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Swift Communications, which owns a range of daily and weekly newspapers across the American West, announced Tuesday it is selling its local media and publishing businesses to West Virginiabased Ogden Newspapers.

A former football player at the University of Central Florida was fatally shot during an altercation with his father and his mother was wounded, authorities said Tuesday.

England chalked up their biggest ever competitive victory with a 200 humiliation of Latvia in a Women's World Cup qualifier as Ellen White broke the Lionesses's scoring record on a busy night for the scorekeeper at the Keepmoat Stadium on Tuesday.

Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu convened an urgent meeting with stakeholders to proactively address how to mitigate the effects of the ban on the tourism sector.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer abandoned a lawsuit Tuesday aimed at shutting down an oil pipeline that runs through part of the Great Lakes but said the state would continue pursuing a separate case with the same goal.

Oklahomas Pardon and Parole Board voted 41 on Tuesday to reject clemency for a man convicted of killing two Del City hotel workers in 2001, with two members noting the particularly heinous nature of the killings.

Barbados, famous for its idyllic beaches, love of cricket and as the birthplace of singer Rihanna -- who will attend the evening's fanfare -- won independence from Britain in 1966.

The popular Nobel Peace Prize laureate led an elected civilian government that was ousted in a Feb. 1 military coup and has been held incommunicado and on trial since June, with court hearings behind closed doors.

When attorneys sift through potential jurors for the trial of a suburban Minneapolis police officer who says she meant to use her Taser instead of her gun when she killed Daunte Wright, theyll take a hard look at their attitudes toward policing, protests,...

The official Twitter handle of Sputnik V wrote that if modification is needed, it will provide several hundred millions of Omicron boosters by February 20.

Scientists will be closely watching whether cases caused by Omicron reported on public databases start to supplant those caused by Delta.

A diver on Sunday found the body of a 2yearold girl reported missing after her father was pulled from his partially submerged truck in a southern Indiana river.

France's Health Ministry said on Sunday it had detected eight possible cases of the Omicron COVID19 variant across the country after the government announced it would tighten restrictions to contain its spread.

France's Health Ministry said on Sunday it had detected eight possible cases of the Omicron COVID19 variant across the country after the government announced it would tighten restrictions to contain its spread.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday that authorities were considering making COVID19 shots compulsory for certain places and activities, as a rise in infections linked to a new variant threatens to become a fourth wave.

The Kremlin said on Sunday it was hoping that U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin would speak via videolink before the end of the year.