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North Carolina's photo voter ID mandate can continue as a judge upholds the law
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina's photo voter identification law was upheld on Thursday, as a federal judge rejected arguments by civil rights groups that Republicans enacted the requirement with discriminatory intent against Black and Latino voter...
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California renames César Chavez Day following sexual abuse allegations
SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) - California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Thursday to rename César Chavez Day as Farmworkers Day in an effort to reconcile the Latino labor icon's legacy with explosive sexual abuse allegations before the state holi...
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Brother and sister are charged after an explosive device was found outside a Florida Air Force base
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A man who fled to China after leaving an explosive device outside MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa has been indicted along with his sister in Florida on federal charges, and their mother has been detained pending deportation...
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Judge weighs whether Venezuela can pay Maduro's legal costs in US drug trafficking case
NEW YORK (AP) - Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were back in a New York courtroom Thursday as they seek to have their drug trafficking indictments thrown out over a geopolitical dispute over legal fees. The defense...
Mar 26, 2026
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Transgender women athletes banned from women's Olympic events by new IOC policy
GENEVA (AP) - Transgender women athletes are now excluded from women's events at the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy on Thursday which aligns with U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order on sports ahead of the 2028 Los A...
Mar 26, 2026
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EU lawmakers vote to make it easier to set up migrant detention centers outside the bloc
BRUSSELS (AP) - European lawmakers voted Thursday to ease the setting up of new migrant detention centers outside the European Union, known as "return hubs." Members of the European Parliament voted 389-206 in favor, with 32 abstentions. ...
Mar 26, 2026
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Iran and the US harden their positions as Tehran keeps its grip on the Strait of Hormuz
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran and the United States hardened their positions as a diplomatic push for a ceasefire in the Middle East war appeared to falter on Thursday. Tehran moved to formalize its control over the crucial Strait of Hormuz w...
Mar 26, 2026
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Justice Department settles lawsuit from Trump ally Michael Flynn for $1.2 million, AP source says
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department has settled for roughly $1.2 million a lawsuit from Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump who pleaded guilty during the Republican's first term to lying to the FBI about h...
Mar 25, 2026
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Vegas and Seattle a step closer to getting NBA teams. League's owners approve expansion exploration
NEW YORK (AP) - The NBA has finally decided to consider expanding past its current 30-team footprint, with the league's owners voting Wednesday to start exploring the process of adding franchises in Las Vegas and Seattle. It was not a sur...
Mar 25, 2026
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Trump will travel to Beijing for rescheduled China trip May 14-15, after delay due to Iran war
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump will travel to Beijing for a rescheduled summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping on May 14 and 15, the White House announced on Wednesday. Trump had been scheduled to travel to China later this mo...
Mar 25, 2026
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Militants in northern Nigeria kill 10 security forces and 1 resident, officials say
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - Armed militants ambushed Nigerian security forces who were responding to a distress call in the northwestern state of Kebbi, fatally shooting nine soldiers, a police officer and one resident, authorities said Wednesday. ...
Mar 25, 2026
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South Africa arrests 12 senior police officers on suspicion of corruption
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South African anti-graft investigators have arrested 12 senior police officers on allegations of corruption and fraud, prosecutors said Wednesday. The officers appeared later in a court in the capital, Pretoria. ...
Mar 25, 2026
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UK police arrest 2 men over arson attack on ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity
LONDON (AP) - British police arrested two men on Wednesday in connection with an arson attack on four ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity, an assault that authorities are investigating as an antisemitic hate crime. The Metropolitan P...
Mar 25, 2026
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Cambodian man deported by the US to Eswatini is being repatriated, his lawyer says
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - A Cambodian man deported by the United States to the African kingdom of Eswatini under the Trump administration's third-country program was released on Wednesday to be repatriated after spending five months in detention a...
Mar 25, 2026
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Iran rejects US ceasefire plan, issues its own demands as strikes land across the Mideast
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran on Wednesday dismissed an American plan to pause the war in the Middle East and launched more attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab countries, including an assault that sparked a huge fire at Kuwait International Airpo...
Mar 25, 2026
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Democrat flips seat in special election for Florida district that includes Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat Emily Gregory won a special election for a Florida state House seat on Tuesday, flipping a district that is home to President Donald Trump's estate, Mar-a-Lago. The Republican president endorsed Gregory's rival,...
Mar 25, 2026
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North Carolina Senate leader, conservative architect Phil Berger concedes primary loss
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina government's most influential politician, Republican state Senate leader Phil Berger, conceded the primary race for his legislative seat on Tuesday, shaking the power structure in the ninth-largest state and likely s...
Mar 24, 2026
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Brazil's Bolsonaro to serve sentence at home due to ill health, judge to review in 90 days
SAO PAULO (AP) - Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro will continue to serve his 27-year sentence for a coup attempt at home instead of in prison due to failing health, a judge ruled Tuesday. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ...
Mar 24, 2026
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Brazil's Bolsonaro allowed to serve 27-year sentence at home due to ill health
SAO PAULO (AP) - A top Brazilian justice granted former President Jair Bolsonaro permission Tuesday to serve his 27-year sentence for a coup attempt at home instead of in prison because of his failing health. The decision by Supreme Cour...
Mar 24, 2026
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Minnesota sues Trump administration over shootings, including deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good
WASHINGTON (AP) - Minnesota officials sued the Trump administration on Tuesday for access to evidence they say they need to independently investigate three shootings by federal officers, including the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. ...
Mar 24, 2026
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Minnesota officials filed a federal lawsuit against Trump administration over 3 shooting deaths
Minnesota officials filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday accusing the Trump administration of withholding evidence related to three shootings by federal officers, including the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The lawsuit claims ...
Mar 24, 2026
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Deal emerges to end Homeland Security budget standoff as TSA disruptions deepen
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senators raced Tuesday to clinch an emerging proposal to end the Homeland Security shutdown by funding much of the department, including the Transportation Security Administration airport workers going without pay, but excluding ICE e...
Mar 24, 2026
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Afghanistan releases American national Dennis Coyle held for more than a year
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan's Taliban authorities on Tuesday released American academic Dennis Coyle after holding him for over a year, with the Foreign Ministry saying the release came on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday that ...
Mar 24, 2026
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Geneva's CERN hails delicate test on transporting antimatter as a scientific success
GENEVA (AP) - Scientists in Geneva took some antiprotons out for a spin - a very delicate one - in a truck, in a never-tried-before test drive that has been deemed a success. If this so-called antimatter came into contact with actual matt...
Mar 24, 2026
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