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By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un supervised drills involving the firing of nuclear-capable multiple rocket launchers to show the country’s ability to carry out a preemptive attack on rival South Korea. State media on Friday cited Kim as saying the drills would show “what

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge on Thursday granted Mark Zuckerberg’s request to be dropped from a lawsuit that alleges his company has failed to protect young users from exposure to child sexual abuse material. The case is one of many filed by states, school districts and

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, MICHELLE L. PRICE and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — History happened just as everyone was about to leave for the day. Judge Juan M. Merchan had already summoned Donald Trump, his legal team and prosecutors into the courtroom where the former president has been on trial

BY FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press NKANDLA, South Africa (AP) — Some young South Africans in a poor, rural area of rolling hills were determined to vote in Wednesday’s national election. Turning peer pressure on its head, they encouraged each other to register as voters, before flocking to polling stations on election day. They say they

By STEVE KARNOWKSI and MARK THIESSEN Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis police officer was killed when he responded to a shooting call and was providing medical attention to a man who shot him in what authorities are calling an ambush. Minneapolis Assistant Police Chief Katie Blackwell says the suspected gunman and another person

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The divided U.N. Security Council has voted to extend an arms embargo on South Sudan despite appeals from the world’s newest nation, the African Union and half a dozen countries including Russia and China to lift or at least ease the restrictive measure. The U.S.-sponsored

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Having been convicted of 34 felonies, Donald Trump cannot own a gun, hold public office or even vote in many states. But in 158 days, voters across America will decide whether he will return to the White House to serve another four years as

SOUTHINGTON, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut state trooper has been killed after getting hit by a car while making a traffic stop on an interstate highway. Connecticut State Police say Trooper First Class Aaron Pelletier was fatally struck by a passing vehicle while outside his cruiser on I-84 in Southington around 2:36 p.m. Thursday. He

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Labor wants a federal judge to prevent Hyundai and two other Alabama companies from what the government contends is the illegal employment of children. The complaint filed Thursday follows an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division. It said it found a 13-year-old working on an

MIAMI (AP) — Two Citgo oil executives detained for nearly five years in Venezuela have sued their former employer for more than $400 million. The lawsuit filed Thursday in Houston alleges the company conspired to lure brothers Alirio and Jose Luis Zambrano to the South American country under a false pretext and then abandoned them

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis teenager has been sentenced to more than 30 years for a fatal shooting that shut down the Mall of America during the holiday shopping rush in 2022. Nineteen-year-old Taeshawn Adams-Wright pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in March in the killing of 19-year-old Johntae Hudson, of Minneapolis. The shooting happened the

By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bears are set to be featured on “Hard Knocks” for the first time. HBO and the NFL announced Thursday the founding NFL franchise was chosen for the 19th edition of the Emmy-winning series that first aired in 2001. Chairman George McCaskey had long resisted

By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Bruhat Soma insisted he was nervous during the idle hours as he waited to take the Scripps National Spelling Bee stage, and he felt even more pressure to perform given that he hadn’t lost a spelling bee in eight months. He never showed any nerves

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JILL COLVIN, MICHELLE L. PRICE and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts marks the end of the former president’s historic hush money trial, but the fight over the case is far from over. Now comes the sentencing and the potential for

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has been found guilty on all 34 counts in his criminal hush money trial. It is the first time a former president was ever tried or convicted in a criminal case, and is the first of Trump’s four indictments to reach trial. At the heart of the

By MARCO DI MARCO Associated Press GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Lava continues to spurt from a volcano in southwestern Iceland but the activity has calmed significantly from the eruption the previous day. Scientists say the eruption on Wednesday was the fifth and most powerful since the volcanic system near Grindavik reawakened in December after 800

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Donald Trump may be convicted of a felony and reside in Florida, a state notorious for restricting the voting rights of people with felony convictions. But he can still vote as long as he stays out of prison in New York state. That’s because Florida defers to

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) — Police in Colorado say a man’s sturdy necklace probably saved his life by blocking a bullet fired at his neck. The bullet lodged in the almost half-inch-wide, silver-colored, metal chain during the shooting Tuesday night in Commerce City, a suburb north of Denver. Commerce City police say the shooting happened

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, are slumping before the opening bell after former President Donald Trump was convicted in his hush money trial. A New York jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally