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  • US: Chinese sales help Russia in war

    WASHINGTON -- China has increased sales to Russia of machine tools, microelectronics and other technology that Moscow in turn is using to produce missiles, tan…

    by AAMER MADHANI The Associated Press April 13, 2024

  • Trump co-defendants want charges tossed

    FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- Lawyers for two co-defendants of former President Donald Trump in the classified documents case asked a judge on Friday to dismiss charges…

    by STEPHANY MATAT and ERIC TUCKER The Associated Press April 13, 2024

  • Japanese premier visits N. Carolina

    RALEIGH, N.C. -- Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida cemented economic links and cultural amity with North Carolina on Friday, following up time in Washingto…

    by MAKIYA SEMINERA The Associated Press April 13, 2024

  • Trump: Arizona law a step too far

    TUCSON, Ariz. -- Former President Donald Trump urged Arizona lawmakers on Friday to swiftly "remedy" the state Supreme Court ruling allowing prosecutors to enf…

    by JONATHAN J. COOPER The Associated Press April 13, 2024

  • US to cancel student loans for 206,000

    WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration is canceling student loans for another 206,000 borrowers as part of a new repayment plan that offers a faster route to f…

    by COLLIN BINKLEY The Associated Press April 13, 2024

  • Names and faces

    Hip-hop artist Drake has been dismissed from a lawsuit over the deadly 2021 Astroworld festival in Houston in which 10 people were killed, a judge ruled. Drake…

    by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports April 13, 2024

  • In the news

    Andre Schule, a veterinarian at Berlin's zoo, claims that there is no gorilla older than 67-year-old Fatou in any other zoo, "and we have to assume that there …

    by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports April 13, 2024

  • New US gun rule set to go in effect

    WASHINGTON -- Thousands more firearms dealers across the United States will have to run background checks on buyers at gun shows or other places outside brick-…

    by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports April 12, 2024

  • Keep promises, Japan’s premier tells Congress

    WASHINGTON -- Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida addressed U.S. lawmakers at the Capitol on Thursday, urging them to consider the importance of global commi…

    by STEPHEN GROVES The Associated Press April 12, 2024

  • Trial of the century’s Simpson dies at 76

    LAS VEGAS -- O.J. Simpson, the football star and Hollywood actor acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend in a trial that mesmerized the p…

    by KEN RITTER The Associated Press April 12, 2024

  • Latest Trump request to delay trial rejected

    NEW YORK -- Donald Trump is now 0 for 3 in last-minute attempts to get a New York appeals court to delay his looming hush money criminal trial. An appeals cour…

    by MICHAEL R. SISAK and JAKE OFFENHARTZ The Associated Press April 12, 2024

  • Pledges ‘ironclad,’ Biden tells Philippines, Japan

    WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden said Thursday that U.S. defense commitment to Pacific allies was "ironclad" as he gathered Philippine President Ferdinand Mar…

    by AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER The Associated Press April 12, 2024

  • Shooting probe not complete in Virginia

    NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -- A criminal investigation into staff members at a Virginia school where a 6-year-old shot his teacher will continue, prosecutors said Thurs…

    by BEN FINLEY and DENISE LAVOIE The Associated Press April 12, 2024

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