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HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas judge has ruled that Infowars host Alex Jones cannot use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying more than $1.1 billion to families who sued over his conspiracy theories that the Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax. U.S. District Judge Christopher Lopez of Houston issued the ruling Thursday. It’s another defeat

By IGNACIO MARTÍNEZ Associated Press CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Norma is heading for the resorts of Los Cabos at the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula, while Tammy grew into a hurricane in the Atlantic. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tammy’s maximum sustained winds grew to 80 mph that Norma

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Estonian officials say damage to an undersea gas pipeline and telecom cable connecting Finland and Estonia was caused by people, but it remains unclear who was behind it and whether it was deliberate. Estonian and Finnish investigators are looking into vessels in the area at the time of the damage earlier

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Angry protesters in Cape Town have confronted the king and queen of the Netherlands as they visited a museum that traces part of their country’s 150-year involvement in slavery in South Africa. King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima were leaving the Slave Lodge building when

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine says it has recovered 14 archaeological items allegedly stolen by a Russian man who was stopped at a U.S. airport on suspicion of illegally importing artifacts. Ukraine’s acting minister of culture said the man stole the artifacts from Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory and then tried to

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer CVS Health is pulling from its drugstore shelves some cough-and-cold treatments that contain an ingredient that has been deemed ineffective by doctors and researchers. The company said it will remove a small number of products that contain phenylephrine as the only active ingredient. CVS also said it will still

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany needs to start deporting “on a large scale” migrants who don’t have the right to stay in the country, adding to increasingly tough talk on migration since his coalition performed badly in two state elections earlier this month. Scholz’s comments were published Friday, as a leading German

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — The Eagles and the NFL might still be the sports favorites at Calvary Baptist Church, just outside Philadelphia. But many here are also rooting for a neighboring team which last year reached the championship game of Major League Soccer. Their new-found fandom is all about

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A new documentary “Uncharitable,” from “Paris Trout” and “Losing Isaiah” director Stephen Gyllenhaal, puts the long-running debate in the nonprofit sector over the role of overhead back in the spotlight. It tells the story of longtime advocate Dan Pallotta, who pioneered the idea of fundraising through

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dove Cameron’s new single starts with the sound of maniacal laughter and then a piano riff that could have been swiped from “The Phantom of the Opera.” She’s just getting started. The song “Lethal Woman” is a club banger about a woman “sharp as a

BEIJING (AP) — A top Chinese envoy says that China and Russia share the same position on the Palestinian issue and plan to try to work together to cool the situation and help establish a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians. China’s special envoy to the Middle East spoke after a meeting Thursday in

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities say a stampede in Kenya during celebrations to mark an annual public holiday killed at least four people on Friday and injured 100 others. Police said the stampede happened when thousands of people struggled to get inside Kericho stadium in western Kenya at dawn on Friday. The stadium was the

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Cuts to U.N. funding for refugees living in Rwanda is threatening the right to education for children in more than 100,000 households who have fled conflict from different East African countries to live in five camps. A Burundian refugee told The Associated Press on Thursday how

By The Associated Press Thousands of people in Muslim countries and beyond have held demonstrations in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, calling for an end to Israel’s blockade and Israeli airstrikes. Demonstrators headed to Israeli military checkpoints after Friday prayers in the West Bank and gathered in Iraq and in Jordan, in locations

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government has decided against canceling a Chinese company’s 99-year lease on strategically important Darwin Port despite U.S. concerns that foreign control could be used to spy on its military. The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet said on Friday after an investigation of the

By ALFIAN KARTONO Associated Press JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua province have killed a construction worker and seriously injured three others in an attack at a construction site. Nineteen other workers were unharmed “but experienced trauma” from the attack, which occurred on Thursday, according to a statement from a police spokesperson.

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he spoke by phone with President Joe Biden about future U.S. support for Ukraine. Zelenskyy said late Thursday he spoke to Biden by phone about “a significant support package.” The U.S. president is expected to ask Congress on Friday for billions

By JESSE BEDAYN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press/Report for America COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado funeral home where 189 decaying bodies were discovered this month appears to have fabricated cremation records and may have given families fake ashes, according to information gathered by The Associated Press from customers and crematories. The families that

By ISABEL DEBRE and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — When Omar Khodari and his family heeded the Israeli military’s warning last week advising them to head from the northern Gaza Strip to the south, they thought they were fleeing to a safer place. They figured they would wait out the

By GARANCE BURKE and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hospitals and health care systems are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to help summarize doctors’ notes and analyze health records. But a new study led by Stanford School of Medicine researchers cautions that popular chatbots are also perpetuating racist, debunked medical ideas. That