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By MATTHEW LEE and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday condemned the weekend attack by Hamas militants on Israel as the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust as the number of U.S. citizens killed in the fighting ticked up to at least 22. “This attack was a campaign

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A court in Slovakia found former President Andrej Kiska guilty of tax fraud and gave him a two-year suspended sentence. The county court in the city of Poprad also handed him on Wednesday a fine of about $16,000. The verdict is not final and his legal team says he plans to

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifteen young women from around the United States have been recognized by the White House for their advocacy on a range of issues to improve their communities. Many of those issues are priorities for the White House, too. They range from lobbying for tighter gun laws and

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA on Wednesday showed off its first asteroid samples delivered last month by a spacecraft — a jumble of black dust and rubble that’s the most ever returned to Earth. Scientists anticipated getting a cupful but are still unsure how much was grabbed from

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Democratic challenger in the Mississippi governor’s race has raised more campaign cash than the Republican incumbent so far this year, but the Republican has more money left to spend in the final weeks of the race, according to finance reports filed Tuesday. In a

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It has been 25 years since the body of Matthew Shepard was discovered in Laramie, Wyoming. The gay college student had been tied to a fence post, tortured and left to die. The incident drew national attention to violence against gay people. Theater director Moisés

By The Associated Press Brendan Malone, father of Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone and a driving force behind the Detroit Pistons “Bad Boys” defenses in the late 1980s and early ’90s, has died at age 81. A Nuggets representative told The Associated Press on Tuesday that a family member confirmed his death. “It is with

INDIANA, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a confrontation between several people at a private party inside a Pennsylvania community center led to gunfire that killed one man and wounded eight other people. Police say the shooting early Sunday inside the Chevy Chase Community Center in White Township sent people diving from windows and bolting through

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press DAJABON, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Dominican Republic has partially reopened its border with Haiti to limited commercial activity nearly a month after shuttering the frontier amid an ongoing spat over construction of a canal targeting water from a shared river. Vendors in Dominican border cities

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — From auto production lines to Hollywood, the power of labor unions is back in the national spotlight. But despite historic strikes and record contract negotiations this year, there’s a lot stacked against labor organizers today. Union membership rates have been falling for decades due to

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Lidia has dissipated after hitting land as a Category 4 hurricane near the resort of Puerto Vallarta. One person was killed by a falling tree, another drowned in a swollen river and two others were injured after the hurricane made landfall on Tuesday. Lidia carried winds as high as 140 mph

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A second conservative former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice asked to investigate taking the unprecedented step of impeaching a liberal justice has come out against it. Former Justice Jon Wilcox told The Associated Press on Wednesday that there is nothing to justify impeaching Justice Janet Protasiewicz, as

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A conservation group in Cyprus says police have been lax in cracking down on criminal gangs that illegally trap songbirds to supply restaurants. A spokesperson for the conservation group BirdLife Cyprus says that even though the poarching has declined overall, gangs with ties to the island nation’s criminal underworld continue to

NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction originally written in Vietnamese, Polish and French and poetry in German and Arabic are among this year’s finalists for National Translation Awards. On Wednesday, the American Literary Translators Association announced lists of six finalists in prose and poetry, with winning translators in each category receiving $4,000. The books include a

ALLENDALE, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutors are recommending a prison sentence for a former Republican candidate for Michigan governor. Ryan Kelley pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for his participation in the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot. He returns to federal court in Washington next week. Prosecutors say Kelley has shown no remorse. They want a three-month prison

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish court has fined climate activist Greta Thunberg once again for disobeying police during an environmental protest in July in southern Sweden. The Malmo District Court on Wednesday fined her 2,250 kroner ($206). Thunberg has been fined for a similar offense earlier. She took part in a July 24 environmental protest

Jada Pinkett Smith and husband Will Smith have lived what she says are “completely separate lives” since 2016. Pinkett Smith made the revelation in a interview with Hoda Kotb. The prominent Hollywood couple married in 1997 and have addressed separations and marital troubles. But never this specifically. Though it’s not a legal divorce, Pinkett Smith

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and conductor Rafael Payare are on a four-concert cross-country run that ends Friday night at Carnegie Hall. They met in 2009 at a rehearsal in Caracas, Venezuela, became a couple three nights later and were married in 2013. Getting them on the road

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In his two decades as a professional drug snitch, Jorge Hernández was a master of the double cross. He lied to his handlers, threatened to unmask fellow informants and even admitted killing three people during his days as a cocaine runner. But time

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — While John Carpenter has become synonymous with fictional horror storytelling, the 75-year-old director is dipping his toe into true life terrors with his new show, “John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams.” The director sat down with The Associated Press for a wide-ranging interview ahead of the release of