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People walk by a house damaged by an Iranian ballistic missile attack in Irbil, Iraq, Sunday, March 23, 2022. Iran has claimed responsibility for a missile barrage that struck early Sunday near a sprawling U.S. consulate complex in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, saying it was retaliation for an Israeli strike in Syria that killed two members of its Revolutionary Guard

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Iran claims missile barrage near U.S. consulate in Iraq

The attack was retaliation for an Israeli strike in Syria that killed two members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

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A Ukrainian serviceman guards his position in Mariupol, Ukraine, Saturday, March 12, 2022. Ukraine’s military says Russian forces have captured the eastern outskirts of the besieged city of Mariupol. In a Facebook update Saturday, the military said the capture of Mariupol and Severodonetsk in the east were a priority for Russian forces. Mariupol has been under siege for over a week, with no electricity, gas or water

Politics & Policy

Russian airstrike escalates offensive in western Ukraine

An American journalist was killed and another wounded when their car was fired upon at a Russian checkpoint Sunday, according to police.

3 years ago

Former French Foreign Legion member identified as Mornay walks around the border crossing in Medyka, southeastern Poland, on Friday, March 11, 2022. At Poland's Medyka border, Mornay is one of seven former members of the French Foreign Legion, an elite military force, who are voluntarily providing their own security to refugees and are on the lookout for traffickers

Politics & Policy

Concern grows over traffickers targeting Ukrainian refugees

As millions of women and children flee across Ukraine’s borders, concerns grow over how to protect the most vulnerable refugees from being targeted by human traffickers.

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A man walks through Lancaster City, Pa., with his shopping bag during a snowstorm Saturday, March 12, 2022. Much of the northeast is experiencing a late winter storm dropping snow and high winds

Weather

Late winter storm blasts South, Northeast with snow and wind

Winds gusted up to 45 mph in some areas and gale warnings were posted in coastal New Jersey and Delaware.

3 years ago

General views of Stamford Bridge stadium home of Chelsea football club in London, Thursday, March 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Politics & Policy

English Premier League disqualifies Abramovich from running Chelsea

The Premier League has disqualified Roman Abramovich from running Chelsea after the club owner was sanctioned by the British government over Russia’s war on Ukraine.

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A Ukrainian serviceman walks near the position he was guarding in Mariupol, Ukraine, Saturday, March 12, 2022. Ukraine’s military says Russian forces have captured the eastern outskirts of the besieged city of Mariupol. In a Facebook update Saturday, the military said the capture of Mariupol and Severodonetsk in the east were a priority for Russian forces. Mariupol has been under siege for over a week, with no electricity, gas or water

Politics & Policy

Russia strikes near Ukrainian capital; port city under siege

Russian forces are pounding the port city of Mariupol, shelling its downtown as residents hide.

3 years ago

A man adjusts a sign near a memorial at the scene in the Columbus, Ohio neighborhood Friday, April 23, 2021 where 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant was fatally shot by police as she swung at two other people with a knife on Tuesday, April 20. (AP Photo/Farnoush Amiri)

Courts & Law

Ohio officer cleared in shooting of teenager Ma’Khia Bryant

Bryant was killed in April by Columbus police officer Nicholas Reardon as she swung a knife at another young woman. Bryant was Black and Reardon is white.

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File photo: Demonstrators gather on the steps to the State Capitol to speak against transgender-related legislation bills being considered in the Texas Senate and Texas House, Thursday, May 20, 2021 in Austin, Texas. A Texas judge on Friday, March 11, 2022 blocked the state from investigating as child abuse gender confirming care for transgender youth. District Judge Amy Clark Meachum issued a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s directive to compel the Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate.

Courts & Law

Texas judge blocks investigations of trans youth parents

The injunction broadens District Judge Amy Clark Meachum’s earlier order blocking the state’s investigation of the parents of one transgender teenager.

3 years ago

File photo: Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., speaks during a news conference about the ''Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act'' on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Feb. 26, 2020. Emmett Till, pictured at right, was a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. Congress has given final approval to legislation that for the first time would make lynching a federal hate crime in the U.S.

Courts & Law

Emmett Till relatives seek renewed probe of 1955 lynching

Family members told a news conference in Jackson, Mississippi, that authorities have known for decades that Carolyn Bryant Donham played a key role in Till’s slaying.

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