Written by KONSTANTIN MANENKOV and JAMEY KEATEN Senior U.S. and Russian officials launched special talks Monday aimed at defusing tensions over a Russian military buildup on the border with Ukraine, part of a flurry of...
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Written by GARY D. ROBERTSON Two North Carolina Supreme Court justices — the son of a powerful...
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Written by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Gov. Roy Cooper took executive action on Friday to set more...
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Written by GARY D. ROBERTSON A rapid trial over North Carolina’s new congressional and legislative...
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Written by DASHA LITVINOVA Kazakhstan’s president authorized security forces on Friday to shoot to...
Read MoreWritten by MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO The Supreme Court began hearing arguments Friday on major Biden administration efforts to bump up the nation’s vaccination rate against COVID-19 at a time of spiking coronavirus cases...
Read MoreWritten by JEFFREY COLLINS Governors took sweeping actions during earlier surges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many closed schools and ordered businesses shut down. They issued mask mandates, vaccine requirements and even...
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Written by LISA MASCARO A deeply divided Congress is about to show the world a very unsettled view...
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Written by LINDSEY TANNER Afternoons with Grammy. Birthday parties. Meeting other toddlers at the...
Read MoreWritten by KATHY GANNON Each year on Jan. 17, Shahana bakes a cake and invites friends to her home in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. They sing happy birthday for her son, even light a candle. But it’s a birthday without the...
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