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A former police officer facing a drug charge burst into a day care center Thursday in Thailand, killing dozens of preschoolers and teachers and then shooting m…
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports October 7, 2022French author Annie Ernaux won this year's Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for blending fiction and autobiography in books that fearlessly mine her experien…
by JEFFREY SCHAEFFER, DAVID KEYTON and JILL LAWLESS The Associated Press October 7, 2022WNBA star Brittney Griner is at her "absolute weakest moment in life right now" as she faces a hearing in Russia later this month for her appeal of a nine-year…
by The Associated Press October 7, 2022Federal agents investigating President Joe Biden's son Hunter have gathered what they believe is sufficient evidence to charge him with tax crimes and a false …
by Devlin Barrett and Perry Stein The Washington Post October 7, 2022A North Carolina man pleaded guilty Thursday to plotting with other members of the far-right Proud Boys to violently stop the transfer of presidential power af…
by MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER The Associated Press October 7, 2022The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has scheduled its next hearing for Oct. 13, pushing the investigation back into the lim…
by FARNOUSH AMIRI The Associated Press October 7, 2022At least 66 clinics in 15 states have stopped providing abortions since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to an analysis released Thursd…
by The Associated Press October 7, 2022Two Russians who said they fled the country to avoid compulsory military service have requested asylum in the U.S. after landing in a small boat on a remote Al…
by BECKY BOHRER The Associated Press October 7, 2022Russia called for a secret ballot vote next week on a Western-backed resolution that would condemn its "attempted illegal annexation" of part of four Ukrainian…
by EDITH M. LEDERER The Associated Press October 7, 2022North Korea flew 12 warplanes near its border with South Korea on Thursday, prompting the South to scramble 30 military aircraft in response, Seoul officials s…
by HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG The Associated Press October 7, 2022A drug gang shot to death 20 people, including a mayor and his father, in the mountains of the southern Mexico state of Guerrero, officials said Thursday.
by EDUARDO VERDUGO The Associated Press October 7, 2022The last thing Pasika Bagerimana remembers before her sons died were their cries of hunger. But the 25-year-old mother had nothing to feed them.
by SAM MEDNICK The Associated Press October 7, 2022Whitmer kidnap plotter gets 4-year term
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports October 7, 2022King Charles III is expected to be crowned June 3 at Westminster Abbey, U.K. officials said. Speaking on condition of anonymity before a public announcement, t…
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports October 7, 2022Travis Ford of Nebraska was sentenced to 18 months in prison for making online threats against Colorado's top elections official in one of the first cases brou…
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