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Kyrgyz president declares state of emergency amid protests

MOSCOW - The embattled president of Kyrgyzstan ordered a nearly two-week state of emergency Friday in the capital, in a bid to end political turmoil sparked by a disputed parliamentary election. Presi...

Oct 09, 2020

Battered Louisiana coast braces for 1 more: Hurricane Delta

ABBEVILLE, La. - Boarded windows and empty sidewalks made parts of Louisiana's Acadiana region look like empty movie sets as major Hurricane Delta roared ever closer to the U.S. Gulf coast, apparently...

Oct 09, 2020

The Latest: Russia reports record number of new infections

MOSCOW - Russia has reported more than 12,000 new coronavirus infections, its highest daily increase since the start of the pandemic. The government task force dealing with the outbreak said the 12,12...

Oct 09, 2020

The U.N.'s World Food Program wins Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO - The United Nations' World Food Program on Friday won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger and food insecurity around the globe. The announcement was made in Oslo by Berit...

Oct 09, 2020

Rapper Tory Lanez charged with shooting Megan Thee Stallion

Los Angeles prosecutors on Thursday charged rapper Tory Lanez with shooting artist Megan Thee Stallion during an argument earlier this year. Lanez is accused of shooting at Megan Thee Stallion's feet,...

Oct 08, 2020

Attorneys: Extraditing teen would 'turn him over to mob'

CHICAGO - Sending a 17-year-old accused of killing two protesters days after Jacob Blake was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to stand trial in Wisconsin would "turn him over to the mob," defence...

Oct 08, 2020

Texas officer charged in Black man's fatal shooting fired

DALLAS - A white police officer charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a Black man in a small East Texas city was fired Thursday. A statement from Wolfe City said Officer Shaun Lucas, 22, was fi...

Oct 08, 2020

Court blocks extension of Wisconsin absentee ballot deadline

MADISON, Wis. - A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked a decision to extend the deadline for counting absentee ballots by six days in battleground Wisconsin, in a win for Republicans who have fou...

Oct 08, 2020

Tensions rise as virus cases surge in Wisconsin, Dakotas

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A surge of coronavirus cases in Wisconsin and the Dakotas is forcing a scramble for hospital beds and raising political tensions, as the Upper Midwest and Plains emerge as one of t...

Oct 08, 2020

Mali: 2 hostages freed by extremists on plane to capital

BAMAKO, Mali - Malis's presidency confirmed Thursday that prominent Malian politician Soumaila Cisse and French aid worker Sophie Petronin are aboard a flight to the capital, Bamako, after being freed...

Oct 08, 2020