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World / Americas

US House overwhelmingly passes TikTok ban bill 13 Mar 2024 - 06:07 pm
In this photo illustration, the social media application logo, TikTok is displayed on the screen of an iPhone on an American flag background on August 3, 2020 in Arlington, Virginia. Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP
Gunman surrenders after three-hour hostage ordeal on Rio bus 13 Mar 2024 - 01:48 am
People wait to enter to the Novo Rio bus terminal after the gunman who was holding passengers hostage surrendered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 12, 2024. (Photo by Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP)
Rio police release 17 hostages from gunman on a bus, 2 people wounded 13 Mar 2024 - 12:53 am
People wait to enter to the Novo Rio bus terminal after the gunman who was holding passengers hostage surrendered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 12, 2024. (Photo by Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP)
Trump, Biden set to clinch enough votes for presidential nomination 12 Mar 2024 - 11:58 pm
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Special counsel grilled over report that questioned Biden's memory 12 Mar 2024 - 10:23 pm
Former Special Counsel Robert Hur returns from a short break to resume his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 12, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
Pentagon to give Ukraine $300 million in weapons even as it lacks funds to replenish US stockpile 12 Mar 2024 - 09:33 pm
A young woman looks at her smartphone during snowfall in Kyiv, on March 12, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP)
Haiti PM to resign as violent gangs rampage  12 Mar 2024 - 07:00 pm
File: Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry looks on during a ceremony at La Primature in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on July 20, 2021. (Photo by Valerie Baeriswyl / AFP)
Journalist reported missing in Mexico 12 Mar 2024 - 02:20 pm
Image: Itzul Barrera on X
Man bitten by crocodile after falling off boat at Florida Everglades marina 12 Mar 2024 - 12:57 am
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Blinken attends urgent meeting with Caribbean leaders as Haiti's violent crisis grows 12 Mar 2024 - 12:49 am
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) speaks during a bilateral meeting with Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness (R) at the Pegasus Hotel ahead of the emergency meeting on Haiti at the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in Kingston, Jamaica, on March 11, 2024. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / POOL / AFP)
TikTok dragged into US election as Trump opposes ban 11 Mar 2024 - 08:12 pm
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Richard Truly, astronaut and NASA administrator, dies at 86 11 Mar 2024 - 06:44 pm
Adm. Truly in 1979. He earned the NASA Distinguished Service Medal twice (Photo by: NASA).
U.S. transportation head: Boeing to face ‘enormous’ scrutiny 11 Mar 2024 - 06:11 pm
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. (Photo by Annabelle Gordon/Bloomberg)
Student's murder allegedly by a migrant fans US political flames 10 Mar 2024 - 11:35 pm
Laken Riley's parents Jason Riley (C) and Allyson Philips attend Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign rally at the Forum River Center March 09, 2024 in Rome, Georgia. (Photo by CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
US evacuates some personnel as gang violence torments Haiti 10 Mar 2024 - 08:53 pm
Charred vehicles remain parked as gang violence escalates in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 9, 2024. (Photo by Clarens SIFFROY / AFP)
Four kidnapped missionaries, one other freed in Haiti 10 Mar 2024 - 07:55 pm
Haitian police officers deploy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 9, 2024. Sporadic gunfire rang out in Port-au-Prince late March 8, an AFP correspondent there heard, as residents desperately sought shelter amid the recent explosion of gang violence in the Haitian capital. (Photo by Clarens SIFFROY / AFP)
Three killed in National Guard helicopter crash in Texas 10 Mar 2024 - 07:35 pm
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Biden-Trump rematch comes into view with dueling visits to Georgia 09 Mar 2024 - 07:56 pm
US President Joe Biden waves as he arrives to board Air Force One at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 9, 2024. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)