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FORECAST: Heat index drops slightly, temperatures remain high
A Heat Advisory remains in effect from Charlotte to the east, but heat index values will be lower than yesterday when they peaked at 110 in Charlotte. Storm chances are also lower than what we dealt ...
US pulls funding from global vaccines group, saying it has 'ignored the science'
Kennedy called on Gavi “to re-earn the public trust and to justify the $8 billion America has provided in funding since 2001, ...
Who was Olga, the Alaska Native drawing devotion as Orthodoxy's new saint?
The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and ...
Alaska Native woman, 'everybody's helper,' is Orthodox church's first female North American saint
KWETHLUK, Alaska — (AP) — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael ...
An explosion and ensuing stampede kill 29 children in a Central African Republic school
An explosion and the stampede that followed at a high school in the Central African Republic have killed at least 29 students and injured over 250 ...
Investigators begin analyzing data from black boxes of Air India flight that crashed
Investigators have started analyzing data from the black boxes of the Air India Boeing 787 that crashed two weeks ago, killing at least 270 people ...
International Space Station welcomes its first astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary
The first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary have arrived at the International Space Station, ...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei makes first public statement after end of Israel-Iran war
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — (AP) — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei made his first public statement Thursday after the end of the Israel-Iran war. Khamenei took shelter in a secret location during ...
North Korea may send military construction workers to Russia as early as July or August
South Korea's spy agency says North Korea’s planned dispatch of thousands of military construction workers and deminers to Russia’s Kursk region will likely take place as early as July or August ...
Cambodia ex-leader Hun Sen and Thailand's prime minister make separate visits to tense border areas
Cambodia’s powerful former leader Hun Sen and Thailand’s prime minister have made separate visits to border areas ...
College graduates face toughest job market in more than a decade as hiring slows
Young people graduating from college this spring and summer are facing one of the toughest job markets in more than a decade ...
Storms in France leave 2 dead, 17 injured and cause parliament to spring a leak
PARIS — (AP) — Two people were killed and 17 injured during torrential storms in France that toppled trees, flooded Paris streets and caused parliament's roof to spring a leak as the prime minister ...