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Updated 2 weeks, 6 days ago

FBI arrests Energy Department employee on charge of trying to support Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Department of Energy electrical engineer has been arrested on charges of providing support to …

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
Assad's forces make advances, further securing Aleppo region

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian troops have made significant advances against the last rebel held enclaves in the country's northwest, state media said on Sunday, consolidating the government's hold over the key Alep…

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
Clash between police, students at Mexican college injures 8

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Police and students at a rural teachers' college in southern Mexican clashed Sunday leaving eight people injured in what authorities said was an operation to clear a road blockade and students ca…

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea

BEIJING (AP) — A look at recent developments in the South China Sea, where China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple territorial disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons. The waters are a major sh…

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
After abuse scandals, seminarians pledge to 'get it right'

WYNNEWOOD, Pa. (AP) — The seminarians walk along a hallway lined with photos of classes of priests who came before them. Some are pious alumni who have become their teachers and mentors; others climbed the Catholic…

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
Afghan refugees tell UN: 'We need peace, land to go home'

KABOBAYAN CAMP, Pakistan (AP) — Hukam Khan isn’t sure how old he is, but his beard is long and white, and when he came to Pakistan 40 years ago fleeing an earlier war in Afghanistan, his children were small, stuffe…

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
Police fatally shoot man connected to carjackings, stabbing

NEWBURY, Mass. (AP) — Police officers shot and killed a man connected to carjackings in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, authorities said.

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
Floods put Mississippi capital in 'precarious situation'

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — With the waters in the Pearl River continuing to rise in and around Mississippi's capital city and more rain on the way this week, the governor warned residents that it would be days before fl…

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
AP News Digest 6 p.m.

Here are the AP's latest coverage plans, top stories and promotable content. All times EST. For up-to-the minute information on AP's coverage, visit Coverage Plan at https://newsroom.ap.org.

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
Toxic gas leak kills 5, sickens dozens in Karachi port city

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A toxic gas leak killed five people and sickened dozens of others in a coastal residential area in Pakistan's port city of Karachi, police said Monday.

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
Rains postpones Daytona 500, dampening event, Trump's visit

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The Daytona 500 has been postponed by rain for the first time since 2012, dampening NASCAR's season opener that started with a ballyhooed visit from President Donald Trump.

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
General Motors says it's pulling out of Australia, New Zealand and Thailand

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors says it's pulling out of Australia, New Zealand and Thailand.

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
Chartered flight carrying Americans from cruise ship quarantined in Japan during virus crisis lands in California

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — Chartered flight carrying Americans from cruise ship quarantined in Japan during virus crisis lands in California.

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
Lottery State-by-State-All

The state-by-state winning lottery numbers through Monday:

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
Technicality extinguishes sparkler record attempt in Wyoming

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — An attempt in Wyoming to break a world record for the most sparklers lit simultaneously failed on a technicality.

Updated 6 years, 8 months ago
211M gallons of sewage spilled into Florida city waterways

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Fort Lauderdale officials say 211.6 million gallons of sewage has spilled into Fort Lauderdale waterways in the past few months.