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Uganda: Dorm fire at school for the blind kills 11 girls

Uganda: Dorm fire at school for the blind kills 11 girls

MUKONO, Uganda (AP) — A fire at a boarding school for blind students killed 11 children in a rural community just outside Uganda's capital, Kampala, the school's administrator and police said Tuesday.
Rishi Sunak becomes UK prime minister, faces economic crisis

Rishi Sunak becomes UK prime minister, faces economic crisis

LONDON (AP) — Rishi Sunak became Britain’s third prime minister of the year on Tuesday and now must turn his attention to taming an economic crisis that has left the country’s finances in a precarious state and millions of Britons struggling to affor
Walker's chicken firm tied to benefits from unpaid labor

Walker's chicken firm tied to benefits from unpaid labor

ATLANTA (AP) — As Herschel Walker campaigns for the U.S. Senate, he calls for society to help the downtrodden the way he says others helped him overcome mental health struggles. That includes those in the criminal justice system.
Walker's chicken firm tied to benefits from unpaid labor

Walker's chicken firm tied to benefits from unpaid labor

ATLANTA (AP) — Herschel Walker campaigns for the U.S. Senate as a champion of free enterprise and advocate for the mentally ill, felons and others at the margins of society.
Drag story time at Oregon pub draws gun-carrying protesters

Drag story time at Oregon pub draws gun-carrying protesters

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Protesters, some of them armed, threw rocks and smoke grenades at each other outside a drag queen story time event at an Oregon pub, but the weekend show that was to have featured a child performer went on as planned.
Mom says she hopes toddler alive as police search for body

Mom says she hopes toddler alive as police search for body

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The mother of a missing Georgia toddler presumed dead by police said Monday that she still hopes her son will be found “happy and alive” as investigators search a landfill for the child's remains.
Rishi Sunak, UK's next PM, faces major economic problems

Rishi Sunak, UK's next PM, faces major economic problems

LONDON (AP) — Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is set to become Britain’s first prime minister of color after being chosen Monday to lead a governing Conservative Party desperate for a safe pair of hands to guide the country through economic and pol
Harmony Montgomery's father arrested on murder charge

Harmony Montgomery's father arrested on murder charge

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Police: 3 killed in shooting at St. Louis high school

Police: 3 killed in shooting at St. Louis high school

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A gunman broke into a St. Louis high school Monday morning, fatally shooting a woman and a teenage girl and injuring six others before police killed him in an exchange of gunfire. The shooting just after 9 a.m.
Ex-Minneapolis cop pleads guilty in George Floyd killing

Ex-Minneapolis cop pleads guilty in George Floyd killing

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer pleaded guilty Monday to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd just as jury selection was about to begin.