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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A three-day cease-fire marked by violent attacks — most claimed by the Islamic State group — ended Sunday in Afghanistan amid calls for renewed peace talks between the government and Taliban.

741 shares In the background the Israeli Iron Dome missile defense system (L) intercepts rockets (R) fired by the Hamas movement towards southern Israel from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, and on foreground tens of other rockets fired by Hamas while the Iron Dome is busy with the first rockets, as seen in the sky above the Gaza Strip overnight on May 16, 2021 (ANAS BABA / AFP) Israelis rush to a bomb shelter, as rockets are fired from Gaza, May 15, 2021 in Ramla (Yossi Aloni/Flash...

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ND Capitol Building Converts To Courtroom For Two Murder Trials Murder was the case that they gave them. Citing a need for more space,  two high-profile trials are being moved from Burleigh and Morton County courthouses to the House chamber at the North Dakota Capitol.  This gives jurors more space for social separation and Im sure plenty more room for film crews and the media.  The chamber also has a balcony where spectators can watch the trials and teenagers can make-out in the back row. T...

Murder trials moving to the State Capitol in Bismarck? Balcony seating!

This $254-million fortune came in particularly helpful during the campaign. According to the Post, Youngkin was the biggest spending candidate in the GOP primary, and he lent his campaign $5 million of his own money.  3. He ran as an outsider Youngkin, who has never held public office, pitched himself to voters as an outsider. “I’m not a politician,” he says in his campaign video. “I’ve spent the last 30 years building business and creating jobs. … It’s going to take an outside...

By Brendan LaChance on May 10, 2021 (Dan Cepeda, Oil City File) CASPER, Wyo. — Wyoming Superintendent Jillian Balow asked school districts across the state to complete a COVID-19 related survey being conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention which aims to identify best practicing on mitigating the spread of COVID-19 in K-12 schools. “Since Wyoming is the national leader for in-person instruction this school year, it is important that our story is shared,” Balow said in...

Rigby, ID – Students at Rigby Middle School said that at first they thought their principal had gotten more creative by adding terrifying sounds to a lockdown drill on Thursday after a 6th Grade girl opened fire on her classmates and school staff. Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson said the girl took a handgun out of her backpack at about 9:15 a.m. on May 6 and opened fire in the middle school’s hallway, the Citizen Times reported. The girl shot two people inside the school building be...

Reuters reported that China has "ramped up its space programme with visits to the moon, the launch of an uncrewed probe to Mars and the construction of its own space station."

2021-04-30 06:35:44 GMT2021-04-30 14:35:44(Beijing Time) Xinhua English BEIJING, April 30 (Xinhua) -- China has made an enormous stride in achieving the goal of having a manned space station independently built and operated by itself, said various global media organizations when reporting Chinas successful launch of the core module of its space station on Thursday. The Long March-5B Y2 rocket, carrying the Tianhe module, blasted off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast o...