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Bulgaria, EU's least vaccinated nation, faces deadly surge

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press
    VELIKO TARNOVO, Bulgaria (AP) — Standing outside the rundown public hospital in Bulgaria's northern town of Veliko Tarnovo, the vaccination unit's chief nurse voices a sad reality about her fellow citizens: "They don't believe in vaccines."

9/11 artifacts share 'pieces of truth' in victims' stories

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press

Trial of 20 men accused in 2015 Paris attacks begins

By LORI HINNANT and NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY Associated Press

'Varsity Blues' trial promises fresh insights in old scandal

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER  Associated Press

Fire kills 41 inmates, 80 hurt at crowded Indonesian prison

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press
    JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A massive fire raged through an overcrowded prison near Indonesia's capital early Wednesday, killing at least 41 inmates, two of them foreigners serving drug sentences, and injuring 80 others.

Silicon Valley finds remote work is easier to begin than end

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers

California recall vote offers test of Biden political clout

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press
    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has been beset by public health, military and climate crises in the past month. Not much time has been left for a potential political disaster brewing for his party in California.

RFK wife Ethel Kennedy says assassin shouldn't be released

    BOSTON (AP) — The wife of the late Robert F. Kennedy's says assassin Sirhan Sirhan should not be released from prison, further roiling a family divide over whether the man convicted of killing her husband in California in 1968 should be freed on parole.

Virginia cuts Confederate Gen. Robert Lee statue into pieces

By SARAH RANKIN and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press

Jill Biden heads back to classroom as a working first lady

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press