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By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A trial has begun for a man charged with using a flaming torch to intimidate counterprotesters during a gathering of white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia, seven years ago. The trial of 29-year-old Jacob Joseph Dix, of Clarksville, Ohio, began Tuesday. The case is the

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BEERSEL, Belgium (AP) — The far-right Flemish Interest party had set up the demonstration in the picture-pretty rolling fields south of Brussels, ahead of the four-day European Union election starting Thursday. The goal was clear: Decrying how farmers would lose fertile land to what they see as overbearing environmentalists trying

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press UBERABA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil has hundreds of millions of cows, but one in particular is extraordinary. Her massive, snow-white body is watched over by security cameras and an armed guard. Worth $4 million, Viatina-19 FIV Mara Movéis is the most expensive cow ever sold at auction, according to Guinness

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press UBERABA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil has hundreds of millions of cows, but one in particular is extraordinary. Her massive, snow-white body is watched over by security cameras, a veterinarian and an armed guard. Worth $4 million, Viatina-19 FIV Mara Movéis is the most expensive cow ever sold at auction, according

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea have taken steps to suspend a contentious military agreement with North Korea and resume front-line military activities. The South Korean moves on Tuesday come as tensions between the rivals are rising over the North’s recent launch of trash-carrying balloons. South Korea’s Cabinet Council

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Officials say an 83-year-old woman was gored and seriously injured by a bison in Yellowstone National Park. Park officials said in a statement that the woman from Greenville, South Carolina, was near the Storm Point Trail at Yellowstone Lake on Saturday when the bison lifted her off the ground

NEW YORK (AP) — The chief financial officer of The Epoch Times, a conservative multinational media company, has been indicted in a multi-year scheme to launder tens of millions of dollars in fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits and other funds. Arrested on Sunday, Weidong “Bill” Guan, 61, of Secaucus, New Jersey, appeared Monday before a federal

By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China said its lunar spacecraft unfurled the country’s red and gold flag for the first time on the far side of the moon before part of the vehicle blasted off early Tuesday with rock and soil samples to bring back to Earth. The mission was hailed

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — President Joe Biden laid into his predecessor and likely opponent in November’s election, Donald Trump, for being convicted by a Manhattan jury on 34 felony counts related to hush money payments, saying Monday night that “this campaign has entered uncharted territory.” Speaking at

By VICTORIA MILKO and DITA ALANGKARA Associated Press DAMARAN BARU, Indonesia (AP) — In a lush jungle at the foothills of a volcano in Indonesia’s Aceh province, the song of gibbons in the trees mixes with the laughter of the seven forest rangers trekking below them. An hour into their patrol, the rangers spot another

By KRUTIKA PATHI, SHEIKH SAALIQ and DAVID RISING Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s National Democratic Alliance coalition has won a majority in parliament, according to official results from India’s Election Commission. Modi had already declared victory for his alliance earlier Tuesday, claiming a mandate to push forward with his agenda,

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A conservation group says it intends to sue two U.S. agencies, saying they failed to properly assess the environmental impacts of the sprawling electric vehicle plant Hyundai is building in Georgia. The Ogeechee Riverkeeper said in a letter dated Monday that the U.S. Army Corps of

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A progressive Minnesota prosecutor who was elected on a platform of police accountability has reluctantly dropped charges against a state trooper who fatally shot a Black man after a traffic stop. Following months of heavy criticism, even from the state’s Democratic governor, Hennepin County

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A young boy sitting behind his father on the House floor has become the latest social media star after performing for the C-SPAN cameras. Republican Rep. John Rose of Tennessee was giving a serious speech Monday, criticizing last week’s conviction of former President Donald Trump in a

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Vince Fong of California has been sworn into Congress after winning a special election to complete the remainder of the term of deposed former U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Fong was a member of the California State Assembly before running for the House. He was backed

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Two young brothers and their cousin were wandering through a fossil-rich stretch of the North Dakota badlands when they stumbled across a T. rex bone poking out of the ground. The trio announced their discovery publicly as workers at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science prepare to begin chipping

ELY, Minn. (AP) — Law enforcement officials have found the bodies of two men who went over a waterfall while fishing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of northern Minnesota. The sheriff’s department in St. Louis County, Minnesota, says it found 40-year-old Lino Lake resident Reis Melvin Grams’ body Monday. Authorities located the remains

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is looking past resistance from key Israeli officials as he presses Israel and Hamas to agree to a three-phase agreement that could immediately bring home dozens of Israeli hostages, free Palestinian prisoners and perhaps even lead to an endgame in the nearly eight-month-old Gaza

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The dogs were quick and precise. One located the drugs and neutralized the person carrying them. Another found explosives hidden under a car tire. The dogs — Dayco, Amanda, Apolo, Zeus and Maly — were showing their skills Monday at a military intelligence brigade ceremony south of Ecuador’s capital of Quito

By JACK DURA and SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press South Dakota voters will decide again on whether to legalize recreational marijuana. Secretary of State Monae Johnson’s office on Monday validated the measure for the November general election ballot. It will be the third time South Dakota voters have weighed in on the question. In 2020, voters