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Nikki Haley hasn't yet won a GOP contest. But she's vowing to keep fighting Donald Trump

KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. (AP) - There are no wins on the horizon for Nikki Haley. Those close to the former United Nations ambassador, the last major Republican candidate standing in Donald Trump's path to...

Feb 20, 2024

She's not quitting. Takeaways from Nikki Haley's push to stay in the GOP contest against Trump

KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. (AP) - Nikki Haley's team is bracing for a home state embarrassment in South Carolina's Republican presidential primary on Saturday. Conventional wisdom suggests she'll be forced t...

Feb 20, 2024

Hundreds are set to descend on Tahiti for Olympic surfing. Can locals protect their way of life?

TEAHUPO'O, French Polynesia (AP) - Peva Levy said he felt a powerful, natural energy known as "mana" when he surfed Teahupo'o's waves on a piece of plywood for the first time, rushing down a crumbling...

Feb 20, 2024

A shaken Minnesota community waits for answers on the killings of 2 officers and 1 firefighter

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A man who died after fatally shooting two police officers and a paramedic in a wooded Minneapolis-area neighborhood wasn't legally allowed to have guns and was entangled in a years-...

Feb 19, 2024

Minnesota man who shot 2 officers and a firefighter wasn't allowed to have guns

A man who died after fatally shooting two police officers and a firefighter in a wooded Minneapolis-area neighborhood wasn't legally allowed to have guns and was entangled in a years-long dispute over...

Feb 19, 2024

Gaza Health Ministry says over 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel-Hamas war

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Gaza's Health Ministry says more than 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. The ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza said on M...

Feb 19, 2024

Top UN court opens hearings into Israel’s occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Six days of hearings opened on Monday at the top United Nations court into the legality of Israel's 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state. Foreign Af...

Feb 19, 2024

Suspect dead amid shooting that claimed the lives of 2 officers, 1 first responder, group says

BURNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) - A suspect has died in connection with a shooting in Minnesota that claimed the lives of two police officers and a first responder early Sunday, a police organization says. The...

Feb 18, 2024

Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin is released on parole after serving 6 months in a hospital

BANGKOK (AP) - Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was released on parole early Sunday from a Bangkok hospital where he spent six months serving time for corruption-related offenses. Thaksin...

Feb 17, 2024

Explosion at Virginia home kills 1 firefighter and hospitalizes 9 firefighters and 2 civilians

STERLING, Va. (AP) - One firefighter was killed and nine others were injured when an explosion in a Washington, D.C., suburb on Friday leveled a home where they were investigating a gas leak. Two civi...

Feb 16, 2024