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By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Charlize Theron remembers the moment her role in philanthropy clicked into place. The Oscar-winning actress had been talking with community leaders in her homeland of South Africa about how they could tackle the AIDS epidemic there. “We heard them say, ‘We know what to do,

By ZEKE MILLER and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is taking stock one year out from Election Day and thinks it can hold the White House by framing the 2024 race around many of the same themes it used in 2020. In a strategy memo obtained by The

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say the United States is expected to deliver $425 million in new military aid to Ukraine for its fight against Russia. It includes about $300 million in long-term funding to buy laser-guided munitions designed to take out drones. Officials say the

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press A judge’s order for a new primary in Connecticut’s largest city because of alleged absentee ballot fraud captured on surveillance video is fueling skepticism about the security of U.S. elections, as well as conspiracy theories involving the 2020 presidential election. But election experts in Connecticut contend what happened in Bridgeport

By MEAD GRUVER, DAVID KOENIG and LOLITA BALDOR Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A pilot accused of threatening to shoot an airline captain if they diverted to give a passenger medical attention is an Air Force Reserve lieutenant colonel who had been relieved of command for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. The U.S. Supreme Court

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A key figure in thwarting planned oil and carbon-capture pipelines in the U.S. Midwest and an Indonesian environmentalist devoted to protecting forests have been named recipients of this year’s Climate Breakthrough awards. The prizes are named after a nonprofit, San Francisco-based climate-action organization. Jane Kleeb

By JULIA FRANKEL and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press BUREIJ REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (AP) — The gray film covering the faces of children rushed to Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza Thursday made it hard to distinguish between the living and the dead. After two Israeli airstrikes flattened an entire block of apartment buildings in the

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Breonna Taylor’s neighbor recalled her horror as police bullets flew into her apartment near her sleeping son as a federal trial for the former Louisville officer who fired those shots began Thursday. Brett Hankison fired 10 shots during the botched raid in March 2020 that left

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The CEO of the National Association of Realtors is stepping down nearly two months before his planned retirement. The move comes just two days after the trade group was dealt a punishing judgement in federal court over its rules on real estate agent commissions. The

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Former President Donald Trump has asked a federal appeals court to lift a gag order restricting his speech about potential witnesses, prosecutors and court staff in the case that accuses him of scheming to overturn his 2020 election loss. Trump’s attorneys urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The House approved a nearly $14.5 billion military aid package Thursday for Israel, a muscular U.S. response to the war with Hamas but also a partisan approach by new Speaker Mike Johnson that poses a direct challenge to Democrats and President Joe Biden. In a departure

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (AP) — The Indiana Supreme Court has determined the state’s attorney general engaged in attorney misconduct in statements he made about a doctor who provided an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim. The case sparked national attention in the weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v.

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts State Police say a man killed a woman, left her body in a car in Boston, then boarded a flight for Kenya. Police say the body of 31-year-old Margaret Mbitu of Whitman was discovered about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in a parking garage at Logan International Airport. Investigators have identified the suspect

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Authorities in the Seattle area are searching for a 17-year-old boy they say shot and killed a passenger on a city bus last month. Newly filed charging documents describe the killing as “the senseless execution of a total stranger.” Miguel Rivera Dominguez was charged Wednesday with first-degree

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers have launched an investigation into the troubled jail in Atlanta where former President Donald Trump surrendered in August. A state Senate subcommittee tasked with studying the Fulton County jail system held its first hearing Thursday. The county’s main jail opened in 1989 in a neighborhood

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — State funds covered at least three trips to Prague by a former North Dakota lawmaker who has been charged with traveling to the city in Czech Republic to have sex with a minor, according to a group that organized the travel. Travel records from the North

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s lawmakers have approved the new government’s first supplemental budget, which includes huge allocations for SUVs and houses for the president, his wife and other public officials, sparking anger and criticism from citizens in one of the world’s poorest countries. Already, the country’s National Assembly recently

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says Washington wants to build an economic relationship with Beijing that takes into account national security and human rights and is fair to both sides. In laying out the Biden administration’s economic approach toward the Indo-Pacific region, Yellen says Washington does not seek

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer A newly unredacted portion of the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against Amazon says the company used a secret algorithm that essentially helped the company raise prices on other online sites. It also alleges Amazon executives intentionally deleted internal communication during the agency’s investigation into the company by using