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By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer National Weather Service chief Louis Uccellini says he will retire at the end of the year. Uccellini, who announced his retirement Tuesday, has been the director of the weather service for more than eight years. His tenure was marked by ever more extreme weather brought on by climate change

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — A man whom U.S. authorities have described as the world’s largest purveyor of child pornography would be sentenced to 21 to 27 years in prison under the terms of a new plea deal. Eric Eoin Marques is scheduled to be sentenced next week. His attorneys

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho public health leaders are letting the state’s northern hospitals ration health care because there are more coronavirus patients than the institutions can handle. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare made the announcement Tuesday and warned residents that they may not get all the care

ROME (AP) — In a story published Sept. 7, 2021 about a joint environmental appeal by Christian leaders, The Associated Press erroneously called the Archbishop of Canterbury an abbot in the headline. He is an archbishop.

NEW YORK (AP) — Veteran news anchor Jose Diaz-Balart is returning to MSNBC later this month to host a weekday show at the 10 a.m. hour. Balart previously worked at MSNBC daytime from 2014 and 2016. The longtime host of ‘Noticias Telemundo’ has anchored national newscasts in both Spanish and English. His return is part

By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out the death sentence for a man convicted in the 2003 slaying of a North Dakota college student. Judge Ralph Erickson ruled Friday that misleading testimony from a medical examiner and limitations on mental health evidence violated Alfonso Rodriguez Jr.’s constitutional

By ANITA SNOW and NOREEN NASIR Associated Press MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Young Sikh Americans still struggle with discrimination a generation after Sept. 11 unleashed bias against them and their older relatives, ranging from school bullying to racial profiling to hate crimes. The attacks often make it hard fhaior them to embrace the Sikh concept

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Vatican officials are refusing to say whether women will have a vote when Pope Francis convenes the Catholic hierarchy and experts to the Vatican for a meeting on the Catholic church in 2023. For years, women activists and even nuns have pressed to be able to vote

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London has honored American Jim Henson, the creator of the Muppets, with a blue plaque outside his former home in the British capital. Henson lived in London from 1979 until his death in 1990 at age 53. He was also known for his work on “Sesame Street”

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency have asked Japan for full and detailed information about a plan to release treated but still radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean. The three-member team, which is assisting Japan with the planned release, met with

MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is convening an urgent meeting of a committee that oversees efforts to fight hate crime after hooded attackers beat a 20-year-old man in Madrid and used a knife to carve a profanity on one of his buttocks. A government spokesperson said Tuesday that Sánchez wants to “take

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban’s interim government for Afghanistan is all men and stacked with veterans of their hard-line rule from the 1990s and the 20-year battle against the U.S.-led coalition. The choices seem unlikely to win the international support the new leaders desperately need to avoid an economic