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California attorney general investigating LA redistricting

LOS ANGELES (AP) - California's attorney general said Wednesday that he will investigate Los Angeles' redistricting process as three of its City Council members face calls to resign after a recording ...

Oct 12, 2022

Myanmar court hands Japanese journalist 3 more years in jail

BANGKOK (AP) - A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Wednesday convicted a Japanese journalist of violating immigration law, adding three years to the seven-year prison sentence he was handed last week...

Oct 12, 2022

Graft convictions extend Suu Kyi's prison term to 26 years

BANGKOK (AP) - A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted the country's ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, on two more corruption charges Wednesday, with two three-year sentences, to be served concurre...

Oct 11, 2022

Ex-Texas cop charged for shooting teen eating hamburger

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A now-former San Antonio police officer was charged Tuesday with two counts of aggravated assault by a peace officer for shooting and gravely wounding a teen who was eating a hambur...

Oct 11, 2022

Brett Favre says he's 'unjustly smeared' in welfare case

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre says he is being treated unfairly in news coverage of a Mississippi welfare scandal, including about payments he received to help fund a pet p...

Oct 11, 2022

Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the...

Oct 11, 2022

King Charles III to be crowned May 6 next year, palace says

LONDON (AP) - King Charles III will be crowned at Westminster Abbey on May 6 in a ceremony that will embrace the past but look to the modern world after the 70-year reign of the late Queen Elizabeth I...

Alex Rawnsley Oct 11, 2022

Walker campaigning with 2 GOP senators after abortion report

ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker is slated to campaign Tuesday with Sens. Rick Scott of Florida and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, offering the latest sign that the national...

Oct 11, 2022

Supreme Court rejects appeal from Dylann Roof, who killed 9

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Dylann Roof, who challenged his death sentence and conviction in the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina cong...

Oct 11, 2022

Israel says 'historic' sea border deal struck with Lebanon

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's prime minister said Tuesday that the country has reached an "historic agreement" with neighboring Lebanon over their shared maritime border after months of U.S.-brokered nego...

Oct 11, 2022