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By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. government has announced it will file an appeal over Mexico’s refusal to investigate alleged labor violations involving the right to organize. The U.S. Trade Representative’s Office said Tuesday it will take the case to a dispute resolution panel, the first time it has done

By The Associated Press Serena Williams has given birth to a baby girl, she posted Tuesday on Instagram, almost exactly a year after her last match as a tennis star. Adira River Ohanian is the second child — and second daughter — for the 41-year-old Williams and her husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Their first,

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press A planned offshore wind farm moved a step closer to construction Tuesday with the Department of the Interior announcing it has approved the project. Revolution Wind will be located in federal waters near Rhode Island and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. It will have an estimated capacity of more than 700 megawatts

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration has tightened offshore oil drilling safety regulations, including rules regarding the use of “blowout preventer” devices on offshore oil and gas drilling rigs. Planned changes announced last fall were finalized Tuesday — more than 13 years after the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster that

HOUSTON (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that a new Republican-backed law that dictates how elections will be run in the Democratic stronghold of Houston and its surrounding county will take effect as scheduled next month despite a lawsuit seeking to overturn it. Officials in Harris County, which is the state’s most populous,

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) — Travelers taking off and landing at Dulles International Airport outside the nation’s capital will soon see an array of 200,000 solar panels that comprise the largest renewable energy project ever built at a U.S. airport. Dominion Energy and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority ceremonially broke ground

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An 86-year-old man accused of assuming his brother’s identity decades ago and using it to double dip on Social Security benefits has been convicted of identity theft and other charges. Authorities say Napoleon Gonzalez, of Etna, Maine, assumed his brother’s identity in 1965, a quarter century

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Three Florida residents argue in a federal lawsuit that state agencies aren’t adequately notifying low-income and disabled people that their public health insurance is ending. The class-action lawsuit was filed Tuesday by the Florida Health Justice Project and the National Health Law Program on behalf of the three Floridians. The defendants

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — No one aboard an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 was hurt during a rough landing at a Southern California airport during Tropical Storm Hilary. Alaska Airlines says the flight experienced an issue with its landing gear late Sunday at John Wayne Airport in Orange County. A brief description of the incident

MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says a 64-year-old man spent three days stranded on an island in the Bahamas until being rescued. Aircrews had spotted flares being fired near a disabled sailboat. A crew from Air Station Miami dropped food, water and a radio to communicate with the man. A Coast Guard cutter

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kerry Washington and Martin Sheen, a pair of fictional former politicos, turned Hollywood’s strikes into a rousing campaign rally Tuesday with speeches celebrating unity across the industry and with labor at large. “We are here because we know that unions matter,” said Washington, who played

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The Biden administration said Tuesday it will spend $150 million to help owners of small parcels of forestland partner with companies willing to pay them for carbon offsets and other environmental credits. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the grant program at a conference of Black landowners

By The Associated Press A nightmarish summer of wildfires for Greece took its deadliest turn yet on Tuesday when firefighters found the burned bodies of 18 people near the city of Alexandroupolis. A hint of the scope of the fire can be seen in this image by Associated Press photographer Achilleas Chiras. The dead were

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire judge says details of the criminal investigation into abuse at the state’s youth detention center must be shared with attorneys for former residents who have sued the state. The judge granted a motion Monday seeking to force the criminal bureau of the attorney

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — Bipartisan federal legislation is being introduced that would protect U.S. Coast Guard Academy cadets who report a sexual assault from being disciplined for minor collateral misconduct, such as underage drinking. Such a change would put the Connecticut service academy in line with policies at Department of Defense military academies. House

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say bullets have ripped into homes at least 96 times this year in South Carolina’s capital county. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott says most of those shootings involved rival gangs. Over the weekend, a drive-by shooting wounded an off-duty sheriff’s deputy and his fiancee. At

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, STEVE REED and TERESA M. WALKER Associated Press MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The father of Tennessee Titans cornerback Caleb Farley died overnight in an explosion that destroyed the NFL player’s North Carolina home and left another person injured, authorities said Tuesday. Robert M. Farley, 61, was found dead in the debris of

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Thousands of homes and businesses in the small South Texas city of Corpus Christi are without power after the state’s first tropical storm of the hurricane season made landfall, bringing strong winds and welcome rain following months of dry weather. The National Weather Service says Tropical

JAKE OFFENHARTZ NEW YORK (AP) — A former suburban New York police chief who once led the Gilgo Beach killings investigation and later went to prison for beating a suspect was arrested again Tuesday for allegedly soliciting sex at a Long Island park. James Burke, Suffolk County’s chief of police from 2012 to 2015, was