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CREVE COEUR, Mo. (AP) — A 79-year-old Missouri man is accused of killing a woman in her suburban Chicago home — a crime that happened nearly six decades ago. James Barbier was arrested Monday at his St. Louis County home and charged with first-degree murder in the November 1966 death of 18-year-old Karen Snider in
Continue ReadingBy MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The student protest movement disrupting university campuses, classes and graduation ceremonies over the war in Gaza is also roiling Senate contests across the nation as Democrats tread cautiously over an internal divide and Republicans play up their rivals’ disagreements. The political impact of the protests on
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — A British-Palestinian surgeon who volunteered in Gaza hospitals says he was denied entry to France to speak at the French Senate. The French senator who invited him says Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta was placed in a holding zone in the Charles de Gaulle airport and will be expelled. Abu Sitta posted on
Continue ReadingThe United States is gearing up for Cinco de Mayo. Music, all-day happy hours and deals on tacos are planned at venues across the country on Sunday — May 5 — in a celebration with widely misunderstood origins that is barely recognized south of the border. In the U.S., the date is largely seen as
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Sadiq Khan, the Labour Party’s mayor of London, rhas romped to victory, securing a record third straight term at City Hall, on another hugely disappointing day for the U.K.’s governing Conservatives ahead of a looming general election. Khan won a little more than a million votes, or
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Sadiq Khan, the Labour Party’s mayor of London, appears to be romping to victory as results from the capital pour in. Results from nine of the 14 electoral districts show Khan, chasing a record third straight term, on 43.5% and more than 10 percentage points ahead of
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A Hamas delegation was in Cairo on Saturday as Egyptian state media reported “noticeable progress” in cease-fire talks for Gaza. But Israel hasn’t sent a delegation and a senior Israeli official downplayed prospects for a full end to the war while emphasizing
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GRAHAM Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party in next month’s European elections was beaten up and seriously injured while campaigning in an eastern city. The Social Democrats say Matthias Ecke was attacked while putting up posters in Dresden on Friday evening. He was taken to hospital and
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Sadiq Khan, the Labour Party’s mayor of London, appears to be romping to victory as results from the capital pour in. Results from 6 of the 14 districts show Khan, chasing a record third straight term at City Hall, around 20 percentage points ahead of his main
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — After years of delays and stumbles, Boeing is finally poised to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA. It’s the first flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule with a crew on board, a pair of NASA pilots who will check out the spacecraft
Continue ReadingBy RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — An Afghan diplomat in India who was appointed before the Taliban seized power in 2021 and says she was the only woman in the country’s diplomatic service has resigned. Zakia Wardak, the Afghan consul-general for Mumbai, announced her resignation on her official account on the social media
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett’s company reported a steep drop in earnings Saturday because the paper value of its investments fell and it sold off part of its massive Apple stake, but the tens of thousands of shareholders filling an Omaha arena to hear Buffett answer questions at
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — After years of delays and stumbles, Boeing is finally poised to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA. It’s the first flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule with a crew on board, a pair of NASA pilots who will check out the spacecraft
Continue ReadingBy ERIK VERDUZCO and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Saing Chhoeun was locked out of his Charlotte, North Carolina, home on Monday as law enforcement with high-powered rifles descended into his yard and garage, using a car as a shield as they were met with a shower of gunfire from the direction
Continue ReadingBy LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Waiting in a long post office line with the latest shipment of “abortion aftercare kits,” Kimra Luna got a text. A woman who’d taken abortion pills three weeks earlier was worried about bleeding — and disclosing the cause to a doctor. “Bleeding doesn’t mean you
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press As the U.S. government moves toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, there may be little immediate impact in the dozen states that have not already legalized cannabis for widespread medical or recreational use by adults. But advocates for marijuana legalization hope a federal regulatory shift could eventually
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — It was Election Day last November, and one of Georgia’s top election officials saw that reports of a voting machine problem in an eastern Pennsylvania county were gaining traction online. So Gabriel Sterling, a Republican who had defended the 2020 election in Georgia amid an onslaught
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party in next month’s European elections was beaten up and seriously injured while campaigning in an eastern city. The Social Democrats say Matthias Ecke was attacked while putting up posters in Dresden on Friday evening. He was taken to hospital and required surgery for his injuries.
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Crucial witnesses took the stand in the second week of testimony in Donald Trump’s hush money trial, including a California lawyer who negotiated deals at the center of the case and a longtime adviser to the former president. Jurors heard a potentially pivotal piece of evidence —
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s national weather center says the country has recorded its wettest April since 1961. The weather service said on Friday that the extreme weather last month killed scores of people and destroyed property and farmland. Experts said the country witnessed heavier rains because of climate change. Last month’s rainfall for Pakistan represented
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