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By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Hamas officials have joined members of Nelson Mandela’s family in laying wreaths at a statue of the statesman and Nobel Peace Prize winner in South Africa to mark the 10th anniversary of his death. Former Hamas minister Basem Naim is part of a delegation

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY Associated Press A Texas high school sent a Black student back to in-school suspension Tuesday for refusing to change his hairstyle, renewing a monthslong standoff over a dress code policy the teen’s family calls discriminatory. The student, Darryl George, was suspended for 13 days because his hair is out of compliance when

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Lawyers and family members of three Black people who were fatally shot during a racially motivated attack at a north Florida Dollar General blamed the national chain for not providing security to protect customers and employees. They announced Tuesday that they are suing the store’s landlord, operator and security contractor for

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An aide says that Poland’s former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, 80-year-old Lech Walesa has been hospitalized with a bad case of COVID-19. A post on Walesa’s Facebook Tuesday shows him on hospital bed with an oxygen mask on. The aide said he’s seriously ill, but under good care in

MADRID (AP) — Lawyers for the woman accusing Dani Alves of sexual assault are asking for the maximum sentence of 12 years in prison for the Brazilian soccer player. The woman’s lawyers filed the request two weeks after prosecutors sought a nine-year prison sentence for Alves. Alves is set to face trial over allegations he

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore grand jury has indicted a teenager and his parents on allegations they brought a gun to a high school campus and beat up a student shortly before classes were set to begin. The indictments say the attack occurred Oct. 27 and escalated into a shootout between the son and another

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has signed a bill that spends half-a-billion in taxpayer dollars to help the Milwaukee Brewers cover stadium repairs over the next three decades. The governor signed the bill Tuesday at American Family Field. The team says the 22-year-old baseball stadium’s glass outfield doors,

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate in a single stroke Tuesday approved about 425 military promotions after Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama ended a monthslong blockade of nominations over his opposition to a Pentagon abortion policy. Tuberville had been under pressure from members of both sides of the political aisle to

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A judge has again issued an arrest warrant for the owner of a former Vermont firearms training center, ruling that he failed to bring his property into compliance and is in contempt of court. The town of Pawlet had attempted unsuccessfully to get owner Daniel Banyai to remove structures he built

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — David Schultz’s semi-truck was found two weeks ago on a rural highway in northwest Iowa, its trailer still filled with baby pigs he was transporting. Schultz’s wallet and phone were inside, and his jacket was on the side of the road. But Schultz was nowhere

By STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson tells fellow Republicans that sweeping changes to U.S. border policy will be their “hill to die on” in negotiations over President Joe Biden’s nearly $106 billion package for the wars in Ukraine and Israel and other security needs. Johnson delivered

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris broke a nearly 200-year-old record for casting the most tiebreaking votes in the Senate when she voted Tuesday to advance the confirmation of a new federal judge in Washington, D.C. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, called

By GISELA SALOMON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A former confidential informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has pleaded guilty to conspiring to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, whose killing in 2021 caused unprecedented turmoil in the Caribbean nation. Joseph Vincent pleaded guilty Tuesday. He is the fourth of 11 defendants in Miami to

MILAN (AP) — Milan prosecutors have identified six suspects who allegedly aided the escape from Italian custody of a Russian national a day after a court ruled in favor of extraditing him to the United States to face sanctions-busting charges. The son of the governor of Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia was arrested as he

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare punitive move against Israel, the State Department said Tuesday it will impose travel bans on extremist Jewish settlers implicated in a rash of recent attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the step after warning Israel

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia state senators are advancing a new congressional map that would maintain a 9-5 GOP edge in the state’s delegation. The Senate voted 32-22 to pass the plan, which seeks a wholesale reconfiguration of a suburban Atlanta district now represented by Democrat Lucy McBath. It goes to

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Rep. Patrick McHenry won’t seek reelection to the U.S. House next year after all. McHenry presided temporarily over the House for three intense weeks this fall while Republicans struggled to elect a permanent speaker after Kevin McCarthy’s ouster. McHenry’s decision not to seek

By TARA COPP and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Air Force Special Operations Command has recovered the remains of six of the eight service members who were lost when their Osprey aircraft crashed off the coast of Japan last week. It says it is focused on recovering the two bodies still missing and

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of the social network X, has shared a video in which Argentina’s President-elect Javier Milei says equality should never come before freedom. It’s a sign of how some notable conservatives are closely watching the incoming libertarian head of state. Milei replied saying, “We need to

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Body camera video of a deputy who was fired and arrested in South Carolina shows him punching a man several times in the head after a car chase. The man is knocked briefly unconscious and the officer asks after handcuffing him if he enjoyed his nap.