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Polygamous sect leader pleads guilty in scheme to orchestrate sexual acts involving children
PHOENIX (AP) — The leader of an offshoot polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border has pleaded guilty to conspiring to transport underage girls across state lines in what authorities say was a yearslong scheme to orchestrate sexual acts involving children. Samuel Bateman also...
France's Macron embraces Brazil's Lula — and the memes poking fun at their 'wedding'
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — If social media is to be believed, French President Emmanuel Macron's trip to Brazil that ended Thursday left him swooning. Pictures showed him and his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, ambling through the Amazon and posing beneath the soaring...
A Greek novelist and a lawyer are the first same-sex couple to wed at Athens city hall
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek novelist and his partner became the first same-sex couple to be married in Athens' city hall, three weeks after the legalization of same-sex marriage in Orthodox Christian Greece. The Greek capital's mayor officiated at the civil wedding on Thursday of...
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HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The Women” by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s) 2. “House of Flame and Shadow” by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury) 3. “Bride” by Ali Hazelwood (Berkley) 4. “Iron Flame” by Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) ...
Michael Kors inspired by grandmother’s wedding gown for Fall-Winter collection at NY Fashion Week
New York (AP) — The original location of the legendary Barney’s Department store in the Chelsea section of Manhattan set the stage for designer Michael Kors to present his Fall-Winter 2024 collection at New York Fashion Week. Inside the mirrored lobby, the celebrity-rich crowd...
AP Week in Pictures: Asia
Feb. 2-Feb. 8, 2024 People prepare to celebrate Lunar New Year in many Asian countries including China and Taiwan; senior high school students celebrate graduation in Seoul, South Korea; fans cheers for a K-pop band in Jakarta, Indonesia; Kashmiri Muslim devotees pray during...
A blaze in a fireworks factory in central India kills 11 people and injures scores of others
NEW DELHI (AP) — A fire raced through a fireworks factory in central India on Tuesday, killing 11 people and injuring about 150 others as it sparked other explosions, officials said. Videos on social media showed smoke and flames billowing from the factory as people fled the area...
Brides, biryani and marriage multiplexes: Pakistan's wedding season heats up in cool weather
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — There’s a scrum of people trying to get photos with the married couple at the Radiance banquet hall, and you can barely hear someone talk above the din of 400 guests tucking into biryani and chicken tikka, music and the drone whirring around the room. The bejeweled...
Man gets 40 years to life for shooting bishop and assaulting the bride and groom at a wedding
NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — A man convicted of opening fire inside a New Hampshire church during a wedding, wounding a bishop and the bride, was sentenced Monday to 40 years to life in prison. Dale Holloway, 41, “turned a marriage into mayhem," prosecutor Seth Dobieski said at the...
