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Canadian wildfires are causing unhealthy air quality again in Chicago and other parts of the US

CHICAGO (AP) - Drifting smoke from the ongoing wildfires across Canada is creating curtains of haze and raising air quality concerns throughout the Great Lakes region, and in parts of the central and ...

Jun 27, 2023

Sierra Leone's president wins second term without need for runoff, election commission announces

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) - Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio has won a second term in office, receiving 56.17% of ballots cast and narrowly clearing the threshold for avoiding a runoff in t...

Jun 27, 2023

A scientist's 4-decade quest to save the biggest monkey in the Americas

CARATINGA, Brazil (AP) - The emerald-green canopy shifts and rustles as a troop of willowy, golden-gray monkeys slides through a tropical ecosystem more threatened than the Amazon. Karen Strier starte...

Jun 27, 2023

Dolphin moms use baby talk to call to their young, recordings show

WASHINGTON (AP) - You know instantly when someone is speaking to an infant or small child. It turns out that dolphin mothers also use a kind of high-pitched baby talk. A study published Monday found t...

Jun 27, 2023

Supreme Court upholds North Carolina ruling that congressional districts violated state law

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that North Carolina's top court did not overstep its bounds in striking down a congressional districting plan as excessively partisan under state l...

Jun 27, 2023

Court date postponed for Trump valet Walt Nauta in classified documents case

MIAMI (AP) - A court appearance has been postponed for a valet for Donald Trump charged with helping the former president hide classified documents that the Justice Department wanted back. A lawyer fo...

Jun 27, 2023

Whereabouts and fate of Russian mercenary leader remain a mystery after revolt

Russia's Federal Security Service announced Tuesday that it has closed a criminal probe into the armed rebellion led by mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin. The service, known by the initials FSB, said ...

Jun 27, 2023

Players returning from LIV Golf part of Saudis' agreement with PGA Tour

The PGA Tour and European tour have agreed to work with Saudi backers of LIV Golf to decide how defectors to the rival league can return and what kind of punishment they should face, according to a fr...

Jun 26, 2023

Prosecutors seek the death penalty against man accused of slaying of 4 University of Idaho students

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Prosecutors say they are seeking the death penalty against a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death late last year. Bryan Kohberger, 28, is charged with...

Jun 26, 2023

Biden says the US and NATO had no involvement in the insurrection in Russia by a mercenary force

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Monday said United States and NATO had no involvement in the short-lived insurrection in Russia by the Wagner Group mercenary force. He said it's "too early" t...

Jun 26, 2023