Rep. Dean Phillips pushes to extend deadline for Liberians seeking residency
A 2019 federal program has been hampered by a slow launch and burdensome procedures.
Minnesota to spend $36M on rent help, ERs, other pandemic demands
Landlords raised concerns with additional dollars to administer rent help.
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Yemen official warns dam will break if rebels take Marib
The foreign minister of Yemen's government in exile warned Sunday that a rebel takeover of the crucial, energy-rich city of Marib would be a disaster on the scale of the collapse of its ancient dam that decimated an entire kingdom.
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Palestinian kills 1, hurts 4 before police shoot him dead
A Palestinian assailant killed one Israeli and wounded four others before being fatally shot by Israeli police near the entrance to a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site Sunday, police said.
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Bulgarians vote for president in runoff election
Bulgarians went to the polls on Sunday to choose a new president in a hotly contested runoff amid a COVID-19 surge and a political crisis that has gripped the European Union's poorest country.
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Officials: Sudan's military agrees to reinstate ousted PM
A deal was reached between Sudan's military and civilian leaders to reinstate Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, who was deposed in a coup last month, military and government officials said Sunday.
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Ukraine's doctors pushed to the limit by COVID-19 wave
As coronavirus infections hit Ukraine, a single shift for Dr. Oleksandr Molchanov now stretches to 42 hours — 24 of them in Kakhovka's hospital, followed by another 18 hours spent visiting tents set up to care for 120 COVID-19 patients.
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Hundreds protest Rittenhouse acquittal across US
Law enforcement in Portland declared a riot Friday night as about 200 demonstrators protested the acquittal of a teen who killed two people and injured another in Wisconsin.
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Relatives of virus dead question Japan's stay-at-home policy
Yoshihiko Takeuchi, who ran a small restaurant on the island of Okinawa, told only a few friends he had the coronavirus. When he didn't answer phone calls from public health workers for three days, police went to his home and found him dead in his bed.
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Venezuela votes in regional election under international eye
Venezuela's electoral system will be put to the test Sunday when millions of voters across the South American country are expected to decide thousands of races in highly scrutinized regional elections.
World
Chileans vote in highly polarized presidential election
Chileans will vote for a new president Sunday following a polarizing campaign in which the leading candidates vowed to chart starkly different paths for the region's most economically advanced country staggered by a recent wave of social unrest.
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China reduces ties with Lithuania in Taiwan spat
China reduced the level of its diplomatic relations with Lithuania to below ambassador level Sunday in retaliation for the Baltic nation allowing Taiwan, the island democracy claimed by Beijing as part of its territory, to open a representative office.
Sports
A year to go, Qatar World Cup still feels heat of scrutiny
all within a 30-mile radius of Doha — are now largely complete. The 2022 World Cup has been preserved after fending off hostility from neighbors, corruption investigations and concerns about worker abuses. Now a clock on the Corniche waterfront in the Qatari capital will be unveiled on Sunday to count down one year until kickoff.
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At Alcatraz Island, Haaland highlights Indigenous progress
U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Saturday said progress has been made by Indigenous people during a visit to Alcatraz Island, which became a symbol of the struggles of Native People for self-determination following its takeover in the 1960s, but more remains to be done.
Sports
Tennis players take on Communist Party: Where is Peng Shuai?
Some of the world's most famous tennis players, distraught by the disappearance of colleague Peng Shuai, are challenging China's Communist Party to get answers.
Sports
Ellis, McCray spark Austin Peay past Tennessee Tech 48-20
Draylen Ellis passed for 345 yards and four touchdowns — all four of them to freshman Drae McCray — and Austin Peay breezed to a 48-20 victory over Tennessee Tech on Saturday.
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Rittenhouse verdict puts Biden in difficult political spot
A difficult political atmosphere for President Joe Biden may have become even more treacherous with the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse.
World
Dutch police arrest 7 amid unrest in The Hague
Police arrested seven rioters in The Hague on Saturday night after youths set fires in the streets and threw fireworks at officers. The unrest came a day after police opened fire on protesters in Rotterdam amid what the port city's mayor called "an orgy of violence" that broke out at a protest against coronavirus restrictions.
World
UN agency: 75 migrants drown in Mediterranean off Libya
The United Nations' migration agency said 75 migrants drowned in the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya earlier this week as they attempted to reach Italy by boat.
World
UN peacekeepers face greater threats from complex conflicts
The more than 87,000 personnel in U.N. peacekeeping missions are confronting greater threats today because conflicts have become more complex and are driven by an increasing number of factors ranging from ethnic tensions and the impact of organized crime to illegal exploitation of resources and terrorism, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said Friday.
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Oregon State Police seize 250 tons of illegal marijuana
Police in Oregon say they have seized 250 tons of illegal marijuana from several industrial warehouses in White City.
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