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By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Billy Porter is strutting off in an entirely new sonic direction on his fifth album. The Broadway, runway and TV star has pivoted to dance music. “Black Mona Lisa” sees Porter embrace club, house and old-school disco over 12 tracks, creating a warm, welcoming space

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Lockdowns at two of Wisconsin’s oldest and most understaffed prisons are being eased. The effort announced Tuesday by Gov. Tony Evers comes less than a month after inmates filed a federal lawsuit alleging that current conditions at the Waupun prison amount to cruel and unusual punishment.

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden has asked a judge to approve subpoenas for documents from Donald Trump and former Justice Department officials related to whether political pressure wrongly influenced the criminal case against him. Defense attorneys for President Joe Biden’s son say Trump pressured the Justice Department to investigate and

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Authorities says a 13-year-old Texas boy convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of a Sonic Drive-In employee has been sentenced to 12 years incarceration. Amy Pardo of the Johnson County Attorney’s office says a judge issued the sentence Tuesday following days of evidentiary hearings. Authorities have

LOS ANGELES (AP) — All five of Matthew Perry’s “Friends” co-stars are sharing more remembrances of the star in their first personal social media posts since the actor’s death last month. Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer each posted heartfelt notes about Perry, who died Oct. 28, on Instagram.

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A 35-year-old Texas woman has been found guilty in the May 2022 shooting death of rising professional cyclist Anna “Mo” Wilson. Kaitlin Armstrong was sentenced Thursday. She faces up to life in prison. Investigators say Armstrong gunned down Wilson in a jealous rage, then fled the

By SARAH BRUMFIELD, ERIK VERDUZCO and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A video circulating on social media shows a North Carolina police officer repeatedly striking a Black woman during an arrest while several other officers hold her down, and although the department contends that the officer was “intentional” about where he hit

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB AND ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Security and judicial officials say Lebanon’s military tribunal has released a man accused of killing an Irish United Nations peacekeeper almost a year ago on bail. Lebanon’s military tribunal in June charged Mohamad Ayyad and four others with the killing of Pvt. Seán Rooney,

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas is signaling that she’s willing to put her name forward for NATO’s top job when it falls vacant next year. Kallas, who has led the small Baltic nation as its first female head of government since January 2021, was at the Politico Defence Summit in Washington.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has ruled that a company must pay compensation to five Iranian victims of chemical weapons attacks by Iraq in the 1980s after the company did not show up in court to defend itself against claims it supplied raw materials for poison gas. The court in The Hague

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police say a U.S. tourist has died in the Bahamas after a catamaran carrying more than 100 people sank while traveling to a private island. Chief Superintendent Chrislyn Skippings says that the unidentified 74-year-old woman was from Broomfield, Colorado and was on a five-day

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A federal judge rejected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s request to have an upstate New York man convicted of sending her threatening voicemails pay $65,000 for her Georgia home’s security fence. Joseph Morelli pleaded guilty in February to threatening the Republican congresswoman in several calls in 2022 to her Washington, D.C., office.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s prosecution authority has appealed a ruling that acquitted a Russian-born Swedish businessman who had been accused of collecting information for Russia’s military intelligence service for almost a decade. The Stockholm District Court said advanced technology had been acquired and delivered to Russia but that Sergey Skvortsov’s activities were “not aimed at

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO has opted to buy six new E-7A Wedgetail surveillance planes built by U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing as it looks to update its eyes in the sky in coming years. NATO’s fleet of 14 AWACS aircraft are outdated and expensive to maintain. But their large fuselage-mounted radar domes can detect aircraft hundreds

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The Albanian government has put forth a draft law on a contentious deal with Italy to jointly process some asylum applications of migrants arriving in Italy by sea. Earlier this month, Prime Minister Edi Rama and Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni announced a five-year deal in which

ETNA, Ohio (AP) — In stories published November 15, 2023, and November 16, 2023, about a fatal bus crash in Ohio, The Associated Press erroneously reported the last name of one of the victims, based on information obtained from the Ohio State Highway Patrol. It was John W. Mosley, not Mosely.

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Voting on a tentative contract agreement between General Motors and the United Auto Workers union that ended a six-week strike against the company appears too close to call after the latest tallies at several GM factories were announced Wednesday. The union hasn’t posted final vote totals

By BERENICE BAUTISTA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Édgar Barrera is one of the most in-demand people in music. He’s worked with everyone from Madonna and Shakira to Peso Pluma and Karol G. He has one Grammy and 18 Latin Grammys already to his name, and is the top nominee at Thursday’s 2023 Latin

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — For years, the Houthi rebels controlling northern Yemen have chanted slogans at their mass rallies calling for the destruction of Israel. But they never acted on it until the Israel-Hamas war began on Oct. 7. Since then, the Iran-backed Shiite Muslim force has launched at least six