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By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has been increasingly pressuring Congress to pass stalled legislation to support Ukraine’s war against Russia, saying that funding has run out. On Tuesday, however, President Joe Biden touted a new military aid package worth $200 million for Ukraine. Money is dwindling. But the

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The recent shootings of three college students of Palestinian descent in Vermont’s largest city come as the small rural state, often ranked as one of the nation’s safest, is grappling with a spike in gun violence. Two days after the students were shot and seriously wounded

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A panel of federal appeals court judges has heard arguments on whether charges against Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in a sprawling Georgia election case should be moved. They are expressing some skepticism that the relevant statute applies to former officials. Meadows says his

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Anyone who has suspected that there are more women than men where they live, or vice versa, will find fodder for their suspicions in new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Whether it refutes or confirms their suspicions likely depends on where they live. Women outnumber men in the largest

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Verdicts are expected Saturday for a cardinal and nine other defendants in the most complicated financial trial in the Vatican’s modern history: a case featuring a Hollywood-worthy cast of characters, unseemly revelations about the Holy See and questions about Pope Francis ’ own role in the

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After Donald Trump attended South Carolina’s annual Palmetto Bowl, video of the crowd chanting “We want Trump!” as the former president arrived at Williams-Brice Stadium spread across conservative social media. It was much the same two weeks earlier when the GOP front-runner attended an Ultimate Fighting

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is pushing hard to reassert his populist party’s dominance in this weekend’s early parliamentary and local elections that observers say are being held in an atmosphere of intimidation and media bias. The vote in the troubled eastern European country on Sunday pits

By GARY FIELDS and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a politically polarized nation, Americans seem to agree on one issue underlying the 2024 elections — a worry over the state of democracy and how the outcome of the presidential contest will affect its future. They just disagree over who poses the threat.

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A boy, his face coated in fresh blood, screams as rescuers try to pull him out of the rubble of a destroyed building following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. A bruised, elderly Israeli hostage is taken away by Hamas in a golf cart as

By BEN FINLEY and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher in a Virginia classroom was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for felony child neglect by a judge who chastised her for abdicating her responsibilities as a parent. Deja Taylor’s sentence

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials say members of the country’s security forces and five militants have been killed after insurgents attacked a regional police headquarters and two military posts. The attacks early Friday came three days after a suicide bomber in the same region rammed his car into a

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy has unveiled a budget plan that would pay residents an oil-wealth dividend of about $3,400 next year and use savings to plug an estimated $990 million deficit. The proposal does not include an increase in the per-student K-12 school funding formula,

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The captains of a smuggling boat that capsized off California last year, killing three people, have been sentenced to federal prison. Jorge Armando Preciado-Vasquez and Alexis Martinez-Preciado were each given more than 4 years in prison Thursday. Authorities said they were piloting a boat containing seven adults and a child over

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — California energy regulators have voted to allow the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant to operate for an additional five years, despite calls from environmental groups to shut it down. The California Public Utilities Commission agreed Thursday to extend the shutdown date for the state’s last functioning nuclear power facility through

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. government said Thursday it plans to spend $1 billion over the next decade to help recover depleted populations of salmon in the Pacific Northwest. It also committed to helping figure out how to offset the hydropower, transportation and other benefits provided by four controversial dams

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An attorney for Idaho has asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit seeking clarity about the medical exemptions to the state’s broad abortion bans. He said Thursday it was based on hypothetical situations rather than current facts. But an attorney for the four women and

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania are rejecting legislation to send more than $33.5 million to the University of Pennsylvania’s veterinary school over criticism that the Ivy League school has tolerated antisemitism. The bill’s defeat is perhaps the starkest example of how some lawmakers and governors are trying

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Supreme Court has heard arguments in a lawsuit filed by Republican state senators who boycotted the Legislature earlier this year and want to run for reelection. The GOP senators are challenging the Secretary of State’s interpretation of a voter-approved constitutional amendment aimed at stopping