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Death toll rises to 9 in gangsters' attacks on Guatemalan police as state of emergency is declared

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The death toll from suspected gangsters’ attacks on Guatemalan police rose to nine Monday, as Guatemalans awoke to heavier security and curtailed rights after President Bernardo Arévalo declared a state of emergency.

The violence started Saturday when inmates took control of three prisons in apparently coordinated riots, taking 43 guards hostage. The gangs were demanding privileges for their members and leaders, according to authorities. Shortly after police liberated one prison Sunday morning, suspected gang members attacked police across the... Read More

Iowa cracks top 10 in AP women's basketball poll for first time in 2 years; UConn-South Carolina 1-2

Iowa cracked the top 10 for the first time in two years and UConn remained the unanimous No. 1 choice in The Associated Press Top 25 women's basketball poll released Monday.

The Hawkeyes last were ranked this high in the final poll of Caitlin Clark's senior year. They had been as high as 11th a few times this season.

UConn received all 30 first-place ballots from a national media panel as the top six teams in the poll were unchanged from a week earlier. The Huskies have won 34 consecutive games dating back to last season. UConn hosted former Big East rival Notre Dame... Read More

Prince Harry says Daily Mail scoops made him 'paranoid beyond belief'

LONDON (AP) — The third and final round in Prince Harry 's battle with the British tabloids began Monday with his lawyer alleging that the Daily Mail and its sister Sunday newspaper engaged in a “clear, systematic and sustained use of unlawful information gathering” for two decades.

Attorney David Sherborne said a longstanding culture of hiring private investigators who practiced “dark arts” to spy on celebrities for scoops had left Harry distressed and isolated.

It was “disturbing to feel that my every move, thought or feeling was being tracked and... Read More

Death toll in Spanish train collision rises to 39 as authorities fear more bodies could be found

ADAMUZ, Spain (AP) — Spanish police said Monday that at least 39 people are confirmed dead in a high-speed rail collision the previous night in the south of the country when the tail end of a train jumped the track, causing another train speeding past in the opposite direction to derail.

The impact tossed the second train's lead carriages off the track, sending them plummeting down a 4-meter (13-foot) slope. Some bodies were found hundreds of meters (feet) from the crash site, Andalusia regional president Juanma Moreno said, describing the wreckage a “mass of twisted metal"... Read More

The current US political climate is spurring a 'reclaim' and rallying on the MLK holiday

As communities across the country on Monday host parades, panels and service projects for the 40th federal observation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the political climate for some is more fraught with tensions than festive with reflection on the slain Black American civil rights icon's legacy.

In the year since Donald Trump's second inauguration fell on King Day, the Republican president has gone scorched earth against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and targeted mostly Black-led cities for federal law enforcement operations, among other policies that many King... Read More

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Death toll rises to 9 in gangsters' attacks on Guatemalan police as state of emergency is declared

Iowa cracks top 10 in AP women's basketball poll for first time in 2 years; UConn-South Carolina 1-2

Prince Harry says Daily Mail scoops made him 'paranoid beyond belief'

Death toll in Spanish train collision rises to 39 as authorities fear more bodies could be found

The current US political climate is spurring a 'reclaim' and rallying on the MLK holiday

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