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US moves to shield Saudi crown prince in journalist killing

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration declared Thursday that the high office held by Saudi Arabia's crown prince should shield him from lawsuits for his role in the killing of a U.S.-based journa...

Nov 17, 2022

11th Circuit stays Alabama execution; state has appealed

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) - An appellate court on Thursday night ordered a halt to the scheduled execution of an Alabama inmate convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wife, but the stat...

Nov 17, 2022

Republican Boebert's tight race likely headed to recount

DENVER (AP) - Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, a renowned conservative firebrand whose combative style helped define the new right, is likely headed to an automatic recount in her bid to fend off a sur...

Nov 17, 2022

Palestinian officials say house fire in Gaza Strip kills 21

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - A fire set off by stored gasoline in a residential building killed 21 people Thursday evening in a refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, the territory's Hamas rulers sa...

Nov 17, 2022

Seoul: N. Korea fires another ballistic missile toward sea

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters on Friday, South Korea's military said, a day after the North resumed its testing activities in an apparent pr...

Nov 17, 2022

Medical Examiner: Slain UVA students were shot in the head

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Three University of Virginia football players who were shot on a bus as they returned from a field trip each died of a gunshot wound to the head, according to the Office of the Ch...

Nov 17, 2022

Biden admin to ask high court to take up student debt plan

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration plans to ask the Supreme Court to reinstate the president's student debt cancellation plan, according to a Thursday legal filing, warning that millions of Am...

Nov 17, 2022

Acting Uvalde police chief during school shooting steps down

DALLAS (AP) - The Uvalde officer who was leading the city's police department during the hesitant law enforcement response to an elementary school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers has...

Nov 17, 2022

Driver arrested in crash into LA County sheriff's recruits

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Authorities have arrested a 22-year-old driver on suspicion of attempted murder for allegedly plowing his vehicle into Los Angeles County sheriff's academy recruits on a training ru...

Nov 17, 2022

Pelosi won't seek leadership role, plans to stay in Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she will not seek a leadership position in the new Congress, a pivotal realignment making way for a new generation of leaders after Demo...

Nov 17, 2022