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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A prosecutor says a former Missouri police chief who resigned amid accusations he assaulted a father who tried to drown a young daughter in 2018 has now been sentenced to prison for attacking his ex-wife in a separate domestic dispute. The Kansas City Star reports former Greenwood chief Greg Hallgrimson

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — An ambitious 2021 agreement by more than 140 countries and territories to weed out tax havens and force multinational corporations to pay a minimum tax has been weakened by loopholes and will raise only a fraction of the revenue that was envisioned, a tax watchdog backed

By ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s military spokesperson says the Iraqi military and Kurdish Peshmerga forces have briefly clashed in a dispute over the control of a strategic military post, killing three. The dispute Sunday was over who controls three vacated posts previously in the hands of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Authorities say a man accused of fatally shooting a 15-year-old last year was beaten by members of the teen’s family during a courtroom melee in San Antonio, Texas. Eighteen-year-old Victor Rivas is charged with murder in the May 2022 death of Ethan Soto. Rivas was in a Bexar County courtroom on

By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A premature baby squirms inside a glass incubator in the neonatal ward of al-Aqsa Hospital in the central Gaza Strip. He cries out as intravenous lines are connected to his tiny body. A ventilator helps him breathe as

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A manhunt for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a Maryland judge continued for a fourth day Sunday as authorities completed a search of an area where the suspect’s car was found. Officials said Pedro Argote is suspected of gunning down Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson in his driveway Thursday,

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State athletic director Alan Haller said he has suspended an employee involved in allowing Adolf Hitler’s image to be shown on videoboards before playing No. 2 Michigan. The employee, who was not named, will be paid pending an investigation that will help to determine potential action in the future.

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — A decade after swimming nonstop for more than two straight days from Cuba to Florida, Diana Nyad has returned to the Key West beach where she completed her epic journey. Nyad and her former support team helped mark the swim’s 10th anniversary Sunday by helping return a rehabilitated sea turtle

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Sunday that the United States expects the Israel-Hamas war to escalate through involvement by proxies of Iran, and they asserted that the Biden administration is prepared to respond if American personnel or armed forces

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In a movie match-up almost as unlikely as “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” Martin Scorsese took on Taylor Swift in cinemas over the weekend. And while the box office belonged for a second time to “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” got

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Local authorities in Congo say st least 28 people drowned after a boat capsized in the Congo River in Equateur province. An administrator for the territory said on state radio that the boat was traveling from Ngondo, an area approximately 74 miles from the province’s capital

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish officials and media are reporting that an American basketball player with a professional Polish women’s club has been badly beaten, sustaining a head injury. Mikayla Cowling, who plays for VBW Arka Gdynia, was attacked late Wednesday in a music club in Gdansk, a city in northern Poland. The attack happened

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE AND CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is kicking off a weeklong visit to China focused on climate change. The Democratic governor’s trip begins Monday in Hong Kong. He’ll also travel to Beijing, Shanghai and the provinces of Guangdong and Jiangsu. California governors have a long

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s leading presidential hopeful has named outgoing President Joko Widodo’s eldest son as his running mate in next year’s election. The announcement late Sunday by Prabowo Subianto ended weeks of fevered speculation in the Indonesian media. Vice-presidential candidate Gibran Rakabuming Raka, 36, is mayor of Surakarta,

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah announced the deaths of five more militants as clashes along the Lebanon-Israel border intensified and the Israeli prime minister warned Lebanon on Sunday not to let itself get dragged into a new war. The tiny Mediterranean country is home to Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim political party

HELSINKI (AP) — Norway’s 86-year-old King Harald V has tested positive for the coronavirus and has mild symptoms. The king has been in frail health and had also tested positive in 2022, also with mild symptoms. The royal household said in a brief statement that his majesty has cold symptoms and stays at home. Prime

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A 5.2 magnitude earthquake and some aftershocks have damaged nearly two dozen houses near Nepal’s capital. An official says the shaking also caused a landslide in the region. The area is nearly 60 kilometers (40 miles) west of Kathmandu, and the earthquake was felt in the Nepalese capital. Nepal’s National Earthquake

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press Family, friends and some of Michigan’s top elected officials paid respects Sunday to a Detroit synagogue president who was found fatally stabbed at her home. Police are investigating but say no evidence has been found to show antisemitism was a motive. Samantha Woll is being remembered as a generous leader

By SYLVIE CORBET and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Thousands of people joined vigils in Berlin and London on Sunday to oppose antisemitism and support Israel, while in Paris and other cities, thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators demanded a cease-fire and relief for people in the besieged Gaza Strip. Some of those who gathered