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By ADAM BEAM, SOPHIE AUSTIN and TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Legislative workers at the California Capitol are close to forming their first labor union. State lawmakers on Wednesday approved a bill that allows state workers in the Legislature to organize. The Democrats in charge of California’s Legislature have historically been friendly

By SOPHENG CHEANG and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Cambodia’s new prime minister, Hun Manet, has arrived in Beijing on his first official trip abroad since taking office last month. He arrived on Thursday and is scheduled to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on a visit that demonstrates Cambodia’s warm relations with

BEIJING (AP) — A tower crane has collapsed at a bridge construction project in southwest China, killing six people and injuring five others. authorities say the collapse happened Wednesday in Jianyang city during work to build an expressway bridge over the Tuo River, the city’s transportation bureau said in a statement posted on its social

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The father of imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is calling on world leaders meeting at the United Nations next week to stand up for freedom of the press and urge Russia to release him. Mikhail Gershkovich came to U.N. headquarters with his wife

By ERALDO PERES and ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous women in Brazil’s capital Brasilia showcased their creations during a fashion event as part of the Third March of Indigenous Women to claim women’s rights and the demarcation of Indigenous lands. Under a huge white marquee, models adorned with headdresses, necklaces and

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Trustees at California State University, the nation’s largest public university system, have voted to raise student tuition by 6% each year for five consecutive years to try to narrow a $1.5 billion deficit. CSU’s governing board on Wednesday voted 15-5 to approve the increases that

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Police say a teenage driver has been arrested on suspicion of intentionally striking three bicyclists and killing one of them last weekend in Southern California. Police say the three hit-and-run collisions occurred in less than an hour Sunday night in Huntington Beach. A 70-year-old man died at the scene of

EWING, Va. (AP) — A manhunt for a Tennessee homicide suspect is no longer focused on a county on the western edge of Virginia, authorities said Wednesday. But they declined to release further information “because of the sensitivity of the ongoing investigation.” Lee County Sheriff Gary Parsons said in a statement Wednesday evening that Jason

By MARIA SHERMAN and DAVID BAUDER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — This week the United States’ biggest newspaper chain posted to its site two unusual job listings: a Taylor Swift reporter and a Beyoncé reporter. Gannett, which owns more than 200 daily papers, will employ these new hires through USA Today and The Tennessean,

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A former Detroit-area prosecutor will serve no additional time behind bars after being sentenced on corruption charges that he embezzled more than $600,000 from drug and drunken driving forfeiture funds. A Michigan State Police investigation found former Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith used the funds to throw parties, buy gifts and

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Delaware man has been sentenced to 7 1/2 years in federal prison in the carjacking of a U.S. congresswoman’s sport utility vehicle in a Philadelphia park almost two years ago. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that 21-year-old Josiah Brown was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Philadelphia. U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — While a federal judge on Wednesday declared illegal a revised version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, he declined to order an immediate end to the program and the protections it offers

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A woman has been found guilty of throwing her sons into a Louisiana lake, killing a 10-month-old and injuring a 5-year-old. The Caddo Parish District Attorney’s Office says in a news release that jurors deliberated about two hours before returning unanimous verdicts against 34-year-old Ureka Rochelle Black of Shreveport. Black was

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. George Santos has missed another deadline to submit a key financial disclosure report to the House Committee on Ethics. The disclosures provide a public snapshot of a representative’s personal finances. Santos had already missed two deadlines. The embattled New York Republican told The Associated

NEW YORK (AP) — A former CIA software engineer already convicted in the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history has now been convicted on charges of possessing child sexual abuse images. A jury returned its verdict Wednesday in Manhattan federal court against Joshua Schulte. Authorities say the latest conviction resulted from the discovery

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court plans to quickly consider former President Donald Trump’s claim that presidential immunity protects him from a New York writer’s assertion that he defamed her by saying she fabricated her claim that he sexually attacked her in the 1990s. The 2nd U.S. Circuit

By TERESA M. WALKER AP Pro Football Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Skin scraped down to bloody patches. Sore bodies stinging in post-game showers. Aching shoulders, backs, hips, knees and ankles. Add in season-ending injuries like four-time MVP Aaron Rodgers tearing his left Achilles tendon in his debut with the New York Jets on Monday

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haiti’s government says it has met with Dominican officials in the Dominican Republic to talk about a threat by that country’s president to close all borders in response to a row over the construction of a supposed canal. Haiti’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Wednesday both sides were seeking

CHEBOYGAN, Mich. (AP) — A fire at a northern Michigan paper mill has closed several roads and prompted city officials to tell residents to shelter in place, while state police warned people to stay away from the area. Plumes of thick and heavy black and gray smoke billowed Wednesday from the Tissue Depot property along

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Consumer prices in Argentina have soared 12.4% in August, compared to the previous month, a number that puts the government on the defensive a little more than a month before presidential elections in which a right-wing populist who admires Donald Trump appears the favorite to