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Plessy, 'separate but equal’ ruling namesake, is pardoned

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A Louisiana board has posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1896 "separate but equal" ruling affirming state segregation laws. The state Board...

Nov 12, 2021

Biden picks former FDA chief Califf to again lead agency

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Friday is tapping former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Robert Califf to again lead the powerful regulatory agency, according to a person familiar w...

Nov 12, 2021

Paris Muslim leaders mark 6 years since Bataclan attacks

PARIS (AP) - The Paris Mosque is marking the sixth anniversary Friday of the attack at the Bataclan concert hall in the French capital that killed 90 people. Muslim leaders laid a wreath at the venue ...

Nov 12, 2021

Jury recommends 28 years for Missouri man in wife's murder

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - A jury recommended early Friday up to 28 years in prison for a Missouri man found guilty of second-degree murder in his wife's death. The jury returned the recommendation only hou...

Nov 12, 2021

Myanmar court sentences US journalist to 11 years in jail

BANGKOK (AP) - The lawyer for detained U.S. journalist Danny Fenster says a court in military-ruled Myanmar has sentenced him to 11 years in prison after finding him guilty on several charges includin...

Nov 11, 2021

Missouri man who buried wife's body convicted of her murder

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - A Missouri man who admitted burying his wife's body and misleading authorities for more than a year about her whereabouts was convicted Thursday of second-degree murder. A jury fo...

Nov 11, 2021

Court temporarily delays release of Trump's Jan. 6 records

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked the release of records sought by a U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection as the court considers an emergency requ...

Nov 11, 2021

Expert at Rittenhouse trial zeroes in on just a few minutes

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) - Less than three seconds elapsed between the time a protester in the streets fired a shot in the air and Kyle Rittenhouse opened fire with his rifle, a use-of-force expert testifie...

Nov 11, 2021

Sudanese general tightens grip on power, 2 weeks after coup

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Sudan's top general has re-appointed himself as head of the army-run interim governing body, a sign that he is tightening his grip on the country two weeks after he led a coup a...

Nov 11, 2021

South Africa's last apartheid president F. W. de Klerk dies

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa's last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country's white minority rule, has died at...

Nov 11, 2021