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BOSTON (AP) — Little Amal, a 12-foot puppet of a Syrian refugee, begins its journey across the United States in Boston. During the trip, the puppet and its puppeteers plan to visit key places in American history to raise awareness about immigration and migration. The puppet of the 10-year-old girl will visit the U.S. Capitol,

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A military camp in Mali’s restive north was attacked Friday, a day after two separate assaults by al-Qaida-linked insurgents killed 49 civilians and 15 government soldiers, the military said. “Response and evaluation in progress,” the armed forces said in a brief statement about Friday’s attack on

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Authorities say a Vermont armed robbery suspect who eluded capture in the past week in a vehicle, on a stolen bike, on foot and in a stolen sailboat has been arrested after he was spotted in a kayak on a river. Police say the 52-year-old man was wanted on accusations

By STEPHEN GROVES and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is expected to endorse Donald Trump’s presidential campaign when he travels to her state for a Republican fundraiser on Friday. Trump will appear in Rapid City for an event hosted by the state’s GOP, and Noem is expected to

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A lawyer for a man sent back to prison in South Carolina after a deal reducing his sentence was canceled is asking for the agreement to be restored. Todd Rutherford says he and his client Jeroid Price did nothing wrong. The state Supreme Court sent Price

CHICAGO (AP) — Nearly 1,600 migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. will be relocated from Chicago police stations to winterized camps with massive tents under a plan by Mayor Brandon Johnson. The mayor told the Chicago Sun-Times on Thursday that the relocations will occur before the weather begins to shift heading toward winter. He says

DEWITT, N.Y. (AP) — Police have released the ages of two Black teenagers who were fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy in upstate New York. The Onondaga County sheriff’s office says the deputy fired three shots while trying to avoid getting run over by a stolen vehicle. He was investigating a burglary at the time.

By TRÂN NGUYỄN and SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers have voted to fast-track low-income housing on surplus land owned by nonprofit colleges and religious institutions. The bill would rezone lands owned by nonprofit colleges, churches, mosques and synagogues to allow for affordable housing. The state Assembly also approved

By JAKE BLEIBERG and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has long denied corruption accusations that have dogged him for years. But as his impeachment trial gets underway, another defense is emerging. His attorneys have suggested that fellow Republicans plotted to oust him. But they’ve so far

ATHENS, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama teenager convicted of killing five family members, including three younger siblings, when he was 14 years old has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. Circuit Judge Chadwick Wise handed down the sentence Thursday to Mason Sisk, now 18. Wise

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is criticizing efforts across the U.S. to tamp down a recent jump in COVID-19 cases through temporary restrictions or masking. DeSantis and Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo spoke Thursday at a news conference in Jacksonville against COVID-19 restrictions that have been implemented recently to combat a new

TORONTO (AP) — Veteran Canadian journalist and author Peter C. Newman has died at the age of 94. Newman died in hospital in Belleville, Ontario, Thursday morning from complications related to a stroke he had last year, which caused him to develop Parkinson’s disease, his wife Alvy Newman said by phone. In his decades-long career,

GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — It’s probably not the strangest item ever donated to a Goodwill store. But employees of the thrift store in the Phoenix suburb of Goodyear knew exactly what to do when they saw a human skull in one of their donation boxes: Call police. Officers responded to the store Tuesday night and

By MICHAEL CASEY and STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — The maker of an extremely spicy tortilla chip sold as the One Chip Challenge and popularized as a dare on social media is pulling the product after the family of a Massachusetts teenager blamed the stunt for his death. The cause of Harris

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State Police say they’ve shot and arrested a 39-year-old Florida man in connection with four of the agency’s cruisers being set ablaze and shot at outside a post in the Upper Peninsula. Lt. Mark Giannunzio says a gunfight began while a search warrant was being executed around 1:45

CROSS CITY, Fla. (AP) — Officials say an elderly man who was cleaning debris from Hurricane Idalia in north Florida when a tree fell on him has been declared the state’s third death from the Category 3 storm. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement says the 90-year-old man died Tuesday in Dixie County after a

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear plunked down a $20 bet Thursday on two home-state college football teams — and against an arch-nemesis school — in a quick transaction signaling that legal sports wagering is off and running in the Bluegrass State. The Democratic governor placed the first

By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana grand jury has charged a now-91-year-old disgraced priest with sexually assaulting a teenage boy in 1975. The extraordinary indictment Thursday could shed new light on what Roman Catholic Church leaders knew about a child sex abuse crisis that persisted for decades. The priest, Lawrence

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is announcing a new $600 million package of long-term aid to Ukraine, providing funding for an array of weapons and other equipment. It comes just a day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Ukraine and pledged $1 billion in new military and humanitarian

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Criminal domestic violence charges have been dropped against Las Vegas Aces player Riquna Williams, and her attorney says Williams hopes to rejoin the team for WNBA playoffs beginning next week. A prosecutor told a Las Vegas judge on Thursday that Williams’ alleged victim stopped cooperating with