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Indigenous Peoples Day marked with celebrations, protests

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) - Indigenous people across the United States marked Monday with celebrations of their heritage, education campaigns and a push for the Biden administration to make good on its wo...

Oct 11, 2021

No charges for task force members in Winston Smith death

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Members of a U.S. Marshals Service task force will not be charged in the fatal shooting of Winston Smith Jr., a Black man who was killed while authorities were trying to arrest him ...

Oct 11, 2021

Changed race, familiar result: Kenyans sweep Boston Marathon

BOSTON (AP) - With fall foliage replacing the blooming daffodils and mylar blankets sharing space with masks, the pandemic-delayed Boston Marathon returned Monday after a 30-month absence for a smalle...

Oct 11, 2021

California coronavirus death count tops 70,000 as cases fall

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California's coronavirus death toll reached another once-unfathomable milestone - 70,000 people - on Monday as the state emerges from the latest infection surge with the lowe...

Oct 11, 2021

Taiwan wants 'status quo', not China's path, president says

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwan's president on Sunday called for the maintenance of the political status quo in a forthright speech which acknowledged rising pressure from China Tsai Ing-wen also firmly ...

Oct 09, 2021

Tensions persist between legacy of Columbus, native people

Monday's federal holiday dedicated to Christopher Columbus is highlighting the ongoing divide between those who view the explorer as a representative of Italian American history and others horrified b...

Oct 09, 2021

Kurz to quit as Austrian chancellor amid corruption probe

BERLIN (AP) - Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Saturday that he plans to step down in an effort to defuse a government crisis triggered by prosecutors' announcement that he is a target of a cor...

Oct 09, 2021

Ruling party narrowly loses Czech vote; PM Babis may be out

PRAGUE (AP) - Prime Minister Andrej Babis' centrist party on Saturday narrowly lost the Czech Republic's parliamentary election, a surprise development that could mean the end of the populist billiona...

Oct 09, 2021

Banisadr, Iran's first president after 1979 revolution, dies

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran's first president after the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution who fled Tehran after being impeached for challenging the growing power of clerics as the na...

Oct 09, 2021

Texas moves to reinstate nation's toughest abortion law

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas on Friday asked a federal appeals court to swiftly reinstate the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., as some abortion clinics in the state resumed normal services for...

Oct 08, 2021