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Texas school legally punished Black student over hairstyle, judge says

ANAHUAC, Texas (AP) - A Black high school student's monthslong punishment by his Texas school district for refusing to change his hairstyle does not violate a new state law that prohibits race-based h...

Feb 22, 2024

Mother of Kremlin critic Navalny says she's resisting pressure to agree to a secret burial

MOSCOW (AP) - The mother of Russia's top opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Thursday that she has seen her son's body and that she is resisting strong pressure by authorities to agree to a secret b...

Feb 22, 2024

Soccer star Dani Alves found guilty of rape, sentenced to four and a half years in prison

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Dani Alves, one of the most successful soccer players of his generation, was found guilty of raping a woman in a Barcelona nightclub and sentenced to four years and six months ...

Feb 22, 2024

Albanian Parliament approves controversial deal to hold migrants for Italy

TIRANA, Albania (AP) - Albania's Parliament on Thursday approved a deal for the country to hold thousands of migrants rescued in international waters by Italy while their asylum applications are proce...

Feb 22, 2024

China plans to send San Diego Zoo more pandas this year, reigniting its panda diplomacy

SAN DIEGO (AP) - China plans to send a new pair of giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo, renewing its longstanding gesture of friendship toward the United States after nearly all the iconic bears on loan...

Feb 21, 2024

At least 14 confirmed dead after an illegal open-pit gold mine collapses in Venezuela

LA PARAGUA, Venezuela (AP) - The collapse of an illegally operated open-pit gold mine in central Venezuela killed at least 14 people and injured several more, state authorities said Wednesday, as some...

Feb 21, 2024

Alabama seeks to carry out second execution using controversial nitrogen gas method

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama is seeking to put a second inmate to death using nitrogen gas, a move that comes a month after the state carried out the first execution using the controversial new met...

Feb 21, 2024

Alabama hospital puts pause on IVF in wake of ruling saying frozen embryos are children

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A large Alabama hospital has paused in vitro fertilization treatments as health care providers weigh the impact of a state court ruling that frozen embryos are the legal equiva...

Feb 21, 2024

Syria says an Israeli strike has hit a Damascus residential area

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Israeli strikes hit a neighborhood of the Syrian capital Wednesday morning, Syrian state TV said, and other media reported casualties. State TV reported that several missiles hi...

Feb 20, 2024

Texas authorities find body of Audrii Cunningham, 11, who had been missing since last week

LIVINGSTON, Texas (AP) - Divers have recovered the body of an 11-year-old girl from a Texas river days after she went missing last wee and authorities are preparing to charge a man who lived on her fa...

Feb 20, 2024