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By STEFANIE DAZIO and JULIE WATSON Associated Press THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — California authorities are seeking help as they investigate the death of a 69-year-old Jewish man after a confrontation at a pro-Palestinian demonstration. The Ventura County Sheriff’s Department says Paul Kessler died Monday at a hospital from a head injury, a day after

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is endorsing former President Donald Trump in the Republican presidential race. Sanders said in a statement Monday that she supports Trump, whom she served as White House press secretary. The two are expected to appear together Wednesday at a rally

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The field of candidates onstage for the third Republican presidential debate will be the smallest yet. The Republican National Committee says five candidates will participate in Wednesday night’s debate in Miami. They are Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki

By MATTHEW BROWN and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A jury has acquitted another Denver-area police officer who put Elijah McClain in a neck hold before the Black man was injected with the powerful sedative ketamine by paramedics and died. It was the second of three trials against first responders indicted by

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says 22 U.N. peacekeepers in a convoy withdrawing from a rebel stronghold in northern Mali were injured when vehicles hit improvised explosive devices on two occasions on Saturday. There have now been six incidents since the peacekeepers left their base in Kidal on Oct. 31 for the estimated 350 kilometer

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has once again failed to agree on a resolution about the Israel-Hamas war. Despite hours of closed-door talks on Monday, differences remained among Security Council members on how to prevent more civilian deaths in Gaza. The U.S. is calling for “humanitarian

CALUMET CITY, Ill. (AP) — Officials in a suburban Chicago community have dropped municipal citations against a local news reporter for what they say were persistent contacts with city officials seeking comment on treacherous fall flooding. The reversal Monday occurred days after officials in Calumet City mailed several citations to Hank Sanders, a Daily Southtown

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A scuba dive boat captain was convicted Monday of criminal negligence in the deaths of 34 people killed in a fire aboard the vessel in 2019, the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history. Jerry Boylan, 69, was found guilty of one count of misconduct or

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press The insurer for the city of Fairbanks, Alaska, has agreed to pay a total of nearly $5 million to three of the four Indigenous men who argued they were illegally imprisoned for almost two decades on a murder conviction. The convictions of the so-called Fairbanks Four in a teenager’s 1997

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for the Horn of Africa is warning that the conflict between Sudan’s army and rival paramilitary force now in its seventh month is getting closer to South Sudan and the disputed Abyei region. Hanna Serwaa Tetteh pointed to the paramilitary Rapid

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota is suing the state of South Dakota over a law that restricts content on vanity plates. The ACLU said Monday that it filed the lawsuit on behalf of a man whose application for a personalized license plate was initially

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Nashville mayor’s office has called on the city’s legal team to investigate the possible unauthorized release of the writings of the shooter who indiscriminately opened fire at the private Nashville school in March. Mayor Freddie O’Connell issued the statement on Monday shortly after conservative radio

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A glitch in the network that processes electronic transfers between nearly all U.S. bank accounts has led to delays in settling deposits, some of which remain stalled. That’s according to the private company that operates the system. The Clearing House Payments Co. said Monday that a technical error on Thursday resulted

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Teachers in Portland, Oregon, have entered the 4th day of a strike. Schools remained closed Monday after negotiations between the teacher’s union and the district failed to advance over the weekend. Disagreements over the district’s budget are a main sticking point. The district says it doesn’t have enough funding for the

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, LISA MASCARO and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans have released a sweeping set of U.S. border security proposals as a condition for sending more aid to Ukraine, laying out a draft plan to resume construction on parts of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, curtail humanitarian parole for people

SEATTLE (AP) — Authorities say a 17-year-old boy wanted in the fatal and apparently random shooting of a passenger who was resting on a Seattle bus last month has turned himself in. Miguel Rivera Dominguez faces a first-degree murder charge in what prosecutors called “the senseless execution of a total stranger.” The King County Sheriff’s

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Backstage at the second Los Angeles show of Lauryn Hill and the Fugees’ anniversary tour, Pras Michel was optimistic. Sunday night was a celebration of his landmark group, of the generations who have loved their music and of his freedom, however much remains. In April,

By BEN FINLEY and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia NAACP says Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration lacks clear standards for how it restores voting rights for convicted felons who served their sentences. The group said Monday that many are frustrated and unable to vote in Tuesday’s nationally watched state elections. The

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Reporter SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Invest in Kids private school scholarship program in Illinois expires Dec. 31 and supporters want the General Assembly to reauthorize it when it meets for its final three days this week. Critics want the program to sunset, saying there’s no evidence it improved student