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State mask bans face federal civil rights inquiries

The Education Department announced Monday that it's investigating five Republican-led states with universal mask bans, saying the policies could amount to discrimination against students with disabili...

Aug 30, 2021

Hurricane Ida traps Louisianans, leaves the grid a shambles

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A fearsome Hurricane Ida left scores of coastal Louisiana residents trapped by floodwaters and pleading to be rescued Monday while making a shambles of the electrical grid across a ...

Aug 30, 2021

Rockets hit neighborhood near Kabul airport amid US pullout

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Rockets struck a neighborhood near Kabul's international airport on Monday amid the ongoing U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. It wasn't immediately clear who launched them. T...

Aug 29, 2021

Flames consume high-rise in Milan; residents evacuated

MILAN (AP) - Italian firefighters on Sunday battled a high-rise blaze in Milan that was spreading rapidly through a 20-story residential building. Residents were hurriedly evacuated. There were no imm...

Aug 29, 2021

Afghan police: Rocket hits near Kabul airport, kills child

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A rocket struck a neighborhood just northwest of Kabul's international airport Sunday as the U.S. evacuation there winds down following the Taliban's lightning takeover of th...

Aug 29, 2021

Residents warned as Louisiana braces for Hurricane Ida

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Hurricane Ida has strengthened to a Category 2 storm in the Gulf of Mexico as it approaches Louisiana. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the storm's maximum sustained winds in...

Aug 28, 2021

US intelligence still divided on origins of coronavirus

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. intelligence agencies remain divided on the origins of the coronavirus but believe China's leaders did not know about the virus before the start of the global pandemic, accordin...

Aug 27, 2021

RFK assassin moves closer to freedom with help of 2 Kennedys

SAN DIEGO (AP) - California's parole board voted Friday to free Robert F. Kennedy's assassin after two of RFK's sons said they supported releasing him and prosecutors declined to argue he should be ke...

Aug 27, 2021

Ida aims to hit New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina anniversary

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell wants everyone who lives or works outside the city's levee protection system to evacuate well ahead of an expected hit by Hurricane Ida on Sunday. ...

Aug 27, 2021

Brutal benchmark: Arizona passes 1 million COVID-19 cases

PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona surpassed 1 million COVID-19 cases Friday, becoming the 13th state to reach the grim milestone while contending with yet another major spike in infections. The benchmark is the ...

Aug 27, 2021