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Guatemalan appeals court revokes order to grant house arrest to journalist José Rubén Zamora

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - A Guatemalan appeals court on Tuesday revoked a judge's order to give house arrest to journalist Jos Rubn Zamora, known for railing against corruption in the Central American cou...

Jun 25, 2024

North Korea fires a ballistic missile toward sea, South Korea says

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters on Wednesday, South Korea's military said, in an apparent protest of the deployment of a U.S. aircraft carrier...

Jun 25, 2024

Suspect arrested after 5 people fatally shot, teen injured in shootings near Las Vegas, police say

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - Police have arrested a man suspected in shootings at apartments near Las Vegas that killed five people and critically injured a 13-year-old girl, authorities said Tuesday....

Jun 25, 2024

Brazil’s Supreme Court moves toward decriminalizing possession of marijuana for personal use

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday moved toward decriminalizing possession of marijuana for personal use, which would make Brazil one of the last countries in Latin America to do ...

Jun 25, 2024

California governor defends progressive values, says they're an 'antidote' to populism on the right

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Gavin Newsom used his State of the State address on Tuesday to boost President Joe Biden ahead of Thursday's pivotal presidential debate, comparing Donald Trump's versio...

Jun 25, 2024

Judge alters Trump’s gag order, letting him talk about witnesses, jury after hush money conviction

NEW YORK (AP) - A judge on Tuesday modified Donald Trump's gag order, freeing the former president to comment publicly about witnesses and jurors in the hush money criminal trial that led to his felon...

Jun 25, 2024

UN tells Israel it will suspend aid operations across Gaza without improved safety, UN officials say

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senior U.N. officials have told Israel they will suspend aid operations across Gaza unless urgent steps are taken to better protect humanitarian workers, two U.N. officials say. A U....

Jun 25, 2024

Closing arguments begin in Karen Read trial. Jurors to decide: Deadly romance or police corruption?

DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) - Attorneys launched closing arguments Tuesday in the long-running murder trial of Karen Read, in which jurors were presented with two starkly different accounts of either a callous...

Jun 25, 2024

UN-backed contingent of foreign police arrive in Haiti as Kenya-led force prepares to face gangs

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - The first U.N.-backed contingent of foreign police arrived in Haiti on Tuesday, nearly two years after the troubled Caribbean country urgently requested help to quell a su...

Jun 25, 2024

South Korea says North Korea is again flying balloons toward the South, probably carrying trash

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea says North Korea is again flying balloons toward the South that are likely to be carrying trash. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the balloons were moving...

Jun 25, 2024