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Defense attorney: Man accused of killing 8 'just snapped'
A man accused of killing eight people in Mississippi was fearful of the breakup of his family and "just snapped," an attorney for the defendant argued Saturday during the first day of his death penalty trial.
3 shot at eatery owned by Kandi Burruss of 'Real Housewives'
Three people were shot and wounded on Valentine's Day at a restaurant just outside Atlanta that's owned by singer and "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star Kandi Burruss.
Writer AE Hotchner, friend to Hemingway, Newman, dead at 102
A.E. Hotchner, a well-traveled author, playwright and gadabout whose street smarts and famous pals led to a loving, but litigated memoir of Ernest Hemingway, business adventures with Paul Newman and a book about his Depression-era childhood that became a Steven Soderbergh film, died Saturday at age 102.
Biden in Vegas takes on Sanders' gun votes in fiery speech
Joe Biden, standing on a Las Vegas stage roughly 1,000 feet from the scene of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, took on White House rival Bernie Sanders Saturday night for his past vote to exempt gun manufacturers from liability for shootings.
New infections of novel coronavirus drop for 12th consecutive day outside Hubei
China's daily new confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease outside Hubei, the epicenter province in the outbreak, have been dropping for 12 consecutive days, according to the National Health Commission Sunday.
Two people die of alleged use of illegal drugs in Northern California
A male and a female have been killed for allegedly using illegal drugs in Marin County, Northern California, a Bay Area TV station reported Saturday.
Brazilian samba school to tell story about China in Carnival parade
"United we are strong" is the message that Unidos de Vila Maria samba school wants to share at this year's Carnival parade held in Rio de Janeiro, said Cristiano Bara, the school's artistic director.
Rockets strike near U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
Rockets struck near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad early on Sunday, with no immediate word on casualties and the extent of damage, local media reported.
Xi stresses improving mechanism for major epidemic prevention, control
President Xi Jinping on Friday stressed improving the mechanism for major epidemic prevention and control and the national public health emergency management system.
Xi's article on fighting novel coronavirus epidemic to be published
An article by President Xi Jinping on the prevention and control of the pneumonia epidemic caused by the novel coronavirus will be published Sunday on Qiushi Journal, a flagship magazine of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.