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Swedish PM asks parliament speaker to find a new government

STOCKHOLM (AP) - Stefan Lofven, Sweden's Social Democratic prime minister since 2014, has asked the country's parliament speaker to find a new government. Lofven became the first Swedish leader ever t...

Jun 28, 2021

Exit polls: French far right beaten in regional elections

PARIS (AP) - Polling agency estimations indicate that mainstream candidates have delivered a stinging setback to France's far right in regional elections on Sunday, thwarting its hopes of winning cont...

Jun 27, 2021

Families hold onto hope as condo collapse toll rises to 9

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) - Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said the death toll from the building collapse has risen to nine as search and rescue efforts continue. She said one victim had died in the ...

Jun 27, 2021

Mike Gravel, former US senator for Alaska, dies at 91

SEASIDE, Calif. (AP) - Mike Gravel, a former U.S. senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and confronted Barack Obama about nuclear weapons during a later presid...

Jun 27, 2021

Flames hamper rescue effort amid rubble of Florida condo

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) - Fire has spread amid the rubble of the collapsed condominium in South Florida, hampering rescue efforts, officials said Saturday. The flames are deep and firefighters have not be...

Jun 26, 2021

Vasilevskiy shines again, Lightning blank Islanders 1-0

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Andrei Vasilevskiy had 18 saves and Yanni Gourde scored a short-handed goal to help the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the New York Islanders 1-0 in Game 7 of their NHL playoff semifinal ...

Jun 25, 2021

Knife attack in German city leaves 3 dead, suspect arrested

BERLIN (AP) - A man armed with a long knife killed three people and injured five others, some seriously, in Germany's southern city of Wuerzburg on Friday before being shot by police and arrested, aut...

Jun 25, 2021

Chauvin sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for George Floyd's death

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, whose dying gasps under Chauvin's knee led to the bigges...

Maria Doty Jun 25, 2021

AP source: Justice Department suing Georgia over voting laws

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department is suing Georgia over the state's voting laws, a person familiar with the matter said Friday. The announcement will be made later Friday by Attorney General Me...

Jun 25, 2021

Toll in Florida collapse rises to 4; 159 remain missing

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) - Officials say there are still 159 people unaccounted for after the partial collapse of a beachside building in Florida. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava noted Friday that re...

Jun 25, 2021