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Man suspected of killing 8 people outside Chicago was related to most of the victims, police say

CHICAGO (AP) - A man suspected of shooting and killing eight people in suburban Chicago this weekend was related to most of the victims, authorities said Tuesday, a day after the 23-year-old fatally s...

Jan 23, 2024

Man arrested after saying he started South African building fire that killed 76 to hide a killing

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A man was arrested Tuesday hours after he claimed responsibility for starting a building fire in South Africa last year that killed 76 people while trying to get rid of the body of...

Jan 23, 2024

North Dakota judge won't temporarily block part of abortion law for doctors

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A North Dakota judge on Tuesday denied a temporary block on a part of the state's revised abortion laws so that doctors can perform the procedure to save a patient's life or heal...

Jan 23, 2024

Turkey’s parliament agrees to hold a long-delayed vote on Sweden’s NATO membership

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Turkish legislators scheduled a long-delayed vote Tuesday on Sweden's bid to join NATO, in a step that could remove a major hurdle for the previously nonaligned Nordic country's ...

Jan 23, 2024

Chinese state media say 20 people dead and 24 missing after landslide

BEIJING (AP) - Twenty people are confirmed dead and 24 remain missing after a landslide in a remote, mountainous part of China's southwestern province of Yunnan, Chinese state media reported Tuesday. ...

Jan 23, 2024

California State University faculty reach tentative contract agreement and will end strike

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California State university faculty members reached a tentative contract agreement Monday, the same day that nearly 30,000 professors, librarians, coaches and other workers struck...

Jan 22, 2024

10 Israeli soldiers killed in one of the deadliest single attacks on its army since the war began

JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli army said Tuesday that 10 soldiers were killed in the Gaza Strip in one of the deadliest attacks for Israeli soldiers of the 3-month-old war against the militant Hamas gro...

Jan 22, 2024

Authorities searching for suspect in shooting deaths of 8 people over 2 days in suburban Chicago

CHICAGO (AP) - A man shot and killed 8 people at three locations in the Chicago suburbs and remains loose, authorities said Monday, while neighbors were left on edge as the hunt for the suspect contin...

Jan 22, 2024

US, British militaries team up again to bomb sites in Yemen used by Iran-backed Houthis

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. and British militaries bombed multiple sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen on Monday, the second time the two allies have conducted coordinated retaliatory str...

Jan 22, 2024

Strong magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes remote western China, state media say

BEIJING (AP) - A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck a remote part of China's western Xinjiang region early Tuesday, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported. Xinhua cited the China Earthquake Networks Cente...

Jan 22, 2024