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Italian far-right leader says she is ready to govern

ROME (AP) - Italian far-right leader Giorgia Meloni said Friday she and her allies asked the nation's president to give her the mandate to assemble a new government. Meloni and her allies met briefly ...

Oct 21, 2022

Judge dismisses effort to halt student loan forgiveness plan

ST. LOUIS (AP) - A federal judge in St. Louis on Thursday dismissed an effort by six Republican-led states to block the Biden administration's plan to forgive student loan debt for tens of millions of...

Oct 20, 2022

Ex-UCLA gynecologist found guilty in LA sex abuse case

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A former gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles was found guilty on five counts in a sexual abuse case Thursday in a Los Angeles court. The jury found Dr. James H...

Oct 20, 2022

Concussion lawsuit against NCAA could be first to reach jury

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A lawsuit alleging the NCAA failed to protect a former University of Southern California football player from repetitive head trauma is nearing trial in a Los Angeles court, with a ...

Oct 20, 2022

LA Councilman de Leon says he will not resign amid uproar

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Embattled Los Angeles Councilman Kevin de Leon said Wednesday he will not resign amid an uproar over a leaked tape that revealed him participating in a meeting in which Latino offic...

Oct 20, 2022

Appeals court: Sen. Graham must testify in Georgia probe

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham must testify before a special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in G...

Oct 20, 2022

EPA starts civil rights probe into Mississippi water woes

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it is investigating whether Mississippi state agencies discriminated against the state's majority-Black capital city b...

Oct 20, 2022

Security forces kill at least 60 as protests engulf Chad

N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) - Chadian security forces opened fire on anti-government demonstrators in the country's two largest cities Thursday killing at least 60 people, the government spokesman and a morg...

Oct 20, 2022

Oklahoma executes man convicted of killing infant daughter

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) - Oklahoma executed inmate Benjamin Cole on Thursday morning despite claims from his attorneys that he had been severely mentally ill. Cole was pronounced dead at 10:22 a.m. at O...

Oct 20, 2022

US: Iranian troops in Crimea backing Russian drone strikes

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House said Thursday that the U.S. has evidence that Iranian troops are "directly engaged on the ground" in Crimea supporting Russian drone attacks on Ukraine's infrastructu...

Oct 20, 2022