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Swedish star fronts skateboarding’s move to mainstream

MALMO, Sweden — Oskar Rozenberg nonchalantly drifts around the skate park before unleashing a series of high-energy tricks — mounting a wall, sliding ...
11:14 11 February 2022

Ladysmith Black Mambazo founder Joseph Shabalala dies at 78

JOHANNESBURG — The founder of the South African multi-Grammy-Award-winning music group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Joseph Shabalala, has died at age 78, ...
10:37 11 February 2022

Ireland faces wrangling as Sinn Fein aims to form government

LONDON — Final results in Ireland’s general election show three parties in a virtual tie for seats, signalling weeks of tense negotiations ahead to fo...
10:36 11 February 2022

Spain searches for 67 missing at sea, rescues 119 others

MADRID — Spain on Tuesday resumed the search for 67 migrants missing from a boat trying to reach European shores a day after maritime authorities resc...
9:27 11 February 2022

Iran remembers 1979 Islamic Revolution amid high US tension

TEHRAN, Iran — Hundreds of thousands across Iran marked the anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution on Tuesday amid some of the highest tensions ev...
9:21 11 February 2022

Mandela’s release 30 years ago birthed a new South Africa

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Thirty years ago, Nelson Mandela was released from 27 years of imprisonment by South Africa's apartheid regime and instantly...
8:53 11 February 2022

Health officials trace British patient travels in outbreak

LONDON — A middle-aged businessman from England who vacationed in the Alps has illustrated how the ease of international travel is complicating global...
8:39 11 February 2022

Daimler profits slump as auto industry comes under pressure

FRANKFURT, Germany — Automaker Daimler AG, maker of Mercedes-Benz cars, saw profit slump in 2019 and turned in a loss for the fourth quarter.
8:03 11 February 2022

Thai army chief: Gunman wasn’t treated fairly in land deal

BANGKOK — Thailand's army commander said Tuesday the soldier who killed 29 people in a shooting rampage had not been treated fairly in a land deal inv...
7:38 11 February 2022

Elbow bumps and bows: Singapore air show opens despite virus

SINGAPORE — Singapore's air show began Tuesday with the usual ribbon cutting and displays of aerial prowess, but also with less typical warnings to in...
6:26 11 February 2022

Trump pays tribute to 2 soldiers killed in Afghanistan

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. — President Donald Trump traveled Monday to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to pay respects to two U.S. soldiers killed Sa...
6:24 11 February 2022

Congressman Lewis to receive NAACP honor at awards show

ATLANTA — The NAACP is honoring John Lewis for his Congressional service and long history as a civil rights activist.
6:21 11 February 2022

Rebuilding Afghanistan has a high human cost, US agency says

KABUL, Afghanistan — Rebuilding Afghanistan has cost hundreds of lives, according to a new report released Tuesday by a U.S. government watchdog that ...
6:14 11 February 2022

Small New Hampshire town votes for Bloomberg in primary

DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. — Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg won the votes of a tiny New Hampshire community that barely hung onto its traditio...
5:32 11 February 2022

Happy meal: Poodle stops for fast food, wins at Westminster

NEW YORK — Chic and strong-headed, Siba the black standard poodle will only eat chicken — no meat, no veggies, not even turkey. That became a problem ...
4:06 11 February 2022

US counterintel strategy emphasizes protection of democracy

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government's top counterintelligence official said Monday that he was concerned Russia or other foreign adversaries could exploi...
3:39 11 February 2022

Anna Sui rolls out B-movie gothic glam at NY Fashion Week

NEW YORK — Anna Sui doesn't love scary movies, but she adores illusion, especially glamorous illusion.
3:03 11 February 2022

Mississippi inmate death toll rises amid emergency extension

JACKSON, Miss. — Another Mississippi inmate died Monday, the same day the governor extended an emergency order allowing the state to quickly spend mon...
2:36 11 February 2022

Virus stretches limits of strained public health systems

BANGKOK — The virus outbreak that began in China and has spread to more than 20 countries is stretching already-strained public health systems in Asia...
2:13 11 February 2022

Maryland unveils statues of Tubman, Douglass in Capitol

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — At a time when states are debating the removal of Confederate monuments, Maryland unveiled bronze statues of famed abolitionists Harr...
1:29 11 February 2022

Justice Department brings new suits over sanctuary policies

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department ratcheted up legal pressure Monday on local governments over their “sanctuary” policies that hinder federal immigr...
0:21 11 February 2022

With Democrats in New Hampshire, Steyer has SC to himself

WINNSBORO, S.C. — With the Democratic presidential field focused on New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary Tuesday, billionaire Tom Steyer has So...
23:38 10 February 2022

Trump seeks big increase in career-technical education money

President Donald Trump is proposing a $900 million increase in education spending to teach skills and trades, in what would be a historic federal infu...
23:22 10 February 2022

Kobe Bryant’s widow expresses grief, anger in online post

LOS ANGELES — Vanessa Bryant expressed grief and anger in an Instagram post Monday as she copes with the deaths of her husband Kobe Bryant, their daug...
23:20 10 February 2022

Hollywood barriers fall in milestone Oscars for ‘Parasite’

LOS ANGELES — Before Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” made history as the first non-English best picture winner in Academy Awards history, he made a modest p...
23:07 10 February 2022

The Latest: Warren says she’s been counted out before

CONCORD, N.H. — The latest on campaigning for the 2020 election (all times local):
22:51 10 February 2022

US says Chinese military stole masses of Americans’ data

WASHINGTON — Four members of the Chinese military have been charged with breaking into the computer networks of the Equifax credit reporting agency an...
22:14 10 February 2022

Buttigieg, Sanders campaigns request Iowa caucus recanvass

WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders' and Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaigns filed requests Monday for a partial recanvass of the results of Iowa's Democr...
21:57 10 February 2022

State reviews LA police use of California gang database

LOS ANGELES — The California Department of Justice is reviewing the Los Angeles Police Department's records and policies regarding use of the state's ...
21:45 10 February 2022

Can’t touch this: Real slot machines controlled online

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Slot machines, the bread and butter of the casino industry, long ago lost their nicknames as “one-armed bandits” when manufactur...
21:25 10 February 2022