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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 …
Nobel UN agency warns 2021 is going to be worse than 2020
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the World Food Program says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the U.N. agency a spotlight and megaphone to warn world leaders that next year is going to be worse than this year, and …
Thousands rally behind Trump, believing he won race he lost
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fervent supporters of President Donald Trump rallied in Washington on Saturday behind his spurious claim of a stolen election and swarmed his motorcade when he detoured for a drive-by on his way o…
Officer charged in 2018 fatal shooting while in security job
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Nashville police officer who was hired after fatally shooting someone as a security guard two years ago is now charged with second-degree murder in the shooting outside the restaurant wher…
Thousands attend weekly protest against Israel's Netanyahu
JERUSALEM (AP) — Several thousand protesters gathered outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official residence in Jerusalem on Saturday night in what has become a weekly demonstration calling for the Israeli …
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Romania: 10 die in fire at COVID-19 intensive care unit
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian officials say a fire at a hospital treating COVID-19 patients has killed 10 people and critically injured seven others.
Authorities in Romania say seven people died in a fire at a hospital intensive care unit with COVID-19 patients
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Authorities in Romania say seven people died in a fire at a hospital intensive care unit with COVID-19 patients.
2 children shot, one fatally, in CT home; woman arrested
PLYMOUTH, Conn. (AP) — A woman shot two children, killing one and critically injuring the other, in a suburban Connecticut home, police said Saturday.
Trump thrills protesting supporters with motorcade drive-by
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump delighted supporters gathered near the White House on Saturday with a slow motorcade drive-by through downtown Washington on the way to his Virginia golf club.
US sec'y of state begins difficult 7-nation tour in France
PARIS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed “global challenges” with a handful of members of a Paris think tank Saturday at the start of a seven-country tour of Europe and the Middle East, travels th…
Austria shuts schools, most stores, to curb spread of virus
BERLIN (AP) — Austria announced Saturday that it is tightening its partial lockdown, including by closing non-essential stores and shifting schools to online teaching, amid galloping coronavirus infection rates in …
Army identifies 5 Americans killed in Egypt helicopter crash
WASHINGTON (AP) — Five American soldiers killed in a helicopter crash this week while on a peacekeeping mission in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula included one who left behind a wife pregnant with their daughter.
India celebrates Diwali amid pandemic, pollution fears
NEW DELHI (AP) — More than a billion Indians celebrated Diwali on Saturday amid twin concerns of a resurgence in coronavirus infections and rising air pollution that is enveloping the country’s north in a cloud of …
Curtis Flowers defense team receives human rights award
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A human rights award has been presented to the defense team for a Mississippi man who was freed from prison in December after more than 20 years and this year had all charges dropped against hi…
No longer mirror of US, Ohio's electoral bellwether quiets
CINCINNATI (AP) — As Ohio goes, so goes the nation. That's the way it had been in presidential elections for more than half a century, until this year, when Republican Donald Trump won a decisive victory in the sta…