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Electors meeting to formally choose Biden as next president

WASHINGTON - Presidential electors are meeting across the United States on Monday to formally choose Joe Biden as the nation's next president. Monday is the day set by law for the meeting of the Elect...

Dec 14, 2020

Early in-person voting begins in Georgia Senate runoffs

ATLANTA - What could be the main event in Georgia's twin U.S. Senate runoffs - early in-person voting - begins Monday. More than half of the record 5 million votes in the Nov. 3 general election were ...

Dec 14, 2020

GOP voters ready for Georgia runoffs despite Trump's claims

ATLANTA - Many Republican voters in Georgia are angry. They're convinced that widespread voter fraud - claims that are baseless - cost President Donald Trump the election to Democrat Joe Biden. But wi...

Dec 14, 2020

Protesting Indian farmers call for 2nd strike in a week

NEW DELHI - Tens of thousands of protesting Indian farmers have called for a national strike on Monday, the second in a week, to press for the quashing of three new laws on agricultural reform that th...

Dec 14, 2020

US Embassy says Sudan no longer on list of terror sponsors

CAIRO - The U.S. Embassy in Khartoum said Monday that President Donald Trump's administration has removed Sudan from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, a move that could help the African co...

Dec 14, 2020

'External source' causes oil tanker blast off Saudi Arabia

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - An oil tanker off Saudi Arabia's port city of Jiddah suffered an explosion early Monday after being hit by "an external source," a shipping company said, suggesting anoth...

Dec 13, 2020

Report: Cleveland Indians changing name after 105 years

CLEVELAND - The Cleveland Indians are changing their name after 105 years. Citing three people familiar with the decision, The New York Times reported Sunday night that the team is moving away from a ...

Dec 13, 2020

Master of espionage John le Carre dies at 89

LONDON - John le Carre, the spy-turned-novelist whose elegant and intricate narratives defined the Cold War espionage thriller and brought acclaim to a genre critics had once ignored, has died. He was...

Dec 13, 2020

Man shot by police after shooting at Manhattan cathedral

NEW YORK - A man was shot by police after shots rang out at the end of a Christmas choral concert on the steps of a Manhattan cathedral Sunday afternoon. It's unclear if the gunman was killed and poli...

Dec 13, 2020

Hundreds of Nigerian students missing after attack on school

LAGOS, Nigeria - Hundreds of Nigerian students are missing after gunmen attacked a secondary school in the country's northwestern Katsina state, police said, while the president said the military was ...

Dec 13, 2020