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BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S. State Department has banned entry into the U.S. of a Syrian intelligence member who appeared in a video leaked last year showing him fatally shooting people during the country’s 12-year conflict. Monday’s ban against Amjad Yousef, a member of Syria’s notorious Military Intelligence Branch 227, also includes his wife and

The Associated Press WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) — Three jurors say Alex Murdaugh didn’t help himself by testifying in his own defense against charges he murdered his wife and son. Jurors told the NBC Today show on Monday that Murdaugh only managed to cement their opinions that he easily lied and could turn on and off

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is going fast enough to allow its reopening to visitors and faithful at the end of 2024, less than six years after a fire ravaged its roof, French officials said Monday. The cathedral’s iconic spire,

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press The suicide death of the son of an opposition lawmaker, a teenage boy who had been victimized by a pedophile, has unleashed grief in Poland and criticism of state media. The 15-year-old boy killed himself after state media revealed enough details about his case that the public could identify him.

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts — perhaps hundreds of thousands of them — to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump. Besides posting adoring words about the former president, the fake accounts ridiculed Trump’s critics from both parties

By KAWEEWIT KAEWJINDA Associated Press CHIANG SAEN, Thailand (AP) — Family members, monks and friends watched from a boat Monday as the ashes of one of the 12 boys rescued from a flooded cave in northern Thailand in 2018 were released into the Mekong River. Seventeen-year-old Duangphet Phromthep died last month while attending a sports

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are ticking higher Monday to add a bit more to Wall Street’s newfound strength. The S&P 500 was 0.6% higher in morning trading after coming off its first winning week in the last four. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 118 points, or

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — British conductor Daniel Harding has been named music director of Rome’s Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, starting in the fall of 2024. The 47-year-old Harding, who has a second career as an Air France pilot, had an unusually young start as a conductor and will arrive at

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Four U.S. citizens have been kidnapped after gunmen opened fire on their vehicle in the northern Mexico border city of Matamoros, the FBI said. The four had entered Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, on Friday and were travelling in a white minivan with North Carolina license plates. The FBI San Antonio

By DENISE LAVOIE and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — On a 1989 audio recording crackling with static, an inmate is barely audible as he offers his last words before he is executed in Virginia’s electric chair. “I would like to express that what is about to take place … is a murder,”