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Supreme Court, moving quickly, will decide if Trump can be prosecuted in election interference case

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to decide whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted on charges he interfered with the 2020 election and set a course for a quick r...

Feb 28, 2024

Biden 'continues to be fit for duty' his doctor says after president's annual exam

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) - President Joe Biden "continues to be fit for duty," his doctor wrote Wednesday after conducting an annual physical that was closely watched as the 81-year-old seeks reelection. "P...

Feb 28, 2024

French Senate approves a bill to make abortion a constitutional right

PARIS (AP) - France's Senate on Wednesday adopted a bill to enshrine a woman's right to an abortion in the constitution, clearing a key hurdle for legislation promised by President Emmanuel Macron in ...

Feb 28, 2024

Idaho delays execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech after failed lethal injection attempts

KUNA, Idaho (AP) - Idaho on Wednesday delayed the execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech, one of the longest-serving death row inmates in the U.S., after a failed attempt at lethal injection....

Feb 28, 2024

McConnell will step down as the Senate Republican leader in November after a record run in the job

WASHINGTON (AP) - Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history who maintained his power in the face of dramatic convulsions in the Republican Party for almost two decades, will step d...

Feb 28, 2024

Paris City Hall says no Olympic Games policing plans were lost in theft of a worker's computer gear

PARIS (AP) - Paris City Hall said Wednesday that no policing plans for the upcoming Olympic Games were lost in the theft of computer gear reported by one of its employees. A City Hall statement said: ...

Feb 28, 2024

Norway's King Harald V warded in hospital at Malaysia's resort island of Langkawi

LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) - Europe's oldest monarch, King Harald V of Norway, remained hospitalized in Malaysia on Wednesday, in the country's northern resort island of Langkawi, after falling ill while...

Feb 28, 2024

Pope Francis has been taken briefly to a Rome hospital after his weekly audience

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis, who has been suffering from the flu, was brought to a hospital in central Rome after the papal audience on Wednesday, arriving at the Gemelli Hospital on Tiber Island...

Feb 28, 2024

Funeral of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to be held on Friday, spokesperson says

MOSCOW (AP) - The funeral of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died earlier this month in a remote Arctic penal colony, will take place on Friday in Moscow, his spokesperson said. His fune...

Feb 28, 2024

Bridgeport mayor wins do-over election in race marred by ballot irregularities

Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim has won a do-over election in Connecticut's most populous city, months after a judge threw out the results of the first one because of allegations of absentee ballot box stu...

Feb 27, 2024