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Harris calls for unity as Buffalo lays the last shooting victim to rest
Saturday, May 28, 2022
Vice President Harris spoke during the memorial service for Ruth Whitfield, the last of 10 Black people killed in a racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket to be laid to rest.
Russia says it has test-fired another hypersonic missile
Saturday, May 28, 2022
The Russian navy on Saturday conducted another test of a prospective hypersonic missile, a demonstration of the military's long-range strike capability amid the fighting in Ukraine.
Jurors in the Depp-Heard trial hear closing arguments and begin deliberations
Friday, May 27, 2022
The seven-person civil jury began its deliberations at 3 p.m. Friday and finished for the day about two hours later. They will resume Tuesday.
A judge has dismissed Trump's lawsuit against New York's attorney general
Friday, May 27, 2022
A federal judge's dismissal of former President Donald Trump's lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James allows her civil investigation into his business practices to continue.
Southern Baptist leaders release a previously secret list of accused sexual abusers
Friday, May 27, 2022
In response to an explosive investigation, a list has been released of hundreds of pastors and other church-affiliated personnel accused of abuse. The cases largely span from 2000-2019.
Depeche Mode founding keyboardist Andy Fletcher dies at 60
Friday, May 27, 2022
Fletcher assumed a low-profile in the group, but was a uniting figure and often the tiebreaking vote in the squabbles of his more famous bandmates.
Hurdles to abortion will mount on remote U.S. territories without Roe
Friday, May 27, 2022
Without Roe, Guam could revert to an abortion ban dating to 1990. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the law unconstitutional in 1992, but it has never been repealed.
11 babies die in a fire at a Senegalese hospital
Friday, May 27, 2022
The deadly fire comes a year after four other newborns died in a hospital fire in Senegal, a nation known for having some of the best hospitals in the region.
A brokenhearted husband dies after his wife is killed in the Texas school shooting
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Joe Garcia had dropped off flowers at his wife's memorial on Thursday, The New York Times reported. He "pretty much just fell over" after returning home and died of a heart attack, his nephew said.
The NRA says its Houston convention will 'reflect on' the Uvalde school shooting
Thursday, May 26, 2022
The National Rifle Association begins its annual convention Friday, and its leaders are gearing up to "reflect on" — and deflect any blame for — the deadly shooting earlier this week in Uvalde, Texas.
As her testimony ends, Amber Heard says she wants Johnny Depp to leave her alone
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Heard is the final witness in the six-week libel trial Depp brought against his ex-wife.
After 329 years, a woman accused of being a witch in Salem has been exonerated
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Massachusetts lawmakers formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name three centuries after she was convicted of witchcraft in 1693 at the height of the Salem Witch Trials.
Students at a Michigan school where a mass shooting occurred show support for Uvalde
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Hundreds of students at Oxford High School, the Michigan school where four were killed in November, walked out and formed a 'U' on the football field to show support for Uvalde students and families.
Trump loses an appeal and must testify in New York's civil investigation
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Former President Donald Trump must answer questions under oath in New York Attorney General Letitia James' civil investigation into his business practices, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.
A lawsuit says a 13-year-old Black boy had his hands up when Chicago police shot him
Thursday, May 26, 2022
The teen, who was shot in the back by a police officer, was unarmed and had his arms raised to surrender, according to a lawsuit. The bullet severely damaged part of the seventh-grader's spine.
Josh Duggar, a former reality TV star, gets 12 years in a child pornography case
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Prosecutors had asked for the maximum term of 20 years in prison for Duggar, whose family was the focus of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting. Duggar's lawyers maintain his innocence and say they'll appeal.
Oklahoma governor signs the nation's strictest abortion ban
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Oklahoma now becomes the first state in the nation to effectively end availability of the procedure.
Western countries watch as China's foreign minister begins South Pacific tour
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Australia was scrambling to counter the move by sending its own Foreign Minister Penny Wong to Fiji to shore up support in the Pacific.
Onlookers urged police to charge into Texas school
Thursday, May 26, 2022
A father whose fourth-grade daughter was killed in the attack, said he raced to the school and raised the idea of charging into the school with several other bystanders.
Firefighters rescued an elk calf from the ashes of the New Mexico blaze
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
A firefighter happened upon the motionless animal on the ground of a fire-blackened forest as he patrolled and extinguished hot spots. The calf, dubbed Cinder, is recovering at a wildlife center.