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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Norma has formed off Mexico’s western Pacific coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Tuesday that Norma may grow into a hurricane and head toward the resort of Los Cabos, on the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. Norma may reach Los Cabos by the weekend. On Tuesday,

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two deer struggling in the waters of southeast Alaska’s famed Inside Passage finally made it to land, thanks to two Alaska Wildlife Troopers who gave the deer a lift in their boat. Sgt. Mark Finses and trooper Kyle Feuge were returning from a patrol in nearby

By RUSS BYNUM and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Leonard Cure was trying to make up for lost time in the three years since his release from prison after Florida officials concluded he had been wrongfully convicted of armed robbery. Now authorities in Georgia are investigating a traffic stop Monday that ended

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans showed their steadfast resilience and kept spending in September even as they grappled with higher prices, interest rates and a host of other headwinds piling up. Retail sales rose 0.7% in September, more than twice what economists had expected, and close to a revised

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has released footage of some of the more than 180 intercepts of U.S. warplanes by Chinese aircraft that have occurred in the last two years — more than the total amount over the previous decade and part of a trend U.S. military officials called concerning.

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Jurors have delivered split verdicts in a case that stemmed from the search for a 3-year-old boy who went missing from Georgia. The boy was found dead hundreds of miles away at a squalid compound in northern New Mexico. The boy’s father was convicted Tuesday

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press New York (AP) — A former New York stock broker who fled his job and family to fight alongside Islamic State militants in Syria has been sentenced to life in prison. Ruslan Maratovich Asainov was sentenced on Tuesday. He previously was convicted of aiding the terrorist group as a sniper

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — Prosecutors say a Denver area police officer who put Elijah McClain in a neck hold before he was injected with ketamine by paramedics bears responsibility for the Black man’s 2019 death. The claim in opening statements Tuesday in the trial of Nathan Woodyard

By JONATHAN MATTISE and MARIA SHERMAN Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Maren Morris has filed for divorce from her husband Ryan Hurd, citing the prominent country music couple’s “irreconcilable differences” after five years of marriage. Morris filed the divorce complaint in Nashville circuit court on Oct. 2, writing that the couple have been separated

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The subsidiary of a Chinese-owned company has been ordered by Arkansas to divest itself of 160 acres of agricultural land under a new law. The order announced by Arkansas on Tuesday is the the first such action under a wave of new laws restricting foreign

By RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana coroner says authorities have identified an Indianapolis man as the ninth presumed victim of a long-deceased suspect in a string of killings in the 1980s and 1990s. Hamilton County Coroner Jeff Jellison said Tuesday that a bone recovered in 1996 on Herbert Baumeister’s Indianapolis-area property

By ARON HELLER Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Yaniv Zohar, a former Associated Press videojournalist and beloved colleague who covered conflicts and major news in his native country for three decades, was killed in his home during Hamas’ bloody cross-border rampage on Oct. 7 along with his wife and two daughters. He was

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A draft congressional report on Brazil’s Jan. 8 riots on Tuesday accused ex-President Jair Bolsonaro of being the insurrection’s mastermind and recommended he be criminally charged with attempting to stage a coup. The report by Sen. Eliziane Gama followed months of hearings by a committee

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about the trial of members of an extended family in New Mexico on federal kidnapping charges. The story erroneously said four members of the family were convicted. Three members of the family were convicted on kidnapping charges Tuesday.

By The Associated Press Britney Spears wrote that she had an abortion while dating Justin Timberlake more than 20 years ago, according to a peek inside her hotly anticipated memoir. “If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it,” she writes of the procedure, according to the excerpt from

By COLLEEN LONG, AAMER MADHANI and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s efforts to tamp down tensions in the escalating war between Israel and Hamas faced major setbacks even before he departed for the Middle East on Tuesday, as Jordan called off the president’s planned summit with Arab leaders after a

WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — An email exchange made public this week shows that a prison guard had warned convicted murderer Danilo Cavalcante was planning to escape a month before the act was carried out. Cavalcante escaped from the Chester County Prison in Pennsylvania on Aug. 31. He eluded a massive manhunt for two weeks

By JIM SALTER and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The estimated future cost to clean up 19 sites contaminated by nuclear waste from the Cold War era has risen by nearly $1 billion in the past seven years. That’s according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A prosecutor says a Tennessee sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot a 21-year-old man during a traffic stop won’t be criminally charged. Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy told news outlets on Tuesday that the deputy clearly ordered Jarveon Hudspeth not to reenter his vehicle, but he did so and started to

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Republican candidate for governor of Michigan has been sentenced to two months behind bars for joining a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper on Tuesday also ordered 42-year-old Ryan Kelley to pay a $5,000 fine for his misdemeanor conviction stemming