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Biden to tour tornado damage in Kentucky Wednesday

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Monday that he will travel to Kentucky on Wednesday to view damage from last week's devastating tornadoes that killed at least 64 people and displaced thousands more.

Dec 13, 2021 9:42 AM Read more >

Austria's new interior minister accused of antisemitism

BERLIN (AP) — A Nobel laureate in literature, Jewish students and other prominent figures in Austria want the country's new interior minister removed from office because of allegedly antisemitic comments he made during a regional election campaign mo

Dec 13, 2021 7:53 AM Read more >

Sheriff: 1 dead, 13 injured in shooting at vigil in Texas

One person was killed and at least 13 others were injured Sunday night in a drive-by shooting during a candlelight vigil near Houston, a sheriff said. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said the shooting happened around 6:40 p.m.

Dec 12, 2021 9:25 PM Read more >

Spokesman: 8 factory workers dead, 8 missing from tornado

MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Workers on the night shift at Mayfield Consumer Products were in the middle of the holiday rush, cranking out candles, when a tornado closed in on the factory and the word went out: "Duck and cover.

Dec 12, 2021 4:23 PM Read more >

PM to make first official visit by Israeli premier to UAE

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister announced that he would make the first official visit by a sitting premier to the United Arab Emirates on Sunday as part of a blitz of regional diplomacy amid the backdrop of struggling nuclear talks with Iran

Dec 12, 2021 1:19 AM Read more >

Kentucky hardest hit as storms leave dozens dead in 5 states

MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — A monstrous tornado, carving a track that could rival the longest on record, ripped across the middle of the U.S.

Dec 11, 2021 7:10 PM Read more >

Man killed in shooting involving police near UK royal palace

LONDON (AP) — British police say a man was shot dead during a confrontation with firearms officers on Saturday near the Kensington Palace royal residence in London.

Dec 11, 2021 1:02 PM Read more >

4 women met Maxwell as teens. They're accusing her as adults

NEW YORK (AP) — One was an aspiring musician looking for her big break in show business. Another was a model striving for a leg up in British society. A third was a struggling middle school dropout. The last was an impressionable high school student.

Dec 11, 2021 6:48 AM Read more >

'Panther' the cat rescued after days-long utility pole perch

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — For at least two days and maybe more, residents of a suburban Denver neighborhood worried about the fate of a black cat called Panther who was perched atop a 36-foot (11-meter) utility pole.

Dec 11, 2021 2:06 AM Read more >

Navy blames Hawaii water contamination on jet fuel spill

HONOLULU (AP) — The Navy believes that contaminated tap water that went to Hawaii military households came from a one-time spill of jet fuel last month and was not caused by a leak from aging underground fuel storage tanks above an aquifer, a top Nav

Dec 10, 2021 6:51 PM Read more >