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Buffalo Bills' Josh Allen visits the scene of Saturday's shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Man charged in Buffalo massacre due back in court

Alleged gunman sent diary to newspaper before church attack
Gabe Kipers, a neighbor of Dr. John Cheng, kneels at a memorial for him outside his office building on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Aliso Viejo, Calif. Cheng, 52, was killed in Sunday's shooting at Geneva Presbyterian Church. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Gunman targets Taiwanese faith with long pro-democracy link
FILE - Flowers sit outside crime scene tape at Geneva Presbyterian Church on May 17, 2022, in Laguna Woods, Calif., where a shooting at the church on Sunday left one dead and five injured. Officials in California's Orange County are still trying to determine why a gunman opened fire in the church. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, FILE)
Asian shares track Wall Street's inflation-fueled retreat
FILE - Trader Patrick King works the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, May 12, 2022, in New York. Stocks fell sharply on Wednesday as the Stocks fell sharply on Wednesday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average gave up more than 1,100 points, or 3.6% and the tech-heavy Nasaq pulled back 4.7%. The S&P 500, the benchmark for many index funds, fell 4%. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Crews slow New Mexico fires, brace for dangerous conditions
Firefighters with Structure Group 4 hook up hoses to a sprinkler system to protect homes in the Loma Linda neighborhood off highway 518 north of the Taos County line as firefighters from all over the country converge on Northern New Mexico to battle the Hermit's Peak and Calf Canyon fires on May 13, 2022. (Jim Weber/Santa Fe New Mexican via AP)
Thai archival find may resolve fate of missing WWII US flyer
U.S. military drape a national flag over the possible remains of a WWII U.S. airman found in northern Thailand, during a repatriation ceremony Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at the U-Tapao Air Base in Rayong province, eastern Thailand. The possible human remains were found at a crash site in a rice field in northern Thailand by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and were sent to Hawaii where they will be tested to see if they belong to a U.S. pilot who went missing in 1944. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Gabe Kipers, a neighbor of Dr. John Cheng, kneels at a memorial for him outside his office building on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Aliso Viejo, Calif. Cheng, 52, was killed in Sunday's shooting at Geneva Presbyterian Church. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Alleged church shooter sent diary to newspaper before attack

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tina Kotek toasts her supporters after the results of Oregon's primary election are announced in Portland, Ore., Tuesday May 17, 2022. Kotek defeated Tobias Read to win the nomination. (AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer)

Oregon primaries set up competitive governor's race

911 dispatcher who took Buffalo shooting call put on leave

911 dispatcher who took Buffalo shooting call put on leave

Iza Ali, 25, selects vegetables to prepare a meal for her family at the Jere camp for people displaced by Islamist extremists in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Wednesday, May 4, 2022. Iza Ali's five children are still waiting to eat at 3 p.m. It's not the first day that the family has gone without food since they fled extremist violence in northeast Nigeria six years ago. She and her husband scrape together $3 a day, but it's rarely enough to feed the family of seven. Often they scavenge for greens outside the Jere displacement camp where they live on the outskirts of Maiduguri. (AP Photo/Chinedu Asadu)

UN chief `hopeful' of Ukraine grain deal to help food crisis

This March 2022 photo provided by Morgan Fabry shows her with her daughter in Chicago. Some U.S. moms looking for baby formula that is in short supply are dealing with another layer of stress - people asking why they don't just breastfeed. Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended for the first six months of life by major medical entities like the World Health Organization, giving rise to the saying,

Moms seeking formula tire of those who say, just breastfeed

This undated photo provided by Aliso Niguel High School shows Dr. John Cheng on the sidelines of a game as the Aliso Niguel High School team doctor. He was known by all as simply Dr. John, the quiet, calm physician who mentored kids in kung fu, finding time between patient appointments to encourage people to learn self-defense. So it was no surprise to friends and colleagues that Cheng spent his final moments saving others by rushing a gunman who fired on a Southern California church luncheon of mostly older Taiwanese people, including Cheng's recently widowed mother. (Andrew Mashburn/Aliso Niguel High School via AP)

Doctor who fought church gunman remembered as kind protector

Europe

In this photo taken from a video released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, a Russian serviceman frisks a Ukrainian soldier after he left the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Battle for Mariupol draws toward close after surrender

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Middle East

FILE - Israeli youths light candles in memory of the 45 ultra-Orthodox Jews killed in a stampede at a religious festival on Friday, during a vigil in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, May 2, 2021. Police made preparations at a Jewish holy site at Mt. Meron in northern Israel ahead of the arrival of thousands of mostly ultra-Orthodox worshipers and revelers on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, a year after a chaotic stampede linked to overcrowding left 45 people dead. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

A year after disaster, thousands flock to Israeli holy site

UN envoy: US sanctions on Iran worsen humanitarian situation
Rival Libya PM to set up govt in Sirte after Tripoli clashes
Israel approves ultranationalist Jewish march in Jerusalem
Egypt: Mubarak son says family clear of corruption charges
Analysis: Condolence calls from elite show UAE ruler's power
Clashes break out in Tripoli, drive rival Libyan PM away
Turkish president in UAE to pay respects, deepening detente
Hezbollah, allies lose majority in Lebanon's parliament

Asia

FILE - In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, visits a pharmacy in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 15, 2022. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads:

Tea and infomercials: N. Korea fights COVID with few tools

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, a doctor visits a family during an activity to raise public awareness of the COVID-19 prevention measures, in Pyongyang, North Korea Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads:

North Korea's suspected COVID-19 caseload nears 2 million

A volunteer stands amongst billboards for independent candidate Allegra Spender and incumbent Liberal candidate Dave Sharma outside a polling booth in Sydney, Australia on May 9, 2022. Sydney businesswoman Spender has an impeccable pedigree for a career in Australian politics. She is the daughter of a conservative federal lawmaker and granddaughter of a conservative cabinet minister. More surprising than her decision to run for office, she has chosen to become a candidate of a breakaway political grouping that has emerged as a threat to the ruling conservative Liberal Party. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Australian conservative party faces teal independent threat

New Zealand Finance Minister Grant Robertson, front left, is on his way to present his budget to Parliament with ministers, from left, David Parker, obscured, Andrew Little, Megan Woods, and Peeni Henare, right, in Wellington, New Zealand, Thursday, May 19, 2022. New Zealand's government said Thursday it will hand out an extra few hundred dollars to about half of all adults to help them navigate what it describes as

New Zealand hands out extra cash to fight 'inflation storm'

People visit the Blue House, the former presidential palace, in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. For most South Koreans, the former presidential palace in Seoul was as shrouded in mystery as the buildings in their secretive rival North Korea. That's now changed recently as thousands have been allowed a look inside for the first time in 74 years.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

S. Korea Blue House opens to public for 1st time in 74 years

U.S. military drape a national flag over the possible remains of a WWII U.S. airman found in northern Thailand, during a repatriation ceremony Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at the U-Tapao Air Base in Rayong province, eastern Thailand. The possible human remains were found at a crash site in a rice field in northern Thailand by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and were sent to Hawaii where they will be tested to see if they belong to a U.S. pilot who went missing in 1944. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai archival find may resolve fate of missing WWII US flyer

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Hawaii hurricane season forecasted to be slow with La Nina
FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2018 file photo, provided by NASA, Hurricane Lane approaches Hawaii as seen from the International Space Station. Hawaii and the Central Pacific basin should expect two to four hurricanes, tropical depressions or tropical storms this year, federal forecasters said Wednesday, May 18, 2022. There is a 60% chance of a below average season. (NASA via AP, File)
UN floats plan to boost renewables as climate worries mount
FILE - The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, addresses the media during a joint press conference with the President of Austria, Alexander Van der Bellen, in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Guterres is on Wednesday, May 18 launching a five-point plan to jump-start broader use of renewable energies as the U.N. weather agency reported that greenhouse gas concentrations, ocean heat, sea-level rise, and ocean acidification hit new records last year. (AP Photo/Theresa Wey, file)
Japan OKs plan to release Fukushima nuclear plant wastewater
FILE - Tanks storing treated radioactive water after it was used to cool the melted fuel are seen at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, run by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), in Okuma town, northeastern Japan, on March 3, 2022. Japan's nuclear regulator on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, approved plans by the operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant to release its treated radioactive wastewater into the sea next year, saying the outlined methods are safe and risks to the environment minimal. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)
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FILE - This Dec. 6, 2018 image made available by NASA shows the InSight lander. The scene was assembled from 11 photos taken using its robotic arm. The spacecraft is losing power because of all the dust that's accumulated on its solar panels. NASA said Tuesday, May 17, 2022, it will keep using the spacecraft's seismometer to detect marsquakes until its power peters out. Officials expect operations to cease in July, almost four years after InSight's arrival at Mars. (NASA via AP, File)

Technology

NY agency files discrimination complaint against Amazon
FILE - An Amazon logo appears on a delivery van, Oct. 1, 2020, in Boston. A state agency in New York has filed an administrative complaint against Amazon, Wednesday, May 18, 2022, alleging the e-commerce giant discriminated against pregnant and disabled workers by denying them
Google's Russian business plans to file for bankruptcy
FILE - a woman walks past the logo for Google at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai, Nov. 5, 2018. Google says its Russian subsidiary is planning to file for bankruptcy because it can't pay staff and suppliers. Russian state media reported Wednesday, May 18, 2022 that the U.S. tech company's Russian subsidiary submitted notice of its intention to declare bankruptcy to a national registry. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
With Roe in doubt, some fear tech surveillance of pregnancy
Chandler Jones, 26, from Baltimore County, who will graduate this spring from the University of Baltimore School of Law, stands in Baltimore before a pro-choice rally, Saturday, May 14, 2022. Jones consulted the internet on her cellphone for information and advice before having an abortion during her junior year in college. In a post-Roe world, if the Supreme Court soon reverses the 1973 decision that legalized abortion, as a draft opinion suggests it may, pregnancies could be surveilled and the data shared with police or sold to vigilantes. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)
Musk wars with Twitter over his buyout deal - on Twitter
FILE - Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany on March 22, 2022. Musk says his deal to buy Twitter can't 'move forward' unless the company shows public proof that less than 5% of the accounts on the platform are fake or spam. Musk made the comment in a reply to another user on Twitter early Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (Patrick Pleul/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Environmentalists oppose more life for California nuke plant
FILE - This Nov. 3, 2008 file photo shows one of Pacific Gas and Electric's Diablo Canyon Power Plant's nuclear reactors in Avila Beach, Calif. Facing possible electricity shortages, California Gov. Gavin Newsom raised the possibility that the state's sole remaining nuclear power plant might continue operating beyond a planned closing by 2025, an idea that could revive a decades-old fight over earthquake safety at the site. Dozens of environmental and anti-nuclear groups are opposing an extension of the plant's life. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant, File)
Argo touts driverless operations in Miami and Austin, Texas
FILE - An experimental autonomous vehicle arrives for a drop-off, Dec. 8, 2020, in Miami Beach, Fla. The autonomous vehicle technology company that partners with Ford and Volkswagen says it has started driverless operations in two of eight cities where it is developing its technology. Pittsburgh-based Argo AI has pulled drivers from its autonomous cars in Miami and Austin, though it is still in the testing phase. Its commercial partnerships with Walmart and Lyft still have backup drivers in both cities. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald via AP)