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Peru Congress tentatively OKs early election amid unrest

LIMA, Peru (AP) - Peru's Congress tentatively endorsed a plan on Tuesday to hold early elections in 2024 in an attempt to defuse a national political crisis after lawmakers ousted President Pedro Cast...

Dec 20, 2022

US asks court to end asylum limits, with a short delay

EL PASO, Texas (AP) - The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to end asylum restrictions, but asked the court for a delay until at least after Christmas. The administration made the plea ...

Dec 20, 2022

Ukraine's Zelenskyy preparing to visit DC on Wednesday

WASHINGTON (AP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is preparing to visit Washington on Wednesday, according to three AP sources, in his first known trip outside the country since Russia's invas...

Dec 20, 2022

California judge rejects new murder trial for Scott Peterson

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) - A California judge on Tuesday rejected a new murder trial for Scott Peterson, nearly 20 years after he was charged with dumping the bodies of his pregnant wife, Laci, and t...

Dec 20, 2022

Officer gets nearly 12 years for killing Atatiana Jefferson

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A former Texas police officer who fatally shot Atatiana Jefferson through a rear window of her home in 2019 was sentenced on Tuesday to 11 years and 10 months in prison for hi...

Dec 20, 2022

Taliban says women banned from universities in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Women are banned from private and public universities in Afghanistan with immediate effect and until further notice, a Taliban government spokesman said Tuesday, the latest e...

Dec 20, 2022

Ukraine's president visits front-line city in country's east

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has visited the embattled Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, the recent focus of some of the most intense fighting of Russia's war, his office said. The eastern city is...

Dec 20, 2022

German court convicts former secretary at Nazi death camp

BERLIN (AP) - A German court on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to murder for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp during W...

Dec 20, 2022

Huge crowds welcome Argentina team after World Cup victory

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Thousands of fans lined up in the middle of the night to try to get a glimpse of the Argentina soccer team that won one of the greatest World Cup finals of all time ahea...

Dec 20, 2022

High court temporarily blocks lifting of asylum restrictions

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is temporarily blocking an order that would lift pandemic-era restrictions on asylum seekers. But it is leaving open the prospect of lifting the restrictions by Wed...

Dec 19, 2022