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Police: Bullets that killed 2 bystanders at Seattle festival weren't from teen shooter's gun
SEATTLE (AP) - Preliminary testing showed the bullets that killed two bystanders during a shootout at a crowded Seattle food festival last weekend didn't come from the gun a 15-year-old arrested at th...
Jul 29, 2026
Bullets that killed 2 at Seattle festival weren't recovered from teen shooter's gun, police say
SEATTLE (AP) - Bullets recovered from two bystanders killed during a shootout at a Seattle festival last weekend do not appear to have come from the gun that a 15-year-old arrested at the scene was fi...
Jul 29, 2026
Wisconsin judge says voters who have returned absentee ballot for state primary cannot get a new one
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin voters who have already returned their absentee ballots for the state's primary are not allowed to void those and request a new one, a judge ruled Wednesday. The ruling ...
Jul 29, 2026
FIFA's Infantino sets deadline for $20M offer to members in World Cup investor plan
GENEVA (AP) - FIFA President Gianni Infantino set a Sept. 19 deadline on Wednesday for the 211 member federations to accept one-off $20 million offers as part of a project to sell stakes in the World ...
Jul 29, 2026
Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment and declines to testify in Republican-led COVID-19 Senate hearing
WASHINGTON (AP) - Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions from senators in a Republican-led committee hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pan...
Jul 29, 2026
Southern Europe burns as 3 firefighters die and France battles blaze 4 times the size of Paris
LEGE-CAP FERRET, France (AP) - An uncontained wildfire four times the size of Paris threatened to surge again in southwest France on Wednesday - as three firefighters died in Greece and crews across s...
Jul 29, 2026
US launches strikes on Iranian targets a day after it foiled missile attack on American forces
BAGHDAD (AP) - The U.S. military said early Thursday it had completed what it described as "a heavy wave of strikes against Iran" conducted in response to an earlier Iranian missile attack on a U.S. b...
Jul 28, 2026
Rescuers search for survivors after a 7.1 quake kills 18 in southwestern Japan
KUMAMOTO, Japan (AP) - Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed ...
Jul 28, 2026
Senate confirms Jay Clayton as nation's intelligence director
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has confirmed Jay Clayton to become head of the nation's intelligence agencies, putting a permanent director in place weeks after President Donald Trump sought to delay hi...
Jul 28, 2026
Teen gets life without parole for killing 4 at Georgia’s Apalachee High School
A judge on Tuesday sentenced a teenager who killed two students and two teachers in a shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia to serve life in prison without the possibility of parole, calling hi...
Jul 28, 2026