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Sharpton demands name of Michigan officer who killed Lyoya

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The Rev. Al Sharpton demanded Friday that authorities publicly identify the Michigan officer who killed Patrick Lyoya, a Black man and native of Congo who was fatally shot i...

Apr 22, 2022

Death toll in Afghan mosque bombing rises to 33, Taliban say

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A Taliban official says a bombing at a mosque and religious school in northern Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 33 people, including students of a religious school. Zabi...

Apr 22, 2022

Former Kenyan President Kibaki is dead at 90

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Former Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has died at the age of 90. Kibaki's death was announced Friday by President Uhuru Kenyatta, who said his passing was a sad day for the country...

Apr 22, 2022

In India, hate-filled songs are a weapon to target Muslims

NEW DELHI (AP) - The frenzied fury against Muslims began with provocative songs played by Hindu mobs that called for violence. It ended with Muslim neighborhoods resembling a war zone, with pavements ...

Apr 21, 2022

Possible mass graves near Mariupol shown in satellite images

ZAPORIZHZHIA,Ukraine (AP) - New satellite images show what appear to be mass graves near Mariupol, and local officials accused Russia of burying up to 9,000 Ukrainian civilians there in an effort to c...

Apr 21, 2022

NY Times report: McCarthy said he would urge Trump to resign

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told other GOP lawmakers shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection that he would urge then-President Donald Trump to resign, accordi...

Apr 21, 2022

Texas author who set series of novels along border dies

DALLAS (AP) - Romeo Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, an award-winning Texas author who began in the 1970s writing a series of novels that told the stories of people living in a fictional county along the Texas...

Apr 21, 2022

Arizona Supreme Court reinstates massive income tax cuts

PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the state's voters do not have the right to reject a massive income tax cut approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature and Gov, D...

Apr 21, 2022

Oldest Texas death row inmate executed for officer’s death

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Texas' oldest death row inmate was executed Thursday for killing a Houston police officer during a traffic stop nearly 32 years ago. Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, was executed at th...

Apr 21, 2022

Tenn gov calls off execution, citing oversight in plan

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee's governor announced Thursday that he was calling off what was to have been the state's first execution since the start of the pandemic, granting a temporary reprieve...

Apr 21, 2022