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While much of the world remains hunkered down, the band Six60 has been playing to huge crowds in New Zealand, where social distancing isn’t required after the nation stamped out the coronavirus. The band’s tour finale on Saturday night was billed as the largest concert in the world since the pandemic began. Equally momentous for a band which met while playing rugby at university was getting to play the first concert ever held at the storied rugby stadium. Finding themselves at the apex of world music comes as a twist for Six60. The band has enjoyed unparalleled success in New Zealand but forays abroad have ended without the breakthroughs they sought.

Body camera and dashcam footage released in the days following the police shooting of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant depict a scene filled with chaos. The police footage of Tuesday’s shooting in Columbus shows the split-second decision police make in moments of high-pressure calls involving a weapon. But while the footage helps paint a picture of the commotion that preceded the shooting, it leaves many gaps in the narrative of that day including what happened before police arrived and who even called for help. Bryant’s family has told reporters that she was the one who called for help after fearing for her life.

LONDON (AP) — Firefighters in Northern Ireland are spending a second day batting fires across difficult terrain on the Mourne Mountains. More than 70 firefighters and 10 fire trucks from across Northern Ireland were involved Saturday in trying to contain…

ROME (AP) — Milva, one of Italy’s most popular singers in the ’60s and ’70s who was also beloved by many fans abroad, died Saturday at her home in Milan. She was 81. In announcing her death, Italy’s Culture Minister…

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania's president has accused the U.S. ambassador of intervening in the small European country’s internal affairs by supporting its prime minister in an upcoming parliamentary election. President Ilir Meta spoke harshly about Ambassador Yuri Kim during…

At least six people were fatally shot by officers across the United States in the 24 hours after jurors reached a verdict in the murder case against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. The deaths in some cases sparked new cries for justice. Some people say the shootings reflect an urgent need for radical changes to American policing, and a need that the Chauvin verdict can't paper over. For other people, the shootings are a tragic reminder of the difficult and dangerous decisions law enforcement face daily. There's hope that the Chauvin verdict might be a crucial juncture in the national conversation about race, policing and the use of force.    

The expected release of U.S. Census Bureau data in the coming days is likely to reflect what California demographers have long known, namely that the state is growing at a record slow rate. California's average annual population growth has slipped to 0.06% over the past decade, lower than any time since at least 1900. California is facing the prospect of losing a U.S. House seat for the first time in its history, while political rivals such as Texas add more residents and political clout. At nearly 40 million people, California is still the nation's most populous state by far. But the numbers mark a stark moment for a state long defined by boundless growth.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree allowing the country to limit the number of Russians employed at embassies of countries determined to be unfriendly, or to ban their employment entirely. The measure, announced by the…

PARIS (AP) — Cradling the head of the deeply sedated COVID-19 patient like a precious jewel in his hands, Dr. Alexy Tran Dinh steered his intensive-care nurses through the delicate process of rolling the woman off her stomach and onto…

Residents in historically Black neighborhoods in the Kansas City, Kansas, risk losing their homes amid the pandemic as delinquent property tax sales resume under a practice critics decry as racist and government officials laud for revitalizing communities. Even though it is just the state’s fourth largest county, the number of delinquent tax properties put up for sale by the Unified Government of Wyandotte County dwarfs those of much larger Kansas counties. It typically offers about 2,200 properties annually at its three tax auctions. Most are unsold and end up in the Wyandotte County Land Bank, a unit of its economic development department. Wyandotte is the only county in Kansas to have its own land bank, although some cities in the state also have them. 

Before a jury returned guilty verdicts in Derek Chauvin's trial in the death of George Floyd, prosecutors and the defense got their last chance to seal their version of events in jurors' minds in the closing arguments. The state played up emotion and laid out the evidence that they said proved Chauvin had committed murder and manslaughter. Defense attorney Eric Nelson brought up several issues that he said raised enough reasonable doubt to acquit. Some key moments included prosecutors telling jurors to “believe your eyes” and when the defense argued repeatedly that Chauvin's actions had to be viewed from the perspective of a “reasonable officer.”

After 40 days in voluntary isolation, 15 people participating in a scientific experiment have emerged from a vast cave in southwestern France. Eight men and seven women lived in the dark, damp depths of the Lombrives cave in the Pyrenees to help researchers understand how people adapt to drastic changes in living conditions and environments. They had no clocks, no sunlight and no contact with the world above. With big smiles on their pale faces, the 15 participants in the Deep Time project exited the cave exited the Lombrives cave to a round of applause and basked in the light of day while wearing special glasses to protect their darkness-adapted eyes. 

Indian authorities are scrambling to get medical oxygen to hospitals where COVID-19 patients are suffocating due to low supplies. The government is coming under increasing criticism for what doctors say is its negligence in the face of a foreseeable public health disaster. India has the world’s worst coronavirus surge. Total cases have pushed beyond 16 million, behind only the United States. Hospitals in New Delhi and some of the worst-hit states reported being critically short of beds and oxygen Saturday. Families are waiting for days to cremate their loved ones at overburdened crematoriums, with many turning to makeshift facilities for last rites. At least 189,000 people in India have died of COVID-19 since the pandemic began. 

President Joe Biden has highlighted how the United States has administered 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine before his first 100 days in office. And he's signaled that it's time for the U.S. to begin sharing its surplus of doses. The staggering inequality of vaccines is clear throughout the Americas, Africa and parts of Asia. China and Russia have aggressively pushed their homegrown vaccines around the world. But the U.S. just shared its first 4 million doses last month with Canada and Mexico. Biden has said those countries would be targets for additional doses, and so too would countries in Central America where migrant families and unaccompanied children are fleeing for the U.S. border.

Some of the tenants of a massive apartment complex providing affordable housing in northern Virginia fear they will replaced by high-earning Amazon workers when a federal moratorium on evictions ends. California-based CIM Group bought the five 16-story buildings of Southern Towers last year for half a billion dollars. Since then, the company has filed eviction proceedings against more than 260 tenants. The residents fear the landlord will remake the towers to take advantage of the highly paid Amazon workers who are coming to the area to work in the company's new headquarters. CIM Group said it does not plan to turn the Towers into luxury housing. 

Anti-terrorism investigators are questioning three people who were detained after a police official was fatally stabbed Friday at a police station outside Paris. The investigators are seeking to establish a motive, if the attacker had ties to an extremist group and whether he acted alone. A steady stream of people bearing flowers handed the bouquets to police officers in the quiet town of Rambouillet on Saturday. The police station where the 49-year-old National Police administrative employee publicly identified only as Stephanie was killed remained blocked off to the public. Officers killed the Tunisia-born stabbing suspect after Friday’s attack. 

URUMQI, China (AP) — A spokesperson for the Xinjiang region called accusations of genocide “counter to the facts” as China came under more pressure this week over its treatment of the Uyghur ethnic group in the remote border area. The…

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have fired some three dozen rockets into Israel while the Israeli military struck back at targets operated by the ruling Hamas group. Saturday’s fighting came as Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli police in Jerusalem. The clashes in Jerusalem have become a nightly occurence throughout the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and show no signs of easing. Unrest in Jerusalem often spills over into fighting between Israel and Gaza militants, and similar tensions in 2014 erupted into a 50-day war.  The U.S. has appealed for calm, and neighboring Jordan has condemned Israel’s actions. 

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyans living with HIV say their lives are in danger due to a shortage of anti-retroviral drugs donated by the United States amid a dispute between the U.S. aid agency and the Kenyan government. The delayed…

As pitching matchups go, this one is aces. Two of baseball’s best arms square off Saturday night in Cleveland, with New York’s Gerrit Cole starting against Shane Bieber. The All-Star right-handers met last October in the wild-card round and the Yankees teed off on Bieber, tagging the 2020 AL Cy Young Award winner for seven runs and nine hits in 4 2/3 innings. Cole struck out 13 in New York’s 12-3 win. Bieber has 48 strikeouts and is the first pitcher to fan 10 or more in his first four starts of a season. He’s aiming to match Hall of Famer Randy Johnson’s record of 17 straight starts with at least eight Ks.

Giancarlo Stanton busted out of his slump with two rocketed home runs — one with the highest exit velocity this season at 118 mph — and the New York Yankees connected four times in a 5-3 win over the Cleveland Indians. Stanton hit a 429-foot solo shot that registered 118 mph off his bat in the third inning against Logan Allen, and another in the fifth. It was the slugger's first multi-homer game since Sept. 27, 2018. After a horrendous start, the Yankees have won three of four. Rougned Odor added a two-run homer and Aaron Hicks had a solo shot for New York.

Fernando Tatís Jr. hit two homers at Dodger Stadium on the 22nd anniversary of his father hitting two grand slams in one inning at the same park, and the San Diego Padres earned their third straight victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers, 6-1. Tatís hit solo homers in the third and fifth off Clayton Kershaw, and Yu Darvish pitched seven strong innings in the Padres’ second consecutive win at Chavez Ravine. Mookie Betts doubled and scored on Max Muncy’s single in the first inning for the major league-leading Dodgers, who have lost four of five amidst a major offensive slump.