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NAIROBI, Kenya — An explosion has been heard in the Somali capital, scene of frequent attacks by Islamic extremist fighters. Witnesses said Saturday the blast was heard near the headquarters of the Somali intelligence agency in Mogadishu.

BAGHOUZ, Syria — U.S.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — One of the largest coal-fired power plants in the West will close this year as planned after a Navajo Nation company ended its long-shot bid Friday to acquire it.

BEIJING — A fire on a tour bus travelling along a highway in central China has left 26 people dead and as many as 30 injured, local authorities reported Saturday.

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Republicans asked an appeals court Friday to immediately reinstate GOP-backed laws limiting the powers of Democratic Gov.

LANSING, Mich. — Faith-based adoption agencies that are paid by the state of Michigan will no longer be able to turn away LGBT couples or individuals because of religious objections under a legal settlement announced Friday.

BEIRA, Mozambique — With the flooding easing in parts of cyclone-stricken Mozambique on Friday, fears are rising that the waters could yield up many more bodies.

MOSCOW — An investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into an elaborate Russian operation that sought to meddle in the 2016 U.S.

HOUSTON — The Latest on a fire that had been burning at a Texas petrochemical storage facility (all times local): 5:30 p.m.

WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department announced Friday that it is expanding again the relief it grants taxpayers who had too little in income taxes withheld from their paychecks in the first year of a sweeping tax overhaul.