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US and Iran-backed Houthis both vow escalation after airstrikes target rebels in Yemen
CAIRO (AP) - The United States and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen are both vowing escalation after the U.S. launched airstrikes to deter the rebels from attacking military and commercial vessels on one of the world's busiest shipping corridors. The Houthi-run Health Ministry said the overnight U.S. strikes killed a...
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Vatican releases first photograph of the pope in more than a month
ROME (AP) - The Vatican on Sunday released the first photograph of pope in more than a month, showing Francis co-celebrating Mass in the hospital chapel. The photograph is taken from behind, and shows Pope Francis wearing a purple stole sitting in a wheelchair in front of an altar. The Vatican said he was particpating ...
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Netanyahu says he will seek to dismiss the head of Israel's internal security service
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he will bring a vote to the government this week to dismiss the director of the country's internal security service, the Shin Bet, capping a monthslong power struggle stemming from the Hamas attack that sparked the war in Gaza. Netanyahu said...
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51 dead and dozens more injured in nightclub fire in North Macedonia
SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) - A massive fire that broke out early Sunday in a nightclub in North Macedonia's eastern town of Kocani has killed 51 people and injured about 100 more, interior minister Panche Toshkovski told a press conference. The blaze began around 2:35 a.m. during a concert by a local pop group, accor...
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Rebels in Yemen say death toll from US strikes has climbed to 31, including women and children
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The Houthi rebel-run Health Ministry says the death toll from U.S. strikes on Yemen has climbed to 31, including women and children. Anees al-Asbahi, a spokesperson for the ministry, said Sunday that another 101 people were wounded in the overnight strikes. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. A...
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At least 26 dead in massive US storm after Kansas reports 8 fatalities
Violent tornadoes ripped through parts of the U.S., wiping out schools and toppling semitractor-trailers in several states, part of a monster storm that has killed at least 26 people as more severe weather was expected late Saturday. The number of fatalities increased after the Kansas Highway Patrol reported eight peop...
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Trump invokes 18th century law to declare invasion by gangs and speed deportations
Claiming the United States was being invaded by a Venezuelan gang, President Donald Trump on Saturday invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a sweeping war time authority that allows the president broader leeway on policy and executive action, to speed up mass deportations of people in the country illegally - potential...
Mar 15, 2025
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Trump signs a bill funding the government for 6 months, avoiding a shutdown
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump has signed into law legislation funding the government through the end of September, ending the threat of a partial government shutdown and capping off a struggle in Congress that deeply divided Democrats. Harrison Fields, White House principal deputy press secretary, said in a ...
Mar 15, 2025
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Monster storm across the US sparks threat of tornadoes in US South; At least 5 dead
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - At least five people have been killed in a monster storm sweeping across much of the U.S. At least two people were killed in Missouri after a tornado struck the Bakersfield area. The Missouri State Highway patrol said Saturday via social media that multiple people were also injured. It would bring ...
Mar 15, 2025
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Israeli airstrikes killed 8 people in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics say
CAIRO (AP) - Palestinian medics say Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip killed at least eight people, including a local reporter who was operating a drone. The Indonesian Hospital said it received eight bodies from two airstrikes in the same area of the northern town of Beit Lahiya on Saturday. Fares Awad, head of eme...
Mar 15, 2025
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Starmer tells global leaders to 'keep the pressure' on Putin over ceasefire in Ukraine
LONDON (AP) - U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told global leaders to "keep the pressure" on Russian President Vladimir Putin to back a ceasefire in Ukraine. In his opening remarks Saturday to a virtual gathering of what he has termed the "coalition of the willing," Starmer said Putin will "...
Mar 15, 2025
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Starmer tells global leaders to 'keep the pressure' on Putin over ceasefire in Ukraine
LONDON (AP) - U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told global leaders to "keep the pressure" on Russian President Vladimir Putin to back a ceasefire in Ukraine. In his opening remarks Saturday to a virtual gathering of what he has termed the "coalition of the willing," Starmer said Putin will "...
Mar 15, 2025
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Big March storm fans wildfires and kills 3 as forecasters fear weekend tornado outbreak
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A sprawling storm system crossing the U.S. on Friday caused deadly crashes, overturned semitrucks and fanned dozens of wildfires in several central states, prompting evacuation orders in some communities. At least three Tornadoes touched down in Missouri, and threats of more loomed for the Mississi...
Mar 15, 2025
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Appeals court says Louisiana can carry out the state's first nitrogen gas execution next week
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana's first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned next week after a federal appeals court on Friday overturned a preliminary injunction granted by a lower judge. With a March 18 date hastily nearing, attorneys for Jessie Hoffman Jr., the man on death row, told The ...
Mar 15, 2025
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Texas lawmaker introduces bill to clarify medical exceptions in state's abortion ban
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Texas lawmaker who helped pioneer the state's restrictive abortion laws introduced a bill on Friday to clarify medical exceptions allowed under the law, representing a pivot from Republican legislators who have defended the state's abortion ban in the face of lawsuits and medical scrutiny. The bi...
Mar 15, 2025
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Appeals court lifts blocks on Trump's orders restricting diversity, equity and inclusion programs
WASHINGTON (AP) - An appeals court on Friday lifted a block on executive orders seeking to end government support for diversity, equity and inclusion programs, handing the Trump administration a win after a string of setbacks defending President Donald Trump's agenda against dozens of lawsuits. The decision from a thre...
Mar 15, 2025
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Rubio says South Africa's ambassador to the US 'is no longer welcome' in the country
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that South Africa's ambassador to the United States "is no longer welcome" in the country. Rubio, in a post on X, accused Ebrahim Rasool of being a "race-baiting politician" who hates President Donald Trump and declared him "persona n...
Mar 14, 2025
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Bill to avert government shutdown clears key hurdle with help from Democrats
WASHINGTON (AP) - A spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown narrowly cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate, paving the way for passage as a midnight Friday deadline loomed. Ten Democrats joined with Republicans to clear the 60-vote threshold needed to advance the measure. The vote was 62-38. Democr...
Mar 14, 2025
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Trump pledges to 'expel rogue actors' in political speech at Justice Department
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump used a triumphant visit to the Justice Department on Friday to air a litany of grievances about the criminal investigations that threatened to torpedo his political career, decrying in often profane terms his adversaries and casting himself as a victim of unfair and biased prose...
Mar 14, 2025
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Helicopter route permanently closed on route near Washington airport where 67 died in midair crash
WASHINGTON (AP) - Helicopters will be permanently restricted from flying near Washington, D.C.'s airport on the same route where a passenger jet and an Army helicopter collided in midair, killing 67 people, the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday. The move comes just days after federal investigators looking int...
Mar 14, 2025
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Senate gives final approval to a bill that would increase penalties for fentanyl traffickers
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate gave final approval Friday to a bill that would result in more prison sentences for fentanyl traffickers as both Republicans and Democrats seek to show they can act to rein in distribution of the deadly drug. The bill passed the Senate on an 84-16 vote, with all the nay votes from Democrats...
Mar 14, 2025
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Immigration officials arrest second person who participated in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia
NEW YORK (AP) - Immigration officials have arrested a second person who participated in Pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, and have revoked the visa of another student, they announced Friday. Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian from the West Bank, was arrested by immigration officers for overstaying her student v...
Mar 14, 2025
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Bid to launch women's DI hockey at Michigan moving forward, regent Denise Ilitch tells the AP
University of Michigan regent Denise Ilitch told The Associated Press she believes there's enough support for the Big Ten school to launch a Division I women's hockey program that it's only a matter of when, not if, it will happen. "I think that the decision to have a DI team is positive, so that would be a yes,&q...
Mar 14, 2025
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Head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed, Iraqi prime minister says
BAGHDAD (AP) - The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, the Iraqi prime minister announced Friday. "The Iraqis continue their impressive victories over the forces of darkness a...
Mar 14, 2025
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More than 50 universities face federal investigations as part of Trump's anti-DEI campaign
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 50 universities are being investigated for alleged racial discrimination as part of President Donald Trump's campaign to end diversity and equity programs that his officials say exclude white and Asian American students. The Education Department announced the new investigations on Friday, on...
Mar 14, 2025
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Philippine ex-President Duterte appears by video link before international court judges in The Hague
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte appeared Friday by video link before judges at the International Criminal Court, days after his arrest in Manila on murder charges linked to the deadly " war on drugs " he oversaw while in office. The 79-year-old Duterte didn't show up ...
Mar 14, 2025
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Former US Sen. Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming dies at age 93
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson, a political legend whose quick wit bridged partisan gaps in the years before today's political acrimony, has died. He was 93. Along with former Vice President Dick Cheney, Simpson was a towering Republican figure from Wyoming, the least-populated state. Unlike Cheney...
Mar 14, 2025
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Hamas agrees to release a US-Israeli hostage and the bodies of 4 other dual nationals
JERUSALEM (AP) - Hamas said on Friday it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-nationals, hostages who had died in captivity. The announcement came talks continue in Qatar to try to broker the next stage of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire. The milit...
Mar 14, 2025
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