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Updated 1 week 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 5 years, 10 months ago
Pressure mounts on Peru's president after 2 die in protests

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru plunged into its worst constitutional crisis in two decades Sunday as the nation’s interim president faced mounting calls to resign after over half his Cabinet quit and two people died in mas…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Cable failures endanger renowned Puerto Rico radio telescope

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The giant, aging cables that support one of the world's largest single-dish radio telescopes are slowly unraveling in this U.S. territory, pushing an observatory renowned for its key ro…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
French Catholics protest for end to lockdown on Mass

PARIS (AP) — With banners reading “Let us Pray” and “We Want Mass,” Catholic protesters held scattered demonstrations around France on Sunday to demand that authorities relax virus lockdown measures to allow religi…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Trump seems to acknowledge Biden win, but he won't concede

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to acknowledge for the first time that Joe Biden won the White House, but made clear he would not concede and would keep trying to overturn the election r…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Bosnians vote in local elections overshadowed by pandemic

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnians voted Sunday in nationwide municipal elections amid concerns that the turnout will be hurt by a major surge in coronavirus infections and deaths.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
5 killed in wreck with wrong-way driver in South Carolina

LAURENS, S.C. (AP) — A car driving the wrong way on a South Carolina interstate caused a wreck that killed five people early Sunday morning, troopers said.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Poll workers contract virus, but Election Day link unclear

Despite painstaking efforts to keep election sites safe, some poll workers who came in contact with voters on Election Day have tested positive for the coronavirus, including more than two dozen in Missouri and oth…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Lottery State-by-State

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

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Lottery State-by-State-All

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

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Biden's beach hideaway has political sun shining on Rehoboth

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — This resort town known for Atlantic waves that are sometimes surfable, fresh-cut French fries and a 1-mile wooden boardwalk that dates to the 1870s has long prided itself on being the “N…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Violent clashes in DC after Trump backers' election protest

WASHINGTON (AP) — After several thousand supporters of President Donald Trump protested the election results and marched to the Supreme Court, nighttime clashes with counterdemonstrators led to fistfights, at least…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Bulgarian news agency chief Maxim Minchev dies at 67

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian journalist Maxim Minchev, who was at the helm of the Bulgarian news agency BTA, passed away Sunday at 67.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Azerbaijan vows to protect Christian churches as many flee

MOSCOW (AP) — The president of Azerbaijan is promising that Christian churches will be protected when the strongly Muslim country takes possession of areas formerly controlled by Armenians, as residents burned down…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
In a moment of turmoil, US Catholic bishops meet virtually

Catholic bishops of the United States open a national meeting Monday under dramatic circumstances.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Rebel leaders who inked deal with government return to Sudan

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s rebel leaders returned to the capital, Khartoum on Sunday, signaling the first major steps toward implementing a peace agreement with the government that aims to end the country’s decades-long …