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WADA stands by decision to clear Chinese swimmers for Tokyo Olympics, citing contaminated samples

GENEVA (AP) - The World Anti-Doping Agency said after reviewing various media reports that it stands by its decision to clear 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a banned heart medication befo...

Apr 22, 2024

Review of UN agency helping Palestinian refugees found Israel did not express concern about staff

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - An independent review of the neutrality of the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received ...

Apr 22, 2024

The Latest | Trump tried to ‘corrupt’ 2016 election, prosecutors allege in opening statements

NEW YORK (AP) - In opening statements in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial, prosecutors alleged Monday that the former president "orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt" the 2016 presidentia...

Apr 22, 2024

Trump tried to 'corrupt' the 2016 election, prosecutor alleges as hush money trial gets underway

NEW YORK (AP) - A prosecutor says Donald Trump "orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt" the 2016 presidential election. Matthew Colangelo, a prosecutor with the Manhattan District Attorney's office...

Apr 22, 2024

Supreme Court will take up the legal fight over ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up a Biden administration appeal over the regulation of difficult-to-trace ghost guns, which had been struck down by lower courts. The just...

Apr 22, 2024

First deportation flights will leave UK for Rwanda in 10-12 weeks, Prime Minister Sunak pledges

LONDON (AP) - U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged Monday that the country's first deportation flights to Rwanda could leave in 10-12 weeks as he promised to end the Parliamentary deadlock over a k...

Apr 22, 2024

Israeli military intelligence chief resigns over failure to prevent Oct. 7 attack

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - The Israeli military said Monday the head of its intelligence corps has resigned over the failures surrounding Hamas' unprecedented Oct. 7 attack, which broke through Israel's ...

Apr 22, 2024

North Korea fires suspected short-range missiles into ocean in its latest weapons launch, Seoul says

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea fired multiple suspected short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Monday, South Korea's military said, the latest in a recent series of weapons...

Apr 22, 2024

Ecuadorians overwhelmingly approve referendum measures on toughening fight against gangs

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Ecuador's fledgling president got a resounding victory Sunday in a referendum that he touted as a way to crack down on criminal gangs behind a spiraling wave of violence. An offi...

Apr 21, 2024

Terry Anderson, AP reporter held captive for years, has died

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America's longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 a...

Apr 21, 2024