Jeffries' job grows more difficult in race for House and speaker's gavel

Posted today at 4:20am

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries had warned Republicans they would come to regret the congressional redistricting fight

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Dust storms and lightning kill at least 96 people in northern India

Posted today at 2:51am

Dust storms, heavy rain, and lightning have damaged homes and killed at least 96 people in northern India

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Ship is reported seized off the coast of the UAE and is heading toward Iran

Posted today at 2:33am

The British military says a ship anchored off the east coast of the United Arab Emirates has been seized and is heading toward Iranian territorial waters

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Trump's talk of 51st US state met with near-silence in Venezuela

Posted today at 2:20am

U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed interest in making Venezuela the 51st U.S. state

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BRICS foreign ministers meet in India as Iran war, oil prices and divisions test the bloc's unity

Posted today at 12:34am

BRICS foreign ministers have started a two-day meeting in New Delhi

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Asian stocks are mixed as investors watch takeaways from Trump-Xi summit

Posted today at 12:01am

Asian shares are mixed and Chinese stocks are lower as investors closely monitor takeaways from the summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping

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Somalia is in a deadly drought again. Most humanitarian aid isn't there this time

Posted yesterday at 11:18pm

Somalia is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate shocks, and now it is in the grip of another deadly drought

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Trump and DeSantis sued over donation of Miami land for extravagant presidential library

Posted yesterday at 11:12pm

Miami residents have sued President Trump, Miami Dade College, and Florida officials over plans to donate downtown Miami property for Trump's presidential library

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After bombs, blackouts and bank restrictions, Gaza’s digital workers are still coding

Posted yesterday at 11:10pm

A small corps of remote workers in Gaza has provided coding, graphic design and digital marketing services to international clients through more than two years of war

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A Vienna cafe offers a welcome for Israel supporters as tensions brew at the Eurovision Song Contest

Posted yesterday at 11:07pm

Vienna's coffeehouses have embraced the Eurovision Song Contest, but tensions over Israel’s participation have surfaced

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Denver runway fatality reveals a weakness in airport security

Posted yesterday at 11:06pm

An intruder was killed on a Denver runway after exploiting a security gap at one of the nation’s busiest airports

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Some parents don't want their kids to use tech at school. But districts are pushing back

Posted yesterday at 11:05pm

Parents across the country who are worried about excessive screen time in schools are lobbying educators to go back to pencils and paper

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Muskets like those from 1776 are mostly exempt from today’s gun laws

Posted yesterday at 11:01pm

Guns that are antiques or replicas of antiques are not considered firearms under federal law

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Russia hammers Ukraine with drones and missiles as Trump meets Xi in China

Posted yesterday at 9:31pm

Authorities say that a massive Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine has demolished an apartment block in Kyiv, killing four and wounding 33

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The Latest: Xi and Trump summit focuses on business links as Chinese leader issues Taiwan warning

Posted yesterday at 7:14pm

Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump have started their high-profile summit in Beijing that is expected to focus on trade but also include the Iran war, technology and Taiwan

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China's Xi warns Trump that differences over Taiwan could lead to conflict

Posted yesterday at 7:00pm

China’s Xi Jinping has warned President Donald Trump that the two countries could clash over Taiwan if the issue was not handled properly

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The top photos of the day by AP's photojournalists

Posted yesterday at 3:08pm

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UAE denies Netanyahu secretly visited the country during the Iran war

Posted yesterday at 1:09pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says he quietly visited the United Arab Emirates during the Iran war

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Kouri Richins, author of a children’s book on grief, gets life sentence for killing her husband

Posted Tuesday night

A judge has ruled that a Utah mother who wrote a children’s book about grief after her husband’s death will serve life in prison without parole for his murder

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Today in History: May 14, Lewis and Clark Expedition begins

Posted about three weeks ago

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