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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — A northeastern Indiana man faces felony charges after he was shot in the back by a 2-year-old boy who found the weapon on a bed. Justin T. Wiley of Fort Wayne was charged this week with neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury and unlawful possession of a

MIAMI (AP) — Officials say a city of Miami commissioner accused of bribery and money laundering has been arrested on multiple corruption charges. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement says Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla and a co-defendant, Miami attorney William Riley Jr., were both booked Thursday into the Miami-Dade county jail. Investigators

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Steve Scalise, the No. 2 House Republican, returned to the U.S. Capitol on Thursday for the first time since being diagnosed with a blood cancer known as multiple myeloma and told reporters his chemotherapy treatment is underway. “It’s kind of a few months process. They don’t

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware woman who pleaded guilty to killing her 3-year-old daughter and leaving her burned remains on a softball field has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Thirty-one-year-old Kristie Haas was sentenced Thursday. She pleaded guilty earlier this year to murder by abuse or neglect and abuse

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Britain, France and Germany have announced that they will keep their sanctions on Iran related to the Mideast country’s atomic program and its development of ballistic missiles. The measures were to expire in October under a timetable spelled out in the now defunct nuclear deal between Tehran

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press DAJABON, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Dominican Republic’s president has announced he will close all borders with neighboring Haiti starting Friday in a dispute over a canal on the Haitian side that would divert water from a border river. His announcement signals that last-minute talks between

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Commercial casinos in the U.S. had their best July ever this year, winning nearly $5.4 billion from gamblers, according to figures released Thursday by a national gambling industry group. The American Gaming Association said the casinos’ winnings were up nearly 6% from July 2022. The

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Supreme Court has handed a 17-year prison sentence to a supporter of former President Jair Bolsonaro who stormed top government offices on Jan. 8 in an alleged bid to forcefully restore the right-wing leader to office. Aécio Lúcio Costa Pereira, 51, is the first of

Associated Press By JULIA FRANKEL JERUSALEM (AP) — Jordan rejected a U.S. request to release a former top Jordanian official imprisoned in an alleged plot against the Western-allied monarchy in September, the official’s lawyer and family say. In March, the U.S. asked Jordan to release Bassem Awadallah, who is a dual Jordanian-American citizen, on humanitarian

BEDFORD PARK, Ill. (AP) — Police say a tent collapse in suburban Chicago injured at least 26 people. Bedford Park Police Chief Tom Hansen says five of those hurt have serious injuries. Hansen says the tent collapsed around 10:45 a.m. in the parking lot of a business. He says the tent was being used for

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Police bodycam video from Springfield, Missouri, has filmed an unusual foot pursuit, as two officers tried to catch an escaped lemur. The speedy little primate made a dash for freedom Tuesday night and was spotted near a city park. The video shows it sprinting and weaving across a parking lot, down

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The cost of Ohio’s new universal school voucher program already appears to be more expensive than initially estimated. That’s according to a published report that also notes the cost will continue to grow, as the application deadline is more than a month away. An analysis by The Columbus Dispatch found the

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — As the Toronto International Film Festival winds down after a week of wall-to-wall premieres, there has been no more fraught turf than the land that families try to eke out a life on, amid geopolitical storms knocking on the front door. The biggest battleground isn’t just

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States Federal Aviation Administration has returned Mexico’s aviation safety rating to the highest level two years after downgrading it. The change will allow Mexican airlines to add new routes to the United States and U.S. airlines will once again be able to sell tickets on Mexican airline-operated flights. In

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s President Andrzej Duda says he is awaiting results of an investigation into allegations that Polish consulates sold a quarter of a million work visas to migrants from Asia and Africa for thousands of dollars. The scandal comes just weeks ahead of parliamentary elections in which

By The Associated Press After the handshakes, the platitudes and the lunch of Kamchatka crab dumplings, the outcome of the talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stayed hidden. But the summit’s location — Russia’s Far East spaceport — offered a big clue. By choosing the Vostochny Cosmodrome, Putin

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Abortion providers in South Carolina want to lengthen the narrow window when they can legally terminate a pregnancy under a strict new ban. The conservative state’s all-male Supreme Court last month upheld a so-called “fetal heartbeat” law commonly understood to restrict access after about

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has summoned Australia’s envoy to the Mideast country to protest the latest round of sanctions imposed on Tehran over what Canberra decries as violations of human rights. Iranian state media reported on Thursday that Australia’s chargé d’affaires was called in to Iran’s foreign ministry over “interventionist remarks” by

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — States and Native American tribes will have greater authority to block energy projects such as natural gas pipelines that could pollute rivers and streams under a final rule issued Thursday by the Biden administration. The rule taking effect in November reverses a Trump-era action that limited the

MAYNARDVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man wanted in connection with a fatal shooting in Tennessee has been arrested following a two-day manhunt that unsettled a community in Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains, authorities said Thursday. Jason Dockery was taken into custody at about 2:45 p.m. near Maynardville in Tennessee’s Union County, which is outside Knoxville, authorities said.