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WASHINGTON (AP) – Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, got the royal tour of the U.S. capital on Wednesday, being ushered around Washington’s monuments and memorials on the National Mall by a handful of American luminaries. The British royal couple was joined by two civil rights leaders for their tour of the Martin Luther King […]

MESA, Ariz. (AP) – Police have arrested a gunman who is accused of killing one person and wounding five others across several locations in a Phoenix suburb. Mesa interim police chief John Meza confirmed to reporters at the scene that the suspect was arrested. Police planned to announce more details at a 1:45 p.m. news […]

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud Party scored a resounding victory in Israel’s election, final results showed Wednesday, a stunning turnaround after a tight race that had put his lengthy rule in jeopardy. Netanyahu surged ahead after a last-minute lurch to the right in which he opposed Palestinian statehood and […]

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) – Gunmen opened fire Wednesday at a major museum in Tunisia’s capital, killing at least 20 people, mostly foreigners, in one of the worst attacks in this struggling North African democracy that depends heavily on tourism. Men with assault rifles fired at tourists climbing from buses in front of the National Bardo […]

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) – Senegal’s president wants to shorten his term in office to “set an example” for other African countries. The move stands in marked contrast to those of African leaders who have pushed to eliminate term limits or flouted them all together. Burkina Faso’s president, Blaise Campaore, was pushed from power last year […]

MOSCOW (AP) – Russia tightened its control Wednesday over a second breakaway region of Georgia, with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leader of South Ossetia signing a new treaty that calls for nearly full integration. Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili denounced the signing as a “destructive” move against his nation’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and […]

SAO PAULO (AP) – President Dilma Rousseff announced a series of anti-graft measures on Wednesday in the wake of Sunday’s massive nationwide rallies calling for her impeachment and protesting rampant corruption in Latin America’s largest country. “We have the duty and obligation to fight impunity and corruption,” Rousseff said a nationally broadcast speech. Rousseff announced […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – Florida is moving the date of its presidential primary election. The Florida Legislature on Wednesday sent to Gov. Rick Scott a measure that would bump back the date of the 2016 primary from March 1 to March 15. The legislation could be a big boost for the potential presidential campaigns of […]

DAVENPORT, Fla. (AP) – Investigators say a 30-year-old driver for a mattress company died after stopping his truck and stepping into the road to grab a cell phone that he’d spotted on U.S. 27. Co-workers told Polk County Sheriff’s deputies that when Greylin Jimenez darted into the road Tuesday night, he was hit by four […]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates are launching a fund to help low- and middle-income countries fight often long and expensive legal battles with the tobacco industry. The newly created Anti-Tobacco Trade Litigation Fund backed by $4 million from Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Bill & […]