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Ex-House speaker settles child sexual abuse payments suit

YORKVILLE, Ill. (AP) - Once powerful former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and a man who accused him of child sexual abuse reached a tentative out-of-court settlement Wednesday over Hastert's refus...

Sep 15, 2021

States learning how many Afghan evacuees coming their way

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration on Wednesday began notifying governors and state refugee coordinators across the country about how many Afghan evacuees from among the first group of nearly ...

Sep 15, 2021

Colorado AG: Probe finds Aurora Police racially biased

DENVER (AP) - Colorado's attorney general said Wednesday that a civil rights investigation begun amid outrage over the death of Elijah McClain has found that the Aurora Police Department has pattern o...

Sep 15, 2021

Milley defends calls to Chinese as effort to avoid conflict

WASHINGTON (AP) - The top U.S. military officer on Wednesday defended the phone calls he made to his Chinese counterpart in the final months of Donald Trump's presidency, saying the conversations were...

Sep 15, 2021

Ex-cop's murder verdict reversed in Australian woman's death

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed the third-degree murder conviction of a former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an Australian woman in 2017, saying the ...

Sep 15, 2021

Pope: No place for politics in Biden Communion flap

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) - Pope Francis said Wednesday that Catholic bishops must minister to politicians who back abortion with "compassion and tenderness," not condemnation, and warned that they ...

Sep 15, 2021

ICC judges authorize probe into Philippines' 'war on drugs'

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - International Criminal Court judges on Wednesday authorized an investigation into the Philippines' deadly "war on drugs" campaign, saying the crackdown "cannot be seen as...

Sep 15, 2021

Democrats Wu, Essaibi George to vie in Boston mayor’s race

BOSTON (AP) - Boston voters have for the first time narrowed the field of mayoral candidates to two women of color who will face off against each other in November. City Councilors Michelle Wu and Ann...

Sep 15, 2021

Wu advances in Boston mayor race; opponent too early to call

BOSTON (AP) - Democrat Michelle Wu has emerged the top vote-getter in a runoff election for the next mayor of Boston, but the race to decide her opponent in November is too early to call. Wu, a city c...

Sep 14, 2021

Seoul: North Korea fires 2 ballistic missiles off east coast

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea fired two ballistic missiles off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korea's military said, two days after the North claimed to have tested a new missile in its fi...

Sep 14, 2021