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HOUSTON (AP) — Celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch held a special service Sunday dedicated to healing and thanksgiving a week after a woman opened fire in one of its hallways before being gunned down by security officers. Osteen’s Lakewood Church has not had services since the Feb. 11 shooting that sent worshippers scrambling for safety. On Sunday, Osteen, his …

ATLANTA (AP) — Desde que Jimmy Carter ingresó a cuidados paliativos en su casa del sur de Georgia hace un año, el expresidente estadounidense celebró su cumpleaños número 99, disfrutó de homenajes a su legado y perdió a la mujer que fue su esposa durante 77 años. Rosalynn Carter, que murió en noviembre, unos seis meses después que la familia …

People had been coming to Ziggy Marley and his family for years with ideas about how to turn reggae icon Bob Marley’s life into a movie. But it never felt quite right, until a few years ago when they decided to be the instigators. “It was just a feeling,” Ziggy Marley said of getting his father’s life on screen in …

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Thousands of people in one of South Carolina’s most conservative counties roared when Donald Trump promised to cut federal funding on “Day 1” for schools pushing what he called “transgender insanity” onto children. “And I can’t even believe I have to say it, but I do have to say it,” Trump told the crowd this month. …

La temperatura récord del agua del mar mató a más de tres cuartas partes del coral cultivado por el hombre que los científicos habían colocado en los cayos de Florida en los últimos años en un intento de mantener una especie amenazada muy vulnerables al cambio climático, según descubrieron los investigadores. Investigadores de la Oficina Nacional de Administración Oceánica y …

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s flagship H3 rocket reached orbit and released two small observation satellites in a key second test following a failed debut launch last year, buoying hope for the country in the global space race. The H3 rocket blasted off from the Tanegashima Space Center on time Saturday morning, two days after its originally scheduled liftoff was delayed …

WAYCROSS, Ga. (AP) — Two young citizen-soldiers who became close friends after enlisting in the Army Reserve were remembered at funerals in southeast Georgia on Saturday, nearly three weeks after they died in a drone attack while deployed to the Middle East. A service for 24-year-old Sgt. Kennedy Sanders was held in the packed 1,200-seat auditorium of Ware County Middle …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — “Are you feeling good today, Chiefs Kingdom?” Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas shouted to a sea of football fans fresh from their town’s third Super Bowl victory in five years. Less than an hour later — with music still blaring and the confetti of celebration still hanging in the air — the mayor and throngs …

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Four men are dead following a drive-by shooting in an Alabama neighborhood, officials said. Dozens of shots were fired Friday afternoon outside of a Birmingham home, police said. A group had been standing outside of a house as people got their cars washed when someone drove by and opened fire, police said. Rescue workers pronounced three …

Trump rails against New York fraud ruling as he faces fines that could exceed half-a-billion dollars WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump railed against the judge who slapped him with a $355 million fine in his New York civil fraud trial and went after the long list of prosecutors with cases against him as he campaigned in …