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Behind the wait for a verdict at Maxwell jury deliberations

NEW YORK (AP) - The Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking trial was a four-week winding road featuring sordid testimony by four women who accused the British socialite of grooming their teenage selves for...

Dec 30, 2021

Judge sides with law enforcement in pipeline protest suit

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A federal judge has sided with local law enforcement in a case brought by Dakota Access Pipeline demonstrators alleging excessive use of force by police at a protest site in Nort...

Dec 30, 2021

2 Colorado cities evacuated by wind-driven wildfire

DENVER (AP) - Thousands of residents in two communities near Denver were ordered to evacuate Thursday because of wind-fueled wildfire that engulfed parts of the area in smoky, orangish skies. The city...

Dec 30, 2021

US children hospitalized with COVID in record numbers

SEATTLE (AP) - The omicron-fueled surge that is sending COVID-19 cases rocketing in the U.S. is putting children in the hospital in record numbers, and experts lament that most of the youngsters are n...

Dec 30, 2021

Biden, Putin hold call as tensions mount over Ukraine crisis

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin spoke Thursday amid growing alarm over Russia's troop buildup near Ukraine, a simmering crisis that has become further complicated in re...

Dec 30, 2021

Group: Sudanese forces fire at anti-coup rally; 4 killed

CAIRO (AP) - Sudanese security forces fired tear gas and live ammunition at protesters rallying Thursday in the country's capital and elsewhere against the October military coup. At least four protest...

Dec 30, 2021

Israel to offer 4th vaccine dose to most vulnerable

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel has approved a fourth vaccine dose for people most vulnerable to COVID-19, becoming the first country to do so as it braces for a wave of infections fueled by the omicron varia...

Dec 30, 2021

Hong Kong editors charged with sedition, US criticizes raid

HONG KONG (AP) - Two former editors from a Hong Kong online pro-democracy news outlet were charged with sedition and denied bail Thursday, a day after one of the last openly critical voices in the cit...

Dec 30, 2021

Ghislaine Maxwell convicted in Epstein sex abuse case

NEW YORK (AP) - The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted Wednesday of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein. The verdict capped a monthlon...

Dec 29, 2021

Biden, Putin to hold call over stepped up security demands

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) - President Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin will speak Thursday as the Russian leader has stepped up his demands for security guarantees in Eastern Europe. The two leaders will ...

Dec 29, 2021