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national / Fri, Feb 3, 2023 5:14 PM

Sudan demands United Nations immediately lift arms embargo

Sudan is demanding that the U.N. Security Council immediately lift an arms embargo and other sanctions imposed during violence in the western...

national / Fri, Feb 3, 2023 5:11 PM

Police: Monkey thief charged with other crimes at Dallas Zoo

Police say the man charged in the taking of two emperor tamarin monkeys from the Dallas Zoo has also been charged in two other recent incidents...

national / Fri, Feb 3, 2023 5:09 PM

Baffert: 2-year Churchill Downs suspension hurt reputation

Trainer Bob Baffert says in federal court that Churchill Downs did not give advance notice nor reach out to explain its two-year suspension

national / Fri, Feb 3, 2023 5:06 PM

US board clears path for mini-union vote at big Nissan plant

The federal labor board has decided that fewer than 100 employees out of thousands at Nissan’s auto assembly plant in Tennessee can hold a vote on...

national / Fri, Feb 3, 2023 5:05 PM

US may lift protections for Yellowstone, Glacier grizzlies

U.S. wildlife officials have taken the first step to lift federal protections for grizzly bears in the northern Rocky Mountains, which would open...

national / Fri, Feb 3, 2023 5:04 PM

Detainee's death adds to scrutiny of South Carolina jail

A detainee's recent death is adding to mounting concerns over the conditions at a jail in South Carolina's capital city

national / Fri, Feb 3, 2023 5:04 PM

Ex-prosecutor's new book details fight over indicting Trump

As the Manhattan district attorney’s office again ramps up its yearslong investigation of Donald Trump, a new book by a former prosecutor who once...

national / Fri, Feb 3, 2023 5:04 PM

Jury clears Musk of wrongdoing related to 2018 Tesla tweets

A jury has decided Elon Musk didn’t deceive investors with tweets in 2018

national / Fri, Feb 3, 2023 5:04 PM

Worries abound that Mexico’s Maya Train will destroy jungle

A major rail project in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula is intended to drive economic development to some of the country’s poorest areas, in part by...

national / Fri, Feb 3, 2023 5:03 PM

Caddie for amateur at Pebble Beach collapses during tourney

national / Fri, Feb 3, 2023 5:02 PM

Mexican actor Pablo Lyle gets prison for road rage death

Mexican actor Pablo Lyle has been sentenced to five years in prison for involuntary manslaughter after fatally punching a man during a road rage...

national / Fri, Feb 3, 2023 5:00 PM

Iranian director freed on bail after going on hunger strike

Acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been released on bail, two days after going on hunger strike to protest his imprisonment last summer

national / Fri, Feb 3, 2023 4:58 PM

Biden seems close to campaign mode in firing up Dem meeting

President Joe Biden hasn’t yet announced a reelection campaign, but he sounded like someone already running while firing up a national meeting of...

national / Fri, Feb 3, 2023 4:57 PM

Jury clears of Elon Musk of wrongdoing for 2018 tweets in which he declared he had financing to take Tesla private

Jury clears of Elon Musk of wrongdoing for 2018 tweets in which he declared he had financing to take Tesla private

national / Fri, Feb 3, 2023 4:54 PM

New Mexico legislators may block local abortion ordinances

A standoff over abortion in politically conservative regions of New Mexico escalated as Democratic state legislators advanced a bill that would...

national / Fri, Feb 3, 2023 4:53 PM

7 dead in Chile amid struggle to contain raging wildfires

At least seven people have died as a result of the more than 150 wildfires burning across Chile that have destroyed homes and thousands of acres...

national / Fri, Feb 3, 2023 4:52 PM

Husband and wife get decade in prison for terror support

A husband-wife militant duo will spend about a decade in prison after each of them pleaded guilty to trying to provide material support to a...

national / Fri, Feb 3, 2023 4:44 PM

Chinese balloon high over US stirs unease far below

The Chinese balloon drifting high above the U.S. and first revealed over Montana has created a buzz down below among residents — and raised a...