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ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities said the second of four men who escaped from a central Georgia jail last month has been captured. The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that a team of local, state and federal law enforcement officers arrested 25-year-old Marc Kerry Anderson just before 3 p.m. Friday at an

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Less than a week after his death, a foundation has been established in the name of Matthew Perry to help people dealing with addiction. The Matthew Perry Foundation was announced and began accepting donations on Friday. Perry often spoke publicly about his struggles with drug and alcohol abuse. The former “Friends”

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has requested guidance from the state’s Supreme Court about conflict-of-interest rules for lawmakers. Several weeks ago, South Dakota state lawmaker Jessica Castleberry resigned and agreed to repay the $500,000 in federal COVID-19 relief she received for her day care business. Castleberry violated a state Supreme

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles police say a California legislator was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving. Jail records show Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo was held on a misdemeanor offense. Carrillo says in a statement Friday morning that she crashed into parked cars and no one was hurt. Carrillo was

By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Tensions are high in Rio de Janeiro on the eve of the Copa Libertadores soccer final following a brawl between fan clubs and a fierce police response on the Copacabana beach. The incident marred the excitement ahead of the game between Brazil’s Fluminense and Argentina’s

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Helicopters and ground troops rushed to help people hurt in a strong earthquake that shook districts in northwestern Nepal just before midnight Friday, killing at least 128 people and injuring dozens more, officials said Saturday. Authorities said the death toll was expected to rise, noting that

MAINZ, Germany (AP) — German soccer club Mainz has terminated the contract of Dutch forward Anwar El Ghazi following his social media posts about the Israel-Hamas war. The announcement came two days after El Ghazi disputed the club’s version of events when it lifted an earlier suspension. The 28-year-old El Ghazi previously played for PSV

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student in Virginia can press forward with her $40 million lawsuit against a school system over claims of negligence by school administrators, a judge ruled Friday. The surprise decision by Newport News Circuit Court Judge Matthew Hoffman

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Even Christiane Amanpour felt it was odd that CNN’s best-known international journalist had little visible presence on the company’s North American network for the past several years. But that’s about to change. Amanpour will host a weekly hour starting Saturday, part of a revamped weekend

BY EMMANUEL IGUNZA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities in Kenya say heavy rains and flooding ravaged parts of the country, sweeping away homes and livestock and destroying roads and electric transmission lines. At least two people were killed and at least one was missing. One of the victims died after a house collapsed

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A series of lawsuits challenging former President Donald Trump’s ability to run for his old job raise the question of what, exactly, is an insurrection. A rarely used section of the Constitution says no one who swore an oath to the document but then

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Three federal judges in North Dakota have dismissed a lawsuit brought by Republican district officials who alleged that the consideration of race was unconstitutional in the creation of state House subdistricts that included ones encompassing tribal nations. The two GOP district officials filed their lawsuit last

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether a Trump era-ban on bump stocks, the gun attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns, violates federal law. The justices will hear arguments early next year over a regulation put in place by the

By ISABEL DEBRE and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The on-air outburst of grief by Salman al-Bashir seemed to channel the mood of all Gaza. From the crowded halls of Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip, al-Bashir was reporting late Thursday on the stream of wounded and dead Palestinians

By KEN MAGUIRE AP Sports Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Travis Kelce has declined to discuss Taylor Swift’s status for Sunday’s game in Germany — and their status as a couple. The Chiefs tight end spoke at a press conference but wouldn’t say whether the pop star plans to attend the game against the Miami

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and PATRICIA LUNA Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile’s President Gabriel Boric faces a deeply polarized country, rising crime and a divisive upcoming vote on a new constitution. But his life is like a dream while attending the Pan American Games in his country’s capital. Boric drew loud applause at the

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina city is paying a $500,000 settlement to a man whose treatment by a police officer during what turned out to be a false arrest led to days of protests. An attorney for Travis Price says the city of Rock Hill defamed Price by

By DENISE LAVOIE and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Garrett is among four male candidates to run for state legislative seats in Virginia this year who’ve been accused of physical violence against women. Garrett has reentered politics after leaving Congress almost five years ago so he could

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A government agency in Jamaica found that security forces were not wearing body cameras when they fatally shot or injured more than 100 people in the Caribbean island this year. The Independent Commission of Investigation said Thursday that only one body camera was worn during the 106 incidents reported