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4 dead in shooting that injured others after homecoming football game in Mississippi, official says

LELAND, Miss. (AP) — Four people were killed in a shooting in a small town in the Mississippi Delta region after a high school football homecoming game there, a state senator said Saturday. ...

Power restored to 800,000 in Kyiv after major Russian strikes on Ukraine's energy grid

Power was restored to over 800,000 residents in Kyiv on Saturday, a day after Russia launched major attacks on the Ukrainian power grid that caused blackouts across much of the country, and...

Group says attack by Sudanese paramilitaries in Darfur kills at least 53

CAIRO (AP) — At least 53 people, including 14 children and 15 women, were killed in an attack by Sudanese paramilitaries that hit a shelter in a besieged Darfur city, a doctors’ group said S...

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Maine (AP) — Republican lawmakers are targeting one of the U.S.'s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinctio...

An old tradition finds new life as Germans flock to forests to collect mushrooms

POTSDAM, Germany (AP) — Wolfgang Bivour carefully emptied a basket of freshly collected mushrooms onto a forest floor covered with fallen autumn leaves. Brown-capped porcini and bay boletes ...

Greece's famed Parthenon free of scaffolding for first time in decades

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Walking along the broad pedestrian street that runs along the base of Athens’ famed Acropolis Hill, visitors can now enjoy something not seen in decades: an unobstructe...

Two powerful quakes strike off southern Philippines, killing at least 7 people

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Two powerful offshore earthquakes struck the same region in the southern Philippines hours apart on Friday with the first 7.4 magnitude temblor killing at least se...

Israel rejects freeing from prison the most popular Palestinian leader

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader — Marwan Barghouti — is not among the prisoners Israel intends to free in exchange for hostages held b...

Jackson Brousseau guides Colorado State to 49-21 romp over Fresno State

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Jackson Brousseau followed a 73-yard touchdown run by Justin Marshall with three first-half touchdown passes and Colorado State cruised to a 49-21 victory over Fre...

A look at how Venezuelans in the US are reacting to Maria Corina Machado's Nobel Prize win

DORAL, Fla. (AP) — Venezuelans in “Little Venezuela” — the largest home for the country's natives in the United States — are welcoming the news that opposition leader Maria Corina Machado wo...

New Orleans is electing a new mayor and a wide field is pledging change after indictments

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans voters on Saturday are picking a new mayor to replace two-term incumbent LaToya Cantrell, whose indictment on corruption charges has left a wide field of candi...

Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves 18 missing and feared dead, sheriff says

McEWEN, Tenn. (AP) — A blast leveled an explosives plant Friday in rural Tennessee, leaving behind a mass of twisted metal, burned-out shells of cars and at least 18 people missing and feare...