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Wimbledon bans players from Russia, Belarus over Ukraine war

LONDON (AP) - Tennis players from Russia and Belarus will not be allowed to play at Wimbledon this year because of the war in Ukraine, the All England Club announced Wednesday. Among the prominent pla...

Apr 20, 2022

Ukraine war refugees top 5 million as assault intensifies

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - After spending weeks with no electricity or water in the basement of her family's home in Ukraine, Viktoriya Savyichkina made a daring escape from the besieged city of Mariupol w...

Apr 20, 2022

Russia hits Ukrainian cities, pours more troops into war

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russia hurled its military might against Ukrainian cities and towns and poured more troops into the war, seeking to slice the country in two in a potentially pivotal battle for co...

Apr 19, 2022

Wind-fueled wildfire drives Arizona residents from homes

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) - At least two dozen structures have been destroyed in a fast-moving wildfire in rural northern Arizona that ballooned to over 9 square miles (23 square kilometers) Tuesday, Coco...

Apr 19, 2022

Blasts near Kabul schools kill at least 6 civilians, hurt 17

KABUL, Afghanstan (AP) - Explosions targeting educational institutions killed at least six people, including students, and wounded 17 Tuesday in a mostly Shiite neighborhood of Afghanistan's capital c...

Apr 19, 2022

Judge won't lower bond for school shooting suspect's parents

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) - A judge denied a motion Tuesday to reduce bonds for the jailed parents of a Michigan teenager charged in a fatal shooting at his high school. Oakland County Circuit Judge Cheryl ...

Apr 19, 2022

Autopsy shows Patrick Lyoya shot in head by Michigan cop

DETROIT (AP) - Lawyers for the family of Patrick Lyoya say an independent autopsy confirms that the Black man was fatally shot in the head by a Michigan police officer. The result was released at a ne...

Apr 19, 2022

Live Updates | British official predicts attrition war next

LONDON - British officials say the next phase of the war in Ukraine is likely to be "an attritional conflict" that could last several months. A senior U.K. national security official briefed the Cabin...

Apr 19, 2022

Russia forces attacking along broad east front, Ukraine says

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russian forces attacked along a broad front in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday as part of a full-scale ground offensive to take control of the country's eastern industrial heartland in...

Apr 18, 2022

Van Dyke avoids federal charges in Laquan McDonald's death

CHICAGO (AP) - Federal authorities on Monday said they will not criminally charge Jason Van Dyke, the former Chicago police officer convicted of murder in the 2014 shooting death of Black teenager Laq...

Apr 18, 2022