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Top UN court rejects most of Ukraine's terror financing and discrimination case against Russia

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The United Nations' top court on Wednesday rejected large parts of a case filed by Ukraine alleging that Russia bankrolled separatist rebels in the country's east a decad...

Jan 31, 2024

Russia and Ukraine swap scores of POWs despite tensions over a plane crash last week

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russia and Ukraine have exchanged about 200 prisoners of war each, the countries said Wednesday, despite tensions stemming from last week's crash of a military transport plane tha...

Jan 31, 2024

House GOP takes party-line vote toward Mayorkas impeachment as border becomes 2024 campaign issue

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans voted along party lines after midnight Wednesday to move toward impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for a "willful and systematic" refusal to ...

Jan 30, 2024

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan gets 14-year prison sentence in third conviction

ISLAMABAD (AP) - Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife were sentenced on Wednesday to 14 years in prison for corruption, his lawyer and prison officials said, a day after another spe...

Jan 30, 2024

Former U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan, the first woman to represent Missouri in the Senate, has died at 90

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Former U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan, who became the first female senator to represent Missouri after she was appointed to replace her husband following his death, died Tuesday. S...

Jan 30, 2024

NYPD officers will have to record race of people they question after council overrides mayor’s veto

New York City police officers will be required to record the apparent race, gender and ages of most people they stop for questioning under a law passed by the City Council, which overrode a veto by Ma...

Jan 30, 2024

Trump stays on Illinois' ballot as election board declines to ban him over insurrection amendment

CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois' election board on Tuesday kept former President Donald Trump on the state's primary ballot, a week before the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on whether the Republican's ro...

Jan 30, 2024

Ohio could begin nitrogen gas executions under bill backed by state’s Republican attorney general

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio's Republican attorney general put his weight behind a legislative effort Tuesday that would bring nitrogen gas executions to the state, ending a yearslong unofficial death p...

Jan 30, 2024

Israeli undercover forces dressed as women and medics storm West Bank hospital, killing 3 militants

JENIN, West Bank (AP) - Israeli forces disguised as civilian women and medical workers stormed a hospital Tuesday in the occupied West Bank, killing three Palestinian militants in a dramatic raid that...

Jan 30, 2024

Russian figure skaters to get Olympic team bronze medals ahead of Canada despite Valieva DQ

GENEVA (AP) - Despite the disqualification of Kamila Valieva in a doping case, the Russia figure skating team was set to get bronze medals from the 2022 Beijing Olympics, the sport's governing body sa...

Jan 30, 2024