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  • Maryland governor pardons 34 victims of racial lynching

    May 08, 2021 - 3:54 PM

    TOWSON, Md. - Maryland's governor on Saturday posthumously pardoned 34 victims of racial lynching in the state dating between 1854 and 1933, saying they were denied legal due process against the allegations they faced.

  • Police: 3 hurt in Florida mall shooting as shoppers scatter

    May 08, 2021 - 3:51 PM

    MIAMI - A shooting at an upscale South Florida shopping mall that began as a fight between two groups of people left three persons injured Saturday afternoon and sent mall patrons fleeing, according to police and local reports.

  • Scottish government sets stage for another independence vote

    May 08, 2021 - 3:44 PM

    LONDON - The Scottish National Party won its fourth straight parliamentary election on Saturday and insisted it will push on with another referendum on Scotland's independence from the U.K. even though it failed by one seat to secure a majority.

  • First Latino justice on California's high court dies at 90

    May 08, 2021 - 3:41 PM

    OROVILLE, Calif. - Cruz Reynoso, a son of migrant workers who worked in the fields as a child and went on to become the first Latino state Supreme Court justice in California history, has died. He was 90.

  • EXPLAINER: Why are people protesting across Colombia?

    May 08, 2021 - 3:30 PM

    BUCARAMANGA, Colombia - Thousands of Colombians have protested across the country against a government they feel has long ignored their needs, allowed corruption to run rampant and is so out of touch that it proposed tax increases during the coronavirus pandemic.

  • AP News in Brief at 6:04 p.m. EDT

    May 08, 2021 - 3:05 PM

    Major US pipeline halts operations after ransomware attack

  • Beefed-up Israel police clash with Palestinians in Jerusalem

    May 08, 2021 - 3:02 PM

    JERUSALEM - Israeli police on Saturday clashed with Palestinian protesters outside Jerusalem's Old City during the holiest night of Ramadan, in a show of force that threatened to deepen the holy city's worst religious unrest in several years. Earlier, police blocked busloads of pilgrims headed to Jerusalem to worship.

  • Beefed-up Israel police clash with Palestinians in Jerusalem

    May 08, 2021 - 3:00 PM

    JERUSALEM - Israeli police on Saturday clashed with Palestinian protesters outside Jerusalem's Old City during the holiest night of Ramadan in a show of force that threatened to deepen the holy city's worst religious unrest in several years. Earlier, police blocked busloads of pilgrims headed to Jerusalem to worship.

  • GOP delegates in Virginia to choose nominee for governor

    May 08, 2021 - 2:33 PM

    ANNANDALE, Va. - Tens of thousands of Virginia Republicans, sometimes waiting in long lines of cars, cast ballots Saturday to choose nominees for governor and other statewide offices at a drive-thru nominating convention.

  • Lloyd Price, singer and early rock influence, dies at 88

    May 08, 2021 - 2:18 PM

    NEW YORK - Singer-songwriter Lloyd Price, an early rock ’n roll star and enduring maverick whose hits included such up-tempo favourites as “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” “Personality” and the semi-forbidden “Stagger Lee,” has died. He was 88.
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