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By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas attorney and blogger is suing to get State Police to release records regarding Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ travel and security. Matthew Campbell filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing the State Police of illegally withholding the public records he’s requested. Campbell runs the Blue

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Nick Bosa’s lengthy contract holdout ended four days before the start of the season for the San Francisco 49ers when he agreed to a contract extension that will make him the NFL’s richest defensive player ever. Coach Kyle Shanahan said Wednesday that the

SEATTLE (AP) — The King County Medical Examiner’s Office has released the names of four people found dead Saturday after a house fire in Seattle over the weekend and ruled three of them homicides. The medical examiner said Wednesday that 40-year-old Lana A. Stewart died from multiple sharp-force injuries, 7-year-old Sebastino Ragusa died from asphyxia

By JACK DURA and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press South Dakota regulators on Wednesday denied a construction permit for a carbon dioxide pipeline project, one month after a North Dakota panel did the same to a similar project by another company. Navigator CO2 Ventures wants to build a 1,300-mile (2,092 kilometers) pipeline network across Illinois, Iowa,

By PAOLA FLORES and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The governor of Bolivia’s most populous and richest region has been allowed to briefly leave his high-security prison cell for medical tests, highlighting how the politician widely considered the country’s opposition leader has been governing from behind bars for more than eight

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The George Washington University community in the nation’s capital has been told to shelter in place after a homicide suspect escaped custody at the university’s hospital. Police announced on the X social platform that 31-year-old Christopher Haynes had “escaped custody” at the hospital just after 3:30 p.m.

LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Investigators say police officers in South Carolina fatally shot a man after he broke into his ex-wife’s home, killed her, drove her car through her garage door and fired at police during a chase. Authorities say one deputy was wounded in the shootings in Lexington, but is expected to survive. Deputies

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix, already the hottest large city in America, is poised to set yet another heat record this weekend while confirmed heat-associated deaths are on track for a record of their own. The National Weather Service says after a brief respite from the heat over the Labor Day

ATLANTA (AP) — A 24-year-old man died at an Atlanta hospital after being found unresponsive at a jail that is already being investigated by federal authorities for potential civil rights violations. The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday in a news release that a jail officer found Shawndre Delmore during a routine check just before

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The felony convictions of four former Navy officers in one of the worst bribery cases in the maritime branch’s history were vacated Wednesday following allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, the latest setback to the government’s yearslong efforts in going after dozens of military officials tied to a defense contractor nicknamed Fat Leonard.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal authorities say a man wanted in connection with an ambush that killed nine American citizens in northern Mexico nearly four years ago has been arrested in New Mexico. The U.S. Marshals Service says 24-year-old Ivan Gustavo Hernandez-Cabral was taken into custody Monday in Albuquerque. They say Hernandez-Cabral is being held

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An information technology director at Mar-a-Lago struck a cooperation agreement with federal prosecutors last summer in their investigation of Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents at the former president’s Florida property, according to the worker’s ex-lawyer. Stanley Woodward, a former attorney for the IT manager, made the

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Freddie Mercury’s prized piano he used to compose “Bohemian Rhapsody” and other hits by Queen sold for more than $2 million as some of the late singer’s massive collection of flamboyant stage costumes, fine art and original lyrics were auctioned in a sale that broke records. Items

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas must move a large floating barrier that Gov. Greg Abbott placed on the river between the U.S. and Mexico this summer as part of the Republican’s escalating attempts to stop migrants from crossing America’s southern border, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge

By The Associated Press Families perched atop houses pleading for help to escape the deadly flooding after a cyclone hammered southern Brazil in the world’s latest extreme weather disaster. Authorities said Wednesday at least 31 people died and at least 1,600 were left homeless. Flooding also battered Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria, fed by fierce rainstorms

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Julio Urías was placed on administrative leave indefinitely by Major League Baseball on Wednesday, three days after the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher was arrested on suspicion of corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant. The leave was imposed under baseball’s joint domestic violence, sexual assault

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Supreme Court threw out all federal criminal penalties for abortion Wednesday, ruling that national laws prohibiting the procedure are unconstitutional and violate women’s rights in a sweeping decision that extended Latin American’s trend of widening abortion access. The high court ordered that

By JILL COLVIN and ROBERT F. BUKATY Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence is casting the 2024 election as a fight for the future of conservatism and the GOP. In a speech Wednesday, he called on Republicans to reject the “siren song of populism” he said is championed by former

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Kremlin spokesman says the U.S. decision to supply depleted uranium ammunition to Ukraine is “very bad news.” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claims the ammunition’s use by the U.S. in the former Yugoslavia caused cancers and other illnesses. The United States said Wednesday it’s sending depleted uranium