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Wed, 6 Jan 2021 20:02:40 ESTThe Jan. 6 riot hearings are delivering some startling testimony. Are they changing minds?
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:40:35 EDTTexas migrant deaths: Truck driver among 3 arrested as investigators work to ID dozens of victims
Desperate families of migrants from Mexico and Central America frantically sought word of their loved ones as authorities began the grim task Tuesday of identifying 51 people who died after being aban...
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 15:44:55 EDTNATO leader says Turkey has agreed to support Finland and Sweden joining alliance
Turkey agreed Tuesday to lift its opposition to Sweden and Finland joining NATO, a breakthrough in an impasse clouding a leaders' summit in Madrid amid Europe's worst security crisis in decades trigge...
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 20:53:18 EDTColombia needs drug policy changes to end internal violence, truth commission says
Colombian leaders must recognize how drug trafficking has penetrated the country's culture, economy and politics and how the global war on drugs is driving its internal armed conflict, Colombia's trut...
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 14:35:00 EDTGhislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls
British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for helping convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls.
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 10:06:28 EDTAs war in Ukraine grinds on, G7 vows to reduce Russia's energy leverage
The leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies, meeting in the Bavarian Alps, ended their annual summit on Tuesday vowing to do everything in their power to stop Russia from using energy as a wea...
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 15:43:43 EDTAndreescu cruises into Wimbledon 2nd round, Shapovalov needs 3-plus hours to win
Bianca Andreescu continued her successful grass-court season with a convincing 6-1, 6-3 win over Emina Bektas in first-round action at Wimbledon on Tuesday.
Sat, 12 Feb 2022 11:04:48 ESTThis soldier survived the siege of Mariupol and capture by Russia. What about all the others?
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 11:12:27 EDTLudacris' manager, Chaka Zulu, and 2 others shot in Atlanta
A man was killed and two others were injured, including rap star Ludacris' manager, in a parking lot shooting in an upscale neighbourhood north of downtown Atlanta on Sunday night.
Mon, 27 Jun 2022 12:57:17 EDTDeadly missile strike destroys shopping centre in central Ukraine city
A Russian missile strike hit a crowded shopping centre in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk on Monday, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than 40, senior Ukrainian officials said.
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Mon, 27 Jun 2022 14:16:46 EDTSurprise hearing coming Tuesday as Jan. 6 committee promises recently obtained evidence
The House Jan. 6 panel says it is calling a surprise hearing to present recently obtained evidence, but offered no further details.
Mon, 27 Jun 2022 10:43:56 EDTRussia may have just defaulted on its foreign debt for 1st time in more than a century
Russia is poised to default on its foreign debt for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution more than a century ago, further alienating the country from the global financial system following san...
Mon, 27 Jun 2022 04:00:00 EDTZelensky asks G7 leaders for better air defences and tougher sanctions on Russia
The ongoing war in Ukraine moved from being a distant, abstract conflict to something more tangible for the leaders of the world's seven wealthiest democracies on Monday with an address by the emb...
Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:51:40 EDT3 dead, several hurt after Amtrak train derails in Missouri after hitting truck
Three people were killed and others were injured when a passenger train travelling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck a dump truck and derailed in a remote, rural area of Missouri on Monday, officials...
Mon, 27 Jun 2022 10:01:27 EDTNATO to boost its rapid reaction force to 300,000 troops
NATO will increase the strength of its rapid reaction force nearly eightfold to 300,000 troops as part of its response to an "era of strategic competition," the military alliance's secretary general s...
Mon, 27 Jun 2022 07:38:30 EDTSouth African police believe 21 dead at tavern likely consumed illicit substance
South African authorities investigating 21 teenagers found dead at an east coast tavern over the weekend said on Monday the youths were probably killed by something they ate, drank or smoked, ruling o...
Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:43:16 EDTU.S. basketball star Brittney Griner appears in Russian court before July 1 trial
Shackled and looking wary, WNBA star Brittney Griner was ordered to stand trial Friday by a court near Moscow on cannabis possession charges, about 4 1/2 months after her arrest at an airport while re...
Fri, 24 Jun 2022 10:43:08 EDTBiden administration signals it will seek to protect access to abortion pill
Sun, 26 Jun 2022 17:11:52 EDTPride marked by celebrations, arrests and grief around the world
Sun, 26 Jun 2022 14:30:52 EDTDays after devastating earthquake, many Afghans still waiting for aid
Days after a 6.0-magnitude quake that devastated a remote southeast region of Afghanistan and killed at least 1,150 people by authorities' estimates, relief efforts remain patchy and limited due to fu...