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Indian police arrest a suspected scammer running a fake embassy near New Delhi

NEW DELHI (AP) - Indian police have arrested a man accused of running a bogus embassy from a rented residential building near the capital, New Delhi, and recovered cars with fake diplomatic plates. Th...

Jul 23, 2025

45-year-old Venus Williams becomes the oldest woman since Martina Navratilova to win a match

WASHINGTON (AP) - Venus Williams became the second-oldest woman to win a tour-level singles match in professional tennis, delivering some of her familiar big serves and groundstrokes at age 45 while b...

Jul 22, 2025

Driver accused of ramming into LA crowd charged with 37 counts of attempted murder, prosecutor says

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles prosecutors announced felony charges Tuesday in connection with a car crash outside a nightclub over the weekend that injured at least 37 people and led to the driver be...

Jul 22, 2025

Smoking or oxygen machine issue may have caused deadly fire at Massachusetts assisted-living home

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) - The cause of a fire at a Massachusetts assisted-living facility that left 10 people dead remains undetermined for now as officials investigate whether smoking and an issue wit...

Jul 22, 2025

Interpol takes anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson off its most-wanted list

PARIS (AP) - Interpol said Tuesday it was removing a most-wanted designation for anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson, who is sought by Japan over an encounter with a whaling ship and who was jailed fo...

Jul 22, 2025

Federal judge gives ex-officer nearly 3 years in Breonna Taylor raid

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A federal judge on Monday sentenced an ex-Kentucky police officer to nearly three years in prison for using excessive force during the 2020 deadly Breonna Taylor raid, declining...

Jul 21, 2025

Pentagon to withdraw 700 Marines from Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Seven hundred Marines sent to Los Angeles will leave the city, the Pentagon said Monday. The Marines were sent to the city in June alongside 4,000 National Guard soldiers in respons...

Jul 21, 2025

Trump administration released FBI records on MLK Jr. despite his family’s opposition

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration has released records of the FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate's family and the civil rights grou...

Jul 21, 2025

Appeals court orders new trial for man convicted in 1979 Etan Patz case

NEW YORK (AP) - The man convicted of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 was awarded a new trial Monday as a federal appeals court overturned the guilty verdict in one of the nation's most notorious ...

Jul 21, 2025

Father arrested in New York in death of 9-year-old daughter he had reported missing

LATHAM, N.Y. (AP) - A Canadian man whose 9-year-old daughter was found dead after he reported that she had been abducted while they were vacationing in upstate New York was charged Monday with murder....

Jul 21, 2025