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Death toll in Russian strike on Ukrainian building up to at least 35
Monday, January 16, 2023
The death toll from the weekend Russian missile strike in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro has risen to at least 35, an official said Monday, as rescuers continue searching for more victims.
Flight data, voice recorders retrieved from Nepal crash site
Monday, January 16, 2023
A spokesman for Nepal's Civil Aviation Authority says a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder have been retrieved from the site of the crash that killed at least 68.
Kabul's mannequins hooded and masked under Taliban rules
Monday, January 16, 2023
Under the Taliban, the mannequins in women's dress shops across the Afghan capital are a puzzling sight, their heads sometimes covered in silk, cloaked in cloth sacks or wrapped in black plastic bags.
Expanded U.S. training for Ukraine forces begins in Germany
Monday, January 16, 2023
The U.S. military's new, expanded combat training of Ukrainian forces began in Germany on Sunday. Until now the Pentagon had declined to say exactly when the training would start.
California's system to defend against mudslides is being put to the ultimate test
Sunday, January 15, 2023
California has seen hundreds of landslides this month. But the factors that make the state so vulnerable to landslides go well beyond the atmospheric rivers that have inundated the state.
The death toll from a Russian strike on an apartment complex in Ukraine is now 29
Sunday, January 15, 2023
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that at least 73 people were wounded and 39 people had been rescued as of Sunday afternoon after the attack in the southeastern city of Dnipro.
Thousands of Israelis have attended a protest against the Netanyahu government
Sunday, January 15, 2023
Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in central Tel Aviv on Saturday night to protest plans to overhaul the legal system and weaken the Supreme Court.
A passenger plane with 72 people on board has crashed in Nepal, killing at least 32
Sunday, January 15, 2023
A plane carrying 72 people crashed near Pokhara International Airport in Nepal, the daily newspaper Kathmandu Post reported Sunday.
Two California deputies in the same department were fatally shot just two weeks apart
Saturday, January 14, 2023
Riverside County Sheriff's Deputy Darnell Calhoun was killed on Friday and Deputy Isaiah Cordero died on Dec. 29. The previous slaying of a Riverside deputy occurred in 2003.
An Iowa official's wife is charged with 52 counts of voter fraud in congressional race
Saturday, January 14, 2023
The wife of a county supervisor allegedly filled out and cast absentee ballots in her husband's unsuccessful race for a Republican nomination to run for Congress in 2020, federal prosecutors said.
The U.K. pledges tanks to Ukraine as Russian missiles target multiple cities
Saturday, January 14, 2023
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also promised to provide artillery systems to Ukraine, amid renewed missile attacks by Moscow targeting Kyiv and a number of other Ukrainian cities.
A winning ticket for the $1.35 billion Mega Millions jackpot was sold in Maine
Saturday, January 14, 2023
The winner, whose name is not yet known, overcame steep odds of 1 in 302.6 million, which led to three months of drawings without a claim on the jackpot.
Iran has executed an Iranian-British dual national over spying claim
Saturday, January 14, 2023
Ali Reza Akbar, who once worked for Iran's defense ministry, was executed despite international outcry over his death sentence and those of others held amid protests.
Brazil's Supreme Court agrees to investigate former President Jair Bolsonaro for riot
Saturday, January 14, 2023
Brazil's Supreme Court granted the request from the prosecutor general's office to include Bolsonaro in the wider investigation, citing a video he posted on Facebook two days after the riot.
Robbie Knievel, daredevil son of Evel Knievel, dies at 60
Friday, January 13, 2023
Robbie Knievel, an American stunt performer who set records with daredevil motorcycle jumps following the tire tracks of his thrill-seeking father, died at a hospice in Reno, Nevada.
Writer E. Jean Carroll's rape claim against Donald Trump can proceed, a judge rules
Friday, January 13, 2023
Carroll alleges Trump raped her in a department store a quarter century ago. The ruling upholds a temporary New York state law letting adult victims of sexual abuse sue their abusers years later.
The U.S. renames 5 places that used racist slur for a Native woman
Friday, January 13, 2023
The renamed sites are in California, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas, and complete a yearlong process to remove the historically offensive word "squaw" from geographic names across the country.
'Wakanda Forever' receives 12 NAACP Image Award nominations
Friday, January 13, 2023
The awards honoring entertainers and writers of color will air live in Pasadena, California on Feb. 25. The two-hour show will be held in front of an audience for the first time in three years.
South Korean police seek manslaughter charges over deadly crowd surge
Friday, January 13, 2023
Among those recommended for indictment include the mayor of Seoul's Yongsan district, and the district's former police chief — two of the six who have been arrested.
Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis Presley's only child and a singer in her own right, dies
Thursday, January 12, 2023
"It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us," Priscilla Presley said in a statement.