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BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors in Berlin say they have closed their investigation into the spectacular collapse of a huge aquarium last December after an expert report failed to pin down a reason why the tank burst. The AquaDom aquarium, which stood in a hotel lobby, burst in the early hours of Dec. 16, sending 1

By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Workers and volunteers at the Pan American Games were still removing bricks, pieces of wood and construction machinery from outside competition venues on the fourth of the largest multi-sport event in the region. Construction material is scattered around many of the entrances to the National

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has visited troops deployed near the border with Israel and U.N. peacekeepers as Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops clash for a third week. Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s visit Tuesday to the tense southern province is the first since clashes erupted along the border

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A new shot for infants against RSV is in short supply, and U.S. health officials are telling doctors they should prioritize giving the drug to babies at the highest risk of severe disease. The one-time shot is called Beyfortus. It was developed by AstraZeneca and

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — First it was Ford, then Stellantis, and now a General Motors factory has been added to the growing list of highly profitable plants where the United Auto Workers union is on strike. On Tuesday, about 5,000 workers walked out at GM’s factory in Arlington, Texas, that

MADRID (AP) — The parties forming Spain’s acting government say they will push for a 37½-hour workweek.  The coalition partners struck the agreement on Tuesday as they try to remain in power following an inconclusive election in July. Spain has had a 40-hour workweek for the past two decades. The proposal is for Spain to

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer Formula One fanatics will get more behind-the-scenes access to the global motorsports series through a new CNBC documentary that explores the business aspects of the highest form of racing in the world. The documentary “Inside Track: The Business of Formula 1” will debut Nov. 16 on CNBC ahead

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson says the damage done to an undersea telecoms cable between Sweden and Estonia was “purposeful,” but has declined to give any details. A spokesman for the Swedish Navy said that divers saw “seabed tracks nearby, but we don’t know if it’s deliberate or an accident.” Swedish authorities

By WILL WEISSERT and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Attorney and prominent conservative media figure Jenna Ellis pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony charge over efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia, tearfully telling the judge she looks back on that time with “deep remorse.” Ellis, the fourth defendant in

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — You’d be hard pressed to find a rap duo doing it like City Girls, bringing life-affirming, pretty-girl scam rap to the masses. A lot has changed since their 2018 debut “Girl Code” and their feature on Drake’s “In My Feelings.” “RAW,” JT and Yung Miami’s

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — The office of Slovakia’s president says she is ready to swear in a new Cabinet led by a former populist prime minister after a coalition partner agreed to replace its nominee for environment minister known for not believing in climate change. President Zuzana Caputova is set to appoint the new government

WESTPORT, Conn. (AP) — The body of one of two boaters who went missing in the Long Island Sound off Connecticut has been recovered. Westport Police Lt. Eric Woods says the remains of Juan Gabriel Valle Pineda were found at 4:30 p.m. Monday by Bridgeport Fire Department staffers. The 38-year-old Pineda, of Spring Valley, New

By JOSÉ ANTONIO RIVERA and MARÍA VERZA Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Residents of Mexico’s once glamorous port of Acapulco and surrounding coastal towns braced for the arrival of the “potentially catastrophic” Hurricane Otis, a rapidly intensifying Category 5 hurricane that stirred memories of a 1997 storm that killed dozens of people. “A nightmare

Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Local authorities say at least 50 people have been kidnapped in two separate incidents within two days in northern Cameroon. The kidnappings occurred Sunday and Monday by an unknown armed group near the border with Chad. Abductions in this area happen often, but locals say the scale of these

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Family, friends and fellow law enforcement officers gathered Tuesday to bid farewell to a Philadelphia police officer killed in an airport parking garage shooting that also wounded another officer earlier this month. Fifty-year-old officer Richard Mendez and another officer saw several people breaking into a car in the parking lot at Philadelphia

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Police officers in suburban Milwaukee have killed a man who fired at them from a middle school roof. Officials with the state Department of Justice say officers with the Germantown Police Department responded Monday evening to a man acting erratically in Kennedy Middle School’s parking lot and trying to enter

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The gas-rich nation of Qatar has become a key intermediary over the fate of more than 200 hostages held by Hamas militants after their unprecedented attack on Israel, once again putting the small Arabian Peninsula country in the spotlight. The negotiations have also thrust Qatar into a

By NICOLE WINFIELD and VANESSA GERA Associated Press ROME (AP) — The pope has accepted the resignation of a Polish bishop whose diocese has been rocked for weeks by reports of a gay orgy in a priest’s apartment. The Vatican didn’t give a reason for the bishop’s resignation, but his diocese has been in the