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January 17, 2020

2 dead, 1 gravely hurt in Mexico fireworks explosion

An explosion of a fireworks cache killed two people and critically injured another in a town on the northern outskirts of ...

January 17, 2020

AP Exclusive: AT&T under pressure to defy Maduro's censors

Last April, as a military uprising roiled Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government ordered pay TV providers to ...

January 17, 2020

Iran's top leader strikes defiant tone amid month of turmoil

Iran's supreme leader lashed out at Western countries as he led Friday prayers in Tehran for the first time in eight years, ...

January 17, 2020

Records: Congress candidate Mfume left NAACP under a cloud

As former NAACP leader Kweisi Mfume seeks to regain a congressional seat he once held, The Baltimore Sun reports that records ...

January 17, 2020

Mexico: accident caused drowning deaths of 4 personnel

Mexico's army said Friday the drowning death this week of four soldiers was caused by an accident involving confiscated ...

January 17, 2020

Virginia AG urges justices to prevent tragic rally violence

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring urged the state Supreme Court on Friday to reject an effort by pro-gun groups to ...

January 17, 2020

Plane slides off taxiway in icy weather; winter storm hits

A plane slid off the taxiway at Kansas City International Airport on Friday due to icy conditions that also have closed ...

January 17, 2020

'Days of God': A look at Iran's mounting crises

Iran's supreme leader says his nation is living through “days of God.” The Islamic Republic has been reeling from one crisis ...

January 17, 2020

Mexico's "Thousand Islands" yields 14 corpses in 7 pits

Police said Thursday they found 14 sets of skeletal human remains in seven clandestine burial pits in area known as Mexico's ...

January 17, 2020

What you need to know before 2020 Census starts in Alaska

The 2020 Census kicks off Tuesday in remote Alaska. U.S. Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham will be there to conduct ...

January 17, 2020

Mexico's president hopes to raffle off presidential jet

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced the latest in a series of desperate ideas Friday to sell off his ...

January 17, 2020

Cuban president says concessions to US would lead nowhere

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said he does not believe the Trump administration would drop sanctions on the island in ...

January 17, 2020

Early gains on Wall Street add to strong start to the year

Stocks are opening slightly higher on Wall Street, building on the big gains from a day earlier that sent major indexes to ...

January 17, 2020

Global stocks inspired by US rally, hopes for Chinese growth

Global stocks rose Friday, seemingly buoyed by high spirits on Wall Street, as new data suggested China's economic slowdown ...

January 17, 2020

Russia's foreign minister slams 'aggressive' US policies

Russia's foreign policy chief on Friday blamed what he described as “aggressive” U.S. policies for growing global tensions, ...

January 17, 2020

Trump campaign tries robust outreach to expand his appeal

Selfies on a “Women for Trump” bus tour through Iowa. Volunteer training at a “Black Voices for Trump” organizing session in ...

January 17, 2020

Organizers appeal ban on arms at upcoming Virginia gun rally

A gun-rights group has filed an emergency appeal of a judge's ruling upholding the Virginia governor's ban on firearms at a ...

January 17, 2020

Joe Biden boosts Super Tuesday case with Sewell endorsement

Joe Biden has secured a weighty Deep South endorsement for his presidential campaign, with Alabama’s lone Democratic House ...