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Biden's declaration: America's democracy 'is rising anew'

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden declared Wednesday night that "America is rising anew" as he called for an expansion of federal programs to drive the economy past the pandemic and broadly extend the ...

Apr 28, 2021

China launches core module for permanent space station

BEIJING - China on Thursday launched the core module for its first permanent space station that will host astronauts long-term, the latest success for a program that has realized a number of its growi...

Apr 28, 2021

Rapper Kodak Black gets probation in teen's assault case

FLORENCE, S.C. - Rapper Kodak Black was sentenced to probation Wednesday for assaulting a teenage girl in a South Carolina hotel room. Black was originally charged with rape but accepted a deal and pl...

Apr 28, 2021

Police: 4 people killed in German hospital, woman detained

BERLIN - Four people were found dead at a hospital in the eastern city of Potsdam late Wednesday and a woman was detained, police said. A spokesman for Brandenburg state police said officers were call...

Apr 28, 2021

Senate votes to reinstate methane rules loosened by Trump

WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats are moving to reinstate regulations designed to limit potent greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas fields, as part of a broader effort by the Biden administrat...

Apr 28, 2021

Juror: Chauvin deliberations 'should have been 20 minutes'

MINNEAPOLIS - A juror who cast one of the unanimous votes to convict a white former Minneapolis police officer of killing George Floyd said deliberations were primarily spent trying to convince one pe...

Apr 28, 2021

Girl Scout cookies take flight in Virginia drone deliveries

Missing out on Thin Mints in the pandemic? A Google affiliate is using drones to deliver Girl Scout cookies to people's doorsteps in a Virginia community. The town of Christiansburg has been a testing...

Apr 28, 2021

'1619 Project' writer to join UNC journalism school faculty

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones will join the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's journalism school in July as the Knig...

Apr 28, 2021

Wary Supreme Court weighs student's Snapchat profanity case

WASHINGTON - A wary Supreme Court on Wednesday weighed whether public schools can discipline students for things they say off campus, worrying about overly restricting speech on the one hand and leavi...

Apr 28, 2021

US indicts 3 on hate crime charges in death of Georgia man

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced federal hate crime charges Wednesday in the death of a Georgia man who was killed while out for a run last year. The criminal case charging the three men ...

Apr 28, 2021