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US Supreme Court blocks Trump rule limiting mail voting, sides with Dem states
Netanyahu says Israel to 'forever' remember Sheldon Adelson
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says U.S. casino magnate Sheldon Adelson “will forever be remembered” for his work strengthening ties between the U.S. and Israel.
Officer with knee to George Floyd's neck to be tried alone
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer who held his knee to the neck of George Floyd for minutes will be tried separately from the three other former officers accused in his death, according to an o…
Jailed Zimbabwean journalist urges isolation due to virus
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A jailed Zimbabwean journalist on Tuesday said authorities are putting prisoners and jail guards at risk of COVID-19 by crowding him together with them despite a court order that he should b…
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Wife of billionaire casino mogul, GOP power broker Sheldon Adelson says he has died of complications from long illness.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Wife of billionaire casino mogul, GOP power broker Sheldon Adelson says he has died of complications from long illness.
US asking states to speed vaccine, not hold back 2nd dose
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is asking states to speed delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to people 65 and older and to others at high risk by no longer holding back the second dose of the two-dose shots, …
Paris opens inquiry into disappearance of Senegalese student
PARIS (AP) — Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that it had opened an “worrying disappearance” inquiry into a Senegalese student, who reportedly vanished on Jan. 4.
Ohio Supreme Court to hear armed school staff training case
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A school district that voted to allow employees to be armed after a deadly shooting is fighting a court ruling that says they must first provide police-level training to those employees.
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Interpol issues notices over Lebanon's massive port blast
BEIRUT (AP) — Interpol has issued a wanted notice for two Russians and a Portuguese man over explosive material that had been shipped to Beirut and stored at the city’s port for six years until it exploded in Augus…
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House speeding to impeach Trump for Capitol 'insurrection'
Spain: Cold snap plummets temperatures to lowest in 20 years
MADRID (AP) — Much of Spain is struggling to return to normality three days after a 30-hour-long record snowfall that was then hardened by record-low temperatures, turning streets and roads into dangerous ice sheet…
Jordan sentences man to death for stabbings at tourist site
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan on Tuesday sentenced a man to death by hanging for a 2019 stabbing attack at a popular tourist site that wounded eight people, including foreign tourists and their guide.