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DENVER (AP) — Firefighters in the Denver metro area have responded to the second large fire at an Aurora construction site in three days. Officials have not yet determined the cause for either fire and have not suggested that they were related. Both are under investigation. Saturday’s five-alarm fire was reported shortly before 1 p.m.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Maya Train rail project has opened partially to the general public with hours-long delays and huge cost overruns. Passengers waiting for the twice-daily train to leave the resort of Cancun on Saturday were left waiting on the platform for about four hours before being able to board. Officials apologized for

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British teenager Alex Batty flew back to the U.K. on Saturday, six years after he left home on what was meant to be a two-week family vacation in Spain. Batty never returned from that holiday to his grandmother and guardian in Oldham, near Manchester. Her frantic appeals

SEATTLE (AP) — A Washington state man already in jail awaiting trial in one murder case has been charged with three more killings. Prosecutors say he lured all four victims by asking them to help dig up buried gold. Forty-year-old Richard Bradley Jr. is scheduled to stand trial next month in the May 2021 death

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A Confederate memorial’s days at Arlington National Cemetery are numbered. A cemetery official says the memorial is to be removed from the northern Virginia cemetery in the coming days. It’s part of the push to remove symbols that commemorate the Confederacy from military facilities. The decision ignores a demand from some

By MITCH STACY AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI (AP) — Trailing 17-3 late in the third quarter behind an offense that had struggled to move the ball, the Bengals needed Jake Browning to be nearly perfect — and he was. Browning led Cincinnati to three fourth-quarter touchdowns and directed the winning drive in overtime in his

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press The stunning $148 million judgment against Rudy Giuliani over his lies about two Georgia election workers marks a new low point for the man once lauded as “America’s mayor.” Giuliani’s advocacy of Donald Trump’s false election claims has led to criminal charges and hefty legal bills. Friday’s verdict may

NEW YORK (AP) — A British man has pleaded not guilty in New York in connection with an alleged $99 million fraud involving high-priced wine and duped investors. U.S. Attorney Breon Peace’s office says Stephen Burton was extradited Friday to New York from Morocco, where he was arrested in 2022. Burton pleaded not guilty Saturday

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay about $54 million to settle discrimination claims brought by California’s civil rights agency on behalf of women employed by the video game maker. The California Civil Rights Department announced Friday that the settlement resolves allegations that the maker of

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is having surgery for a broken hip after falling at a concert in Los Angeles. The NBA Hall of Famer was attending a show Friday night when he was injured. Paramedics at the undisclosed venue responded and the 76-year-old was taken to a hospital. His business partner, Deborah Morales,

By HOLLY RAMER and BILL BARROW Associated Press DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — Donald Trump wants New Hampshire to help him pocket the Republican presidential nomination before any rivals find their footing with the 2024 campaign’s opening contest just weeks away. His appearance Saturday in Durham was part of a swing taking the former president through

Associated Press The rock band AC/DC has confirmed on social media that its original drummer Colin Burgess has died. He was 77. The Australian rocker was an original member of AC/DC when it formed in November 1973. The band fired him in February 1974 for being drunk on stage. He later said someone had spiked

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — A 13-year-old Ohio boy accused of planning a mass shooting at a local synagogue has been ordered to spend a year on probation. The Canton Repository reports that the Plain Township boy pleaded true, the juvenile equivalent of guilty, on Friday to misdemeanor counts of inducing panic and disorderly conduct. Authorities

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer The NFL has banned Eagles security chief Dom DiSandro from being on the sideline for the remainder of the regular season after he was ejected from a game earlier this month for a scuffle with 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw, two people familiar with the league’s decision told The

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) — A jury has convicted a man accused of firing a gun into a crowd following a high school graduation ceremony in Arkansas, killing one and injuring four others. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that following a five-day trial in Garland County Circuit Court, the panel deliberated for less than an hour

BOSTON (AP) — Patriotic mobs and harbor tea-dumping returned to Boston on Saturday as the city marked the 250th anniversary of the revolutionary protest that preceded America’s independence. The commemoration of the Boston Tea Party included scheduled reenactments of the throwing of tea leaves into the city’s harbor and community meetings that preceded the defiant

By JULIA FRANKEL and JALAL BWAITEL Associated Press BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem is gearing up for a subdued Christmas, without the festive lights and customary Christmas tree towering over Manger Square, after officials in Jesus’ traditional birthplace decided to forgo celebrations due to the Israel-Hamas war. The cancellation of Christmas festivities, which typically

BERLIN (AP) — The Russian-American writer Masha Gessen has received a German literary prize in a ceremony that was delayed and scaled down in reaction to an article comparing Gaza to Nazi German ghettoes. The comparison was viewed as controversial in Germany, which strongly supports Israel as a form of remorse and responsibility for murdering

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has dismissed the state’s challenge to a judge’s order that has blocked enforcement of Ohio’s near-ban on abortions for the past 14 months. The ruling moves action in the case back to Hamilton County Common Pleas, where abortion clinics asked Judge Christian Jenkins this week to throw