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Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — From jail, Shane Jenkins helped sell T-shirts, tote bags and other merchandise promoting the notion that he and other rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol are political prisoners unjustly held in pretrial detention. That disturbed the judge who sentenced the Texas man to seven years in prison for storming the

Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A fire in a school dormitory in Kenya has killed 18 students and 27 others have been hospitalized, with 70 children unaccounted for, the country’s deputy president said Friday. President William Ruto declared three days of mourning during which flags will be flown at half-staff in honor of the

Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Pope Francis’s visit to Papua New Guinea will take him to a remote part of the South Pacific island nation where Christianity is a recent addition to traditional spiritual beliefs developed over millenia that remain deeply ingrained. Francis will visit the diocese of Vanimo on the main island of

Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka will hold its presidential election Sept. 21 in a crucial vote that will decide the future course of the South Asian nation still struggling to recover from its economic collapse in 2022, which provoked mass protests and forced the former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — This week’s indictment of two Russian state media employees accused of paying a Tennessee company to create pro-Russian content is revealing Moscow’s latest tactic for meddling in the November election. U.S. authorities say the company employed several popular right-wing influencers who regularly criticized America’s support for Ukraine in its war

AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Everyone knows how much is at stake for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump during Tuesday’s presidential debate, the only one they have scheduled during their compressed campaign. It’s a big moment for ABC News, the network that’s producing the event and supplying moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis.

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump looked on as his lawyer pressed three federal appeals judges to overturn a verdict finding him liable for sexual abuse and defamation. Attorney D. John Sauer told the panel Friday that the civil trial in a lawsuit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll was muddied

Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Donald Trump has accepted a key endorsement from one of the nation’s most influential law enforcement lobbies. The Fraternal Order of Police convention in the battleground state of North Carolina on Friday was billed as a way for Trump to pitch himself as a law-and-order figure and cast his

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It could be a well-rehearsed zinger, a too-loud sigh — or a full performance befuddled enough to shockingly end a sitting president’s reelection bid. Notable moments from past presidential debates demonstrate how the candidates’ words and body language can make them look especially relatable or hopelessly out-of-touch — showcasing if

Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A powerful typhoon has made two landfalls in southern China after it swept south of Hong Kong, bringing many aspects of life in the region to a halt. The Hainan province’s meteorological service said Typhoon Yagi made landfall in the province’s Wenchang city at 4:20 p.m. on Friday. China’s

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has visited Seoul and reaffirmed sympathy for the suffering of Koreans during Japan’s colonial rule, as he and his South Korean counterpart Friday underscored the need to maintain warming ties between the Asian neighbors. Kishida and conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol

Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A man has been charged with murder in the shooting of a Texas deputy constable at an intersection in Houston. The Harris County District Attorney’s Office says Athir Murady was charged Thursday in the killing of Maher Husseini, and is being held at the jail in neighboring Galveston County. Court

Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court has ended a defamation lawsuit brought by casino mogul Steve Wynn against The Associated Press in 2018. The state’s highest court on Thursday unanimously dismissed Wynn’s claim that he was defamed by an AP story about accounts to Las Vegas police from two women who

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Video game performers have reached a turning point in their strike against developers with 80 individual video games signing agreements with the performers’ union and accepting artificial intelligence provisions they have been seeking. Members of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists began striking in July

Associated Press/Report for America BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana legislators interrogated New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams about his office’s use of post-conviction relief to reduce or void criminal sentences at a Senate hearing Thursday in the capitol. Conservative lawmakers, Republican Attorney General Liz Murrill and former prosecutors raised questions about cases where people

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NBA legend Charles Barkley has made the first of 10 promised donations to a New Orleans school where two of its students made mathematical history last year. St. Mary’s Academy is an all-girls Catholic high school that received $100,000 from Barkley last week. The school’s president says in a statement that

Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The leader of Canada’s leftist New Democratic Party says that policies supported by Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre have only hurt Canadians, although he didn’t say if he was willing to trigger a snap federal election soon. Jagmeet Singh had said a day

Associated Press AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Police in the Denver suburb of Aurora say a Venezuela street gang with a small presence in the city has not taken over a rundown apartment complex — yet the allegation continues to gain steam among conservatives and was amplified by former President Donald Trump in a Wednesday Fox

AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When you look at some of the numbers, it’s hard to believe “Moana 2” was ever going to be anything but a movie. In May, when the trailer for “Moana 2” dropped, it was watched 178 million times in 24 hours. That’s more than “Inside Out 2,” more

Associated Press/Report for America MANASSAS, Virginia (AP) — When Mamta Kafle Bhatt disappeared in late July, members of her local community in northern Virginia and her family in her native Nepal banded together to try to figure out what happened to her. They posted on social media, hosted community events and held a rally for

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Massachusetts medical doctor who punched a police officer during a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to nine months of imprisonment followed by nine months of home confinement. Jacquelyn Starer was in a crowd of rioters inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when she struck

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey real estate developer convicted alongside Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez has pleaded guilty to a separate bank fraud charge. Prosecutors say Thursday that 67-year-old Fred Daibes entered the plea in U.S. District Court in Newark. He was charged with making false statements concerning a 2008 loan. Prosecutors say Daibes

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced the Kansas City Chiefs superfan known as “ChiefsAholic” to more than 17 years in prison for a string of 11 bank robberies across seven states where he stole nearly $850,000 to finance his social media stardom. Xavier Babudar, 30, learned his fate Thursday — the

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Three police officers have been shot and wounded while trying to serve a warrant on a man inside a Milwaukee apartment building. Police Chief Jeffrey Norman tells reporters that the injuries suffered by the officers in Thursday morning’s shooting were not considered life-threatening. Norman said the 35-year-old suspect was wanted on false

Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A 44-year-old man accused of randomly shooting at vehicles on Interstate 5 near Seattle has been charged with five counts of assault. Six people were injured in the shootings Monday evening, including one who is critically hurt. Eric Jerome Perkins is accused of shooting at three cars driving north on

Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Construction is getting underway on a state-funded reproductive health and abortion clinic in southern New Mexico that will cater to local residents and people who travel from neighboring states such as Texas and Oklahoma with major restrictions on abortion. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced the start of construction

Associated Press Some selective colleges are reporting drops in the number of Black students in their incoming classes, the first admitted since a Supreme Court ruling struck down affirmative action in higher education. At other colleges, including Princeton University and Yale University, the share of Black students changed little. Several schools also have seen swings

Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Women in the Nebraska Legislature largely took the reins in a recent special session called by Gov. Jim Pillen to lower property taxes. And many are seeking to get more accomplished to lower taxes for working families in the upcoming legislative session that begins in January. Eighteen women currently

Associated Press The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office plans to test DNA from a hair found on a wipe that was pulled from the throat of a woman who lived at a care home for people with developmental difficulties. Cheryl Yewdall died at a Philadelphia care home nearly three years ago. According to court documents filed

Associated Press People gathering wild rice from Minnesota’s third largest lake have stumbled across human skeletal remains that are believed to be several hundred years old. Authorities suspect erosion caused the remains of at least three people to surface on the shores of Leech Lake. The remains were discovered Saturday on the shores of the

AP Technology Writer (AP) — New Mexico’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against the company behind Snapchat. He says that the site’s design and policies foster the sharing of child sexual abuse material and facilitate child sexual exploitation. Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed the lawsuit against Snap Thursday in state court in Santa Fe.

AP Sports Writer ROME (AP) — The word “DOPING” is printed in all caps inside a red circle with a slash through it on the box containing the over-the-counter spray sold in Italy that caused No. 1-ranked tennis player Jannik Sinner to fail two drug tests in March. He was exonerated in the case and will play in

AP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto International Film Festival is the clean-up hitter of the fall festival circuit. Coming on the heels of Venice and Telluride, Toronto tends to pull together many of the top films from those festivals, as well as a whole bunch more. But it’s been a few years since

MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) — Two brothers from Nigeria have been sentenced to 17 1/2 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to sexually extorting teenage boys and young men across the U.S., including a 17-year-old from Michigan who took his own life. A federal judge sentenced 24-year-old Samuel Ogoshi and 21-year-old Samson Ogoshi on Thursday

Associated Press Xian Zhang has been hired as music director of the Seattle Symphony, becoming the first woman conductor to head a major West Coast orchestra and filling a post that had been vacant since Thomas Dausgaard quit abruptly in January 2022. Zhang agreed to a five-year contract starting in 2025-26, the orchestra said Thursday.

Associated Press Russian commentators are mocking allegations that Moscow is meddling again in the U.S. presidential election, while President Vladimir Putin appeared to bolster the teasing tone by wryly claiming he supported Vice President Kamala Harris. On Wednesday, the U.S. Justice Department said the Russian state-owned broadcaster RT is carrying out a covert campaign to

Associated Press A rare but deadly mosquito-spread disease is posing a serious threat in parts of New England, health officials warn, prompting the cancellation of some events and changes to sports schedules to avoid bites by infected bugs. Eastern equine encephalitis, which can cause symptoms including vomiting and seizures, infected a New Hampshire resident who

Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey gambling regulators say Atlantic City’s top-performing casino, the Borgata, underpaid some of its internet gambling taxes twice by taking almost $15 million more in credits than it was entitled to. That led the casino to pay $1.1 million less than it should have. The state Division

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Office of Special Counsel says Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro broke the law by publicly endorsing the reelection of President Joe Biden and criticizing former President Donald Trump in several statements he made while on official duty overseas. The watchdog agency says Del Toro’s remarks came in a

Associated Press Thirteen former cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy are accusing overseers of the Connecticut school of failing to prevent sexual violence on campus and covering it up. The administrative complaints filed Thursday seek $10 million for each of the former cadets, who all say they were sexually assaulted on campus from the

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — UConn and South Carolina are headed to the White House to celebrate their latest NCAA basketball titles. The schools announced the visits, where they will be honored by President Joe Biden, on Thursday. UConn men’s basketball, which won back-to-back NCAA Tournament titles for the first time since Florida did it in

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Police say a groom struck a groomsman with a vehicle and killed him after a wedding in Flint, Michigan. Investigators say Terry Taylor Jr. was hit by an SUV following an argument Aug. 30. The 22-year-old groom, James Shirah, is charged with second-degree murder. He’s being held in the Genesee County

Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts U.S. Sens. Edward Markey and Elizabeth Warren are among several political leaders who are attacking the leader of a troubled health care system for refusing to comply with a subpoena to appear before a Senate committee. Lawyers for Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre said Wednesday that

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Officials say three people who tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease have died after an outbreak at an assisted living facility in upstate New York. Albany County health officials became aware of a cluster of cases at Peregrine Senior Living at Shaker in Albany on Friday. County officials say 10 people tested

Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina judge has refused to take Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name off the state’s presidential ballots. Superior Court Judge Rebecca Holt on Thursday rejected the request from Kennedy’s lawyers. State law directs the first absentee ballots for the November elections be mailed Friday to the more than

AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer adolescents are vaping this year than at any point in the last decade, government officials reported Thursday, pointing to a shrinking number of high school students who are using Elf Bar and other fruity, unauthorized e-cigarettes. The latest survey numbers show the teen vaping rate fell to under

AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Pop superstar Taylor Swift returned to Arrowhead Stadium on Thursday night to watch her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, and the rest of the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs open the NFL season against the Baltimore Ravens. Swift arrived about 90 minutes prior to the AFC title game

Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A white Massachusetts man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for threatening to kill a group of Asian Americans and repeatedly hitting one of them with his car. John Sullivan was sentenced Wednesday in federal court after pleading guilty in April to a federal hate crime. Sullivan is

AP National Writer Three years ago, when Team Canada appeared at the opening ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, the athletes were dressed in sleek white jeans. They may have looked good, but for some Paralympians on the team, they were a challenge. For Alison Levine, for example. The para athlete, who competes in

WASHINGTON (AP) — Magic Johnson has bought an ownership stake in the National Women’s Soccer League’s Washington Spirit. The team announced Johnson has joined the investor group led by owner Michele Kang. Johnson most recently became part of the ownership group that bought the NFL’s Washington Commanders last year and also has shares in Major

AP College Football Writer A federal judge in California probed the terms of a proposed $2.78 billion settlement of antitrust lawsuits against the NCAA and major conferences, revealing a potential snag in the deal. Judge Claudia Wilken questioned whether payments to college athletes from booster-funded organizations should be restricted. She said she was ‘quite concerned’

Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — As billionaire Elon Musk’s clash with a Brazilian Supreme Court justice came to a head last week, there were legal twists, insults, ultimatums, defiance and then, finally, capitulation. When the digital dust settled, X had become an ex. Musk’s social media platform was banned nationwide and Justice Alexandre

Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Christian school at the center of a Supreme Court decision that requires Maine to include religious schools in a state tuition program is challenging a state antidiscrimination law. An attorney for Crosspoint Church in Bangor contends that state lawmakers required participating schools to abide by the state antidiscrimination

NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. (AP) — A 13-foot (4-meter) Burmese python was confiscated from an upstate New York man who was keeping the still-growing snake in a small tank. The state Department of Environmental Conservation got a complaint about an illegally owned snake in the town of New Hartford on Aug. 28. Environment Conservation Police Officer

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Haiti to reaffirm the government’s commitment to a multinational mission deployed to fight gangs in the Caribbean country and push for the organization of long-awaited general elections. Thursday’s arrival of the top U.S. diplomat comes as a contingent of some 400 Kenyan

Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands’ defense ministry has announced a major plan to “future-proof” the country’s military, including buying more F-35 fighter jets and the return of a Dutch tank battalion as it gears up to face a world of expanding threats. The Netherlands and other members of the NATO military

AP Soccer Writer Over the course of a career that included two women’s World Cup titles and an Olympic gold medal, Alex Morgan elevated the women’s game through her play on the field and activism off it. The 35-year-old Morgan, who said she is pregnant with her second child, announced on Thursday that she is

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump suggested to business leaders Thursday that his plans to increase tariffs on foreign imports would solve seemingly unrelated challenges such as the rising cost of child care in the U.S. The GOP presidential nominee promised to lead what he called a “national economic renaissance” by