Written by MARY CLARE JALONICK Democrats in Congress are trying to pass the first major gun control legislation in more than two decades with the support of President Joe Biden, who said Thursday that it is “long past time” to...
Read MoreWritten by DÁNICA COTO An explosive eruption rocked La Soufriere volcano on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent on Friday following mandatory evacuation orders from the local government. Emergency management officials...
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Written by CLAIRE GALOFARO Larrecsa Cox steered past the used tire shop, where a young man had...
Read MoreWritten by PETER MORRISON and JILL LAWLESS Young people set a hijacked bus on fire and hurled gasoline bombs at police in Belfast in at least the fourth night of serious violence in a week in Northern Ireland, where Britain’s...
Read MoreWritten by DAVID RISING Alarmed by a rise in online anti-Semitism during the pandemic, coupled with studies indicating younger generations lack even basic knowledge of the Nazi genocide, Holocaust survivors are taking to social...
Read MoreWritten by WAYNE PARRY To the usual list of foul trash left behind or washed up on beaches around the world, add these: masks and gloves used by people to avoid the coronavirus and then discarded on the sand. In the past year,...
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Written by TOM FOREMAN Jr. North Carolina residents could avoid calling in sick to work or staying...
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Written by VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and KEN MORITSUGU They’re not leaders for life — not technically,...
Read MoreWritten by AMY FORLITI, STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER The parade of Minneapolis police officers rejecting a former officer’s actions in restraining George Floyd continued at his murder trial, including a use-of-force...
Read MoreWritten by COLLIN BINKLEY Large numbers of students are not returning to the classroom even as more schools reopen for full-time, in-person learning, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Biden administration. The...
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