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US sanctions Iranian group that put bounty on Rushdie's life

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. is imposing financial penalties on an Iranian-based organization that raised money to target British-American author Salman Rushdie, who was violently attacked in August at ...

Oct 28, 2022

Rev. Calvin Butts, influential pillar of Harlem, dies at 73

NEW YORK (AP) - The Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, who welcomed generations of worshippers as well as political leaders from across the nation and around the world at Harlem's landmark Abyssinian Baptist C...

Oct 28, 2022

Spokesman: Speaker Pelosi's husband assaulted in break-in

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, was "violently assaulted" by an assailant who broke into their San Francisco home early Friday, and he is now in the hospital and expected...

Oct 28, 2022

N. Korea fires ballistic missile toward sea, Seoul says

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the sea on Friday, Seoul officials said, as its rival South Korea was wrapping up an annual military drill that the North views a...

Oct 27, 2022

8 found dead after house fire in Tulsa area; homicide feared

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) - Eight people were found dead Thursday after a fire was extinguished at a Tulsa-area house, and police said they were investigating the deaths as homicides. The fire was repo...

Oct 27, 2022

5 stabbed in supermarket attack in Italy, one killed

MILAN (AP) - A man armed with a knife stabbed five people Thursday inside a shopping center south of the Italian city of Milan, killing one person, Italian media reported. Police arrested a 46-year-ol...

Oct 27, 2022

Antisemitism decried four years after Pa. synagogue attack

PITTSBURGH (AP) - In what has become an annual ritual, Pittsburgh's Jewish community Thursday honored the memory of the 11 Jews who were murdered on this date in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U....

Oct 27, 2022

Outrage in South Africa as charges dropped in gang rape case

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Women's rights groups in South Africa expressed outrage Thursday and criticized police for perceived failures after charges were dropped against 14 men accused of gang raping and r...

Oct 27, 2022

Maine begins removing those naughty license plates

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Maine is cleaning up its roadways by removing the flippin' vulgarities from license plates. The state is enforcing new rules to eliminate f-bombs and other obscenities that appe...

Oct 27, 2022

Putin claims West seeks global domination by using Ukraine

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday sought to cast the conflict in Ukraine as part of efforts by the West to secure its global domination. Speaking at a conference of internatio...

Oct 27, 2022