LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Riding a wave of widespread Italian enthusiasm to be an Olympic host, Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo won the vote Monday to stage the 2026 Winter Games.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held talks Monday with leaders in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates about countering the military threat from Iran by building a broad, global coalition that includes Asian and European countries.
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The U.S. government has removed most of the children from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas following reports that more than 300 children were detained there, caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation.
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NEW YORK – Craving a Slurpee but lacking the motivation to get off a park bench?
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LAS VEGAS – “Jeopardy!” champion and professional sports gambler James Holzhauer made his World Series of Poker debut on Monday, with plans to donate half his winnings to charity.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson rarely slows down, friends and family say. It seems he’s always looking over details on death penalty cases from his Montgomery, Ala.-based Equal Justice Initiative. If he’s not speaking on the criminalization of black men, Stevenson …
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NEW YORK (AP) — In a story June 17 about the death of Charles Reich, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the author graduated from Oberlin University. The school's name is Oberlin College.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – One person was killed and seven others were wounded in an attack by Iranian-allied Yemeni rebels on an airport in the kingdom Sunday evening as U.S. Secretary of State was on his way to the country for talks on Iran, Saudi Arabia said.
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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump brushed aside the grisly killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, saying his death has already been investigated and a Saudi pledge to spend billions of dollars on U.S. military equipment “means something to me.”
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COLUMBIA, N.H. – A long-planned Blessing of the Bikes ceremony for motorcycle enthusiasts became a scene of mourning and reflection Sunday as about 400 people paid tribute to seven bikers killed in a devastating collision with a pickup truck .
ISTANBUL – The opposition candidate for mayor of Istanbul celebrated a landmark win Sunday in a closely watched repeat election that ended weeks of political tension and broke President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party’s 25-year hold on Turkey’s biggest city.
NEW ORLEANS – Dave Bartholomew, a giant of New Orleans music and a rock n’ roll pioneer who with Fats Domino co-wrote and produced such classics as “Ain’t That a Shame,” ‘’I’m Walkin’” and “Let the Four Winds Blow,” died. He was 100.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Ethiopia’s military chief was shot to death by his bodyguard amid a failed coup attempt against a regional government north of the capital, Addis Ababa, the prime minister said Sunday.
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WASHINGTON – How do you get men excited about decades-old pills for hair loss, erectile dysfunction and other potentially embarrassing health conditions?
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Lynn Osborne has been remodeling two homes. They are different styles, in different states, with different contractors. But there has been one constant: delays due to a shortage of skilled labor.
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KAILUA, Hawaii – In Kailua, the sand is soft and white, the water is clear and calm, and the view is exactly what you would expect from a beach in the Hawaiian Islands.
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LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) – World War II pilot Robert Friend, one of the last original members of the famed all-black Tuskegee Airmen, died at 99.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Jim Taricani, an award-winning TV reporter who exposed corruption and served a federal sentence for refusing to disclose a source, has died. He was 69.
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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Saturday delayed a nationwide immigration sweep to deport people living the United States illegally, including families, saying he would give lawmakers two weeks to work out solutions for the southern border.
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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said Saturday he’s still considering military action against Iran after it downed an unmanned U.S. military aircraft, saying the use of force is “always on the table until we get this solved.”
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CHICAGO – Pot use in pregnancy has doubled among U.S. women and is most common during the first trimester, government research shows.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. – Twenty Democratic presidential candidates attending a Planned Parenthood forum on Saturday vowed to defend abortion rights under nearly any circumstance while largely ignoring nuances around the issue that have already roiled their party heading into the 2020 election.
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RANDOLPH, N.H. – Motorcyclists with a club composed of U.S. Marine veterans collided with a pickup truck on a rural highway, killing seven people, injuring others and leaving the biker community reeling.
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WASHINGTON – The Trump administration on Saturday unveiled a $50 billion Palestinian investment and infrastructure proposal intended to be the economic engine to power its much-anticipated but still unreleased “deal of the century” Middle East peace plan.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A rookie Sacramento police officer who died during a domestic violence call was ambushed by a gunman and had no chance of surviving after she was shot, police said.
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WASHINGTON – Doctors should offer a daily HIV prevention pill to healthy people who are at high risk of getting infected with the virus, an influential health care panel recommended Tuesday.
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ALBANY, N.Y. – The battle to contain the worst U.S. measles outbreak in 27 years has a new front: summer camp.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) – The New Jersey Devils selected American center Jack Hughes with the first pick in the NHL draft Friday night.
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WASHINGTON – A New York-based advice columnist claims Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a dressing room at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s, according to a first-person account published Friday by New York magazine.
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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said Friday he abruptly called off the swiftly planned military strikes on Iran because the likely deaths of 150 Iranians would have been so out of proportion to the shootdown of an unmanned American surveillance drone. He also indicated he still hopes for…
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