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Chad Daybell sentenced to death for killing wife and girlfriend’s 2 children in jury decision

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Chad Daybell has been sentenced to death for the murders of his wife and his girlfriend's two youngest children in Idaho. The sentence was handed down Saturday after an Idaho jury ...

Jun 01, 2024

River ferry sinks in Afghanistan, killing at least 20

ISLAMABAD (AP) - At least 20 people were killed when a boat sank while crossing a river in eastern Afghanistan Saturday morning, a Taliban official said. Quraishi Badlon, provincial director of the in...

Jun 01, 2024

The ANC party that freed South Africa from apartheid loses its 30-year majority

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The African National Congress party lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result Saturday that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since t...

Jun 01, 2024

Voting begins in the last round of India's election, a referendum on Modi's decade in power

NEW DELHI (AP) - Indians began voting Saturday in the last round of a six-week-long national election that is a referendum on Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decade in power. The elec...

May 31, 2024

Donald Trump’s attorney says he was 'shocked' the former president took the verdict with 'solemness'

NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump's lawyer told The Associated Press he was surprised at Trump's stoic demeanor as he listened to the verdict that made him the first former U.S. president convicted of a cr...

May 31, 2024

Marian Robinson, mother of Michelle Obama, dies at 86

WASHINGTON (AP) - Marian Shields Robinson, the mother of Michelle Obama who moved with the first family to the White House when son-in-law Barack Obama was elected president, has died. She was 86. Mrs...

May 31, 2024

Florida sheriff's office fires deputy who fatally shot Black airman at home

A Florida sheriff on Friday fired a deputy who fatally shot a Black airman at his home while holding a handgun pointed to the ground. Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden fired Deputy Eddie Duran, who fa...

May 31, 2024

Woman sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiring to murder Connecticut mom

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - A woman convicted of helping her boyfriend plot and cover up the murder of his estranged wife, Jennifer Dulos, during contentious divorce and child custody proceedings in Connec...

May 31, 2024

US leaders invite Israel's Netanyahu to deliver an address to Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) - Top U.S. leaders have invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver an address to Congress, a show of wartime support for the longtime ally despite mounting political ...

May 31, 2024

UVA to pay $9 million related to shooting that killed 3 football players, wounded 2 students

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - The University of Virginia will pay $9 million in a settlement related to a 2022 campus shooting that killed three football players and wounded two students, a lawyer repre...

May 31, 2024