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Russia rejoices at Trump-Putin call as Zelenskyy rejects talks without Ukraine present
Russian officials and state media took a triumphant tone Thursday after President Donald Trump jettisoned three years of U.S. policy and announced he would likely meet soon with Russian President Vlad...
Feb 14, 2025
Russian crypto expert Alexander Vinnik returns to Moscow in Russia-US prisoner swap, reports say
MOSCOW (AP) - Alexander Vinnik, a Russian cryptocurrency expert who faced Bitcoin fraud charges in the United States, returned to Russia on Thursday after being freed in a swap that saw Moscow release...
Feb 14, 2025
Federal judge pauses President Trump's order restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth
BALTIMORE (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's recent executive order aimed at restricting gender-affirming health care for transgender people under age 19. ...
Feb 14, 2025
Florida man is executed for the 1997 killing of a couple whose toddler witnessed the attack
STARKE, Fla. (AP) - A Florida man convicted of killing a husband and wife at a remote farm as the couple's toddler looked on was put to death Thursday in the state's first execution of the year. James...
Feb 14, 2025
Man to plead guilty to 2023 shooting of Black teen Ralph Yarl, 2 people familiar with case tell AP
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - An 86-year-old Kansas City man will plead guilty Friday to the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who rang the man's doorbell by mistake, two people familiar wi...
Feb 14, 2025
Vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sworn in as Trump's health chief after a close Senate vote
WASHINGTON (AP) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in Thursday as President Donald Trump's health secretary after a close Senate vote, putting the prominent vaccine skeptic in control of $1.7 trillion ...
Feb 14, 2025
Former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, who stepped down in the wake of Whitewater, dies at 81
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Jim Guy Tucker, who became Arkansas' governor when Bill Clinton was elected president but was later forced from office after being convicted during the Whitewater investigatio...
Feb 14, 2025
Texas executes man for 2004 double killing in a dispute with his strip club manager
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A Texas man who killed his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison system when he used a cellphone smuggled onto death r...
Feb 14, 2025
Texas judge fines New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A Texas judge on Thursday ordered a New York doctor to pay more than $100,000 in penalties for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, a ruling that could test "shield l...
Feb 14, 2025
California braces for heavy rains as car pileup in winter storm closes an Oregon interstate
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Snow and ice in whiteout conditions contributed to as many as 30 cars involved in a pileup on a major highway connecting Oregon and Idaho, reportedly injuring several people, as a w...
Feb 14, 2025
