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By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Three men who were convicted of crimes in the New York City borough of Queens in the 1990s and served long prison sentences have been exonerated after reexaminations of their cases found evidence of false confessions and other examples of malfeasance by police and prosecutors. The

By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — The descendants of a 19th-century Scottish sugar and coffee planter who owned thousands of slaves in Guyana apologized Friday for the sins of their ancestor, calling slavery a crime against humanity with lasting negative impacts. Charles Gladstone, a descendant of former plantation owner John Gladstone, traveled

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An appeals panel has revived a couple’s lawsuit that alleges a Tennessee law unconstitutionally protects a decision by a state-sponsored Christian adoption agency not to help them because they are Jewish. On Thursday, a three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals ruled that Elizabeth and

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — A senior State Department official is voicing hope that North Macedonia will be able to make politically difficult changes to the constitution that would help the country’s bid to join the European Union. Gabriel Escobar, a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Balkan policy, said Friday in the capital Skopje that the

By TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press POTTER, Neb. (AP) — When Reed Cammack hears the first meadowlark of spring, he knows his family has made it through another cold, snowy winter on the South Dakota prairie. Nothing’s better, he says, than hearing the birds light up the area with song at sunrise. “It’s part of the

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Marine Corps pilot has died in the crash of combat jet near a San Diego military base. The service says in statement Friday that the F/A-18D Hornet went down at 11:54 p.m. Thursday in the vicinity of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. The Hornet belonged to Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack

BOSTON (AP) — One of the first personal computers built by Apple and signed by company co-founder Steve Wozniak has sold at auction for more than $223,000. RR Auction says the Apple-1 sold at an auction that closed Thursday has been restored to a fully operational state and came with a custom case with a

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has praised the 2022 WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces for showing “grit and determination” on and off the court. The Aces were honored at the White House on Friday. Harris noted that the team is relatively new to Las Vegas but already is

BEIRUT (AP) — Prominent Lebanese journalist Talal Salman who founded one of the country’s largest Arabic-language independent newspapers has died after a long illness. Salman who passed away Friday was 85. An Arab Nationalist whose role model was late Egyptian President Gamal Abdul-Nasser, Salman dedicated much of his writings to support the Palestinian cause and

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, JEFF AMY and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Shaking violently between sobs, parent Sarah Shoop Neumann could only manage a whisper as state troopers escorted her out of a Tennessee legislative hearing where she was waiting to testify against a bill that would let teachers carry guns. “I was

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri death row inmate is suing Gov. Mike Parson over the governor’s decision to dissolve a board of inquiry that was convened to investigate the man’s innocence claim. The lawsuit on behalf of Marcellus Williams asks a state judge to invalidate Parson’s June order that

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and the 18 people indicted along with him in Georgia on charges that they participated in a wide-ranging illegal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election have all turned themselves in to a jail in Atlanta before the deadline at noon

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief is warning that the conflict in Sudan is fueling “a humanitarian emergency of epic proportions” that threatens the entire country. Martin Griffiths also warned on Friday that a protracted conflict “could tip the entire region into a humanitarian catastrophe.” He says some places are already out of

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The director of the British Museum says he’s stepping down amid investigations into the theft or disappearance of hundreds of items from its massive collection, including gold jewelry, semi-precious gems and antiquities dating to the 15th century B.C. Hartwig Fischer says he’s resigning now, rather than waiting

By JENNA EBBERS AND CASSIDEY KAVATHAS, News21 CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) — In the year since Roe v. Wade was reversed, New Mexico has emerged as a safe haven for those who provide abortions and those who need them. But it’s also become something else: a new battleground in the fight over access to abortion in

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Rangers have hired Hockey Hall of Famer Angela Ruggiero as a hockey operations adviser. The team announced the addition of Ruggiero along with several front office changes. Ruggiero won four Olympic medals as a defenseman for the U.S. including helping the country win gold in 1998 in Nagano

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s lunar rover is continuing its walk on the moon after the historic touch-down of India’s spacecraft near the moon’s south pole earlier this week. The Chandrayan-3 Rover is expected to conduct experiments over 14 days, including an analysis of the mineral composition of the lunar

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Estonia’s strongly pro-Ukrainian prime minister is under increasing pressure to resign, after Estonian media revealed her husband’s role in a company that indirectly did business in Russia after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year. Kaja Kallas is one of Europe’s most outspoken supporters of Ukraine and had urged all EU

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Court records show convicted murderer and former attorney Alex Murdaugh has agreed to plead guilty in federal court to stealing millions of dollars from clients. If Murdaugh doesn’t change his mind before standing in front of a judge at a Sept. 21 hearing in Charleston, it

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top security official says she hopes prosecutors will find sufficient evidence to indict whomever carried out an ttack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea last year. The pipelines were built to carry Russian natural gas to Germany. Explosions damaged them on Sept. 26, 2022. The apparent sabotage