Nation and World
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Native groups seek to repair lands damaged by colonization
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - KINGSTON, Mass. (AP) - Asa Peters marched into a thicket of Japanese knotweed in the woods of coastal Massachusetts this month and began steadily hacking the towering, d...
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Creed Taylor, 'The Girl from Ipanema' producer, dead at 93
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Creed Taylor, a prolific and innovative force in the evolution of jazz who worked with John Coltrane, Ray Charles and many others and a popularizer of Br...
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Jerry Allison, drummer for Buddy Holly, dead at 82
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Jerry Allison, an architect of rock drumming who played and co-wrote songs with childhood friend Buddy Holly and whose future wife inspired the c...
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FBI: 5 militia members charged with storming Capitol
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - Five Florida men affiliated with a militia group called 'œB Squad'ť have been arrested on charges that they joined a mob's attack on the U.S. Capitol, disrupting Congres...
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Angola votes as ruling party seeks to extend 47-year rule
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - LUANDA, Angola (AP) - Angolans are voting in an election in which President Joao Lourenco is seeking a second term and longtime opposition party UNITA is trying to unsea...
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Defense: Key government witness tried to extort R. Kelly
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Defense lawyers at R. Kelly's child pornography trial in Chicago sought Wednesday to portray a key government witness as a liar and extortionist, contendi...
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Ex-NYC Mayor de Blasio heads to Harvard as teaching fellow
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is headed to Harvard this fall as a teaching fellow at the university's schools of government and public health...
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Whitmer kidnap plot convictions unlikely to curb extremism
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - The conviction of two men for conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer shows that jurors in a deeply divided nation can still reac...
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Oklahoma governor rejects clemency for death row inmate
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday rejected clemency for a man facing execution this week for the 1997 hammer killing of a Choctaw man, despite ...
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Rupert Murdoch's son sues Australian website for defamation
Aug 24, 2022 7:00 am - SYDNEY (AP) - Fox Corp. chief executive Lachlan Murdoch is suing Australian news website Crikey in a Sydney court for defamation over an opinion piece about last year's ...