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By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s main opposition says it will present new evidence to support its court challenge seeking to overturn this year’s presidential election, saying it can show the declared winner provided faked academic credentials to authorities. First runner-up Atiku Abubakar and his lawyer alleged Thursday that President Bola

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — FTX’s co-founder has begun to tell a New York jury that he and Sam Bankman-Fried committed financial crimes and lied to the public before the cryptocurrency trading platform collapsed last year. Gary Wang started testifying in Manhattan federal court late Thursday, the first of three former

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign says at least two protesters upset about the Republican presidential candidate’s remarks in opposition to aid for Ukraine purposely rammed his car in Iowa in retaliation on Thursday, but police say there is no evidence to support the

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal customs agents pooh-poohed the plans of an Iowa woman who wanted to make jewelry from giraffe feces she picked up on a trip to Kenya and brought back to the U.S. in her luggage. The woman declared the small box of feces when she was selected to have her belongings inspected

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A former Hartford police officer accused by his own department of lying to get an arrest warrant and inflating his traffic enforcement stats has been criminally charged with perjury, forgery and computer crime. A police spokesperson said Thursday that Michael Fallon turned himself in Tuesday at the department. He was released

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Most of the reaction to the death of a rail worker who mistakenly stepped in front of two CSX locomotives last month has focused on whether the 19-year veteran should have seen the train coming. Rail unions say more attention should be put on the

Associated Press Fundraising software company Blackbaud agreed Thursday to pay $49.5 million to settle claims brought by the attorneys general of 49 states and Washington, D.C., related to a 2020 data breach that exposed sensitive information from 13,000 nonprofits. Blackbaud provides fundraising software to universities, hospitals, religious organizations and other nonprofits. Indiana Attorney General Todd

By DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press PUEBLA, Mexico (AP) — The mayor of New York City is in Puebla, Mexico, thanking migrants for their contributions to his city, but telling them it is already full. Eric Adams is visiting the city just outside the nation’s capital as part of a four-day trip to Latin America that

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Dartmouth College lawyers say the Ivy League school’s basketball players shouldn’t be considered employees because they are unpaid members of a money-losing program whose need-based scholarships don’t depend on their participation or talent. The case was discussed in a National Labor Relations Board hearing held Thursday

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The three original members of the legendary R&B band Tony! Toni! Toné! have reunited after more than 25 years apart, and are in the midst of their Raphael Saddiq Revisits Tony! Toni! Tone! Just Me and You Tour 2023. Brothers Raphael Saadiq and D’Wayne Wiggins

WEST READING, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania chocolate factory was fined more than $44,000 by the federal workplace safety agency on Thursday for failing to evacuate before a natural gas explosion that killed seven people. R.M. Palmer Co. did not heed warnings from employees about a natural gas leak. That is according to the U.S.

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Funeral services have been held for a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who was slain in what authorities described as an ambush. Hundreds of law enforcement officers joined the family and fiancée of Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer on Thursday at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer The Securities and Exchange Commission says it is seeking a court order that would compel Elon Musk to testify as part of an investigation into his purchase of Twitter, now called X. The SEC said in a Thursday filing in a San Francisco federal court that Musk failed to

By The Associated Press Since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military has repeatedly used missiles to blast civilian targets across the country, with devastating consequences. One of the deadliest such attacks in months happened Thursday. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top officials in Kyiv reported that a Russian rocket struck

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’ s corporate executives once boosted the estimated worth of his Trump Tower penthouse by $20 million partly because of the value of his celebrity, according to trial testimony Thursday. Another $100 million hike in the estimate was based on a

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Lawyers for three police officers charged in the death of Manny Ellis have challenged a forensic video analyst’s interpretation of videos shot by witnesses that show the Black man’s fatal arrest in Tacoma, Washington. Analyst Grant Fredericks showed the jury a video Wednesday that showed Ellis

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The former University of Southern California gynecologist charged with sexually more than a dozen students and accused of abuse by hundreds more has died. Attorney Leonard Levine says George Tyndall was found dead in his home Wednesday. Tyndall was 76 and was awaiting trial on more

By STEPHEN GROVES, FARNOUSH AMIRI and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are trying to rally around a new House speaker after Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s ouster. But they’ll have to find a way to unite their shattered majority before the House can get working again. Donald Trump has endorsed House Judiciary Chairman Jim