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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The dogs were quick and precise. One located the drugs and neutralized the person carrying them. Another found explosives hidden under a car tire. The dogs — Dayco, Amanda, Apolo, Zeus and Maly — were showing their skills Monday at a military intelligence brigade ceremony south of Ecuador’s capital of Quito

By JACK DURA and SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press South Dakota voters will decide again on whether to legalize recreational marijuana. Secretary of State Monae Johnson’s office on Monday validated the measure for the November general election ballot. It will be the third time South Dakota voters have weighed in on the question. In 2020, voters

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press A former U.S. soldier has been extradited from Ukraine on years-old charges that he went on an alleged “international crime spree,” including the 2018 killings and robbery of a couple in Florida to fund travel plans to Venezuela to wage military-style raids against its government, federal prosecutors announced Monday. In

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The judge overseeing the case of an Arizona border rancher who was unsuccessfully tried in the fatal shooting of a Mexican man on his property said Monday he will mull whether to leave open the possibility of a new trial later. Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A conservation group says it intends to sue two U.S. agencies, saying they failed to properly assess the environmental impacts of the sprawling electric vehicle plant Hyundai is building in Georgia. The Ogeechee Riverkeeper said in a letter dated Monday that the U.S. Army Corps of

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press A split Kansas Supreme Court ruling last week found that voting is not a fundamental right listed in the state Constitution’s Bill of Rights. While four of the high court’s seven justices backed that finding, three others offered strongly-worded dissents saying it ignores long-standing precedent. The ruling comes after

By GABE STERN Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign filed a lawsuit Friday against Nevada’s top election official over ballot access, alleging a requirement that independent candidates must name their running mate by the time they start gathering signatures for a petition as unconstitutional. The filing comes just over two

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Pacific Power, part of PacifiCorp, says it has agreed to a nearly $180 million settlement with over 400 Oregon plaintiffs. It’s the latest multimillion-dollar payout related to the deadly 2020 wildfires that ravaged the state. The utility says it has settled nearly 1,500 claims stemming from

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press A company that bred beagles for medical research agreed Monday to pay a record $35 million as part of a criminal plea admitting it neglected thousands of dogs at its breeding facility in rural Virginia. Prosecutors said the penalties amount to the largest ever levied in an animal-welfare case. The

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is not only getting more public toilets, but making them easier to locate using your smartphone. Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday a plan to build 46 new restrooms and renovate 36 existing ones located in city parks, adding to the city’s roughly 1,000 such facilities over the next

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Janis Paige, a popular actor in Hollywood and in Broadway musicals and comedies who danced with Fred Astaire, toured with Bob Hope and continued to perform into her 90s, has died. She was 101. Longtime friend Stuart Lampert says that Paige died Sunday of natural

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press Jurors are hearing about the SUV prosecutors say a Massachusetts woman was driving when she backed into her boyfriend and left him to die in a snowbank. Karen Read is charged with second-degree murder in the January 2022 death of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. Prosecutors say she dropped him

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey has filed to run for reelection as an independent even as he is on trial on federal bribery charges. The 70-year-old Democrat had said earlier that he would not seek the Democratic nomination to a fourth term. The political

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says a rental housing shortage has gnawed at him since the recovery began from a terrifying tornado outbreak that hit western parts of the state in late 2021. Beshear unveiled plans Monday to build 953 rental housing units in four counties —

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — An appeals court could hear arguments in October on the appeal of a lower court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against former President Donald Trump. The Georgia Court of Appeals on Monday docketed the

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press The Supreme Court has sent a lawsuit challenging Arkansas’ 2021 U.S. House map back to a three-judge panel. Justices on Monday ordered a lower court to review the suit following a high court decision against similar claims of bias in a South Carolina redistricting case. The ruling is a setback

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are making a renewed push to show their support for ensuring nationwide access to in vitro fertilization. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat who has used the fertility treatment to have her two children, released the legislation that is part of an election-year effort to

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — San Diego Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano is under investigation by Major League Baseball for allegedly betting on baseball and could be subject to a lifetime ban, according to a person familiar with the probe. MLB is looking into allegations Marcano bet on games involving the

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The struggling Washington Post found itself in some turmoil on Monday following the abrupt departure of the newspaper’s executive editor and a hastily announced restructuring plan aimed at stopping an exodus of readers over the past few years. Post publisher Will Lewis and Matt Murray,

CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio doctor who drew national attention when she claimed COVID-19 vaccines made people magnetic is being sued by the federal government. The IRS says she hasn’t paid nearly $650,000 in federal taxes and late fees. The lawsuit filed last month claims Sherri Tenpenny didn’t pay taxes in 2001, 2012 and 2013.

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press After a weekend in which conspiracy theorist Alex Jones warned that his media company faced an imminent shutdown by the federal government because of his bankruptcy cases, a judge on Monday allowed Jones to keep operating for the next two weeks while it is decided whether his assets should be

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Popular soda brand Poppi is facing a class-action lawsuit filed by a consumer who says its products don’t improve gut health as much as their marketing suggests. In a lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Kristin Cobbs said she purchased Poppi drinks on multiple

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A juror was dismissed Monday after reporting that a woman dropped a bag of $120,000 in cash at her home and offered her more money if she would vote to acquit seven people charged with stealing more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children during the pandemic. “This is

By ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. federal court of appeals panel suspended a venture capital firm’s grant program for Black women business owners, ruling that a conservative group is likely to prevail in its lawsuit claiming that the program is discriminatory. The ruling against the Atlanta-based Fearless Fund is

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana judges could order surgical castration for people convicted of sex crimes against young children under legislation approved Monday, and if Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signs it into law, the state apparently would be the first with such a punishment. The GOP-controlled Legislature passed the

By DANICA KIRKA and KWIYEON HA Associated Press PORTSMOUTH, England (AP) — The British D-Day veterans who gathered Monday to kick off events marking the 80th anniversary of the landings in Northern France didn’t need a calendar to remember June 6, 1944. The events of that day remain etched on their minds, unforgettable in their

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and HAVEN DALEY Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police have arrested 70 pro-Palestinian demonstrators who occupied a building that houses the Israeli Consulate. The group entered the building and occupied it for several hours Monday. The protesters posted signs on the front doors of the building calling for

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer The social media platform X says it will now formally allow people to show consensual adult content, as long as it is clearly labeled as such. The move makes official a policy already in place when the platform was known as Twitter, before billionaire Elon Musk purchased it in

By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Beer flowed and a little blood and bruises followed. There was some baseball played in between. On a warm spring night along Lake Erie five decades ago, a well-intended promotion meant to attract fans for the perpetually lousy Cleveland Indians turned ugly and triggered a booze-fueled

By The Associated Press A small group of women got down on their knees outside Russia’s defense ministry to hold a rare protest and demand the return of their mobilized soldier husbands and sons from Ukraine. Groups of women who are the relatives of men who were mobilized into the Russian army by President Vladimir