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A government watchdog says decisions by Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan were the key factors in the collapse o…
by LOLITA C. BALDOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS May 19, 2022Japan's nuclear regulator on Wednesday approved plans by the operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant to release its treated radioactive wastewater into…
by MARI YAMAGUCHI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS May 19, 2022North Korea on Wednesday added hundreds of thousands of infections to its growing pandemic caseload but also said that a million people have already recovered …
by KIM TONG-HYUNG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS May 19, 2022The Pakistani Taliban on Wednesday said they are extending a cease-fire with the government until May 30, after the two sides held an initial round of talks ho…
by MUNIR AHMED THE ASSOCIATED PRESS May 19, 2022Portuguese health authorities on Wednesday confirmed five cases of monkeypox in young men, and Britain announced another two, marking an unusual outbreak in Eu…
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports May 19, 2022Nearly one in 25 people in a county in the Uyghur heartland of China has been sentenced to prison on terrorism-related charges, in what is the highest known im…
by HUIZHONG WU and DAKE KANG The Associated Press May 19, 2022Singer Tina Karol said Monday from Japan that she and her fellow Ukrainians will not give up defending their land and culture from Russian invasion and are det…
by MARI YAMAGUCHI The Associated Press May 19, 2022India wall collapse kills 12 saltpackers
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports May 19, 2022N.M. firefighters brace for more wind
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports May 19, 2022Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Jerry Lee Lewis, the late country singer Keith Whitley and music executive Joe Galante will join the Country Music Hall of Fame in Oc…
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports May 19, 2022Diana Giraldo, a Frontier Airlines flight attendant, helped a female passenger to the restroom and aided in the birth of the woman's baby during a flight from …
May 19, 2022WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday paused a new and controversial board's work on disinformation and accepted the resignation of it…
by The Associated Press May 18, 2022Covid-19 cases are increasing in the United States – and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned Wednesday in urging areas…
by The Associated Press May 18, 2022KYIV, Ukraine -- Nearly 1,000 last-ditch Ukrainian fighters who had held out inside Mariupol's pulverized steel plant have surrendered, Russia said Wednesday, …
by The Associated Press May 18, 2022A former Minneapolis police officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd.
by The Associated Press May 18, 2022