Associated Press
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One of two teens charged as adults in the fatal stabbing of a college student in a New York City park pleaded guilty Tuesday to murder and robbery charges.
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Paul Flores, 44, a former California Polytechnic State University student, is charged with murder and his father, Ruben Flores, 80, is charged as an accessory for allegedly helping to bury her body. Both have pleaded not guilty.
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No arrests have been made since the body was discovered on Sunday in Riverside after another relative asked police to check on the older woman.
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Aid groups have warned that the persistent vaccine inequities risk extending the global pandemic, and that could lead to new and more dangerous variants.
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The lawsuit accuses Mary Trump of breaching a settlement agreement by disclosing tax records she received in a dispute over family patriarch Fred Trump’s estate.
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Willie Garson made hundreds of appearances on TV and in motion pictures, including “NYPD Blue,” “Hawaii Five-0” and “Supergirl."
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The reported releases come despite a massive effort to expel Haitians on flights to Haiti under pandemic-related authority that denies migrants an opportunity to seek asylum.
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Districts across the nation are struggling to hire enough bus drivers to shuttle kids to school.
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The law adopted in 2019 would ban abortions at the eighth week of pregnancy.
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The judge will consider whether a disclosure statement outlining the plan contains sufficient information for abuse claimants and other creditors.
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The minister is vaccinated against the virus.
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The temporary spending bill unveiled Tuesday would fund the government through Dec. 3.
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Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie had set out in July in a converted van to visit national parks in the West. They got into a fight along the way, and Laundrie was alone when he returned in the van to his parents’ home Sept. 1, police said.
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President Joe Biden summoned the world’s nations to forcefully address the festering global issues of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and human rights abuses in his first address before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday.
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Severe illness was more common among the unvaccinated. The hospitalization rate was almost 10 times higher for them compared with those who got the shots.
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Police in Virginia say they've charged a 15-year-old boy in a shooting that wounded two fellow students at their high school.
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House Democrats say they will vote on legislation this fall to curb the power of the president, an effort to rein in executive powers that they say President Donald Trump flagrantly abused.
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Giant Forest is home to about 2,000 sequoias, including the General Sherman Tree, which is considered the world’s largest by volume and is a must-see for visitors to the national park.
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Experts say encouraging signs last spring led to false confidence about the shrinking role for tests: falling case numbers, rising vaccination rates and guidance from health officials that vaccinated people could largely skip testing.
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The prosecution’s closing arguments could begin as early as Wednesday afternoon.
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The company says it’s working with partners to develop new toys, such as three-dimensional cardboard superheroes kids can build.
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The across-the-board rules, which will take effect in November, will replace a hodgepodge of confusing restrictions.
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The tribal lawsuit comes three weeks after a coalition of wildlife advocacy groups sued to stop Wisconsin’s wolf hunt this fall and void a state law mandating annual hunts.
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Eviction filings have begun to tick up since the moratorium was lifted but most advocates said a surge in actual evictions is still weeks away.
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Prosecutors believe there is sufficient evidence to charge Denis Sergeev, who went by the alias “Sergey Fedotov,” with conspiracy to murder, attempted murder, possessing and using a chemical weapon, and causing grievous bodily harm, according to Scotland Yard.
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Labelle’s best-known tune was “Lady Marmalade,” a song about New Orleans sex workers from their 1974 album “Nightbirds.”
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Olympic gold medal swimmer Madison Wilson of Australia has been hospitalized for treatment of COVID-19.
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There are at least 200 cases under investigation, half of them involving intelligence personnel.
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The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday backed the conclusion of a British inquiry that Russia was responsible for the killing of Alexander Litvinenko, who died in London in 2006 after drinking tea laced with a radioactive material.
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Johnson & Johnson said in a statement that an extra dose — given either two months or six months after the initial shot — revved up protection. The results haven’t yet been published or vetted by other scientists.
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Jon Lester notched his 200th career win, Nolan Arenado hit a two-run homer and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the NL Central-leading Milwaukee Brewers 5-2 Monday night for their ninth consecutive win.
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More than 320 migrants arrived in Port-au-Prince on three flights Sunday, and Haiti said six flights were expected Tuesday.
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George Holliday, the Los Angeles plumber who shot grainy video of four white police officers beating black motorist Rodney King in 1991, has died of complications of COVID-19.
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A San Antonio doctor who said he performed an abortion in defiance a new Texas law has all but dared supporters of the near-total ban on abortion to try making an early example of him and file a lawsuit.
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Congress must fund the government in the next 10 days, or risk a federal shutdown.
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The Department of Homeland Security is invoking the public health law known as Title 42 to quickly take Haitians into custody and fly them back to their troubled homeland.
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Newport News police Chief Steve Drew said Monday that one victim at Heritage High School was shot in the face and the other in the leg.
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Worries about debt-engorged Chinese property developers — and the damage they could do to investors worldwide if they default — are rippling across markets.
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Republican candidate for Wisconsin governor Rebecca Kleefisch has tested positive for COVID-19 after being exposed at church last week.
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The retired conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court justice leading a Republican-ordered investigation into the 2020 presidential election is threatening to subpoena election officials who don’t comply and saying the intent was not to overturn President Joe Biden’s narrow victory in the battleground state.
The 54-year-old defendant, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, has pleaded not guilty to racketeering charges.
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Oklahoma sets the first executions since putting lethal injections on hold 6 years ago, following series of mishaps.
The Four Guardsmen, a group of trees that form a natural entryway on the road to the forest, were successfully protected from the KNP Complex fire by the removal of nearby vegetation and by wrapping fire-resistant material around the bases of the trees, the firefighting management team said in a statement Sunday.
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Authorities say William Jeffrey, who joined the police department in 1990, was pronounced dead at a Houston hospital and Sgt. Charles Vance was in stable condition.
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A lawyer for Donald Trump’s indicted corporate finance chief told a judge Monday he has “strong reason to believe” more indictments are coming in an ongoing New York investigation into the former president’s real estate empire.
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University of Wisconsin officials say student vaccination rates for COVID-19 vary widely among the system’s campuses.
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President Joe Biden goes before the United Nations this week eager to make the case for the world to act with haste against the coronavirus, climate change and human rights abuses.
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Princess Beatrice and her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi have had a baby daughter, Buckingham Palace said Monday.
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A military aircraft crashed in Lake Worth, Texas, on Sunday, authorities said.
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The trifecta of best drama series, best comedy series and best limited series was a first for streaming services and cements their rise in the television industry.