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An angel resembling Italy's Meloni is painted over after an outcry from church and state 02/04/2026 07:54pm • ROME (AP) — Call it divine intervention, or maybe just a hasty fix-it job to put an end to days of speculation and scandal. But the end result is that the Angel Meloni is no more. A painting of a cherub with a face bearing a remarkable resemblance to Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni had attracted la Patriots' Stefon Diggs has helped fuel Super Bowl run with his fire on the field 02/04/2026 07:53pm • SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Left back pylon. One knee. Head bowed. Eyes closed. That is how Stefon Diggs will spend some of his final moments prior to kickoff of the first Super Bowl of his career. It’s been a staple of the wide receiver's routine before each game he’s played this season for Regional health organization issues alert as measles cases surge across the Americas 02/04/2026 07:51pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Pan American Health Organization, PAHO, issued a new epidemiological alert following a surge of measles cases across the Americas, with Mexico reporting the highest numbers. It also called for urgent vaccination campaigns, highlighting that 78% of recent cases involved unvac Trump and Xi discuss Iran in wide-ranging call as US presses China and others to break from Tehran 02/04/2026 07:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the situation in Iran in a wide-ranging call as the U.S. administration pushes Beijing and others to further isolate Tehran. Trump said the two leaders also discussed a broad range of other c Trump taking steps toward installing a Columbus statue near the White House 02/04/2026 07:36pm • ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (AP) — President Donald Trump is taking steps toward installing near the White House a replica of a statue of famed explorer Christopher Columbus that had been tossed into Baltimore's harbor during his first term amid protests against institutional racism. John Pica, a Maryland Texas A&M professor files lawsuit after firing over gender identity lesson 02/04/2026 07:28pm • HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas A&M University professor who was fired last year after a controversy over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children’s literature lesson about gender identity sued the school on Wednesday, alleging the university violated her rights by bowing to po Chinese national who exposed rights abuses is freed from US detention after being granted asylum 02/04/2026 07:27pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Guan Heng, a Chinese national who exposed human rights abuses in his homeland, has been released from federal detention more than five months after being swept up in the Trump administration's mass immigration enforcement operation. Guan was released and reunited with his mother Greek doctors work to identify parents of injured migrant children after deadly boat collision 02/04/2026 07:26pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Emotional medical staff on the Greek island of Chios on Wednesday have spoken of frantic efforts to identify the parents of injured children after an overnight collision between a coast guard patrol boat and a speedboat carrying migrants killed at least 15 people and injured Fairfax Co. church left without prayer space after snow-covered roof collapses 02/04/2026 07:25pm • A Northern Virginia church is scrambling to find a place for its congregants to pray and gather after its roof collapsed earlier this week from heavy snow. The St. George Tigrai Orthodox Tewahdo Church in Mt. Vernon is surrounded by red and yellow caution tape that first responders placed Mon LaMonte McLemore, singer and founding member of The 5th Dimension, dies at 90 02/04/2026 07:25pm • Singer LaMonte McLemore, a founding member of vocal group The 5th Dimension, whose smooth pop and soul sounds with a touch of psychedelia brought them big hits in the 1960s and ’70s, has died. He was 90. McLemore died Tuesday at his home in Las Vegas surrounded by family, his representative Jer Nike faces federal probe over allegations of 'DEI-related' discrimination against white workers 02/04/2026 07:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The federal agency for protecting workers' civil rights revealed Wednesday that it is investigating sportswear giant Nike for allegedly discriminating against white employees through its diversity policies. 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