South Carolina man pleads guilty to ambush that killed 2 officers and wounded 5
AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — A 79-year-old South Carolina man has avoided a possible death sentence by agreeing to plead guilty to ambushing police officers…
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Ecuadorians are picking a new president, but their demands for safety will be hard to meet
By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Voters in Ecuador are getting ready to pick a new president. Their choices in…
Continue Reading At Colorado funeral home where 115 decaying bodies found, troubles went unnoticed by regulators
By JESSE BEDAYN, AMY BETH HANSON, MATTHEW BROWN and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press DENVER (AP) — As legal and financial troubles piled up at the…
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White House poised to announce winners of competition to produce hydrogen fuel
By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The White House is poised to announce the winners of a $7 billion federal competition to…
Continue Reading A doctors group calls its ‘excited delirium’ paper outdated and withdraws its approval
By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer A leading doctors group on Thursday formally withdrew its approval of a 2009 paper on “excited delirium,” a…
Continue Reading Georgia wants to study deepening Savannah’s harbor again on heels of $973 million dredging project
By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The chief executive over Georgia’s seaports says larger cargo ships will need deeper…
Continue Reading Man pleads guilty, gets 7 years in prison on charges related to Chicago officer’s killing
CHICAGO (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty to charges in connection with the fatal 2021 shooting of Chicago police officer Ella French and was…
Continue Reading Ex-IRS contractor pleads guilty in leak of tax return information of Trump, wealthy people
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service charged with leaking tax information…
Continue Reading 17 Florida sheriff’s deputies accused of stealing about $500,000 in pandemic relief funds
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Seventeen Florida sheriff’s deputies have appeared in court on charges that they stole about half a million dollars…
Continue Reading Pence will skip the Nevada GOP caucus and instead run in the primary, giving up chance for delegates
By MICHELLE L. PRICE and GABE STERN Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence will skip the Nevada caucuses run by the…
Continue Reading France has banned pro-Palestinian protests and vowed to protect Jews from resurgent antisemitism
By ANGELA CHARLTON and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s interior minister ordered local authorities to ban all…
Continue Reading Donald Trump returning to civil trial next week with fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen set to testify
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump will back in court next week for his New York civil fraud trial.…
Continue Reading Haiti refuses to open key border crossing with Dominican Republic in spat over canal
By DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haiti has declined to join neighboring Dominican Republic in…
Continue Reading Douglas Clark, convicted murderer and half of the Sunset Strip Killers, dies of natural causes
SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — Officials say serial killer Douglas Daniel Clark has died of natural causes. He was 75. Clark was sentenced to death for…
Continue Reading French police are probing possible poisoning of Russian journalist who denounced Ukraine war on TV
PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors are investigating a suspected poisoning of a Russian journalist who fled Russia after denouncing the war in Ukraine…
Continue Reading California governor signs 2 major proposals for mental health reform to go before voters in 2024
By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed two major pieces of legislation to transform…
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The morgue at Gaza’s biggest hospital is overflowing as Israeli attacks intensify
By ISABEL DEBRE, SAMYA KULLAB and MOHAMMED JAHJOUH Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The morgue at Gaza’s biggest hospital, Shifa in…
Continue Reading Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyer fails to hurt credibility of the government’s star witness at fraud trial
By KEN SWEET The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyer did little to dent the credibility of the government’s key…
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New York governor backs suspension of ‘right to shelter’ as migrant influx strains city
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is supporting the city’s effort to suspend a unique legal…
Continue Reading Pennsylvania counties tell governor, lawmakers it’s too late to move 2024’s primary election date
By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Counties in Pennsylvania are telling Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro and lawmakers that…
Continue Reading NFL appeal in Jon Gruden emails lawsuit gets Nevada Supreme Court hearing date
By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court plans to soon hear the NFL’s appeal of a crucial ruling denying a…
Continue Reading $1.765 billion Powerball jackpot goes to a player who bought a ticket in a California mountain town
By MARCIO SANCHEZ and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press FRAZIER PARK, Calif. (AP) — A liquor store in a tiny California mountain town reverberated with…
Continue Reading NTSB chair says new locomotive camera rule is flawed because it excludes freight railroads
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Passenger railroads nationwide will now be required to install video recorders inside their…
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US and Qatar agree to prevent disbursal of recently unfrozen Iranian funds as Israel-Hamas war rages
By MATTHEW LEE, MARY CLARE JALONICK and SEUNG MIN KIM ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and Qatar have reached an agreement that the…
Continue Reading Leak in LA council racism scandal may have come from 2 ex-labor employees, police say
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police say two former employees of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor are the focus of an investigation into a secret…
Continue Reading Idaho officials order brief evacuation of about 10,000 people after reported gas pipeline explosion
MIDDLETON, Idaho (AP) — Authorities briefly ordered evacuations for most of the town of Middleton, Idaho, after they said a gas pipeline exploded…
Continue Reading Indonesia’s former agriculture minister arrested over alleged corruption
By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s former agriculture minister has been arrested by the country’s…
Continue Reading Alabama police chief apologies for inaccurate information in fatal shooting
DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — A police chief in Alabama apologized Wednesday for his department giving incorrect information about what was said before…
Continue Reading The case of a Memphis man charged with trying to enter a Jewish school with a gun is moving forward
By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The case of a Tennessee man charged with trying to enter his former Jewish school with a gun…
Continue Reading Pentagon’s ‘FrankenSAM’ program cobbles together air defense weapons for Ukraine
By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The Pentagon calls it FrankenSAM. It’s a project that cobbles together air defense…
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