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Charlotte flight stuck on tarmac due to severe weather, airline says
CHARLOTTE — An American Airlines flight was stuck on the tarmac for two hours due to weather Wednesday night at Charlotte ...
Consumer Reports: Infant sleep product recalls
From banned drop-side cribs and bumper pads, to deadly inclined sleepers, baby sleep products have a long history of recalls, ...
North Korea will open its biggest tour site next week, though it still largely blocks foreigners
North Korea will open a tourist site on its east coast next week that it calls a prelude to a new era in its tourism industry ...
FORECAST: Heat index drops slightly, temperatures remain high
A Heat Advisory remains in effect from Charlotte to the east, but heat index values will be lower than yesterday when they peaked at 110 in Charlotte. Storm chances are also lower than what we dealt ...
Majority of US adults support religious chaplains in public schools, a new AP-NORC poll shows
WASHINGTON — (AP) — Few U.S. adults support allowing religious schools to become tax-funded public charter schools, but a ...
US pulls funding from global vaccines group, saying it has 'ignored the science'
Kennedy called on Gavi “to re-earn the public trust and to justify the $8 billion America has provided in funding since 2001, ...
Who was Olga, the Alaska Native drawing devotion as Orthodoxy's new saint?
The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and ...
Alaska Native woman, 'everybody's helper,' is Orthodox church's first female North American saint
KWETHLUK, Alaska — (AP) — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael ...
An explosion and ensuing stampede kill 29 children in a Central African Republic school
An explosion and the stampede that followed at a high school in the Central African Republic have killed at least 29 students and injured over 250 ...
Investigators begin analyzing data from black boxes of Air India flight that crashed
Investigators have started analyzing data from the black boxes of the Air India Boeing 787 that crashed two weeks ago, killing at least 270 people ...
International Space Station welcomes its first astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary
The first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary have arrived at the International Space Station, ...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei makes first public statement after end of Israel-Iran war
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — (AP) — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei made his first public statement Thursday after the end of the Israel-Iran war. Khamenei took shelter in a secret location during ...