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WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a man convicted this month of fatally stabbing his girlfriend escaped from a suburban Philadelphia prison and prosecutors say he’s also wanted in his native Brazil in a separate slaying. Chester County District Attorney Deb Ryan says that 34-year-old Danelo Cavalcante is also wanted in a 2017 slaying

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Food ads have long made their subjects look bigger, juicier and crispier than they are in real life. But some consumers say those mouthwatering ads can cross the line into deception, and that’s leading to a growing number of lawsuits. Burger King is the latest company in the crosshairs.

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer One No. 12 started the clock on the countdown to his gold jacket and another switched numbers, conferences and shades of green. The biggest storyline in the first NFL season this century without Tom Brady centers on Aaron Rodgers’ quest to turn the New York Jets into a

By ROBERT JABLON and JULIE WATSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California regulators have approved a proposal to vastly increase natural gas storage at the site of the nation’s largest known methane leak. The California Public Utilities Commission unanimously voted Thursday to permit Southern California Gas to store nearly 70 billion cubic feet of

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Ohio state Rep. Bob Young has been stripped of his leadership position in the Ohio House after his second arrest in less than two months in a domestic violence case. Fellow Republican House Speaker Jason Stephens removed the Summit County representative from his

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked a new Texas law that drag show artists fear will be used to shut them down or put them in jail. The law, approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature, would expand the legal definition in the Texas criminal code of

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore police have arrested two more teenagers in a mass shooting that left two people dead and 28 others injured during an annual block party earlier this summer. Police arrested 18-year-old Aaron Brown and a 14-year-old who is underage and has not been named. Both face multiple

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A judge has granted a request by a teachers union in Texas’ largest school district to temporarily block a new system to evaluate educators that is being implemented following a state takeover.  The order comes days after the Houston school district began its first school year

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The attending physician to Congress said Thursday that he had cleared Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell to continue with his planned schedule after evaluating an incident in which McConnell appeared to freeze up at an event in Kentucky. But the health episode —

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press A car driving with a bull in it was pulled over by police in northeast Nebraska’s biggest city. Don’t worry, he didn’t steer. Norfolk Police Capt. Chad Reiman said it didn’t take long for officers to track down the modified Ford Crown Victoria sedan with a bull riding shotgun after

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A headless bronze statue believed to depict the Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius has been ordered seized from the Cleveland Museum of Art. A warrant signed by a judge in New York City this month ordered the seizure of the statue. A spokesperson for Manhattan

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian police on Thursday took into custody in Pakistan a Pakistani man who is on trial in Italy for the murder of his daughter after she refused family demands to marry a cousin in their homeland. The court case, in Reggio Emilia, northern Italy, is the most

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A federal judge in Delaware ordered prosecutors and defense attorneys on Thursday to provide a status report regarding a felony gun charge against Hunter Biden. Judge Maryellen Noreika directed lawyers to provide the report by next Wednesday, including any steps they believe the court needs to

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s first-in-the-nation law placing strict limits on drag shows is facing another legal challenge. The ACLU is suing a local district attorney who is warning Blount County Pride organizers that he intends to enforce the new statute. A federal judge in Memphis has ruled the ban

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A senior U.S. envoy visiting Beirut says Washington is looking into possibilities for solving a decades-old border dispute between Lebanon and Israel. Amos Hochstein, a senior adviser to U.S. President Joe Biden, spoke in Beirut nearly a year after he brokered a deal on the maritime border

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Belarus has sentenced a high-profile journalist to 3 1/2 years for “facilitating extremist activities” and “discrediting Belarus” after she provided data for a renowned human rights group. Fifty-year-old Larysa Shchyrakova will serve her sentence in a high-security penal colony and must pay a

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing a rule that would require thousands more firearms dealers to run background checks, in an effort to combat rising gun violence nationwide. The proposal comes after a mandate from President Joe Biden to find ways to strengthen background checks following the passage

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court will allow the new state law banning gender-affirming care for minors to take effect on Friday, setting up Texas to be the most populous state with such restrictions on transgender children. A state district judge last week ruled the pending law violated

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa teenager feared for his life when he fatally shot two fellow students at an alternative educational program for at-risk youth, his lawyer said Thursday, rebutting a claim by prosecutors that the shooting was a premeditated attack on rival gang members. Preston Walls, 19,

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Even before the newly elected justice who gave liberals a one-seat majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court has heard a case, Republican lawmakers are talking about taking the unprecedented step of impeaching and removing her from office. And they have the votes to do it. Republicans