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By KEN MILLER Associated Press Police say a dead longhorn cow was found on the lawn of an Oklahoma State University fraternity in Stillwater. The discovery of the dead animal on Friday on the lawn of the FarmHouse fraternity comes the day before the school’s football team plays the University of Texas Longhorns in the

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — A government minister says more than 30 people are trapped under rubble at an open-pit mine in Zambia after part of a waste pile was thought to have collapsed on them. Home Affairs and Internal Security Minister Jack Mwiimbu said Friday that it happened in the city of Chingola, in Zambia’s

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — The governing body of gymnastics in Europe voted against allowing Russian and Belarusian gymnasts to return to international competitions, calling into question how they could qualify for next year’s Olympics. The International Gymnastics Federation is allowing Russians and Belarusians to return as “individual neutral athletes” without national symbols from Jan. 1,

By BETH HARRIS Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Audra McDonald will serve as grand marshal of the 135th Rose Parade next year. The actor and singer was introduced Friday in Pasadena, California. The six-time Tony Award winner will ride the 5 1/2-mile parade route down Colorado Boulevard on New Year’s Day. McDonald will be

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Nearly a week after three college students of Palestinian descent were shot and seriously wounded while taking an evening walk, relatives of two of the victims have arrived in Vermont from the war-torn West Bank, grappling with a new reality that has shattered their lives and

By ED WHITE Associated Press An appeals court has upheld the disorderly conduct convictions of actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and then lying about it to Chicago police. Smollett who appeared in the TV show “Empire,” which filmed in Chicago. He challenged the role

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Regulators voted on Friday that New England’s long-shuttered shrimp business, which fell victim to warming waters, will remain in a fishing moratorium indefinitely. The shrimping business was based mostly in Maine and produced small, pink shrimp that were a winter delicacy in New England and across

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Developers of a proposed nickel ore processing plant in North Dakota that would supply electric automaker Tesla have reached a deal with the U.S. Department of Energy on how to spend nearly $115 million the federal agency awarded the project last year. The Bismarck Tribune reports that the agreement was the

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — For the first time in 11 years, Katie Ledecky has lost a 400-meter freestyle race in an American pool. Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh took the title at the U.S. Open championships in Greensboro, North Carolina. McIntosh took the title in a meet record of 3 minutes, 59.42 seconds. Ledecky touched next,

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s King Charles III has caused some raised eyebrows by wearing a tie adorned with a pattern of Greek flags to the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. He chose the neckwear after a diplomatic spat between the U.K. government and Greece over the Parthenon Marbles. The king’s late father, Prince Philip, was

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Parents of school shooting victims in Tennessee can seek a court order to keep the writings of the shooter from ever being released to the public. The Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the parents, the Covenant School and Covenant Presbyterian Church all have a

By SARA MELINI Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Three magistrates of Guatemala’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal have left the country, hours after the country’s Congress opened them up to prosecution by stripping them of their immunity. It’s part of the continuing effort to interfere with the results of the presidential election. Guatemala’s immigration agency confirmed

BEVERLY HILLS, Mich. (AP) — A University of Michigan graduate is suing the state over the loss of his revered “G0BLUE” car license plate. Joseph Hardig III says the plate has been on family vehicles for years. But he was told it was assigned to another car owner when he recently tried to renew it

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation is slowing steadily, but it’s too early to declare victory or to discuss when the Federal Reserve might cut interest rates, Chair Jerome Powell said. Powell noted that consumer prices, excluding volatile food and energy costs, rose at just a 2.5% annual rate in the

NEW YORK (AP) — Climate protesters caused a pair of interruptions totaling 22 minutes during the opening night of a revival of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” at the Metropolitan Opera. Christian Gerhaher, making his Met Opera debut, was singing Wolfram’s second-act aria on Thursday night in which he says “before me a miraculous spring appears” when people

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group has attacked several Israeli army posts along the border. And two Lebanese citizens were killed when Israel shelled a village in southern Lebanon. Friday’s attacks were the first by Hezbollah along the Lebanon-Israel border since the start of a truce last week between

By DAVID KOENIG and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A teenage girl and her parents are suing American Airlines, saying that a flight attendant secretly filmed her using an airplane toilet. In a lawsuit filed Friday, lawyers for the family say American should have known the flight attendant was a danger. They say

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Detroit-area businessman Sandy Pensler announced in a campaign video Friday that he will run for U.S. Senate in Michigan. It will be Pensler’s second GOP bid for a Senate seat in Michigan. He previously lost the Republican primary for that seat by over 9 percentage points

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — State agriculture officials have confirmed a new case of cattle anthrax in southwest North Dakota, bringing the number of cases in the state to 25 this year. The case in Grant County is the first reported in the state since August. The disease is caused by bacterial spores that can lie

By The Associated Press Sandra Day O’Connor’s influence could best be seen in the Supreme Court’s court’s rulings on abortion. In one such decision, she balked at letting states outlaw most abortions, refusing in 1989 to join four other justices who were ready to reverse the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that said women have