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Trailblazing tourist trip to orbit ends with splashdown

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Four space tourists ended their trailblazing trip to orbit Saturday with a splashdown in the Atlantic off the Florida coast. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the ocean ...

Sep 18, 2021

US ramps up plan to expel Haitian migrants gathered in Texas

DEL RIO, Texas (AP) - U.S. officials said Saturday that within the next three days, they plan to ramp up expulsion flights for some of the thousands of Haitian migrants who have gathered in a Texas ci...

Sep 18, 2021

Brian Laundrie's family tells police, FBI he is missing

NORTH PORT, Fla. (AP) - Police in Florida said they are working with the FBI to find 23-year-old Brian Laundrie, whose girlfriend disappeared during a cross-country trek in a converted van. North Port...

Sep 17, 2021

County cuts deal to end fight over Arizona Senate subpoena

PHOENIX (AP) - Board members overseeing Arizona's most populous county have reached an agreement with the Republican-controlled state Senate that will end a standoff over a Senate demand that they han...

Sep 17, 2021

Colorado school shooter sentenced to life in prison

DENVER (AP) - A former high school student convicted of killing one student and injuring eight others in a 2019 attack on a Denver-area school has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Devo...

Sep 17, 2021

Official says US will deport 'massive' number of Haitians

DEL RIO, Texas (AP) - A US official says the Biden administration is planning "massive movements" of Haitian migrants in a small Texas border town on flights to Haiti starting Sunday. Plans have yet t...

Sep 17, 2021

Ex-Algerian president Bouteflika, ousted amid protests, dies

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who fought for independence from France in the 1950s and 1960s and was ousted amid pro-democracy protests in 2019 after 20 years...

Sep 17, 2021

Pentagon reverses itself, calls deadly Kabul strike an error

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon retreated from its defense of a drone strike that killed multiple civilians in Afghanistan last month, announcing Friday that a review revealed that only civilians were ...

Sep 17, 2021

IOC urges Olympic teams to ask for more vaccines

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Olympic teams were urged Friday by the IOC to request more Chinese and Pfizer vaccines ahead of the 2022 Beijing Winter Games, which will be held in the country where the coron...

Sep 17, 2021

Ex-teammate pleads not guilty to killing Miami football star

MIAMI (AP) - A former University of Miami football player pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges of killing a teammate outside a South Florida apartment complex in 2006. An attorney for Rashaun Jones...

Sep 17, 2021