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By CHEVEL JOHNSON Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Smoke and flames shot up the side of the Superdome’s roof after a pressure washer being used to clean the roof of the New Orleans arena caught fire. The New Orleans Fire Department says it responded to the rooftop fire shortly after 12:30 p.m. Tuesday. A

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press While there has been a decline in births in the U.S. during the pandemic, a new report suggests the drop may have turned a corner last March as births started rebounding. The report released Tuesday by the Census Bureau says the decline in births was most noticeable at the end

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The ruling emir of Qatar has urged world leaders gathered at the United Nations against turning their backs on Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers. Qatar has played a pivotal role in Afghanistan in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal. Qatar’s ruler told heads of state

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s defense minister has apologized and his ministry has suspended an official after a “significant” data breach involving the email addresses of dozens of Afghan interpreters hoping to settle in the U.K. A A Defense Ministry email to more than 250 Afghans who are eligible for relocation and still remain in Afghanistan

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Two Rutgers players have been suspended from the football team after they were charged in an incident in which three people were struck by paintballs fired from a passing vehicle. Coach Greg Schiano took the action after defensive backs Malachi “Max” Melton and Chris Long were each charged with three counts

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Filmmaker James DeMonaco remembers the day “Rocky III” hit theaters as if it were yesterday. On Staten Island in 1982, it was an all-out event. He waited four hours in line to get tickets and saw it twice in a day. It’s this memory that inspired his latest film,

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Election authorities announced Russia’s ruling party will get 324 of the 450 seats in the next national parliament. The number is less than the pro-Kremlin party, United Russia, won in the previous election but still an overwhelming majority. Retaining the party’s dominance in the State Duma was

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state prosecutor has decided not to file criminal charges against police who shot and killed an antifascist fugitive last year who was wanted in the highly publicized death of a right-wing demonstrator in Portland, Oregon. A U.S. Marshals-led task force was trying to arrest Michael Reinoehl near Olympia in

By ALEX SANZ Associated Press For weeks, the Afghanistan national girls soccer team had been waiting for word they could leave. On Sunday, the message finally came. The girls and their families boarded a charter flight from Afghanistan to Portugal, which has granted them asylum. Since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the girls, ages 14-16,