India's Prime Minister Modi will visit Russia, the Kremlin says (apnews.com)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Russia, the Kremlin announced Tuesday....
Veronika Slowikowska worked toward making it as an actor for years. Then she went viral (apnews.com)
When Veronika Slowikowska graduated from college in 2015, she did what conventional wisdom says aspiring actors should do: Work odd jobs to pay the bills while auditioning for commercials and background roles, hoping you eventually make it....
Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungus. (apnews.com)
Holy title, Batman!
President Joe Biden ‘appalled’ by violence during pro-Palestinian protest at Los Angeles synagogue (apnews.com)
Illinois may soon return land the US stole from a Prairie Band Potawatomi chief 175 years ago (apnews.com)
Some 175 years after the U.S. government stole land from the chief of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation while he was away visiting relatives, Illinois may soon return it to the tribe....
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty in deal with US and be freed from prison (apnews.com)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty in deal with US and be freed from prison (apnews.com)
Death toll at Hajj pilgrimage rises to 1,300 amid scorching temperatures (apnews.com)
More than 1,300 people died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the faithful faced extreme high temperatures at Islamic holy sites in the desert kingdom, Saudi authorities announced Sunday....
Car dealerships in North America revert to pens and paper after cyberattacks on software provider (apnews.com)
Car dealerships in North America continue to wrestle with major disruptions that started last week with cyberattacks on a software company used widely in the auto retail sales sector....
Stonehenge not visibly damaged by protest paint. It's clean and ready to rock the solstice (apnews.com)
The Ten Commandments must be displayed in Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into law (apnews.com)
Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday....
A fourth victim has died a day after a shooting at an Arkansas grocery store, police say (apnews.com)
Police said a fourth victim has died a day after a shooter opened fire at an Arkansas grocery store, wounding nine others and riddling cars with bullet holes as panicked bystanders scrambled for cover....
Car dealerships in North America revert to pens and paper after cyberattacks on software provider (apnews.com)
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Death toll at Hajj pilgrimage rises to 1,300 amid scorching temperatures (apnews.com)
A fire at a lithium battery factory in South Korea kills 22 mostly Chinese migrant workers (apnews.com)
A fire likely sparked by exploding lithium batteries swept through a manufacturing factory near South Korea’s capital on Monday, killing 22 mostly Chinese migrant workers and injuring eight, officials said....
Hundreds died during this year's Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia amid intense heat, officials say (apnews.com)
LGBTQ+ librarians grapple with attacks on books - and on themselves (apnews.com)
Idaho librarian June Meissner was closing up for the day at the downtown Boise Public Library when a man approached her asking for help....
US aircraft carrier arrives in South Korea as a show of force against nuclear-armed North Korea (apnews.com)
Tobacco-like warning label for social media sought by US surgeon general who asks Congress to act (apnews.com)
Now an abortion rights advocate, woman raped by stepfather as a child will campaign with first lady (apnews.com)
Hadley Duvall of Owensboro, Kentucky, first told her story publicly last fall in a campaign ad for the governor’s race in her home state, discussing the consequences of abortion restrictions, particularly those without exceptions for rape or incest....
FBI offers reward for information about deadly southern New Mexico wildfires (apnews.com)
Federal authorities offered a reward for information about those responsible for igniting a pair of New Mexico wildfires that killed two people and destroyed hundreds of homes in the past week....
Over 1,000 pilgrims died during this year's Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, officials say (apnews.com)
More than 1,000 people died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabiaas the faithful faced extreme high temperatures at Islamic holy sites in the desert kingdom, officials said Sunday....
South Korea will consider supplying arms to Ukraine after Russia and North Korea sign strategic pact (apnews.com)
Motion after motion puts Trump Florida case in slow motion as 3-day hearing begins (apnews.com)
The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump is hearing arguments Friday on a long-shot defense effort to get the indictment thrown out based on the claim that the prosecutor who brought the charges was illegally appointed....
Ex-Florida law enforcement official says he was forced to resign for defying illegal DeSantis orders (apnews.com)
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered illegal surveillance of immigrants and ignored concerns that relocating them from Texas to another state could could be considered kidnapping or false imprisonment, the former chief of staff at the state’s top law enforcement agency said in a whistleblower lawsuit....
