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Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is offering military funeral honors for AshLi Babbt the rioter who was killed at 35 by an officer in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol . Babbitt was a U.S. Air Force veteran from California who was shot dead wearing […]

People from all over the world lined up to pay tribute to Frank Caprio, a retired municipal judge who found online fame as an empathetic jurist and host of “ Caught in Providence ,” at memorial services beginning Thursday in his home state of Rhode Island. Caprio, who won hearts with the folksy humor and […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The shooter who killed two Catholic school students and wounded more than a dozen youngsters sitting in the pews of a Minneapolis church once attended the same school and was “obsessed” with the idea of killing children, authorities said Thursday. The shooter, identified as 23-year-old Robin Westman, fired 116 rifle rounds through […]

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing his girlfriend, her mother and a man he claimed owed him $2,000 was put to death Thursday in a record 11th execution this year by the state of Florida. Curtis Windom 59, was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. following […]

NAROWAL, Pakistan (AP) — Rescuers in boats raced to reach stranded families in Pakistan’s populous eastern Punjab province Thursday, after three major rivers burst their banks because of heavy rain and the release of water from overflowing dams in neighboring India. The floods displaced nearly 250,000 people and officials said more than 1 million people […]

By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL Updated [hour]: [minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]   TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s Defense Ministry unveiled a drone on Tuesday resembling America’s armed MQ-9 Reaper, claiming that the aircraft is capable of staying airborne for 24 hours and has the range to reach the country’s archenemy Israel. Iran’s state-run… […]

Updated [hour]: [minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]   NEW YORK (AP) — The next book from “Fire and Fury” author Michael Wolff is both a recounting of the recent past and a prediction for the near future. Wolff’s “The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty” will come out Sept. 26,… […]

By KATE BRUMBACK Updated [hour]: [minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]   ATLANTA (AP) — John Eastman, the conservative attorney who pushed a plan to keep Donald Trump in power, turned himself in to authorities Tuesday on charges in the Georgia case alleging an illegal plot to overturn the former president’s 2020 election loss.Eastman was booked… […]

BANGKOK (AP) — A divisive former prime minister of Thailand made a dramatic return home Tuesday to face an eight-year prison term, just as a party linked to him won a vote in Parliament to lead the government — the latest turn in the country’s tumultuous politics. The move by Thaksin Shinawatra indicates he is… […]

NEW YORK (AP) — If 2023 has taught anything to the people running Fox News Channel, it’s the importance of being able to pivot.The decision by former President Donald Trump to skip Wednesday’s first debate of the 2024 presidential primary season likely deprives Fox of a huge late-summer audience. Even worse for the network, Trump… […]