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Police investigating shooting near beach boardwalk in Hollywood, Florida

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) - Police are responding to a shooting near the beach broadwalk in Hollywood, Florida. Nine people were injured, police said. No deaths have been reported. A preliminary investigat...

May 29, 2023

Impeachment trial of Texas’ Ken Paxton to begin no later than August 28

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A historic impeachment trial in Texas to determine whether Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton should be permanently removed from office will begin no later than August in the ...

May 29, 2023

Nun whose body shows little decay since 2019 death draws hundreds to rural Missouri

Hundreds of people flocked to a small town in Missouri this week and last to see a Black nun whose body has barely decomposed since 2019. Some say it's a sign of holiness in Catholicism, while others ...

May 29, 2023

Ex-El Salvador President Mauricio Funes sentenced to 14 years for negotiating with gangs

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) - A judge sentenced former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes to 14 years in prison Monday for negotiating with gangs during his administration. Funes' trial began in ...

May 29, 2023

Fire chief in Iowa says one person rescued overnight from building collapse in Davenport

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - One more person has been rescued and taken to a hospital after a building collapsed in Iowa. Davenport Fire Chief Michael Carlsten said at a news conference on Monday that it wa...

May 29, 2023

Nigeria’s Bola Tinubu sworn in as president amid hopes and skepticism

Associated Press (AP) - Nigeria's Bola Tinubu has been sworn in as president of Africa's most populous country at a period of unprecedented challenges, leaving some citizens hopeful for a better life ...

May 29, 2023

Poland's president approves law on Russia's influence that could target opposition

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Polish President Andrzej Duda said Monday he will sign a bill that creates a powerful commission, ostensibly meant to investigate Russian influence in Poland but which critics vi...

May 29, 2023

Voters in Turkey return to polls to decide on opposing presidential visions

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Voters in Turkey returned to the polls Sunday to decide whether the country's longtime leader stretches his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade or is unseated by ...

May 27, 2023

Fight still ahead for Texas' Ken Paxton after historic impeachment deepens GOP divisions

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The historic impeachment of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton plunged Republicans on Sunday into a fight over whether to banish one of their own in America's biggest red state aft...

May 27, 2023

Texas House launches historic impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Ken Paxton

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas' GOP-led House of Representatives launched historic impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Ken Paxton on Saturday as the scandal-plagued Republican called on suppo...

May 27, 2023