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NEW YORK (AP) — When the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986, Beth Knobel, a future TV news correspondent, was in graduate school. Emerging from class, she saw TV sets had been set up in the lobby. They were tuned to CNN, the 24/7 news channel that Ted Turner had launched about five years earlier, …
DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Tigers pitcher Framber Valdez was suspended for five games and fined on Wednesday, one day after he was ejected for hitting Boston’s Trevor Story with a pitch during a 10-2 loss in which he allowed a career-high 10 runs. Valdez was at first banned for six games by MLB, which cited …
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — As the music comes on in a Gaza refugee camp, a group of boys and girls start showing off their breakdancing moves, kicking and spinning with intense focus on their fast footwork. Two young girls grin at each other as they nailed a tricky part of the routine. It’s …
JUBA, May 7 (Reuters) – South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has dismissed the country’s military chief and a finance minister who had been in post for less than two weeks, state media reported late on Wednesday. The dismissals were the latest of frequent changes in the top ranks of Kiir’s government in recent years that …
Rubio, a practicing Catholic, will have an audience with Leo on Thursday, which was complicated at the last minute by Trump’s latest criticism of the Chicago-born pope. Leo has pushed back, calling out Trump’s misrepresentations of his views on Iran and nuclear weapons and insisting that he is merely preaching the biblical message of peace. …
Starmer’s center-left Labour Party is bracing for big losses in polls that will choose about 5,000 local councilors and a handful of mayors across England, as well as semiautonomous parliaments in Scotland and Wales. Polls opened at 7 a.m. and will close at 10 p.m. (2100 GMT). Some local authorities will count ballots overnight, but …
By Jessica Donati, Fiston Mahamba and Rachael Kennedy GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 7 (Reuters) – In Tshopo, a northeastern Congolese province blanketed in rainforest, rumours rippled through villages late last year claiming a mysterious illness had caused men’s genitals to atrophy. Within days, testimonials proliferated on social media that amplified the imaginary threat, triggering a …
May 6 (Reuters) – The Trump administration sued Colorado on Wednesday seeking to strike down a 13-year-old state ban on large-capacity firearm ammunition magazines, those allowing more than 15 bullets to be fired in rapid succession without the need to re-load. The lawsuit claims that Colorado’s restriction on gun magazines, enacted in 2013 in the …
BEIJING (AP) — China’s top diplomat said Thursday that ties with the U.S. have been in general stable despite “many twists and disruptions,” and called on both countries to find a way to contribute to global peace, a week before President Donald Trump is expected to visit. During a meeting with members of a U.S. …
By Lucy Craymer and Alasdair Pal May 7 (Reuters) – Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele was ousted from power on Thursday after losing a confidence vote in the country’s parliament. Manele lost the vote by a margin of 26 votes to 22, with two abstentions, the speaker of the country’s parliament, Patterson Oti, said. …