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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

Judge won't release videos of deputies shooting Black man

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. - A judge refused Wednesday to release body camera video showing North Carolina deputies shooting and killing a Black man, ruling that making the video public at this stage could ...

Apr 28, 2021

Fed keeps key rate near zero, sees inflation as 'transitory'

WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve is keeping its ultra-low interest rate policies in place, a sign that it wants to see more evidence of a strengthening economic recovery before it would consider easin...

Apr 28, 2021

Connecticut is 6th state to end religious vaccine exemption

Connecticut will no longer allow religious exemption from childhood immunization requirements for schools and day care facilities, becoming the sixth state to end that policy. The legislation, signed ...

Apr 28, 2021