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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police are searching for a suspect in the fatal shootings of three homeless people in separate incidents around the city. Police Chief Michel Moore said Friday that all three shootings occurred in the early morning hours over several days in November. He says each victim was shot and killed

JOSHUA GOODMAN MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. has expelled a former Chilean Army officer accused of torturing and killing folk singer Victor Jara during the country’s bloody 1973 coup. Pedro Barrientos had emigrated to Florida in 1990, the same year the bloody dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet came to an end. In 2016, Earlier this

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal jury in Illinois has delivered a verdict of $17.7 million in damages to several major food manufacturing companies who sued egg producers over a conspiracy to limit the supply of eggs in the U.S. years ago. That amount is tripled to more than $53 million

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby; Ron Dermer, Israeli minister of strategic affairs; Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Kirby; Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate; Allyson Felix, Olympic gold medalist and Black maternal health advocate. ___ CBS’ “Face the

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The weapons supervisor on the film set where Alec Baldwin shot and killed a cinematographer in 2021 has waived her arraignment in a separate case, pleading not guilty to a charge of carrying a gun into a Santa Fe bar. Hannah Gutierrez-Reed had been set to appear in court next

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council has voted to end its political mission of a few hundred people dedicated to ending the civil war in Sudan. Russia abstained from the unanimous vote to end UNITAMS, the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan. The United States’

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it will temporarily close south and northbound traffic to vehicle and pedestrians at the remote Lukeville, Arizona border crossing with Mexico. The agency said Friday that beginning on Monday its Office of Field Operations will shut down the port to

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — An appeals court has ruled that the Florida Legislature didn’t violate the state constitution when it approved congressional maps pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis last year. Friday’s decision reverses a lower court ruling that the map that helped the GOP replace a Black Democratic representative

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The government of Venezuela and a faction of the opposition have agreed on a process through which aspiring presidential candidates who were banned from running for office can attempt to get that decision reversed. The agreement was released late Thursday by negotiators from each side

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Canada’s First Quantum Minerals Ltd. has announced it will start arbitration proceedings to fight the closure order of an open-pit copper mine in Panama, or possibly obtain damages. First Quantum says one arbitration was filed under the Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement. It says it has also started proceedings before the International

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Olympic gold medalist swimmer Klete Keller has been sentenced to six months of home detention for joining the mob’s Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon sentenced him Friday to three years of probation and ordered him to perform 360 hours

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Attorneys for the victims of a racist episode of police torture say new policies unveiled by a Mississippi sheriff’s department this week were introduced so the sheriff can escape liability in a civil lawsuit and forestall a new federal probe. With criminal sentencing for

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press Friday was a day for speechmaking at the United Nations annual climate conference known as COP28, as heads of state each gave short speeches to deliver their views on the planet’s climate crisis, what their nation is doing and what they think others should do. It was also a day

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — An alternative California mental health court has received more than 100 petitions after seven counties began the program in October. CARE Court was created by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom to address the homelessness crisis. The law enables family members and first responders to file a petition

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer A group of female athletes has filed a federal lawsuit against the University of Oregon alleging Title IX violations by the school. Thirty-two women, all varsity beach volleyball and club rowing athletes, are plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which accuses the school of depriving women of equal treatment and

ATLANTA (AP) — A protester was in critical condition Friday after setting themself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta, authorities said. A security guard who tried to intervene was also injured. A Palestinian flag found at the scene was part of the protest, Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said at a news conference.

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press Derek Chauvin was stabbed in prison 22 times by a former gang leader and one-time FBI informant who told investigators he targeted the ex-Minneapolis police officer because of his notoriety for killing George Floyd, federal prosecutors said Friday. John Turscak was charged with attempted murder a

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The International Red Cross has suspended the Belarusian chapter after its chief stirred international outrage for boasting that it was actively ferrying Ukrainian children from Russian-controlled areas to Belarus. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies halted the membership Friday of the Belarus

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The family of a 22-year-old woman who died in an apartment fire in Kansas’ largest city following mistakes by the 911 dispatch center says the center has systemic issues. The statement from Paoly Bedeski’s family in Wichita was reported by The Wichita Eagle two days after the local firefighters union called

By MATT BROWN Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — At a moment of record visibility and influence for Black attorneys in the United States, debates over race, criminal justice and democracy are increasingly at the center of the public conversation. Many of these Black litigators and law enforcement officials have made history, from the White House