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Israel PM's family receives death threat and bullet in mail

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli police said Thursday the family of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has received a death threat and bullet in the mail for the second time this week. Israeli media say the targe...

Apr 28, 2022

European leaders blast cutoff of Russian gas as 'blackmail'

POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) - European leaders blasted Russia's decision to cut natural gas shipments to Poland and Bulgaria as "blackmail," saying the cutoff and the Kremlin's warning that it might cease ...

Apr 27, 2022

Texas lawmakers meet with woman facing execution

HOUSTON (AP) - A group of bipartisan Texas lawmakers on Wednesday visited a death row inmate whose execution they are trying to stop amid doubts about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter....

Apr 27, 2022

New York court rejects congressional maps drawn by Democrats

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's highest court on Wednesday rejected the state's new congressional district maps, which had been widely seen as favoring Democrats. The state's Court of Appeals agreed in...

Apr 27, 2022

Post-Floyd probe finds discrimination by Minneapolis police

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A state investigation launched after George Floyd's killing in the custody of four Minneapolis police officers has determined that the department engages in a pattern of race di...

Apr 27, 2022

Russia releases US Marine vet as part of prisoner exchange

WASHINGTON (AP) - Russia and the United States carried out a dramatic prisoner exchange on Wednesday, trading a Marine veteran jailed in Moscow for a convicted Russian drug trafficker serving a long p...

Apr 27, 2022

Trump drawn to celebrity in weighing midterm endorsements

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Republicans hoping to emerge from crowded primaries this year stacked up on operatives with ties to former President Donald Trump, betting those connections would give them a leg...

Apr 26, 2022

US: Allies must move 'at the speed of war' to help Ukraine

POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) - The U.S. defense chief urged Ukraine's allies to "move at the speed of war" to get more and heavier weapons to Kyiv as Russian forces rained fire on eastern and southern Ukrai...

Apr 26, 2022

Myanmar court sentences Suu Kyi to 5 years for corruption

BANGKOK (AP) - A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted the country's former leader Aung San Suu Kyi of corruption and sentenced her to five years in prison Wednesday. Suu Kyi, who was ousted by an...

Apr 26, 2022

Singapore executes disabled Malaysian convicted in drug case

SINGAPORE (AP) - Singapore on Wednesday executed a mentally disabled Malaysian man condemned for a drug offense after a court dismissed a last-minute challenge from his mother and international pleas ...

Apr 26, 2022