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LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Police have referred an investigation into graffiti on the campus of Bates College that targeted Israel and supported Palestinian rights to the state Attorney General’s Office as a possible hate crime.

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Three Georgia men pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges Tuesday in the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was chased and shot after being spotted running in the white defendants' neighborhood.

NEW YORK (AP) — Reenergized under owner Jeff Bezos, The Washington Post named Associated Press veteran Sally Buzbee as its executive editor Tuesday, making her the first woman in the paper's 144-year history to lead the newsroom.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban gained control on Tuesday of a strategic district headquarters in a province in central Afghanistan, just southwest of the capital of Kabul, a provincial council official said.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch zoos and theme parks will be allowed to reopen next week under strict conditions and bars and cafes can extend the opening hours of their outdoor terraces, if hospital and intensive care admissions continue to fall

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on confrontations between Israelis and Palestinians , sparked by weeks of tensions in contested Jerusalem and as Israel has signaled it's widening its military campaign: CAIRO — Arab foreign ministers have urged the Intern

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Michelle Rasul had just learned to read and write and was already spinning turntables, scratching hip-hop records and making the beats drop.

NEW YORK — Vaccination rates for retirement-age Americans have been lowest in states in the South, according to a new government study.

Heather Costley was thrilled to hear her 12-year-old son would soon be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine, giving the Nova Scotia mother hope that a return to normalcy isn't as far off as she initially believed.

LONDON (AP) — A former English National Ballet principal dancer was convicted Tuesday of sexually assaulting young female dance students. Yat-Sen Chang, 49, was found guilty of 12 counts of sexual assault and one count of “assault by penetration.