French security forces have reported another death in armed clashes in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia. The fatality Saturday was the sixth in a nearly a week of violent unrest wracking …
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By JOHN LEICESTER
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5/18/24
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Man who sought revenge for a stolen phone pleads guilty to fire that killed a Senegalese family of 5
A Colorado man has pleaded guilty to setting a house fire that killed five members of a Senegalese family in 2020 in a case of misplaced revenge. Twenty-year-old Kevin Bui pleaded guilty Friday. He …
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By COLLEEN SLEVIN
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5/17/24
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Families are mourning the loss of their loved ones from a bus crash in Florida earlier this week. Officials say eight Mexican farmworkers were killed after 41-year-old Bryan Howard sideswiped a bus …
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By STEPHANY MATAT and JOSÉ MARÍA ÁLVAREZ
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5/17/24
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The last U.S. zoo to have pandas in its care is preparing to say goodbye to the four giant bears this fall. Officials at Zoo Atlanta said Friday they preparing to return panda parents Lun Lun and …
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5/17/24
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Georgia's prime minister has joined tens of thousands of people on march through the country's capital to mark the Day of Family Purity. The event on Friday celebrated so-called traditional family …
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5/17/24
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Tick season is starting across the U.S., and experts are warning the bloodsuckers may be as plentiful as ever. That's because of a another mild winter and other favorable factors. Experts are mostly …
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By MIKE STOBBE
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5/17/24
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May 10-16, 2024
People took part in the Piu Sik Parade at the Bun Festival in Hong Kong, Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump attended his trial at Manhattan …
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By The Associated Press
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5/17/24
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U.S. figures show that San Diego became the busiest corridor for illegal crossings in April. It is the fifth region to hold that distinction in two years, a sign of how quickly migration routes are …
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By ELLIOT SPAGAT
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5/17/24
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Seventy years after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling, the impact of the decision is still up for debate. Have Americans truly ended segregation in fact, not just in law? The …
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By SHARON LURYE
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5/17/24
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May 10-16, 2024
Naval academy students climbed a monument to celebrate their first year in Annapolis, Maryland, wildfires filled the sky with smoke over Edmonton, Alberta, and lowrider cars were …
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By The Associated Press
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5/16/24
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The U.S. Coast Guard says early estimates show a barge collision in Galveston, Texas, may have spilled up to 2,000 gallons of oil in surrounding waters. The barge had drifted away from the tugboat …
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By LEKAN OYEKANMI and VALERIE GONZALEZ
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5/16/24
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Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was gravely injured in an apparent assassination attempt that rocked the small country and the rest of Europe just weeks before an election. The attack calls to …
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By The Associated Press
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5/16/24
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Scientists say temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global coral bleaching event the worst in history. It's so bad that …
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By SETH BORENSTEIN
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5/16/24
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Police records show that officers responded nearly 1,000 times in the past three years to an Iowa juvenile treatment center where a staff member was killed. Police say 50-year-old Kathleen …
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By JIM SALTER
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5/16/24
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Through its long history, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has offered a way for people to get a quick read on how Wall Street is doing. But its importance is on the wane. Because it holds just 30 …
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By STAN CHOE
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5/16/24
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The Webb Space Telescope has discovered the earliest known merger of black holes. Scientists reported Thursday that these two gigantic and distant black holes and their galaxies consolidated just 740 …
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By MARCIA DUNN
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5/16/24
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Police have dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment early Thursday at DePaul University in Chicago, hours after the school’s president told students to leave the area or face arrest. The move on …
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By TERESA CRAWFORD
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5/16/24
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In Illinois, 114,000 people are banned from owning guns because of legal tangles or mental health issues. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart will issue a report Thursday showing that three-quarters of them …
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By JOHN O'CONNOR
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5/16/24
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Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s whirlwind agreement to meet for two presidential debates has upended the way the forums have been organized for nearly four decades. It sidelines and casts doubt on the …
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By JONATHAN J. COOPER
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5/16/24
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China underlines an increasingly close partnership between the two allies. China, led by President Xi Jinping, has offered robust diplomatic support to …
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By The Associated Press
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5/15/24
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