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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s climate chief will lead a broad center-left coalition of social democrats and greens going into the Dutch elections in November  But he’ll have to quit his job in the EU’s executive branch. Social Democrat Frans Timmermans  was the only candidate and won 91.8% of votes cast by party members

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A conservative attorney who pushed a plan to keep Donald Trump in power has turned himself in to authorities on charges in the Georgia case alleging an illegal plot to overturn the then-president’s 2020 election loss. John Eastman was booked at the Fulton County jail Tuesday. Eastman

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK. (AP) — Wander Franco has been placed on administrative leave indefinitely by Major League Baseball while authorities in the Dominican Republic investigate the Tampa Bay Rays’ All-Star shortstop for an alleged relationship with a minor. The 22-year-old will be paid and receive service time while on administrative

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Two unpopular friends, PJ and Josie,  are eager to lose their virginity to two beautiful cheerleaders in the wild new comedy “Bottoms,” which opens in theaters Friday. The only way they can figure out how to get close to said cheerleaders, however, is to form an all-female self-defense club

By JOHN HANNA and JIM SALTER Associated Press MARION, Kan. (AP) — Newly released video shows the 98-year-old mother of a Kansas newspaper publisher confronting police officers as they searched her home in a raid that has drawn national scrutiny, at one point demanding: “Get out of my house!” Video released by the newspaper Monday

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell last month to the slowest pace since January, as elevated mortgage rates and a stubbornly low inventory of homes on the market combined to discourage many would-be homebuyers. Existing home sales fell 2.2% last month from June to

NEW YORK (AP) — The next book from “Fire and Fury” author Michael Wolff is both a recounting of the recent past and a prediction for the near future. Wolff’s “The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty” will come out Sept. 26, publisher Henry Holt announced Tuesday. A spokesperson told The

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell will seek the nomination to challenge Republican Sen. Rick Scott in 2024. Mucarsel-Powell announced her candidacy Tuesday in what will be a test to see if Florida Democrats can fare better during a presidential election in a state that has

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s President Andrzej Duda says that Russia already is in the process of shifting some short-range nuclear weapons to neighboring Belarus. Duda said Tuesday the move will shift the security architecture of the region and the entire NATO military alliance. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans in March to station tactical

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Some U.S. states are turning down all or most of their initial share of federal money to find and replace lead pipes. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law included $15 billion to help remove lead pipes that can deposit dangerous amounts of lead in tap water. The money

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Fire Department says a succession of power outages at a hospital prompted the evacuation of 28 patients in critical condition to other facilities. More than 200 other patients at Adventist Health White Memorial were moved to another building early Tuesday, and a baby boy was delivered by staff

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says former Obama administration attorney Ed Siskel is the new White House counsel. Siskel helped craft the Obama administration’s response to the congressional investigations into the 2012 Benghazi attack that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador. Siskel takes over in September during a

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A team of Kenyan officials is in Haiti to explore how best to help the troubled Caribbean nation fight the scourge of gang violence, following up on Nairobi’s offer to lead a multinational force in the task. The force is meant to assist Haiti’s understaffed and under-resourced police department, with only

By TIFFANY STANLEY Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — In 2015, Nikki Haley and Tim Scott attended the funerals of those slain by a racist gunman at Mother Emanuel AME Church. Scott would later tear up on the Senate floor recounting the faith of the fallen and their families. Haley would go on to write

By NDEYE SENE MBENGUE and ZANE IRWIN Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese authorities say 37 migrants who were rescued off the coast of Cape Verde have been brought back home. A boat carrying more than 100 people is believed to have set off from Senegal toward Spain’s Canary Islands on July 10. More

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A former government minister from the Central African Republic has denied involvement in crimes against humanity and war crimes for his alleged role in a deadly conflict in the impoverished nation. Maxime Jeoffroy Eli Mokom Gawaka issued the denial at a preliminary hearing Tuesday at the International Criminal Court. Prosecutors

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Ukraine’s President Volodomyr Zelenskyy has been meeting with leaders of Balkan nations and the head of the European Commission on the sidelines of a meeting between European and Balkan leaders in the Greek capital, Athens. The leaders included Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, whose country has refused to join the international sanctions

BEIJING (AP) — Authorities say 11 people have been killed in a coal mine explosion in northern China, in a reminder of the country’s continued dependence on the energy source. The blast occurred late Monday on the outskirts of the historic city of Yan’an in mountainous Shaanxi province, where mining has long been a key

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister has accused the United Nations of abandoning its neutrality. Hakan Fidan’s comment on Tuesday comes a day after the U.N. Security Council criticized construction work by Turkish Cypriots inside a buffer zone dividing Cyprus and condemned their assault on U.N. peacekeepers. Last week angry Turkish Cypriots punched and