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Russia launches fresh drone strikes in Ukraine after promising retaliation for Belgorod attack 12/31/2023 11:05am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Russia launched a fresh drone assault on Ukraine after promising that strikes on the Russian border city of Belgorod that killed 24 people Saturday ���would not go unpunished.��� The Ukrainian Air Force said Sunday that it had shot down 21 of 49 drones launched by Russian forc Shelling kills 21 in Russian city of Belgorod following Moscow's aerial attacks across Ukraine 12/30/2023 05:49pm • Shelling in the center of the Russian border city of Belgorod Saturday killed 21 people, including three children, local officials reported. A further 110 people were wounded in the strike, said regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, making it one of the deadliest attacks on Russian soil since the st States set to enact new laws on guns, pornography, taxes and even fuzzy dice 12/30/2023 02:24pm • Fuzzy dice finally will be free to dangle in Illinois. Starting Monday, police there no longer will be allowed to pull over motorists solely because they have something hanging from the rearview mirror of the windshield. That means air fresheners, parking placards and, yes, even those dice are fair Group behind voting misinformation campaign in Northern Va. loses federal appeal 12/29/2023 08:28pm • The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth District has dismissed an appeal by a right-wing advocacy group ordered to stop distributing false, threatening and misleading mailers prior to November's election, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced Friday. In October, Miyares issued a ceas Russia launches the biggest aerial barrage of the war and kills 30 civilians, Ukraine says 12/29/2023 04:30pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Russia launched 122 missiles and dozens of drones against Ukrainian targets, officials said Friday, killing at least 30 civilians across the country in what an air force official called the biggest aerial barrage of the war. At least 144 people were wounded and an unknown numb Perspective: Children born poor have little margin for mistakes or bad decisions, regardless of race 12/29/2023 03:02pm • ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) ��� Alfred King was lying in the parking lot of a small apartment building, mortally wounded when police in Alexandria, Louisiana, got to the intersection of 12th and Magnolia streets shortly before 1:30 a.m., Jan. 20. The 34-year-old was the first fatal shooting of 2023 in the A Hong Kong pro-independence activist seeks asylum in the UK after serving time over security law 12/29/2023 11:14am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� An activist who advocated for Hong Kong independence and was imprisoned under a sweeping national security law has fled to Britain to seek political asylum, according to his social media posts on Friday. Tony Chung was among the first people convicted under the Beijing-imposed la How to Navigate Student Loan Repayment in 2024 12/28/2023 07:00pm • After three years of COVID-19 forbearance expired in October 2023, transitioning millions of Americans back into student loan repayment has been a logistical nightmare. More than 14 million borrowers had their loans transferred to a new servicer during the pandemic payment pause, according to the Co Nikki Haley doesn't mention slavery when asked what caused the Civil War. She later walks that back 12/28/2023 01:47pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ��� Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was asked at a New Hampshire town hall about the reason for the Civil War, and she didn���t mention slavery in her response. She walked back her comments hours later. Asked during Wednesday night's town hall in Berlin what she bel The number of wounded Israeli soldiers is mounting, representing a hidden cost of war 12/28/2023 08:15am • RAMAT GAN, Israel (AP) ��� Igor Tudoran spent just 12 hours inside the Gaza Strip before a missile slammed into his tank, leaving him with a life-altering injury. ���Already within the tank, I understood from the condition of my leg that I would lose it. But the question was how much of it will I lo Indonesia's navy pushes a boat suspected of carrying Rohingya refugees out of its waters 12/28/2023 06:34am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) ��� Indonesia's navy said Thursday that it forcibly pushed a boat packed with refugees back to international waters after the vessel approached the shores of Aceh province. The province that forms part of Sumatra island has seen an increasing number of arriving boats, most ca Hong Kong man jailed for 6 years after pleading guilty to a terrorism charge over a foiled bomb plot 12/28/2023 01:42am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� A Hong Kong man was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison after pleading guilty to a terrorism charge under a Beijing-imposed national security law for his involvement in a foiled plot to bomb court buildings. Prosecutors said Ho Yu-wang, 19, was the plot mastermind who plann Students in Indonesia protest the growing numbers of Rohingya refugees in Aceh province 12/28/2023 12:42am • BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) ��� Students in Indonesia���s Aceh province rallied on Wednesday, demanding the government drive away Rohingya refugees who have been arriving by sea in growing numbers. The protest came as police named more suspects in human trafficking of refugees. Over 1,500 Rohingya � Jacques Delors, architect of the modern EU and ���Mr. Europe,��� dies aged 98 12/27/2023 05:20pm • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� Jacques Delors, a Paris bank messenger���s son who became the visionary and builder of a more unified Europe in his momentous decade as chief executive of the European Union, has died in Paris, the Delors Institute think tank told The Associated Press on Wednesday. He was 98. ���Th A top Brazilian criminal leader is isolated in prison after he negotiated his own arrest 12/26/2023 06:03pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� One of Brazil's top criminal leaders was locked up in a 6-square-meter (65-square-foot) isolation cell at a maximum security prison to avoid being killed by rivals, authorities said Tuesday. Luiz Ant��nio da Silva Braga, the boss of the largest militia group in the state of R