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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Political instability in Niger ensuing from a army takeover that deposed the president this week threatens the financial help offered by Washington to the African nation, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken mentioned Saturday. ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas is quickly blocked from implementing a legislation that will have allowed legal prices in opposition to librarians and booksellers for offering “harmful” supplies to minors, a federal decide dominated Saturday. ...

Antisemitism within the United States has risen in a "really horrific way", in keeping with the Jewish Federation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.The metropolis was house to probably the most lethal assault on Jewish individuals in America - a mass capturing on the Tree of Life synagogue in October 2018. Eleven individuals had been killed and 6 injured. A jury is because of determine within the coming days whether or not the gunman, Robert Bowers, ought to face the loss of life penalty.Jewish communities throughout the US are endeavor "active shooter" drills in response to the atrocity, and to a rise in antisemitic hate crime. Jeff Finkelstein, the chief government of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, informed Sky News: "Antisemitism is among the ol...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday pushed again towards Australian calls for for an finish to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s prosecution, saying the Australian citizen was accused of “very serious criminal conduct” in publishing a trove of labeled paperwork greater than a decade in the past. ...

A federal choose has rejected a $475m (£369m) defamation lawsuit introduced by Donald Trump towards CNN.The US information community described the previous US president's declare that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him as a "big lie". The similar phrase was utilized by Adolf Hitler to justify prejudice towards Jewish individuals, and is related to Nazi propaganda.But US Judge Raag Singhal, who was nominated by Mr Trump in 2019, mentioned CNN's phrases, whereas "repugnant", had been opinion, not truth.For that motive, they may not be the topic of a defamation declare, Judge Singhal mentioned. "CNN's statements, while repugnant, were not, as a matter of law, defamatory," the choose wrote.There had been 5 situations throughout which CNN both revealed tales or air...

PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) - Not way back, Marine Col. Jennifer Nash, a fight engineer with battle deployments below her belt, made a vow to fellow officers as they headed to a dinner in Atlanta: She would get two new recruiting contacts by the tip of the night. ...

A 3-foot-long alligator that went lacking from the Indiana Wild animal sanctuary three weeks in the past was recovered after being noticed in a close-by neighborhood retention pond, the nonprofit introduced Thursday.  ...

COLFAX, Iowa (AP) - In the small central Iowa city of Colfax, hundreds of cyclists taking part within the largest and oldest leisure bike trip on the planet had been stopped alongside its historic fundamental avenue, staring forward at a frightening climb that might lead them out of city. ...

BATH, Maine — Marine 1st Lt. Harvey “Barney” Barnum jumped to the bottom when he got here beneath hearth throughout an ambush in Vietnam that killed his radio operator and commander. ...

After no person received the $910 million jackpot on Friday night time, the Mega Millions lottery jackpot climbed to $1.05 billion for Tuesday’s drawing, the lottery defined in a launch. ...