Officials say two students have been injured in a shooting outside a Dallas-area high school and police arrested the person suspected of opening fire ByThe Associated Press March 20, 2023, 10:03 AM ARLINGTON, Texas — Two students were injured in a shooting outside a Dallas-area high school on Monday morning […]
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US sending ammunition, tanker trucks, boats to Ukraine
The State Department says the U.S. will send Ukraine $350 million in weapons and equipment as fierce battles with Russian forces continue for control of the city of Bakhmut, and troops prepare for an expected spring offensive ByLOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press March 20, 2023, 10:40 AM […]
Former US Rep. John Jenrette, jailed in Abscam scandal, dies
CONWAY, S.C. — Former U.S. Rep. John Jenrette, a colorful politician who was convicted in the Abscam bribery scandal in the late 1970s and whose wife talked to Playboy about an in-session dalliance on the U.S. Capitol steps, has died. He was 86. Jenrette, who had been in declining health, […]
International Red Cross says 2 kidnapped staff freed in Mali
The International Committee of the Red Cross says that two of its staff members were freed in Mali on Monday BySAM MEDNICK Associated Press March 20, 2023, 8:40 AM OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Two aid workers with the International Committee of the Red Cross were freed in Mali on Monday, […]
Report: 43,000 estimated dead in Somalia drought last year
NAIROBI, Kenya — A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid Somalia’s longest drought on record last year and half of them likely were children under 5 years old. It is the first official death toll announced in the drought withering large parts of the Horn of Africa. […]
China’s President Xi arrives in Moscow for meeting with Putin
HONG KONG and LONDON — As Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived on Monday afternoon in Moscow, he was greeted at Vnukovo airport by a Russian military band, but not by Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I am very glad, at the invitation of President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, to come back to […]
Former Australian soldier to be charged with Afghan’s murder
Police have charged the first Australian veteran for an alleged murder in Afghanistan three years after a war crime investigation found that 19 Australian special forces soldiers could face charges for illegal conduct during the conflict ByROD McGUIRK Associated Press March 20, 2023, 1:47 AM CANBERRA, Australia — Police on […]
Dentist arrested in wife’s ‘complex and calculated’ poisoning death, police say
The death was “a heinous, complex and calculated murder,” police said. March 20, 2023, 2:36 AM A Colorado dentist has been arrested in connection with the “complex and calculated” poisoning death of his wife, local police said on Sunday. The Aurora Police Department said James Toliver Craig, 45, was arrested […]
Sandler receives Mark Twain Prize, praise from comic pals
WASHINGTON — Adam Sandler placed his hand on the bronze bust of Mark Twain and speculated that it “one day might be the weapon used to bludgeon me in my sleep.” A host of comedic and entertainment royalty gathered at Washington’s Kennedy Center as Sandler was presented with the Mark […]
Police supervisor in Tyre Nichols’ death retired with benefits before getting fired
A high-ranking Memphis police officer on duty at the scene of the beating that would end Tyre Nichols life, retired one day before he was expected to be fired, according to Memphis City Council Vice Chairman JB Smiley, Jr. “We’re accountable to the people who pay taxes,” Smiley told ABC […]