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New home sales surged 20.7% in March to 1.02 million

WASHINGTON - Sales of new homes surged 20.7% in March, rebounding from the previous month when severe winter storms wreaked havoc in many parts of the country. Sales climbed to a seasonally adjusted a...

Apr 23, 2021

Russian's Navalny to end prison hunger strike on 24th day

MOSCOW - Imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he is ending his hunger strike after getting medical attention and being warned by his doctors that continuing it would put his life at risk. ...

Apr 23, 2021

Oregon: CDC investigating woman's death after J&J vaccine

PORTLAND, Ore. - Oregon health officials said Thursday that federal officials are investigating the death of a woman in her 50s who developed a rare blood clot and low platelets within two weeks of re...

Apr 22, 2021

Video: California deputy shoots Black man within a minute

SAN FRANCISCO - A white sheriff's deputy in the San Francisco Bay Area shot and killed a Black man in the middle of a busy intersection about a minute after trying to stop him on suspicion of throwing...

Apr 22, 2021

California's public universities to require COVID-19 vaccine

SAN FRANCISCO - Two of the nation's largest university systems say they intend to require COVID-19 vaccinations for all students, faculty and staff on University of California and California State Uni...

Apr 22, 2021

Panel: End commanders' power to block military sex cases

WASHINGTON - A Pentagon panel is recommending that decisions to prosecute service members for sexual assault be made by independent authorities, not commanders, in what would be a major reversal of mi...

Apr 22, 2021

UK apologizes for racism in memorials to WWI dead

LONDON - British authorities apologized Thursday after an investigation found that at least 161,000 mostly African and Indian military service personnel who died during World War I weren't properly ho...

Apr 22, 2021

Sahara's Polisario Front chief gets COVID treatment in Spain

MADRID - The man leading the Polisario Front in its fight for independence of Western Sahara is hospitalized in Spain for treatment of COVID-19, officials from Spain and the group said Thursday. Brahi...

Apr 22, 2021

Man pleads guilty in fatal shootings of 8 from Ohio family

A man pleaded guilty in the murders of his child's mother and seven other members of her family on Thursday, the fifth anniversary of when the shootings were discovered in southern Ohio. Edward "Jake"...

Apr 22, 2021

Les McKeown, who fronted the Bay City Rollers, dies at 65

LONDON - Les McKeown, the former lead singer of the 1970s Scottish pop sensation Bay City Rollers, has died suddenly at the age of 65, his family said Thursday. A statement from his family posted on s...

Apr 22, 2021