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Individual Comes Forward Claiming ‘I Brought The Tortillas To The Game’

Responding to outrage over tortillas being flung at a largely Latino team after it lost a championship basketball game at Coronado High School, the visiting team's school board will take up a resolution denouncing racism Thursday.

A Jackson, Miss., resident receives a Pfizer booster shot from a nurse at a vaccination site Feb. 8.

Omicron boosters for kids 5-12 are cleared by the CDC

Tweaked boosters rolled out for Americans 12 and older last month, modified to target today's most common and contagious variant. The latest move may expand protection before an expected winter wave.

Officials escort murder suspect Alan Eugene Miller away from the Pelham City Jail in Ala., on Aug. 5, 1999. Miller, scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Sept. 22, 2022, for a workplace shooting rampage in 1999 that killed three men, says the state lost the paperwork he turned in selecting an alternate execution method.

Alabama could use nitrogen hypoxia for executions in death sentences. What is it?

Alan Eugene Miller is scheduled for execution in Alabama on Sep. 22. He has asked for nitrogen hypoxia instead of lethal injection due to a fear of needles, but claims officers lost his request.

Investigators inspect a site after shelling near an administrative building in Donetsk, the capital of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine, on Sunday.

A rocket struck a mayor's office in Donetsk, an area controlled by separatists

Pro-Kremlin officials on Sunday blamed Ukraine for a rocket attack that struck the mayor's office in Donetsk, a city controlled by pro-Russian separatists.

Rain on a windshield in San Diego, Calif. Sept. 9, 2022.

City of San Diego encourages residents to prepare for flooding, stormwater

The city of San Diego is gearing up for this week's rainstorm by taking a series of protective measures, while also urging residents to take action to safeguard their homes, especially those in flood- prone areas.

In a photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, a police motorcycle is burning during a protest over the death of a young woman who had been detained for violating the country's conservative dress code, in downtown Tehran, Iran.

Iranians protested in Tehran over a woman's death in police custody

The morality police detained 22-year-old Mahsa Amini for not covering her hair with the Islamic headscarf, which is mandatory for Iranian women. Police were holding her when she died.

The exterior of the San Diego County Central Jail in downtown San Diego is shown on April 26, 2022.

Community demands transparency after another jail death

The latest in-custody death comes on the heels of news that a sheriff’s deputy was arrested for allegedly having illegal drugs on county jail property.

A Buddhist monk raises his clenched fist while marching during an anti-military government protest rally on Tuesday, Feb. 1 in Mandalay, Myanmar. The new U.N. special envoy for Myanmar says violence has intensified since the military took power a year ago and sparked a resistance movement in the country.

1st anniversary of Myanmar military coup marked by strike and international concern

The anniversary of the Feb. 1, 2021, coup prompted a nationwide "silent strike" by those inside the country who oppose the military's takeover.

FILE - In this Dec. 27, 2012, file photo, a variety of military-style semi-automatic rifles obtained during a buy back program are displayed at Los Angeles police headquarters. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned two lower court judges and upheld California’s ban on high-capacity magazines Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021, in a split decision that may be headed for the U.S. Supreme Court.

Court upholds California ban on high-capacity magazines

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a ruling by two of its judges and upheld California’s ban on high-capacity magazines Tuesday.

Ye, then known as Kanye West, holds a Yeezy sneaker while speaking onstage at the Fast Company Innovation Festival in 2019.

Calls grow to boycott Adidas as the company stays silent on Ye's antisemitism

Adidas placed its relationship with the rapper under review earlier this month. And while he's since doubled down, the company hasn't given an update — and continues to release new Yeezy products.

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