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Judge orders Texas to suspend new law banning most abortions

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., which since September has banned most abortions in the nation's second-most po...

Oct 06, 2021

McConnell offers Dems short-term debt fix amid standoff

WASHINGTON (AP) - Edging back from a perilous standoff, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday told Democrats he would allow an emergency debt limit extension into December, offering a ...

Oct 06, 2021

White House says Biden, Xi expected to meet virtually

ZURICH (AP) - President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to hold a virtual working meeting before year's end, according to a senior Biden administration official. The agreement for...

Oct 06, 2021

Police: Student opens fire at Texas high school; 4 hurt

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - A student opened fire inside a Dallas-area high school during a fight, injuring four people before he fled, authorities said Wednesday. The shooting happened at Timberview High...

Oct 06, 2021

NATO expels 8 'undeclared' Russian intelligence officers

BRUSSELS (AP) - NATO on Wednesday expelled eight members of Russia's mission to the military alliance, saying that they were secretly working as intelligence officers and cut the size of Moscow's team...

Oct 06, 2021

Nobel Prize in chemistry honors tool to build molecules

STOCKHOLM (AP) - The Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to German scientist Benjamin List of the Max Planck Institute and Scotland-born scientist David W.C. MacMillan of Princeton University. ...

Oct 06, 2021

Missouri man executed for killing 3 workers in '94 robbery

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) - A Missouri man was put to death Tuesday for killing three workers while robbing a convenience store nearly three decades ago, an execution performed over objections from racial...

Oct 05, 2021

Convicted sheriff gives thumbs-up review of jail he ran

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - A longtime Alabama sheriff removed from office after being convicted of theft and ethics violations is giving five-star reviews to the jail where he spent more than two weeks i...

Oct 05, 2021

Nobel physics prize goes to 3 for climate discoveries

STOCKHOLM (AP) - The Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to scientists from Japan, Germany and Italy. Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann were cited for their work in "the physical modeling of Ea...

Oct 05, 2021

French report: 330,000 children victims of church sex abuse

PARIS (AP) - A major French report released Tuesday found that an estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France's Catholic Church over the past 70 years, in France's first major r...

Oct 05, 2021