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Associated Press DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — A man charged with killing two teenage girls in a small Indiana community forced them off a hiking trail before cutting their throats, a prosecutor said Friday, telling jurors that the evidence includes an unused bullet and video recorded on the eldest girl’s phone. “The last thing the girls

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — National and state Republicans on Thursday appealed a judge’s ruling that said seven election rules recently passed by Georgia’s State Election Board are “illegal, unconstitutional and void.” The Republican National Committee and the Georgia Republican Party are appealing a ruling from Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox, who ruled

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The indelible lead character from the “Breaking Bad” streaming series has a new starring role in a public service ad campaign against littering in New Mexico. The 15- and 30-second ad spots were unveiled Thursday at an arthouse movie theater in Santa Fe’s urban railyard district. Local officials hope actor

Associated Press FLINT, Mich. (AP) — The Democratic governors of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin this week have embarked on a bus tour through their states to campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential bid. The tour has come together quickly amid concerns from some Democrats that she’s struggling in the must-win states. The three states,

NEW YORK (AP) — Mets fans will get a little help when they sing “My Girl” at Game 5 of the National League Championship Series on Friday: The Temptations will be in the ballpark. The team said Thursday the four-time Grammy Award winners will perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Citi Field before the Mets play

AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Mountain West Conference Commissioner Gloria Nevarez said Thursday the forfeitures that volleyball teams are willing to take to avoid playing San Jose State is “not what we celebrate in college athletics” and that she is heartbroken over what has transpired this season surrounding the Spartans and their opponents.

Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The International Crisis Group is reporting that Colombia’s government efforts to control deforestation in the Amazon are being hampered by the actions of left-wing dissidents who control the area. The report on Thursday details what needs to be done in the short and long term to curb environmental destruction

Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Outdoor conditioning while a heat advisory was in effect during the humid summer left 15-year-old football player Ovet Gomez Regalado pale and asking for water. After a 15-minute exercise, he collapsed as he walked to a building at his suburban Kansas City high school and died two days later.

Associated Press LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — Joy Olson proudly wore a “Make America Joyful Again” button Thursday as she waited in line to attend a Kamala Harris rally. But that doesn’t mean the 70-year-old retiree with the happiest of names wants the Democratic nominee to shy away from taking the heat to Republican Donald

Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire attorney general’s office has announced more charges related to an investigation into the state’s director of ports and harbors. State Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi has been indicted on charges alleging she solicited Gov. Chris Sununu to influence an investigation into her husband. Authorities

Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The former judge who presided over the trial of the 2018 Parkland high school mass murderer has sharply criticized his public defenders during a presentation to Miami law students. Former Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer told the Florida International University law students Thursday that the public defenders who represented Nikolas Cruz

Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine authorities continue to investigate the death of ex-One Direction singer Liam Payne, who died Wednesday at age 31 after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires. As the investigation carries on, local authorities are categorizing Payne’s death as “suspicious” given the possibility that he consumed drug

Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A former porn shop worker who was accused by North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of defamation has asked a court to throw out the lawsuit claim against him. Louis Love Money’s dismissal motion Wednesday contends Robinson’s lawsuit violates procedural rules and contains bizarre allegations. The Republican nominee for

TWO RIVERS, Wis. (AP) — Additional charges have been filed against a woman and her boyfriend in the death of her 3-year-old son whose skeletal remains were found by a hunter last month in a northeastern Wisconsin wooded area. Manitowoc County District Attorney Jacalyn LaBre said Thursday that Katrina Baur is charged with chronic neglect

Associated Press DENVER (AP) — State regulators have ordered a former Colorado gold mine where a tour guide was killed and a group of tourists was trapped for hours after an elevator accident to remain closed while its operations are reviewed. The move was announced Thursday. A spokesperson for the state’s mining division said it

AP Music Writer One Direction member Liam Payne was found dead this week after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at just 31. In life, Payne was critical part of One Direction, a boy band unlike any other. Experts told The Associated Press that he was the grounding force of the group,

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A mother convicted of abandoning her newborn son in the New Hampshire woods in subfreezing temperatures on Christmas night in 2022 has been handed a suspended sentence. A judge said Thursday that Alexandra Eckersley must maintain contact with mental health providers as part of her suspended sentence. Eckersley is the daughter

Associated Press Dozens of farmers in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin are scrambling to feed their flocks after a struggling organic broiler chicken producer abruptly closed a year after getting a $39 million federal loan. Pure Prairie Poultry shuttered its Charles City, Iowa, processing plant after filing for bankruptcy in September. The company had provided chicks

Associated Press/Report for America BRADENTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Residents of Florida’s Gulf Coast are digging out from mountains of sand after Hurricanes Helene and Milton clobbered them with back-to-back hits in less than two weeks. Storm surge as high as 10 feet swept sand into communities. The fine, white sand helps make Florida’s beaches

Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s killing of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ top leader and the mastermind of the group’s Oct. 7 2023, attack, is a dramatic turning point in the brutal yearlong war that it touched off. Sinwar’s killing on Wednesday decapitates the Palestinian militant group that has already been reeling from months

Associated Press A Virginia elections official who faced criminal charges that were later dropped over a botched vote count in the 2020 presidential election is accusing the state attorney general in a lawsuit of malicious prosecution. Michele White’s lawsuit was filed Thursday in federal court. She says she was wrongly vilified in the only criminal

Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group of Oklahoma parents, teachers and ministers are suing to stop the state’s top education official from forcing schools to incorporate the Bible into their lesson plans. The lawsuit filed Thursday with the Oklahoma Supreme Court also asks the court to stop State Superintendent Ryan Walters from spending

AP Health Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — U.S. health officials say whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade for this time of year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that so far this year there have been about 18,500 cases of whooping cough. That’s the most at this point in

AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — The Browns are moving out of their lakefront home. The team officially announced plans to leave their 25-year-old stadium on the shores of Lake Erie when the lease expires in 2028 and move to a domed facility in suburban Brook Park despite the city’s efforts to keep it in

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An art adviser who once counted actor Leonardo DiCaprio among her wealthy clients has pleaded guilty to wire fraud. Lisa Schiff admitted she defrauded clients out of $6.5 million in the sale of 55 artworks. Schiff entered the plea Thursday in Manhattan federal court. Prosecutors say Schiff diverted her

Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Internet gambling in New Jersey set a new record in September with the casinos and their partners winning over $208 million from online gamblers. It marked the first time online winnings had surpassed $200 million in a month in New Jersey. The totals also underscored how much more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Nearly $75 million in federal grant funds over the next five years will be aimed at helping Alaska Native communities as they grapple with the impacts of climate change. The Anchorage Daily News reports the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium is receiving the grant as part of a program aimed at

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Olympic snowboarder for Canada has been charged with running a drug trafficking ring that authorities say shipped vast amounts of cocaine across the Americas and killed four people. The FBI said Thursday a $50,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and extradition of Ryan James

Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida and Texas were the two U.S. states with the largest number of new residents last year, and their biggest source was other countries. That’s according to U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday. A little over 45% of Florida residents who said that they had lived in a different

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has announced temporary legal status for Lebanese citizens already in the United States, likely pleasing some Arab voters, including in the battleground state of Michigan. The Homeland Security Department said that Thursday’s announcement — together with an earlier offer in July — brings to about 11,000 the number of

Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada Democratic U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen and Republican challenger Sam Brown have held their only debate of the campaign. While they painted each other as extremists, there were few fireworks in Thursday’s face-off. Rosen is a first-term senator seen as a political consensus-builder. Brown is a retired Army captain

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A weather event called the diablo wind is expected to whip up across Northern California and cause humidity levels to drop and raise the risk of wildfires. Forecasters issued red flag warnings for fire danger from Thursday until Saturday from the central California coast up to nearly the Oregon border. Pacific

AP Media Writer Longtime NBC News anchor Brian Williams is returning to the screen on election night, only this time he’ll be streamed on Amazon Prime Video. The company announced Williams will anchor live election night coverage and commentary on the service. Williams has kept a low profile since ending his late-night news show on

Associated Press TURNER STATION, Md. (AP) — As the dust settled after the deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, as the initial shock wore off and the breaking news coverage subsided, residents of this tiny peninsula found themselves facing an uncertain future. Many had spent decades living in the shadow of the Key

Associated Press IDLIB, Syria (AP) — A U.N. official has said he is “alarmed” by escalating violence in Syria’s opposition-held northwest in recent days, including airstrikes that hit near a food distribution site for displaced families and others that struck a power station and disabled water stations. The U.N. deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for Syria,

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 90,000 tabletop fire pits are under recall after flames shooting out from them resulted in a handful of serious burn injuries. The Colsen-branded fire pits are designed to hold fires by burning liquid alcohol. A notice published Thursday by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says they pose a “flame

AP Film Writer Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis went from strangers to father and daughter in short order for the new film “Goodrich.” Writer-director Hallie Meyers-Shyer wrote the film specifically for Keaton, an actor she’d never met. She wanted to show a complicated father-daughter relationship with a man who had a second, younger set of

BERLIN (AP) — Local reports say a brand-new fire station that burned down in a blaze that caused millions of euros in damage did not have a fire alarm system. German news agency dpa reported the fire Wednesday at the Stadtallendorf fire station in Hesse destroyed the equipment hall and almost a dozen emergency vehicles.

AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Boundaries between work and family don’t just blur in the new CBS sitcom “Poppa’s House” starring father-and-son comedy duo Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. They shatter. The Wayans are surrounded at their work with brothers, nephews, nieces and siblings. The elder Wayans plays the titular Poppa, a

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump laced into Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats on Thursday in a pointed and at times bitter speech as he headlined the annual Al Smith charity dinner in New York. Trump, in remarks that often felt more like a rally performance than a comedy

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota woman will serve 25 years in prison in connection with the antifreeze poisoning death of her boyfriend last year. Ina Thea Kenoyer was charged with murder last October in connection with Steven Riley Jr.’s death due to ethylene glycol poisoning. Authorities said Riley believed he was to receive

AP Business Writer The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. moved higher for the third week in a row and reached the highest level since late August. The rate rose to 6.44% from 6.32% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, the rate averaged 7.63%. Mortgage rates are

Associated Presss WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Long Island funeral home owner has pleaded guilty to spraying wasp killer at police officers and assaulting two journalists, including an Associated Press photographer, during a mob’s riot at the U.S. Capitol nearly four years ago. Sixty-year-old Peter Moloney, of Bayport, New York, is scheduled to be sentenced

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man who worked for United Way in Massachusetts was convicted in federal court of taking $6.7 million from the nonprofit through an information technology company that he secretly owned. Fifty-nine-year-old Imran Alrai was convicted Wednesday in Concord, New Hampshire, of 12 counts of wire fraud and six counts of money

Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former New Hampshire state senator accused last year of fraudulently obtaining federal COVID-19 loans and spending the money on luxury cars was charged this week with stealing separate state pandemic relief funds. The attorney general’s office says Republican Andy Sanborn, of Bedford, was charged Wednesday with theft by

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — One Direction was one of the last boy bands from the age of mass-audience linear television and one of the first of the social media era. That helped propel them to a level of fame comparable to Beatlemania, but with the constant scrutiny of a world of smartphones and streaming.

AP Film Writer Actor and humanitarian Jane Fonda is adding the SAG life achievement award to her many accolades. The 86-year-old will be given the prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in February, the guild announced on Thursday. Fonda said in a statement that she was “deeply honored and humbled.” In her over six

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury has announced sanctions against two Chinese makers of drone engines and parts that the Biden administration says directly helped Russia build long-range attack drones used in the war in Ukraine. The U.S. has previously accused China of providing material support to Russia’s military-industrial base to sustain the

Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Africa’s top public health agency says the number of mpox-related deaths in the continent has surpassed 1,000 and warned of the continuing threat of cross-border contamination and a lack of rapid test kits. The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there were 50 mpox-related deaths in the

NEW YORK (AP) — Last Friday’s decisive fifth game of the National League Division Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres was the most-watched Major League Baseball postseason game on record in Japan, averaging an estimated 12.9 million viewers, according to MLB. The Dodgers’ 2-0 victory was the first time two Japanese

PARIS (AP) — Torrential rains and flooding have submerged roads and railways in central France, disrupting transportation in the region. National railway operator SNCF halted regional trains between the cities of Lyon and Saint-Étienne, saying the tracks were impassable. Train services are not expected to resume until Friday morning. A main highway between the two

Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors have called on the state’s highest court to allow them to retry Karen Read for murder in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, arguing against defense claims that jurors had reached a verdict against some of her charges before the judge declared a mistrial. Read is accused

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Yahya Sinwar masterminded an attack on Israel that shocked the world, unleashing a still-widening catastrophe with no end in sight. In Gaza, no figure loomed larger in determining the war’s trajectory than the 61-year-old Hamas leader. Obsessive, disciplined and dictatorial, he was a rarely seen veteran militant who learned Hebrew

Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s Senate has voted to remove Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office in an impeachment trial on corruption and other allegations, hours after the deputy president was taken to the hospital with chest pains. Senators approved five of 11 grounds for impeachment against Gachagua, making him the first sitting

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Ukraine’s former commander-in-chief, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, has expressed his support for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s “victory plan,” despite the tensions between the two that led to his dismissal in February. In his first speech as Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, the former armed forces chief endorsed the plan, which includes a

AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s National Book Awards 75th anniversary ceremony won’t only be a celebration of literature. Expect some laughs and some music, too. The National Book Foundation announced Thursday that Kate McKinnon of “Saturday Night Live” fame will host the Nov. 20 event at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan,

AP Health Writers BERGENFIELD, N.J. (AP) — At Sunshine Adult Day Center, every morning starts with a parade around the room. Today, the theme is multicultural, and the flag bearers have no shortage of countries: Philippines, India, Haiti, Mexico, United States. Most of them older adults, attendees dance through the room, waving streamers and banging

AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Orionids — one of two annual meteor showers from Halley’s comet — peak early Monday. A bright waning moon may make them difficult to spot. The Orionid meteor shower can be unpredictable. It shines like a fireworks display in some years, but is fairly slow in other years.