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Bombing in hotel parking lot kills at least 4 in SW Pakistan

QUETTA, Pakistan - A powerful bomb exploded in the parking area of a luxury hotel in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Wednesday, killing at least four people and wounding at least nine oth...

Apr 21, 2021

Behind production of a top-selling bourbon, push to go green

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The process of making fine whiskey involves aging spirits to a golden brown, but a bourbon producing giant is going green along the way. Beam Suntory, producer of top-selling Jim Bea...

Apr 21, 2021

Jury's swift verdict for Chauvin in Floyd death: Guilty

MINNEAPOLIS - After three weeks of testimony, the trial of the former police officer charged with killing George Floyd ended swiftly: barely over a day of jury deliberations, then just minutes for the...

Apr 21, 2021

Oxygen supply disruption kills 22 COVID-19 patients in India

NEW DELHI - Twenty-two COVID-19 patients on ventilators died in a hospital in western India on Wednesday when their oxygen supply was interrupted by a leak in a supply line, officials said. Suraj Mand...

Apr 21, 2021

AP source: DOJ to announce Minneapolis police probe

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected to announce that the Justice Department is opening a sweeping investigation into policing practices in Minneapolis after the guilty verdict in...

Apr 21, 2021

Indonesian military says submarine missing with 53 on board

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia's navy is searching for a submarine that went missing north of the resort island of Bali with 53 people on board, the military said Wednesday. Military chief Hadi Tjahja...

Apr 21, 2021

Floyd's hometown exalts in verdict but tempers expectations

HOUSTON - The streets of Houston's Third Ward, a historically Black neighbourhood where George Floyd grew up, echoed with screams filled with the word "justice" in the moments after white former Minne...

Apr 21, 2021

Sikh group wants probe of gunman's possible supremacist link

INDIANAPOLIS - A Sikh civil rights organization called on law enforcement Tuesday to investigate whether a former FedEx employee who fatally shot eight people - four of them Sikhs - at a FedEx facilit...

Apr 21, 2021

Queen Elizabeth expresses thanks for 'support and kindness'

LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II has expressed her thanks for all the "support and kindness" shown following the death of her husband, Prince Philip. In a statement Wednesday posted on social media on her ...

Apr 21, 2021

'Sliver of hope.' Relief, caution as Floyd verdict absorbed

NEW YORK - When the verdicts came in - guilty, guilty and guilty - Lucia Edmonds let out the breath she hadn't even realized she'd been holding. The relief that the 91-year-old Black woman felt floodi...

Apr 21, 2021