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BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli airstrikes hit the area of Damascus early Wednesday, Syrian state media reported. Syrian state-run news agency SANA reported that Syria's air defenses had shot down “most of" the missiles.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Whether Missouri voters get a chance weigh in on legalizing abortion is now up to state Supreme Court judges, who on Tuesday heard arguments in a case about Republican infighting that has stalled the amendment's progress.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An American soldier who had served nearly two months in a South Korean prison, fled across the heavily armed border into North Korea , U.S.

A man who served a prison term for joining torch-toting white nationalists in marching through the University of Virginia's campus in 2017 has been arrested on charges that he stormed the U.S. Capitol and attacked police officers.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia NAACP on Tuesday called on Gov.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana’s government says it will pay $25,000 to parents of each of the 20 children burned to death in a fire at a state-run high school in May, as part of a settlement to avoid any further claims in the case.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A pilot has died after a small propeller plane crashed in an empty New Mexico home shortly after takeoff Tuesday, authorities said.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A man considered a person of interest in the deaths of four women whose bodies were found in northwestern Oregon is being held in a state prison after Gov.

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JERUSALEM (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters on Tuesday blocked highways and train stations and massed in central Tel Aviv during a day of countrywide demonstrations against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul plan.