Written by RUSS BYNUM and JEFFREY COLLINS The man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery testified Thursday that the 25-year-old Black man’s demeanor struck as him as suspicious when he pulled up beside him in his pickup truck to ask...
Read MoreWritten by FARAI MUTSAKA Loss of habitat and poaching have made African forest elephants a critically endangered species. Yet the dense forests of sparsely populated Gabon in the Congo River Basin remain a “last stronghold” of...
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Written by BRYAN ANDERSON With the legislative year nearing an end, North Carolina Republicans on...
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Written by AMY FORLITI, GENE JOHNSON and TODD RICHMOND At one point, the 18-year-old murder...
Read MoreWritten by SHEIKH SAALIQ and SHONAL GANGULY Schools were closed indefinitely and some coal-based power plants shut down as the smog-shrouded Indian capital and neighboring states invoked harsh measures Wednesday amid...
Read MoreWritten by MATTHEW BROWN and JANET McCONNAUGHEY The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday will auction vast oil and gas reserves in the Gulf of Mexico estimated to hold up to 1.1 billion barrels of crude, the first such sale...
Read MoreWritten by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS China and the U.S. have agreed to ease restrictions on each other’s journalists amid a slight relaxation of tensions between the two sides. The official China Daily newspaper on Wednesday said the...
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North Carolina’s requirement that transgender people undergo sex reassignment surgery as part of...
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Written by GARY D. ROBERTSON and BRYAN ANDERSON Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Tuesday...
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Written by MARIA CHENG Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. has signed a deal with a U.N.-backed group to allow...
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