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3 US Customs agents shot, wounded off coast of Puerto Rico

WASHINGTON (AP) - Three U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents have been wounded after exchanging gunfire with people "on board a suspected smuggling vessel" off the coast of Puerto Rico, officials...

Nov 17, 2022

Oklahoma executes man for 1993 killing of 3-year-old boy

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) - Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for the torture slaying of his girlfriend's 3-year-old son in 1993. Richard Stephen Fairchild, who turned 63 on Thursday, received a lethal inj...

Nov 17, 2022

Family: Egypt activist deteriorated since hunger strike

CAIRO (AP) - The family of imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah says that they have seen him on Thursday and that his condition has "deteriorated severely." The news of Abdel-Fattah's condit...

Nov 17, 2022

New tally show Arizona voters reject stricter voter ID law

PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona voters who overwhelmingly cast their ballots by mail have rejected a measure that would have would have required them to add more information to the simple signature and date th...

Nov 16, 2022

Reports: Myanmar releases 4 foreign prisoners in amnesty

BANGKOK (AP) - Myanmar media outlets are reporting the country's military-controlled government has announced has released an Australian academic, a Japanese filmmaker and an ex-British diplomat as pa...

Nov 16, 2022

Seoul: North Korea fires ballistic missile toward sea

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea launched a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters on Thursday, South Korea's military said, hours after the North threatened to launch "fiercer" military res...

Nov 16, 2022

Texas executes man for killing ex-girlfriend and her son, 7

HOUSTON (AP) - A Texas inmate who killed his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old son more than 17 years ago was executed on Wednesday, after courts rejected his appeals over claims of religious ...

Nov 16, 2022

Earth’s population reaches new milestone

The United Nations (UN) said the world has reached a new milestone with a population of eight billion people.According to its World Population Prospects 2022 report, the global population was expected...

Nov 16, 2022

Idaho Police: No suspect, no weapon in killing of 4 students

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Police in the college town of Moscow, Idaho, say they have not identified a suspect or found a weapon in the weekend slayings of four University of Idaho students in a rental house...

Nov 16, 2022

Man who killed 6 in Christmas parade gets life, no release

A man who killed six people and injured many others when he drove his SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with no chance of release. Waukesha...

Nov 16, 2022