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The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday protecting same-sex and interracial marriages, with all four Arkansas delegates voting against th…
by Alex Thomas December 9, 2022American basketball star Brittney Griner headed home Thursday night, freed from Russian prison in exchange for the U.S. releasing notorious Russian arms dealer…
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports December 9, 2022U.S. regulators on Thursday cleared doses of the updated covid-19 vaccines for children younger than 5. Also, medical experts are renewing their plea to anothe…
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports December 9, 2022HONOLULU -- Lava from the world's largest volcano is no longer an imminent threat to the main highway across the Big Island of Hawaii, scientists said Thursday…
by JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER The Associated Press December 9, 2022Authorities dropped a 2021 bomb threat case against the suspect in the Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooting after family members refused to cooperate, the d…
by COLLEEN SLEVIN The Associated Press December 9, 2022George "Johnny" Johnson, the last known survivor of Britain's daring World War II "Dambusters" bombing raid on German infrastructure, has died. He was 101.
by The Associated Press December 9, 2022An Indiana doctor has dropped a lawsuit that aimed to halt the state's attorney general from investigating her after she provided an abortion to a 10-year-old …
by ARLEIGH RODGERS The Associated Press December 9, 2022Sen. Chuck Schumer was unanimously elected Thursday for another term as Senate Democratic leader, helming a bolstered 51-seat majority for a new era of divided…
by LISA MASCARO The Associated Press December 9, 2022Prosecutors have urged a federal judge to hold Donald Trump's office in contempt of court for failing to fully comply with a May subpoena to return all classif…
by The Washington Post December 9, 2022Former national security adviser Michael Flynn was at a downtown Atlanta courthouse Thursday to testify before a special grand jury that's investigating whethe…
by KATE BRUMBACK The Associated Press December 9, 2022A federal judge has ruled that he will not block Mississippi from carrying out next week’s execution of an inmate who is suing the state over its use of three …
by The Associated Press December 9, 2022LIMA, Peru -- Peru's stunning political crisis ground forward Thursday, as former President Pedro Castillo appeared in court after a failed attempt to close a …
by FRANKLIN BRICENO and JOSHUA GOODMAN The Associated Press December 9, 2022An alleged plot to topple the German government, led by a self-styled prince, a retired paratrooper and a Berlin judge, had its roots in a murky mixture of pos…
by FRANK JORDANS The Associated Press December 9, 2022The coronavirus pandemic interrupted efforts to control malaria, resulting in 63,000 additional deaths and 13 million more infections globally over two years, …
by MARIA CHENG The Associated Press December 9, 2022Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who returned home Thursday in a swap for WNBA star Brittney Griner, is widely known abroad as the "Merchant of Death" who fuel…
by JIM HEINTZ The Associated Press December 9, 2022