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By JOHN O’CONNOR and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The tanker truck crash in central Illinois that killed five people may have started when another vehicle tried to pass the chemical-laden truck, a federal transportation official said Sunday. The tanker truck was carrying caustic anhydrous ammonia when it jackknifed Friday night, and

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A populist former prime minister who campaigned on a pro-Russian and anti-American message looks to be heading for victory in the early parliamentary election in Slovakia, according to preliminary results.  With the results from almost 88% of about 6,000 polling stations counted by the Slovak Statistics Office, former Prime Minister Robert

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine hosted an international defense industry conference as part of a government effort to ramp up weapons production within the country to repel Russia’s full-scale invasion and reduce foreign dependence on arms deliveries. The event marked a new development in support of Ukraine, with the previous

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish opposition leader Donald Tusk is facing an uphill battle to win new hearts in his efforts to unseat the nationalist conservative government in Poland’s upcoming parliamentary election. The ex-prime minister and former European Union leader returned to Polish politics several years ago, seeking to breathe

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Republicans are seizing on flashpoint issues ahead of this November’s election. In recent talking points, they’ve been stoking skepticism toward offshore wind turbines. Another topic has been the state’s lawsuits against school districts to prevent schools from outing transgender students to their parents. Republicans

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ, JENNIFER PELTZ and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is drying out after being soaked by one of its wettest days in decades. City dwellers are now trying to dry out basements, while traffic resumed on highways, subways and airports that were temporarily shuttered by Friday’s

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Two Colorado gun control laws taking effect will require that firearm buyers wait three days before receiving their weapon and open up the gun industry to some legal liability. The laws take effect Sunday and come as violent crime and mass shootings surge nationwide. The

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press Footage from deep in the Pacific Ocean has given the first detailed look at three World War II aircraft carriers that sank in the pivotal Battle of Midway and could help solve mysteries about the days-long barrage that marked a shift in control of the Pacific theater from Japanese to

By MOHAMED SHARUHAN Associated Press MALE, Maldives (AP) — Media in the Maldives say opposition candidate Mohamed Muiz, who supports closer ties between the Indian Ocean archipelago and China, won the presidential runoff on Saturday with more than 53% of the vote. The election has turned into a virtual referendum on which regional power —

BEIJING (AP) — An official Chinese survey says the country’s factory activity has recorded its first expansion in six months. It’s another sign that the world’s second-largest economy is gradually improving following its post-pandemic malaise. The government statistics bureau and an official industry group said Saturday that the monthly purchasing managers’ index rose to 50.2

By KARL RITTER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — The annual Nobel Prize announcements are over with the final award, for economics, going to Harvard professor Claudia Goldin for advancing the understanding of women’s labor market outcomes. The announcements started last week with the Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to two scientists whose discoveries enabled the

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities on Friday made their first arrest in the 1996 shooting death of hip-hop superstar Tupac Shakur with the indictment of Duane “Keffe D” Davis. On the night of the shooting, Shakur and Suge Knight, the head of his label, attended a Mike Tyson fight at a Las Vegas arena. After

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — As Nebraska’s new law restricting gender-affirming care for minors goes into effect this weekend, families with transgender children and the doctors who treat them are steeling themselves for change. But exactly what and how much change is anyone’s guess. A key aspect of the law

By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The threat of a federal government shutdown suddenly lifted late Saturday as President Joe Biden signed a temporary funding bill to keep agencies open with little time to spare after Congress rushed to approve the bipartisan deal. The package drops aid to

By ERIC TUCKER and JULIET LINDERMAN Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Before being assigned to investigate President Joe Biden’s son, Leo Wise built a reputation in Baltimore as a tough and hard-charging federal prosecutor, taking on powerful, and seemingly untouchable, figures — whether a gang of corrupt cops, a police commissioner, a top local prosecutor

By RIO YAMAT and KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The first arrest in the 1996 slaying of Tupac Shakur had its roots in the investigation of the killing of Biggie Smalls. The shooting deaths of the two hip-hop luminaries and rivals — Shakur in Las Vegas and Smalls in Los Angeles six

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In tributes to Sen. Dianne Feinstein after her death, her female colleagues talked about her indomitable, fierce intelligence and how she had paved the way for so many women. But colleagues also mentioned their private times with the California Democrat that were at odds with Feinstein’s

By JOSH BOAK and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has pinned the blame for a possible government shutdown on House Republicans who, until Saturday, had been paralyzed by their inability to pass a funding package. President Joe Biden is hoping the rest of the country would see things the same

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Having stood out in two presidential debates, Nikki Haley has booked her largest venue in Iowa since launching her campaign. She’s hoping to fill a 600-person hall in a western Des Moines suburb on Saturday. That would be a huge number for most of her