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Texas A&M University president resigns after Black journalist’s hiring at campus unravels

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas A&M University announced Friday that its president has resigned after a Black journalist's celebrated hiring at one of the nation's largest campuses unraveled following ...

Jul 21, 2023

Gunman who ambushed North Dakota police had a 'binary trigger' that let him fire rapidly, AG says

FARGO, N.D. (AP) - A gunman who ambushed police officers in Fargo, North Dakota, last week had a "binary trigger" that allowed him to fire rapidly, authorities said Friday. The .223-caliber rifle that...

Jul 21, 2023

Judge sets a trial date for next May in Trump's classified documents case in Florida

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge in Florida has set a trial date for next May for former President Donald Trump in a case charging him with illegally retaining hundreds of classified documents. The M...

Jul 21, 2023

He killed his ailing wife. A Cyprus court ruled it was manslaughter, not murder

PAPHOS, Cyprus (AP) - A Cyprus court on Friday found a British man who killed his ailing wife in their home guilty of manslaughter, saying that the prosecution didn't prove beyond reasonable doubt tha...

Jul 21, 2023

Alabama executes man for the 2001 beating death of a woman, resuming lethal injections after review

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) - Alabama executed a man on Friday for the 2001 beating death of a woman as the state resumed lethal injections following a pause to review procedures. James Barber, 64, was pronounc...

Jul 21, 2023

Snyder fined $60 million by NFL for sexually harassing employee, financial improprieties

Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder sexually harassed a team employee and oversaw team executives who deliberately withheld millions of dollars in revenue from other clubs, and he has agreed to pay...

Jul 20, 2023

Fleetwood among British Open leaders. McIlroy among the survivors.

HOYLAKE, England (AP) - The British Open showed again Thursday that even after 163 years, golf's oldest championship can still deliver a few surprises. It started with Christo Lamprecht, the South Afr...

Jul 20, 2023

A woman who investigators say burned a Wyoming abortion clinic pleads guilty to arson

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - An abortion opponent who told investigators that anxiety and nightmares about plans for Wyoming's first full-service abortion clinic in years led her to break into and burn the f...

Jul 20, 2023

Russia seeks a 20-year prison term for Kremlin foe Navalny in closed trial, ally says

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) - Russian prosecutors asked a court to sentence imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny to 20 years in prison on extremism charges, his ally Ivan Zhdanov said Thursday. Accor...

Jul 20, 2023

Oklahoma executes a man for the 1995 butcher knife slaying of a Tulsa woman

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) - Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for stabbing a Tulsa woman to death with a butcher knife in 1995 after his escape from a prison work center. Jemaine Cannon, 51, received a let...

Jul 20, 2023