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Vatican says Pope Francis is in 'fair condition' at a hospital with a mild fever

ROME (AP) - The Vatican said Friday that Pope Francis is in "fair condition" at a hospital with a respiratory tract infection and is running a mild fever. An evening update said Francis had begun drug...

Feb 14, 2025

Vance uses speech before security conference to deride Europe for squelching free speech

MUNICH (AP) - Vice President JD Vance used his speech before the Munich Security Conference on Friday to deride Europe for squelching free speech, saying freedom is in danger. The vice president also ...

Feb 14, 2025

Prosecutors see Islamic extremist motive in Munich car-ramming attack

MUNICH (AP) - The suspect in the car-ramming attack in Munich that left more than 30 people injured appears to have had an Islamic extremist motive, but there's no evidence that he was involved with a...

Feb 14, 2025

Pope Francis being hospitalized for medical tests and to treat bronchitis, Vatican says

ROME (AP) - Pope Francis is being hospitalized to treat his bronchitis and undergo some necessary diagnostic tests, the Vatican said Friday in confirming the latest threat to the 88-year-old's pontiff...

Feb 14, 2025

Pope Francis to be hospitalized for medical tests and to treat bronchitis, Vatican says

ROME (AP) - Pope Francis will be hospitalized at Rome's Gemelli Polyclinic at the end of Friday's daily audiences to undergo some necessary diagnostic tests and to continue his ongoing treatment for b...

Feb 14, 2025

Russian drone struck Chernobyl reactor shell but radiation levels normal, Zelenskyy says

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - A Russian drone with a high-explosive warhead hit the protective confinement shell of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Kyiv region during the night, Ukrainian President Vo...

Feb 14, 2025

Judge orders Trump administration to temporarily allow funds for foreign aid to flow again

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily lift a three-week funding freeze that has shut down U.S. aid and development programs abroad. Judge Amir Ali issue...

Feb 13, 2025

Texas executes man for 2004 double killing in a dispute with his strip club manager

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Texas man who killed his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison system when he used a cellphone smuggled onto death row t...

Feb 13, 2025

Former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, who stepped down in the wake of Whitewater, dies at 81

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Jim Guy Tucker, who became Arkansas' governor when Bill Clinton was elected president but was later forced from office after being convicted during the Whitewater investigatio...

Feb 13, 2025

Texas judge fines New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A Texas judge on Thursday fined a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas in one of the first challenges in the U.S. to "shield laws" enacted in Democ...

Feb 13, 2025