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By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand has kicked off its annual celebration for the LGBTQ+ community’s Pride Month as the country is on course to become the first nation in Southeast Asia to legalize marriage equality. Saturday’s Bangkok Pride Parade filled one side of a major thoroughfare with a colorful parade for

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press A temporary fix allowing President Joe Biden to appear on this fall’s ballot has cleared the Ohio Senate as the Republican-controlled Legislature concluded a rare special session. Friday’s vote came one day after the House approved the measure, along with a ban on foreign nationals contributing to state ballot campaigns.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bisons catcher Payton Henry was hospitalized Friday night after he was struck by a batter’s backswing and carted off the field on a stretcher. Henry was hit in the back of the head by the swing from Syracuse Mets third baseman Pablo Reyes in the seventh inning. He immediately went

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Tamil people still live in the shadow of defeat in the civil war that tore the country apart until it ended 15 years ago. Some parents have given up hope of ever learning the fate of the thousands of missing children. Parts of

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council has voted unanimously to end the U.N. political mission in Iraq established in 2003 after the United States-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein to coordinate post-conflict humanitarian and reconstruction efforts, and to help restore a representative government in the country.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — An investigation in North Carolina has determined that a man who fatally shot four law enforcement officers and wounded four others with an assault rifle a month ago acted alone and there was no friendly fire. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Deputy Chief Tonya Arrington said Friday that the investigation was enormous in

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — A six-week-long national election in India that is a referendum on Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decade in power neared its end Saturday as the last phase of voting began. The election is considered one of the most consequential in India’s history.

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyer told The Associated Press he was surprised at Trump’s stoic demeanor as he listened to the verdict that made him the first former U.S. president convicted of a crime. Todd Blanche was sitting to Trump’s left in the Manhattan

By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer EASTLAKE, Ohio (AP) — Birmingham-Southern is down to one last swing. The Panthers lost their opening game in the Division III World Series on Friday on the same day their school in Alabama was closing its doors permanently after 160 years. Birmingham-Southern fell behind 7-0 in the fifth inning

DALLAS (AP) — More than 60 veterans of World War II are being flown from Dallas to France to take part in ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The group that left Friday includes six Medal of Honor recipients from other wars and two Rosie the Riveters, representing the women who worked in factories

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a ruling that Oregon defendants must be released from jail after seven days if they don’t have a defense attorney. In its decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called Oregon’s public defense system a “Sixth Amendment nightmare,” OPB reported, referring to the

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Following his unprecedented felony conviction, former president and current presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has to wait to find out what his sentence will be. But even if it involves time behind bars, that doesn’t mean his campaign to return to the White House comes to

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has broken an unofficial political rule about headwear when helped celebrate the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs at the White House — he tried on the team helmet he received as a gift. The entire team attended Friday’s celebration on the South Lawn.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — A crew working in the basement area of an Ohio building intentionally cut a gas line not knowing it was pressurized before a deadly explosion this week, the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday. NTSB board member Tom Chapman said preliminary investigation shows workers were in the basement to clear out

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and allies South Korea and Japan have clashed with China and Russia over North Korea’s latest satellite and ballistic missile launches and threats to use nuclear weapons that have escalated tensions in northeast Asia. The scene was an emergency open meeting of

WASHINGTON (AP) — Relatives of passengers who died in two Boeing Max crashes are pushing federal officials to prosecute the company, but they’re not getting any promises from the Justice Department. The families made their case in a meeting Friday in Washington. The Justice Department determined two weeks ago that Boeing violated terms of a

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press A Florida sheriff on Friday fired a deputy who fatally shot an airman at his home while holding a handgun pointed to the ground, saying the deputy’s life was never in danger and he should not have fired his weapon. The Okaloosa County Sheriff on Friday fired Deputy Eddie Duran,