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WASHINGTON (AP) — As Donald Trump campaigns on promises of mass deportations and pardons for those convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, his ideas are being met with little pushback and some enthusiasm by a new era of Republicans in Congress. It’s a shift from the first time around when the presumptive Republican presidential nominee encountered …

A for-profit college accused of targeting women and Black students with false advertising about how long it would take to complete a degree, then extracting millions of dollars in extra tuition payments, agreed to a $28.5 million settlement announced Thursday. The class-action lawsuit alleged that Walden University generated millions of dollars in excess tuition and fees by prolonging projects required …

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Security in Congo’s mineral-rich east has deteriorated since recent elections, with a rebel group allegedly linked to neighboring Rwanda making “significant advances and expanding its territory,” the U.N. special envoy for the conflict-wracked African nation said Wednesday. Bintou Keita told the U.N. Security Council this has created “an even more disastrous humanitarian situation, with internal displacement …

WASHINGTON (AP) — El presidente de la Cámara de Representantes, Mike Johnson, indicó el jueves que enviará al Senado artículos de juicio político contra el secretario de Seguridad Nacional, Alejandro Mayorkas, poco después de que el Congreso regrese a sesionar el próximo mes. El legislador republicano dijo que enviaría los dos artículos el 10 de abril. El líder de la …

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s government on Tuesday began handing over to relatives the bodies of 429 members of a doomsday cult at the center of a legal case that has shocked the country. Exhumed bodies from a vast rural area in coastal Kenya have shown signs of starvation and strangulation. Cult leader Paul Mackenzie is accused of asking his …

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian customs officials confiscated about 170 kilograms (370 pounds) of cocaine from a ship transporting bananas from Ecuador, prosecutors said Tuesday. District prosecutor Georgi Chinev said the drugs were hidden in a fruit container on the cargo ship Madison 2, which also made a stopover in Malta. He valued the cocaine at 6.2 million euros ($6.8 …

NEW YORK (AP) — A dispute between two men over smoking on a New York City subway train early Monday morning ended with one stabbing the other multiple times in the back, according to police. The pair were on a train in Brooklyn that was bound for Manhattan when they got into an argument about someone smoking aboard the subway, …

NACIONES UNIDAS (AP) — El Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas emitió el lunes su primera exigencia de un cese del fuego en la Franja de Gaza, lo que desató el enojo de Israel, ya que Estados Unidos se abstuvo de votar la resolución. En respuesta, Israel canceló la visita de una delegación de alto nivel a Washington, en lo …

MOSCÚ (AP) — 3 de 4 sospechosos acusados del atentado en Moscú que dejó más de 130 muertos admiten ser culpables.

BOSTON (AP) — Algunos valientes en Nueva Inglaterra pasaron el domingo paleando nieve después de que una gran tormenta dejó más de medio metro en algunas áreas, causando múltiples accidentes viales, derribando cables de luz y dejando a miles de personas en todo el noreste sin electricidad. Las condiciones de las carreteras eran peligrosas el sábado por la noche para …