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Video: Michigan officer knelt on Black man, fatally shot him

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - Video shows a police officer in Grand Rapids, Michigan, kneeling on the back of a Black man before fatally shooting him. Police released video from different sources Wednesd...

Apr 13, 2022

Biden approves $800M in artillery, helicopters for Ukraine

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday approved $800 million in new military assistance to Ukraine, including artillery and helicopters, to bolster its defenses against an intensified Russ...

Apr 13, 2022

AP source: CDC to extend travel mask requirement for 2 weeks

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration will extend for two weeks the nationwide mask requirement for public transit as it monitors an uptick in COVID-19 cases, according to a person familiar with ...

Apr 13, 2022

IS supporter given life sentence for murdering UK lawmaker

LONDON (AP) - An Islamic State supporter was given a whole-life sentence Wednesday for stabbing a British lawmaker to death in revenge for his voting in support for airstrikes on Syria. Ali Harbi Ali,...

Apr 13, 2022

Cheeky TV show becomes battleground in French election race

PARIS (AP) - A French television news and entertainment show that has long delighted in poking fun at Marine Le Pen and her father has become a battleground in the far-right leader's election contest ...

Apr 13, 2022

Police hunt gunman who wounded 10 in Brooklyn subway attack

NEW YORK (AP) - Police hunted late into the night for the gunman who opened fire Tuesday on a subway train in Brooklyn, an attack that left 10 people wounded by gunfire and once again interrupted New ...

Apr 12, 2022

Putin vows war will continue as Russian troops mount in east

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russia vowed to continue its bloody offensive in Ukraine as the war neared its seventh week Wednesday, as President Vladimir Putin insisted the campaign was going as planned despi...

Apr 12, 2022

Biden: Russia war a 'genocide,' trying to 'wipe out' Ukraine

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - President Joe Biden on Tuesday said Russia's war in Ukraine amounted to genocide," accusing President Vladimir Putin of trying to "wipe out the idea of even being a Ukrainian."...

Apr 12, 2022

California woman admits she faked 2016 kidnapping

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Sherri Papini, the Northern California woman charged last month with faking her kidnapping in 2016, accepted a plea bargain with prosecutors Tuesday and acknowledged she made...

Apr 12, 2022

Ginsburg's art, fur coat, awards in auction to benefit opera

WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg so liked the caricature that accompanied an article about her that she got a copy from the artist and hung it in her Supreme Court office. That signed and...

Apr 12, 2022