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Kris Kristofferson was 'a walking contradiction,' a renegade and pilgrim surrounded by friends

Sep. 30, 2024 17:16 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — If Kris Kristofferson's life were fiction, it would feel a little implausible. He was a Texas-born Golden Gloves boxer and star football player, a Rhodes Scholar and a helicopter-flying U.S. Army captain who walked away from a West Point faculty gig to briefly...

Footage shows NYPD officers firing at man with knife in subway shooting that wounded 4

Sep. 20, 2024 19:40 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Footage of two New York City police officers opening fire at a subway station as they confronted a man holding a knife shows they shot at him as he was standing still, his arms by his side and his back to a train. In the days since Sunday’s shooting, police...

Mexican drug lord Osiel Cárdenas Guillén has been released from a US prison and may be deported

Aug. 30, 2024 19:50 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, one of Mexico’s most-feared drug lords, has been released from a U.S. prison after serving most of a 25-year prison sentence, authorities confirmed Friday. A U.S. Bureau of Prisons official said Cárdenas Guillén had been released...

A South Texas school district received a request to remove 676 books from its libraries

Aug. 19, 2024 14:04 PM EDT

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — On May 17, with just one week to go until the end of the school year, the superintendent of the South Texas Mission school district received an email with a list of 676 books a group of local pastors believed were “filthy and evil.” The email came from the...