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Lebanon launches probe into late-night shots outside US Embassy that caused no injuries

Sep. 21, 2023 12:30 PM EDT

AUKAR, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanese security agencies are investigating a late-night shooting outside the heavily fortified U.S. Embassy just north of Beirut, officials said Thursday. No one was hurt in the small-arms fire. The shots erupted near the entrance to the embassy compound in...

India suspends visa services for citizens of Canada, Trudeau says he's not trying to cause problems

Sep. 21, 2023 12:29 PM EDT

NEW DELHI (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reiterated Thursday that Canada is not looking to provoke or cause problems after India halted all visa services for citizens of Canada and told it to reduce its diplomatic staffing on as a rift widened between the countries after the prime...

A Swedish prosecutor says a 13-year-old who was shot in the head, is a victim of a bloody gang feud

Sep. 21, 2023 08:42 AM EDT

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A 13-year-old boy from the suburbs of Stockholm who was found dead in woods near his home earlier this month, is the latest victim of a deadly gang war in Sweden, a prosecutor said Thursday. Milo, who was only identified by his first name, had been shot...

Inside the delicate art of maintaining America's aging nuclear weapons

Sep. 20, 2023 14:30 PM EDT

KANSAS CITY NATIONAL SECURITY CAMPUS, Mo. (AP) — In an ultra-sterile room at a secure factory in Kansas City, U.S. government technicians refurbish the nation’s nuclear warheads. The job is exacting: Each warhead has thousands of springs, gears and copper contacts that must work in conjunction...

Jackson says we must own hardest chapters of US history during 1963 church bombing remembrance

Sep. 15, 2023 18:09 PM EDT

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Standing at the pulpit of the Birmingham, Alabama, church where four little girls were killed by a Ku Klux Klan bomb in 1963, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the nation must remember and own the uncomfortable moments of its past in order to move forward. ...

US military orders new interviews on the deadly 2021 Afghan airport attack as criticism persists

Sep. 15, 2023 16:25 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon's Central Command has ordered interviews of roughly two dozen more service members who were at the Kabul airport when suicide bombers attacked during U.S. forces' chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal, as criticism persists that the deadly assault could have been stopped....

Today in History: September 15, 4 Black girls killed in bombing of Birmingham church

Sep. 15, 2023 00:04 AM EDT

Today in History Today is Friday, Sept. 15, the 258th day of 2023. There are 107 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 15, 1963, four Black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at the 16th Street...

On 60th anniversary of church bombing, victim's sister, suspect's daughter urge people to stop hate

Sep. 14, 2023 20:49 PM EDT

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Sixty years ago, a bomb planted by Ku Klux Klan members ripped through a Birmingham church, killing four little girls as they prepared for Sunday services. Lisa McNair's sister Denise was one of the girls who lost their lives. Tammie Fields’ father was...

Powerful explosion kills 5 Palestinians in Gaza. Israel says the blast was caused by mishandled bomb

Sep. 13, 2023 15:40 PM EDT

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — At least five Palestinians were killed and over 20 others were wounded Wednesday in an explosion next to the separation fence along the Israeli frontier with Gaza, Palestinian health officials said. The cause of the blast was not immediately known. ...

Court convicts Portuguese hacker in Football Leaks trial and gives him a 4-year suspended sentence

Sep. 11, 2023 12:46 PM EDT

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A Portuguese hacker whose bombshell revelations on the “Football Leaks” website rocked European soccer was convicted Monday by a Lisbon court of nine crimes and given a suspended prison sentence of four years. The three-judge panel found Rui Pinto, now...