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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man who served 37 years in prison for the shooting deaths of two people in the 1980s has been released from prison after his conviction was overturned. The Democrat and Chronicle reports Michael Rhynes left the Attica Correctional Facility on Tuesday afternoon following a court appearance in Rochester.

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea and Russia have clashed with the United States, South Korea and their allies at an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting on Pyongyang’s latest intercontinental ballistic missile launch, which it called “a warning counter-measure” to threats from the U.S. and other hostile forces. North

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice says the owner of a Kansas company has pleaded guilty in a conspiracy to illegally export aviation-related technology to Russia. Court records show Cyril Gregory Buyanovsky pleaded guilty Tuesday to a single count of conspiring to commit crimes against the U.S.

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The mother of a 10-year-old child who was sentenced by a Mississippi judge to three months of probation and a book report for urinating in public has refused to sign his probation agreement and has asked for the charge against her son to be

NEW YORK (AP) — Southwest Airlines and its pilots reached a tentative labor agreement after three-and-a-half years of negotiations, the last of the four major airlines to reach a deal with pilots. The Dallas-based carrier said Tuesday it was pleased to reach the agreement in principle, which it called a “key milestone.” Specific terms of

By MANUEL RUEDA and ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian authorities say two children from the West African nation of Guinea were abandoned in Bogota’s airport and taken into government custody this week after spending several days on their own in the international departures terminal. Colombia’s national immigration department said the children,

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Migrant families and their advocates marched outside New York City Hall on Tuesday to demand Mayor Eric Adams end his plan to limit the number of days newly arrived immigrants can remain in city-run shelters. The late afternoon demonstration at City Hall Park was in response

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Survivors of a massacre in central Mexico told investigators that a group of people turned away from a holiday party returned later with gunmen who killed 11 and wounded 14. Navigio Agustín Gallardo Romero, a Guanajuato state prosecutor, said Tuesday that nine men and two women were killed in the attack

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — Two former youth counselors charged in the death of a teenager more than three years ago who was restrained at a Michigan youth home have been sentenced to 18 months probation. Battle Creek residents Michael Mosley and Zachary Solis pleaded no contest in March to involuntary manslaughter in the May 1,

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE, Associated Press and RUBENS VALENTE, Agencia Publica JACI-PARANA, Brazil (AP) — Authorities in a western Brazil state are taking aim at deforestation of the Amazon with a slew of lawsuits against slaughterhouses and farmers accused of illegally raising cattle in a protected area. The lawsuits seek millions of dollars for environmental damage

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate unanimously confirmed 11 top-ranking military officers late Tuesday, ending a months-long blockade staged by a single Republican, Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama. Without debate, the Senate swiftly confirmed the military officials, including four-star generals, whose promotions and family livelihoods had been held up by the GOP senator protesting the Defense

WASHKISH, Minn. (AP) — A light plane carrying ice anglers broke through thin ice as it tried to land on a large lake in northwestern Minnesota. Upper Red Lake is considered one of Minnesota’s premier ice fishing lakes, but the ice remains thin amid warm weather. It’s the same lake where authorities had to rescue

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say a man accused of slashing people with a large knife while riding a bicycle on a rail trail in Philadelphia is now a person of interest in the cold-case slaying of a medical student that occurred among a series of high-profile sexual assaults two decades ago. Forty-six-year-old Elias Diaz is

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — Ron DeSantis wrinkled his face as he talked to reporters Tuesday and declared a Federal Elections Commission complaint filed against his presidential campaign “a farce.” “I mean, give me a break,” DeSantis said after headlining a morning campaign event in Iowa. It was the latest

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Security Council has voted unanimously to start the withdrawal of the U.N. peacekeeping force from Congo before the end of the year as the conflict-ridden country prepares to elect its next president on Wednesday. The council resolution adopted Tuesday orders “the gradual, responsible and

By MOHAMMED JAHJOUH and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza (AP) — She was born amid war, in a hospital with no electricity in a southern Gaza city that has been bombarded daily. Her family named her al-Amira Aisha — “Princess Aisha.” She didn’t complete her third week before she died, killed in an Israeli

DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit police officer has been charged with manslaughter in the death of a 71-year-old man who fell to the ground after he was punched in the face. Daryl Vance of Detroit died in September after three weeks in a hospital. The prosecutor’s office says Vance was punched during a “verbal confrontation”

By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Kalen DeBoer landing the job at Washington two years ago seemed to be an unheralded transaction at the time. It has turned out to be a shrewd decision by the Huskies. One might say it’s been perfect. DeBoer was named The Associated Press coach of the

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged with murder in the killing of hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas is seeking to be released to house arrest ahead of his trial in June. A Nevada judge on Tuesday set a Jan. 2