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By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Lawyers for a spiritual adviser to an Alabama inmate scheduled to be executed with nitrogen gas next month said in a complaint filed Wednesday that restrictions on how close the adviser can get to the inmate in the death chamber are “hostile to religion.” The Rev.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County prosecutors say two men who spent decades in prison for crimes they didn’t commit have been exonerated and freed. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office says a judge on Wednesday found the men factually innocent of the crimes. DA George Gascón apologized to both men during a

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green was suspended indefinitely by the NBA on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after he hit Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurkic in the face and received a Flagrant 2 foul and ejection. The league said the penalty handed down by

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Senate has approved the appointment of Justice Minister Flávio Dino to take a seat on the country’s Supreme Court. The former leftist state governor was approved Wednesday for the court of 11 justrices on a vote of 47 to 31. The vote came after a

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Lawyers for three Washington state officers charged in the death of a Black man who was beaten, shocked and hogtied facedown on a sidewalk have made their final arguments to the jury. The prosecution followed with a rebuttal and the judge dismissed the panel for the

DALLAS (AP) — A Texas woman who cut off her ankle monitor and fled the country while awaiting trial last year has been found guilty of murder in the fatal stabbing of a 23-year-old Seattle woman. She was sentenced to life in prison. A jury in Dallas convicted Lisa Dykes of murder and tampering with

By JUAN A. LOZANO and CHEYANNE MUMPHREY Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas high school Black student who has been disciplined and kept away from his classroom for months for refusing to change his hairstyle is not likely to be back with his regular classmates anytime soon. Efforts by Darryl George’s attorney to ask

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed a defense policy bill that authorizes the biggest pay bump for troops in more than two decades. But the bill also leaves out some of the policy priorities that social conservatives were clamoring for, making for an unusually divisive debate over what is

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — She’s Time magazine’s person of the year. She’s the most-played artist globally on Spotify. She’s helmed the first tour to gross more than $1 billion and then the highest-grossing concert film of all time. And now Taylor Swift can add one more accolade: A

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian appeals court has overturned all convictions against a woman 20 years after a jury found her guilty of killing her four children. Kathleen Folbigg was pardoned at the New South Wales state government’s direction and released from prison in June based on new scientific

MONACA, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania police officer has been indicted on involuntary manslaughter and other charges after prosecutors say he pushed and fatally injured a man at a shooting scene. The state Attorney General’s Office announced the indictment Wednesday against John Hawk, who served with the Center Township police department. The victim was a

By BETH HARRIS and RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writers LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani can opt out of his $700 million, 10-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers if either of two key executives is no longer in place, a person familiar with the agreement told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Ohtani, who will

By RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge says Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway will not be allowed to use allegations that billionaire Jimmy Haslam tried to bribe employees at the Pilot truck stop chain as Berkshire defends itself in a trial over Pilot’s accounting practices. Wednesday’s ruling came in a

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Country singer Luke Combs is making amends to a disabled Florida woman who sells tumblers online after she was ordered to pay him $250,000 when she got snared in a crackdown his lawyers launched against companies that sell unauthorized merchandise with his image or name on it. Combs in an Instagram

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Dick Nunis, who helped expand The Walt Disney Company’s in-person entertainment ambitions from a single theme park in California to locations around the world, has died. He was 91. Disney said in a statement Wednesday that Nunis died in Orlando, Florida, surrounded by family. It gave no cause of death. Nunis

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The first tropical cyclone to hit Australia in the current season has weakened to a low pressure system but continues to lash the northeast coast with flooding rain. Almost 40,000 homes and businesses are without power. Cyclone Jasper crossed the Queensland state coast late Wednesday as

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Somalia’s president says his son didn’t flee Turkey after he was involved in a fatal highway crash in Istanbul, and adds that he has advised his son to go back and present himself to court following the issuance of an arrest warrant. President Hassan Sheikh

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Western New Mexico University President Joseph Shepard is being questioned by some state lawmakers about spending on overseas trips and his wife’s use of a university credit card. Shepard was among higher education officials who testified Wednesday before a key panel of lawmakers as the

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A stranger accused of breaking into the home of a Detroit synagogue leader was charged with her murder Wednesday, nearly two months after her body was found outdoors with multiple stab wounds, authorities said. There was not a “shred of evidence” that Samantha Woll was killed as