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DeSantis picks state Sen. Jay Collins to be Florida’s lieutenant governor

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has tapped Republican state Sen. Jay Collins to be his next lieutenant governor. It's a closely watched appointment by the two-term governor, who can...

Aug 12, 2025

Uvalde school district releases records for 2022 classroom shooting, after legal fight over access

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - School officials in Uvalde, Texas, on Monday released text messages, personnel files and student records of the shooter from the 2022 attack at Robb Elementary School, following a...

Aug 11, 2025

Police say 2 dead in a shooting at a Target in Austin, Texas, and a suspect has been detained

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Two people were killed Monday in a shooting at a Target store in Austin, Texas, and a suspect has been detained, police said. Austin police said in a post on the social platform X...

Aug 11, 2025

Trump suggests he'll know if Putin wants a peace deal with Ukraine soon into their meeting

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Monday that he expected to determine mere moments into his meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin this week whether it would be possible to work out a...

Aug 11, 2025

Trump says he's placing Washington police under federal control and deploying the National Guard

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Monday he's placing the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control and deploying the National Guard to make the nation's capital safer. Tru...

Aug 11, 2025

Germany invites Trump, Zelenskyy, NATO, EU leaders to a virtual meeting before Trump-Putin summit

BRUSSELS (AP) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has invited U.S. President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the NATO secretary general and several European leaders to a virtual ...

Aug 11, 2025

Judge denies request to unseal transcripts from grand jury that indicted Ghislaine Maxwell

NEW YORK (AP) - A judge in New York on Monday denied a Justice Department request to unseal transcripts from grand jury that indicted Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend. The Associ...

Aug 11, 2025

Israeli strikes kill journalists and aid-seekers as Australia backs Palestinian statehood

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli ground and air strikes hit northern and southern Gaza on Monday, killing aid-seekers as well as others sheltering in tents and homes as Israeli troops prepared...

Aug 11, 2025

Massive mudslide kills 7 volunteers repairing flood damage in northern Pakistan

GILGIT, Pakistan (AP) - A massive mudslide early Monday killed seven volunteers as they repaired a drainage channel damaged by flash floods in northern Pakistan, officials said, leaving three others i...

Aug 11, 2025

Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia’s Aceh province sentences 2 men to public caning over sexual acts

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province on Monday sentenced two men to public caning 80 times each after Islamic religious police caught them en...

Aug 11, 2025