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HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — Federal officials say that the owners of two Northern California mushroom farms where a farmworker killed seven people in back-to-back shootings last year will pay more than $450,000 in back wages and damages to 62 workers. The Labor Department said Monday that the owners of California Terra Gardens and

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee say they they raised more than $51 million in April, falling well short of the $76 million that Donald Trump and the Republican Party reported taking in for the month. The totals announced Monday night for Biden and his

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Two top editors at Penguin Random House are leaving as the country’s leading trading publisher continues to transform during a period of uncertain revenues and generational change. The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a Penguin Random House division, announced on Monday the departures of Alfred A.

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States says that Russia last week launched a satellite that could be part of weaponizing space. That’s a possible future global trend that members of the U.N. Security Council condemn, even as they failed on Monday to pass a measure against it. The resolution

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — New federal certification rules finalized Monday for train dispatchers and signal repairmen will set minimum standards to counteract the investor pressure on railroads to continually cut costs while making sure those employees have the skills they need to operate all the high-tech systems on today’s

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has again authorized Juneteenth— the day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States — as a state holiday, while legislative efforts to make it a permanent holiday in the state have so far faltered. Ivey’s office said Monday that June 19 will be a holiday

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — In a hotel conference room in Denver, Dallenis Martinez attended orientation with hundreds of other migrants Monday for the city’s new, ambitious migrant support program, which includes six month apartment stays and intensive job preparation for those who can’t yet legally work. It’s an about-face

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press A Pennsylvania woman will serve four to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to shooting a county prosecutor after a confrontation about a property transfer he handled as a private lawyer. Porice Diamond Mincy pleaded guilty to aggravated assault Monday for shooting Cameron County District Attorney Paul  Malizia in

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer testifying at Bob Menendez’s bribery trial says a New Jersey businessman rescued the Democrat’s then-future wife’s home from foreclosure just as the senator allegedly helped him secure a lucrative business relationship with Egypt. Attorney John Moldovan testified Monday that he was working for the

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge has blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a new rule in Texas that would require firearms dealers to run background checks on buyers at gun shows or other places outside brick-and-mortar stores. The decision by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Abortion access advocates in Nevada say they have submitted almost twice the number of petition signatures needed to qualify a measure for the November ballot that would enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution. Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom President Lindsey Harmon told reporters Monday that more

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut’s Supreme Court has ruled that two Republican candidates for the state legislature should not have been fined thousands of dollars for criticizing the governor in their 2014 campaign ads. The court overturned the fines on Monday, saying they violated the constitutional free speech rights of

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Seven years after Joe Arpaio was ousted as sheriff of Arizona’s most populous county, taxpayers are still footing the bills from a racial profiling verdict over his signature immigration crackdowns – and those costs have been getting heavier since. The tab for the legal and compliance costs

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal appeals court says a North Carolina regulatory board didn’t violate a drone pilot’s constitutional rights when it told him to stop advertising and offering aerial map services because he lacked a surveyor’s license. The panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Organizers of the Essence Festival of Culture have revealed that legendary soul group Maze featuring Frankie Beverly will be recognized during this summer’s gathering with “a star-studded tribute” that will “honor their final performance.” Maze was the closing act for the New Orleans festival’s first 15 years, beginning in 1995. The

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Trump Media and Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, lost more than $300 million last quarter. That’s according to its first earnings report as a publicly traded company filed on Monday. The company posted a loss of $327.6 million for the first quarter, which it said included

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities in Alaska say a moose has killed a 70-year-old man in the community of Homer. Two men were walking through the brush trying to take photos of two newborn calves when authorities say the mother moose attacked one of the men. He was pronounced dead

COLUMBIA, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee community college says one of its professors who was swept away by an ocean wave during a study-abroad trip in Brazil has died. Columbia State Community College said Monday associate professor of art Clifford Gordon was walking with three students along an oceanside road and a wave struck them

By MELANIE LIDMAN and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — By accusing the heads of Israel and Hamas of war crimes, the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor placed them among world leaders infamous for heinous acts against humanity. The chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, announced arrest warrants Monday against two Israeli leaders — including Prime

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge will reopen the sentencing hearing for the man who broke into Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and bludgeoned her husband with a hammer after the judge failed to allow him to speak during his court appearance last week. District Judge Jacqueline Scott

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon officials say a hiker died after falling from a trail in the Columbia River Gorge. The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office says 22-year-old Elisha Angelic Macias was hiking with friends near Horsetail Falls on Sunday. After separating from the group and going off trail, she fell about 50 to 60 feet.

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Prosecutors say a man charged with crashing two law enforcement vehicles during a police chase that concluded with gunfire from 11 officers should be held without bail until his trial. Police say Gary Porter of Maine was arrested May 6 on a warrant for theft. He

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press Philadelphia has mandated that all city employees return to working full-time in their offices as of July 15. Mayor Cherelle Parker says Monday she wants to create a more visible and accessible government. The decision ends the city’s virtual work policy put in place in 2021. Parker said about 80%

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers will have to pay out of their own pockets if they lose defamation cases for falsely accusing a man of being one of the Kansas City Chiefs parade shooters and an immigrant in the country illegally. Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Monday told his

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press A popular event drew tens of thousands of visitors over the weekend to Texas Gulf Coast beaches, where a fatal shooting erupted and nearly 300 people were arrested, authorities said Monday. Three separate shootings were reported Saturday on the Bolivar Peninsula during the annual “Jeep Week” event, including one that

By The Associated Press Amal Clooney is one of the legal experts who recommended that the chief prosecutor of the world’s top war crimes court seek arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and leaders of the militant Hamas group. The human rights lawyer and wife of actor George Clooney wrote of her participation

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — An American Airlines flight attendant who authorities say tried to secretly record video of a 14-year-old girl using an airplane bathroom in September has pleaded not guilty to attempted exploitation of a child. Police have also alleged that Estes Carter Thompson III of Charlotte, North Carolina, had

By MARYCLAIRE DALE AP Legal Affairs Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The family of a Black teenager wrongly convicted and executed in Pennsylvania in 1931 is suing the county that prosecuted him. Sixteen-year-old Alexander McClay Williams remains the youngest person Pennsylvania has put to death. He was exonerated by Gov. Tom Wolf two years ago after

By NICK PERRY Associated Press MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Billionaire philanthropist Rob Hale has surprised the graduating class at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth by giving each of them $1,000. But there was a condition: They were to keep $500 and give away the rest. Students huddling under ponchos and umbrellas yelled and cheered as

By JOSHUA G0ODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press In an isolated part of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters known as the 12th-floor “bubble,” chief Anne Milgram made an unusual request of top deputies summoned in March for what she called the “Marijuana Meeting”: Nobody could take notes. Over the next half hour, she broke