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By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, were in the Arthur Ashe Stadium stands to watch Coco Gauff’s first-round victory at the U.S. Open on Monday night. Afterward, Gauff met the Obamas — and even received some advice. “I wasn’t sure they were here

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — All 28 vehicle assembly lines at Toyota’s 14 auto plants in Japan shut down Tuesday over a problem in its computer system that deals with incoming auto parts. The automaker doesn’t believe the problem was caused by a cyberattack but the cause is still under investigation,

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press LAKE GENEVA, Wis. (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett told attendees at a judicial conference in Wisconsin on Monday that she welcomed public scrutiny of the court. But she stopped short of commenting on whether she thinks the court should change how it operates in the face

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is in the throes of what Secretary-General António Guterres calls an “unprecedented” six-month exit from Mali on orders of the West African nation’s military junta, which has brought in mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group to help fight an Islamic insurgency. The U.N.

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say 10 people have been charged in the death of a man who was kidnapped from a homeless encampment on the outskirts of Ithaca and found buried in a neighboring county. Police announced the charges at a news conference on Monday. Authorities say 33-year-old Thomas Rath was kidnapped from an

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The leader of the California Senate says she will step down from her leadership post. Toni Atkins was the first woman and the first openly gay person to lead the California Senate. State Sen. Mike McGuire will replace her. Atkins said the transition will happen some

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Thousands of protesters on cars and motorbikes took to the streets of Colombia’s main cities on Monday to reject recent hikes in gasoline prices that have drastically increased the price of fuel in the South American country. Protesters say that the monthly price hikes set by

By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer Georgia attorney Sonny Seiler has died at the age of 90. He was owner of the University of Georgia’s famed line of “Uga” bulldog mascots. He also served as lead defense counsel in a notorious case chronicled in the book “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.” The

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The bodies of three U.S. Marines killed in a tiltrotor aircraft crash during a training exercise in Australia have been retrieved from the crash scene. They were from Illinois, Virginia and Colorado. The V-22B Osprey with 23 Marines on board crashed Sunday in tropical forest on

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says its leader, Kim Jong Un, has called for the military to be constantly ready for combat to thwart plots to invade, as the U.S., South Korea and Japan hold a trilateral naval exercise to deal with North Korea’s evolving nuclear threats. It

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — Police have arrested a second man in a July shooting at a massive block party in central Indiana that left one person dead and 17 others wounded. Muncie police say the 29-year-old man was arrested on preliminary felony charges of criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon and being a serious violent

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government says it has sent 1,200 more troops to the cartel-dominated western state of Michoacan after a weekend of violence. State prosecutors say three convenience stores and five trucks and cars had been set afire, a tactic often used by drug cartels in the state to enforce extortion demands.

BLENDON, Ohio (AP) — Police officials in an Ohio suburb say officers shot and killed a pregnant woman suspected of shoplifting after she accelerated her car toward an officer trying to stop her. Twenty-one-year-old Ta’Kiya Young died Thursday in Blendon, outside Columbus. Police Chief John Belford says the officers were at a supermarket on an

By SONIA PÉREZ D. and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Progressive candidate Bernardo Arévalo was confirmed the winner of Guatemala’s presidential election by the country’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal on Monday, but the same day another government body ordered his political party suspended. Arévalo has faced a slew of legal challenges and allegations

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Two new laws restricting transgender Missourians’ access to gender-affirming health care and school sports are now in effect. Both laws took effect Monday and expire in 2027. One law bans minors from beginning puberty blocks and hormones and outlaws gender-affirming surgeries for youths. The other law

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A local news outlet that helped expose a wide-reaching public corruption scandal has filed its first defense against a defamation lawsuit brought by former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, with the news outlet arguing it engaged in constitutionally protected speech. In Mississippi Today’s first legal

By RUSS BYNUM and VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A campus security officer tipped off by observant students likely stopped the killer who fatally shot three people at a nearby Dollar General Store from carrying out his racist attack at Edward Waters University, the president of the historically Black institution said Monday.

DENVER (AP) — Denver will pay $4.7 million to settle a class action lawsuit that alleged that protesters were unjustly targeted for violating the city’s curfew during demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd in 2020. City councilors unanimously agreed to the deal Monday without any debate. The lawsuit alleged that the city directed police

NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a family of four has been found stabbed to death inside a New York City apartment. The dead were a mother, father and their two young children, ages 1 and 3. Police say the bodies were found just before 3 p.m. Monday on Manhattan’s Upper West Side by officers

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican lawmakers voted Monday to temporarily silence a Democratic member of the so-called Tennessee Three during an already tense House floor session after determining the young Black member violated newly enacted rules designed to punish disruptive members. The move directed at Rep. Justin