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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) –
Attorneys on both sides faced pointed pushback from a panel of appellate judges Thursday as the legal fight over whether Ohio should allow electronic absentee ballot applications continued.
The Ohio’s 10th District Court of Appeals is weighing whether to uphold a trial judge’s Sept. 11 …
The U.S. is gearing up to impose sanctions on Iran for the execution of Navid Afkari, a 27-year-old Iranian wrestler who allegedly murdered a man.
Iranian state TV earlier this month reported that Iran had carried out the execution despite pleas from the U.S. to spare Afkari’s life, as well …
Chinese hackers are still trying to snoop on American coronavirus vaccine efforts, FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress on Thursday, saying they can actually track the attempts.
Mr. Wray said they’ll see a public announcement from a company on its vaccine progress, then within days they’ll see cyber penetration efforts …
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) – Yemen’s embattled and exiled president on Thursday urged his government’s rival, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, to stop impeding the flow of urgently needed humanitarian aid following a warning from the U.N. humanitarian chief last week that “the specter of famine” has returned to the conflict-torn …
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) – Washington voters have elected a Republican secretary of state for more than five decades in a state mostly run by Democrats.
Two-term Secretary of State Kim Wyman – the fifth Republican to hold the office since 1965 – is one of only three statewide elected Republicans …
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A federal judge won’t block a Tennessee law for the November election that makes it a felony for anyone other than election officials to distribute absentee ballot applications.
U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson in Nashville denied the preliminary injunction late Wednesday, determining the law doesn’t restrict …
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The United States butted heads with China and Russia at the United Nations on Thursday over responsibility for the pandemic that has interrupted the world, trading allegations about who mishandled and politicized the virus in one of the few real-time exchanges among top officials at this …
LONDON (AP) – Julian Assange relayed how he “binge-watched” the suicide of the former Bosnian Croat general in a U.N. courtroom three years ago, a doctor who visited the WikiLeaks founder on several occasions while he was in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London told an extradition hearing Thursday.
Dr. …
LONDON — Julian Assange relayed how he “binge-watched” the suicide of the former Bosnian Croat general in a U.N. courtroom three years ago, a doctor who visited the WikiLeaks founder on several occasions while he was in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London told an extradition hearing Thursday.
Dr. Sondra Crosby, …
ISLAMABAD (AP) – Pakistan’s minority Hindus rallied late on Thursday in Islamabad, briefly clashing with the police, to protest the deaths of 11 members of a Hindu migrant family who died in India last month under mysterious circumstances.
Since then, the dead migrants’ relatives have held small rallies in …