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Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Convention roll call votes can be staid and cheesy, but Democrats turned theirs into the ultimate dance party on Tuesday. DJ Cassidy stood onstage in what appeared to be a double-breasted satin suit of royal blue, spinning a special song for each state and territory awarding their delegates to Vice

Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Dozens of former guerrilla fighters and their families have been forced to abandon their village in southern Colombia after receiving death threats from a rebel group that is still fighting the government. On Tuesday more than 80 people, including former fighters, their children and their spouses, left Miravalle for

Associated Press CHIREDZI, Zimbabwe (AP) — Tembanechako Mastick and a group of men scanned bushes near their village in southeast Zimbabwe, on the hunt for the den of hyenas that had recently attacked livestock. Scattered fragments of goat bones showed the way, and Mastick peeped cautiously into a deep hole in the earth. “They are

Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The top U.N. official in Libya is warning that the political, military and security situation in the oil-rich north African country has deteriorated “quite rapidly” and without renewed political talks leading to a unified government and elections there will be greater instability. Stephanie Khoury painted a grim picture to

Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a 200-word summary that abortion advocates used to collect signatures for a ballot measure is valid, clearing the way for voters to decide on the constitutional right to an abortion. Under the measure, abortions would be allowed until an embryo or fetus could

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a relationship that spanned two decades, two engagements, two weddings and headlines too numerous to count, Jennifer Lopez has filed for divorce from Ben Affleck. The filing Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court brought to an apparent end a celebrity coupling — or at least the second installment of it

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic nominee for vice president, is facing fresh scrutiny for how he’s described his family’s struggle with infertility. He has implied that he and his wife used IVF to conceive, drawing a connection between their experience and efforts to limit the procedure. However, they actually used

Associated Press HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump pledged Tuesday to “Make America Safe Again” while campaigning in Michigan as the Democrats who gathered in Chicago to nominate Kamala Harris branded him a career criminal. As part of a battleground campaign swing designed to counter the Democratic National Convention, Trump stood alongside sheriff’s

Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Businesses across a variety of industries are bracing for freight trains to stop moving Thursday at both major Canadian freight railroads if they can’t resolve a contract dispute. The impact will be widespread because so many companies rely on Canadian National and CPKC railroads to deliver their raw materials and

Associated Press PORTICELLO, Sicily (AP) — Specialist cave divers working in 12-minute underwater shifts are searching for six missing passengers and crew, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, believed to be in the submerged wreck of a luxury yacht that was slammed by a powerful storm and swiftly sank off Sicily. The sleek Bayesian yacht

Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada’s Supreme Court is declining to wade into an election controversy despite pleas from the key swing state’s top election official and attorney general. They had asked the justices to declare that counties have no legal authority to refuse to certify election results. The Washoe County Commission’s original 3-2

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — President Biden has approved a major disaster declaration for Vermont that makes federal funding available to help people and communities affected by flooding from July 9 through July 11 caused by the remnants of Hurricane Beryl. The storm dumped more than 6 inches of rain in just a few hours on

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has made an unscheduled visit to Chechnya, his first trip to the mainly Muslim republic within the Russian Federation in nearly 13 years. Putin was greeted by Chechnya’s self-styled strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov, before meeting volunteer fighters who train there prior to being deployed in Ukraine. Neither the

Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Local officials in western Congo say that a weekend boat accident on the Lukeni river has left at least 20 people dead and hundreds missing. Jacques Nzenza Mongie, the administrator of Kutu territory, says that the motorized wooden boat was carrying around 300 passengers and navigating by night when

Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Rick Scott has won Florida’s Republican primary as he seeks a second term in office. He’ll face Democratic former U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell in November in a race that could largely hinge on the success of their parties’ presidential candidates. Scott is set to start

Associated Press A suburban Detroit doctor has been arrested after authorities found scores of nude photos and videos of children and adults taken while the victims were changing at a swim school, lying in hospital beds and undressed elsewhere. Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard says 40-year-old Dr. Oumair Aejaz was arrested Aug. 8 at his

Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Democrats have turned Project 2025 into one of their political weapons in campaigning against President Donald Trump. They have now taken the battle over this controversial handbook to a new scale. Mallory McMorrow is a state senator from Michigan. She brought a giant copy of the lengthy plan drafted by

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Rapper NBA YoungBoy has agreed to plead guilty to a federal weapons charge once the case is transferred from Louisiana to Utah, where he faces unrelated charges accusing him of running a prescription drug fraud ring. In court documents filed last week, the rapper, whose real name is Kentrell Gaulden,

AP Film Writer Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane had never worked with one another before. But when filmmaker Nathan Silver got them together on Zoom one day, their connection was so easy and immediate that he knew they had a movie. “Between the Temples,” which opens in theaters this week, is about a depressed cantor

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has been active on his social accounts as Democrats gather for their convention in Chicago, but some of his posts don’t have much to do with reality. Ahead of the Democratic National Convention, he posted a fake image of someone who looks like Vice President Kamala

WASHINGTON (AP) — Boeing is suffering setbacks on one of its planes that’s already in use and on a new model of its popular 777 jetliner. Federal safety officials said this week they will require inspections of cockpit seats on Boeing 787 Dreamliners. That’s after one of the jets went into a dive when the

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The murders of about a dozen people in the northern Mexico state of Sinaloa appear to be linked to cartel infighting, something authorities had feared would follow the July 25 detention of two top cartel leaders. Mexican authorities are caught in the middle and unwilling to use the opportunity to crack

CHESTERFIELD, Va. (AP) — Authorities say a 2-year-old Virginia boy accidentally shot his mother’s boyfriend, critically wounding him. Liz Caroon is a spokesperson for police in Chesterfield County. She says a preliminary investigation shows that the man put the gun on a chair as he was about to leave the house Monday morning and the

ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) — Police say a man accused of fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her mother outside a Kentucky courthouse has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The suspect, Christopher Elder, died Monday evening at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Elder was accused of opening fire Monday morning in a parking lot

JENNINGS, La. (AP) — A Louisiana woman whose baby died after being left in a hot car last week has been arrested on a second-degree murder charge. Jefferson Davis Parish court records show that 32-year-old Hannah Faith Cormier of Jennings was being held Tuesday with bond set at $1 million. She was arrested Sunday. The

Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The ex-Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd has been transferred to a federal prison in Texas almost nine months after he was stabbed in a different facility. The Federal Bureau of Prisons told The Associated Press Tuesday that Derek Chauvin is now housed at the Federal Correctional Institution

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Supreme Court has rejected an effort to exclude more than 100 absentee ballots that a recount board included in the June election count after a precinct board initially rejected the ballots. The leader of a conservative election group and an unsuccessful Republican legislative candidate asked the court last

AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian pop star Anitta will perform at halftime of the first NFL game in the South American country on Sept. 6. The NFL announced Tuesday that the 31-year-old will perform when the Green Bay Packers play the Philadelphia Eagles in Sao Paulo. A fan favorite in Brazil for

Associated Press Ukraine’s parliament has banned the activities of religious groups tied to the Russian Orthodox Church or any other faith group supporting Russia’s invasion — a measure widely seen as targeting a Ukrainian religious body, despite its claim to independence from Moscow. The bill creates the legal tools for the government to ban the

Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tens of thousands of customers are still without power across Puerto Rico, a week after Ernesto swiped the U.S. territory as a tropical storm. Officials pledged on Tuesday to restore electricity to everyone by the weekend. The ongoing outages persist as the National Weather Service issued yet

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III met Tuesday with survivors of the stabbing rampage that killed three young girls in northern England, viewing flowers and teddy bears laid in remembrance of the victims and signing a book of condolence as Britain recovers from widespread unrest fueled by the tragedy. The monarch traveled to

Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court should step in on behalf of voters and order a rewrite of ballot language for a fall redistricting measure that “may be the most biased, inaccurate, deceptive, and unconstitutional” the state has ever seen, argues a lawsuit filed late Monday. Citizens Not Politicians, the campaign

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped charges against a man accused of fatally shooting a pregnant woman after she went to a suburban Kansas City mall to shop for baby clothes. A spokesperson for the Jackson County prosecutor’s office said Monday that not enough evidence had been obtained to prove the charges filed against

Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A campaign to bring a casino to the Missouri tourist destination of the Lake of the Ozarks is suing to bring the proposal before voters. The secretary of state’s office last week said the campaign did not collect enough voter signatures for the constitutional amendment to go on

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates will host the women’s Twenty20 World Cup in October after the International Cricket Council moved the tournament from Bangladesh. More than 300 people were killed in an uprising in Bangladesh that started in July. Games will now take place in Dubai and Sharjah for the

NEW DELHI (AP) — The foreign and defense ministers of India and Japan have held security talks in New Delhi to bolster their strategic partnership in the Indo-Pacific as they seek to counter an increasingly assertive China. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar headed the Indian delegation, while the Japanese side

FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — A jury has found a sheriff in South Carolina not guilty of violating a jail inmate’s civil rights when he ordered a deputy to shock the man several times with a Taser. Prosecutors say Marlboro County Sheriff Charles Lemon ordered a deputy to use his Taser to shock the inmate with

AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A high-profile spat between the United Auto Workers and Stellantis over reopening an Illinois factory complex has made its way into the race for U.S. president and could bring a strike against the automaker. In a speech at the Democratic National Convention Monday night, union President Shawn Fain accused

AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Small business owners overall are feeling positive about their business and achieving the goals they set for this year despite inflation and high labor costs, according to two new surveys. An American Express survey found that 83% of owners said that the past few years have required them

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama has deported 29 Colombians on a flight that the government says is the first paid for by the United States under an agreement the two countries signed in July. The Colombians had entered Panama illegally through the Darien jungle, a path used by more than 500,000 migrants headed north last

AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — A superyacht that sank off the Sicilian coast during a storm left six passengers missing, including British tech kingpin Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah. Lynch was acquitted in June in a U.S. fraud case and was apparently aboard the yacht with some of the people who stood by

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Officials in Trinidad and Tobago are redrawing the island’s coat of arms for the first time since its creation in 1962 to remove references to European colonization in a move that many are celebrating. Christopher Columbus’ three ships — the Pinta, the Niña and the Santa María — will

PARIS (AP) — France’s interior minister says that about 25,000 police officers will be deployed every day in Paris and beyond to watch over the Paralympic Games, in line with the security implemented during the Olympics. The Paralympics are to be held from Aug. 28 to Sept. 8 in the French capital and nearby sites.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Qatar Airways has acquired a 25% stake in the private African carrier Airlink. The airlines announced the agreement Tuesday but no financial details were immediately disclosed. South Africa-based Airlink flies to more than 45 destinations in southern and East Africa and the deal will enhance an existing code-share agreement

Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won’t testify in defense of his effort to appear on Pennsylvania’s presidential ballot. That’s after he showed up late Tuesday to a court hearing in Pennsylvania where Democratic activists are trying to bar him from the ballot in the battleground state. Kennedy’s lawyer blamed a

Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis isn’t on the ballot — but his education agenda is. DeSantis is once again throwing his weight behind county school board candidates across the state. Though the seats are officially nonpartisan, the Republican governor has endorsed 23 school board candidates on the ballot

LONDON (AP) — A rocket engine has exploded during a test launch at a new spaceport in the Shetland Islands off northern Scotland. German manufacturer Rocket Factory Augsburg, or RFA, said no one was injured in the incident at SaxaVord Spaceport on the remote island of Unst on Monday evening. Video of Monday’s test launch

BMW is recalling more than 720,000 vehicles due to an issue with the water pump’s electrical connector that could potentially lead to a fire. The impacted vehicles have water pumps with insufficient sealing, according to the NHTSA report, and may be susceptible to fluid ingress at the electrical plug connector over time. There is the

Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A suspect who police said confessed to killing 42 women and was being detained over the discovery of dismembered bodies in Kenya’s capital has escaped from police custody, officials said Tuesday. Mohamed Amin, the head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, said Collins Jumaisi Khalusha escaped along with 12

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military says security forces have killed three insurgents who were involved in the recent killing of a senior government administrator in the country’s restive southwest. Tuesday’s raid was conducted in Mastung, a district in Baluchistan province where members of the Baluch Liberation Army group ambushed a vehicle carrying regional Deputy Commissioner

AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials have said they’re increasingly confident that they’ve nearly tamed inflation. Now, it’s the health of the job market that’s starting to draw their concern. With inflation cooling toward its 2% target, the pace of hiring slowing and the unemployment rate edging up, the Fed is poised

MADRID (AP) — Maria Branyas, an American-born Spaniard considered the world’s oldest person at 117 years old, has died, her family said on Tuesday. In a post on Branyas’ X account, her family wrote in Catalan: “Maria Branyas has left us. She has gone the way she wanted: in her sleep, at peace, and without

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Tropical storm Jongdari has weakened as it moved closer to South Korea’s coast, pelting the country’s southern regions with heavy rain and wind. As of 9 p.m. Tuesday, Jongdari was 18 miles south of the western island of Heuksan. It’s packing maximum sustained winds of 33.5 mph and is expected

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s ruling party says it will hold a vote on Sept. 27 to choose its new leader after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s surprise announcement that he will be stepping down. The internal election must be held by the end of September, which marks the end of Kishida’s three-year term and

Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A German court has rejected an appeal by a 99-year-old woman who was convicted of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp during World War II. The Federal Court of Justice on Tuesday

Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Approvals for new coal-fired power plants have dropped sharply in China after a flurry of permits in the previous two years raised concern about the government’s commitment to limiting climate change. An analysis released Tuesday by Greenpeace East Asia and the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies found that 14 new

JIUPENG, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s military has conducted live-fire drills, launching several surface-to-air missiles in response to growing military pressure from China. The exercises Tuesday took place at the Jiupeng Military Base in a remote area in southern Taiwan. China claims democratically ruled Taiwan as its own territory, to be brought under its control by

Associated Press PORTICELLO, Sicily (AP) — Police divers have resumed searching for six people believed trapped in the hull of a superyacht that sank off Sicily. They include British tech magnate Mike Lynch, who was celebrating his recent acquittal on fraud charges with the people who had defended him at trial. The luxury sailboat, off

Associated Press BURKE, Vt. (AP) — Two bouts of flooding in July has hampered businesses and destinations in an economically depressed section of northeastern Vermont, with some still closed as they continue to repair damage and others urging visitors, who were deterred by the weather, to make the trip. Kingdom Trails, a popular destination for

AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — This school year, Illinois will become just the fifth state in the nation to prohibit corporal punishment in all schools. Legislation that Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law this month bans physical punishment in private schools while reiterating a prohibition on the practice in public schools implemented 30

Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola has advanced to November’s ranked choice general election for Alaska’s lone House seat, along with Republicans Nick Begich and Nancy Dahlstrom. The three were the most prominent candidates in a field of 12 in Alaska’s primary Tuesday. Under Alaska’s open primary system, the top

Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The Democratic National Convention is heading into its second day. Former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are returning to the city they once called home to take the stage Tuesday night in support of Kamala Harris’ nomination. They’ll speak a day after the unofficial farewell for President Joe Biden,

Associated Press Israel’s demand for lasting control over two strategic corridors in Gaza, which Hamas has long rejected, threatens to unravel cease-fire talks aimed at ending the 10-month-old war, freeing scores of hostages and preventing an even wider conflict. Officials close to the negotiations have said Israel wants to maintain a military presence in a

Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — For tens of thousands of men in Uganda’s capital, driving a motorcycle taxi is a way to make a living. For others, the vehicles known as boda-bodas are an essential but menacing means of transport in a city of chaos. They are ubiquitous in East African capitals, but their

AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks ticked lower Tuesday and snapped an eight-day winning streak, the longest of the year. The S&P 500 slipped 0.2%, but it’s still just 1.2% below its all-time high set last month. It has roared back from its scary summer drop, where the index briefly dropped nearly

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez’s Senate career has come to a close, about a month after a jury convicted him on federal bribery charges. Menendez signaled his resignation last month in a letter to Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy. The governor said Friday he’s tapping a former top aide to succeed the

AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — For nearly two decades, Phil Donahue was virtually the only TV talk show host to roam his audience with microphone and make them an essential part of his show. His huge cultural influence — especially with the women who tended to watch television during the day in his

Associated Press ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — A pre-dawn police raid targeting the family home of a Paraguayan lawmaker in a notorious drug smuggling haven turned into a chaotic shootout that left the lawmaker dead and the nation on edge. Monday’s killing of Eulalio “Lalo” Gomes, a 67-year-old rancher and lawmaker in Paraguay’s ruling Colorado party,

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has denied Hunter Biden’s latest bid to dismiss the tax charges against him, setting the stage for his trial to begin next month in California. Citing a ruling in Florida that threw out a separate prosecution of former President Donald Trump, Hunter Biden’s lawyers had urged the

Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines has agreed to temporarily host a U.S. immigrant visa processing center for a limited number of Afghan nationals aspiring to resettle in America. The treaty allies separately announced the decision on Tuesday but did not provide other details like how many Afghans would be staying in the