadoran natio...
Aug 25, 2025
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Tropical Storm Juliette forms in the Pacific as Fernand churns over open waters in the Atlantic
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Juliette formed Monday in the Pacific Ocean hundreds of miles from Mexico's Baja California peninsula as Tropical Storm Fernand churned in the Atlantic Ocean. No coastal watches or warnings were in effect for either storm, the U.S.-based Miami-based National Hurricane Center said. Juliette p...
Aug 25, 2025
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