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US Supreme Court clears way for execution of Alabama inmate

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for the state of Alabama to execute an inmate who contends an intellectual disability combined with the state's inattention cost him a ch...

Jan 27, 2022

3 Houston police officers wounded after chase, shootout

HOUSTON (AP) - A police chase in Houston ended with a shootout that wounded three officers Thursday, authorities said. The incident began about 2:40 p.m. Thursday with a report of a disturbance involv...

Jan 27, 2022

Coast Guard finds 4 more migrant bodies off Florida coast

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The Coast Guard said Thursday that it had found four additional bodies in its search for dozens of migrants lost at sea off Florida but that it would call off its active searc...

Jan 27, 2022

Stormy Daniels and Avenatti meet again, as adversaries

NEW YORK (AP) - Stormy Daniels took her star turn on the witness stand Thursday at California lawyer Michael Avenatti's trial, telling a jury Avenatti "stole from me and lied to me." Her testimony was...

Jan 27, 2022

Oklahoma executes man for 2001 slayings of 2 hotel workers

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for the brutal slayings of two hotel workers during a robbery in 2001. Donald Grant, 46, received a lethal injection Thursday morning at the Oklah...

Jan 27, 2022

New lawsuit filed in mass shooting at Michigan school

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) - A new lawsuit was filed in Michigan on Thursday over the shooting at Oxford High School that killed four students and wounded six other students and a teacher. The lawsuit was...

Jan 27, 2022

North Korea fires 2 suspected missiles in 6th launch in 2022

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea on Thursday fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea in its sixth round of weapons launches this month, South Korea's military said. South Korea's Join...

Jan 26, 2022

Feds accuse Texas man of selling gun used to take hostages

DALLAS (AP) - A Texas man has been charged with a federal gun crime after authorities say he sold a gun to a man who held four hostages inside a Texas synagogue earlier this month before being fatally...

Jan 26, 2022

Vaccine mandate to kick in for first wave of health workers

Health care workers in about half the states face a Thursday deadline to get their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine under a Biden administration mandate that will be rolled out across the rest of th...

Jan 26, 2022

Russia says US gives written response on Ukraine demands

MOSCOW (AP) - The Russian Foreign Ministry says the U.S. has delivered a written response to Moscow's security demands on Ukraine and NATO. The ministry said U.S. Ambassador to Moscow John Sullivan ha...

Jan 26, 2022