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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — No police officers will face criminal charges in the death of a man who fled a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburbs last year. Khalil Azad’s death was ruled an accidental drowning. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said Monday her office found no evidence of inappropriate behavior by law enforcement. Azad’s body

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — George Santos already has a new gig. The former congressman, fresh off his historic expulsion last week, has created a Cameo account where the public can pay for a personalized video message. Screenshots of his account — with the bio “Former congressional ‘Icon’!” — started to

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a man with four counts of murder for the fatal shootings of three homeless men in Los Angeles and a suburban resident last month. Prosecutors say Jerrid Joseph Powell faces other charges including robbery. The 33-year-old is scheduled to appear in court for arraignment later Monday. He was

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Niger’s junta has scrapped two key military agreements that the West African nation signed with the European Union to help fight violence in Africa’s Sahel region. Niger’s foreign affairs ministry made the announcement on Monday as senior government officials and a visiting Russian delegation discussed defense

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH. N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Black and Latino voters are suing in federal court to block enforcement of congressional districts that they argue unlawfully weaken minority voting power. The voters filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Monday, the same day the candidate filing for the state’s

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — U.S. auto safety regulators say they are monitoring data from a group of mostly unrecalled Takata air bag inflators after one of them exploded in a BMW and hurled metal fragments that seriously injured a driver in Chicago. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been

By PAUL J. WEBER and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas prosecutor is dropping most of the charges levied against police officers in Austin over tactics used during the 2020 protests that followed George Floyd’s killing. Monday’s announcement is a reversal for Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza, a progressive who

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s outgoing government says it will not support the signing of a long-delayed trade deal between the European Union and the South American bloc Mercosur during a summit this week in Brazil even though the incoming Argentine government has expressed support for the deal. Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero says the

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press The influence of fossil fuels was a focal point Monday at the United Nations annual climate conference known as COP28. The president of the talks, Sultan al-Jaber of the host United Arab Emirates, was on the defensive after video circulated of him questioning plans to phase out fossil fuels. He

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer UConn fell to its worst ranking in 30 years when the Huskies dropped to 17th in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll, The last time the Huskies were ranked this low was the second poll of the 1993-94 season when they were 18th. South Carolina remained the unanimous No.

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer It is Arizona’s turn to sit atop The Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll. The Wildcats rose to No. 1 in Monday’s poll for the first time in nearly nine years, making Tommy Lloyd’s squad the third team to hold the top spot this season. Last week’s

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A man accused of pretending to be a federal agent and offering gifts and free apartments to Secret Service officers has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison. The 41-year-old Arian Taherzadeh was sentenced Friday to 33 months in prison. He and a second man were

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration has halted construction of a temporary winter camp for migrants in Chicago while the state reviews the removal of soil contaminants at the former industrial site. The review comes with hundreds of migrants bused to the state from Texas over the

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Family members of three Black people who were killed this summer at a Dollar General store by a shooter who had posted racist writings have filed a lawsuit. They allege negligence, saying that lax security led to their loved ones’ deaths. The lawsuit against Dollar General subsidiaries and others claims the

TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey elementary school had an unexpected visitor over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. A man walking his dog on Nov. 25 saw a young deer smash through a window at the Cedar Grove Elementary School in Toms River, which is about 60 miles east of Philadelphia. When officers encountered

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys’ 41-35 victory over the Seattle Seahawks on Thursday night set a record as the most-streamed game in NFL history as well as setting a new mark as the most-watched game on Amazon Prime Video. The previous standard for both was the Sept. 14 game between the Minnesota Vikings

The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Protesters marching in Philadelphia against the bombardment of Gaza chanted about genocide Sunday outside an Israeli-style restaurant, leading Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro to call the demonstration “antisemitic.” In Philadelphia’s Center City and University City neighborhoods, hundreds of people marched to criticize Israel’s military actions in Gaza, The Philadelphia Inquirer

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United States has imposed sanctions on three Sudanese individuals accused of undermining “peace, security and stability” in the conflict-stricken African nation. The sanctions imposed by the Department of the Treasury on Monday block all property and entities owned by Taha Osman Ahmed al-Hussein, Salah Abdallah Mohamed

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A female tourist from Boston was killed Monday by a shark while paddleboarding in the Bahamas, police told reporters. The victim, who was not identified, was attacked less than a mile off the western end of New Providence island, where the capital, Nassau, is

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press More than $950,000 has been raised for the recovery of one of the three college students of Palestinian descent who was shot in Vermont and is currently paralyzed from the chest down, according to a GoFundMe page set up by his family. One of the bullets that hit Hisham Awartani