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By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer Sean Baker’s “Anora,” a comic but devastating Brooklyn odyssey about a sex worker who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, won the Cannes Film Festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or. The win Saturday for “Anora” marked a coronation for Baker, the 53-year-old indie filmmaker of “The Florida

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The focus for South Africa’s national election next week is on the fate of the African National Congress party and whether it is going to lose its parliamentary majority for the first time, as many expect. Several polls put the ANC’s support below 50%

By ROD McGUIRK and KEIRAN SMITH Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Survivors searched through tons of earth and rubble by hand looking for missing relatives while a first emergency convoy delivered food, water and other provisions Saturday at the site of a landslide that devastated a remote village in the mountains of Papua New

By DÁNICA COTO and JIM SALTER Associated Press The local director of a mission group in Haiti and a young missionary couple from the U.S. were attacked and fatally shot by gang members after leaving a youth group activity at a church, a family member told The Associated Press. Thursday’s killings of Jude Montis, the

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was booed repeatedly while addressing the Libertarian Party National Convention on Saturday night, with many in the crowd shouting insults and decrying him for things like his COVID-19 policies, running up towering federal deficits and lying about his political record. When he took the stage,

By BECKY BOHRER and REBECCA BOONE Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s new electoral system — with open primaries and ranked-choice voting — has been a model for voters in other states who are frustrated by political polarization and a sense that voters lack real choice at the ballot box. But an initiative set

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) — Metalsmiths in Colorado are remaking Jackie Robinson in bronze after the theft of a beloved Kansas statue of the civil rights baseball icon set off a national outpouring of donations. It all started in January, when thieves cut the original statue off at

By ERIC TUCKER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.N. court’s order that Israel halt its offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah has deepened a disconnect with the United States over a military operation that faces mounting international condemnation but that American officials describe, at least for now, as limited

By BILL BARROW and RICHARD LARDNER Associated Press OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) — The Right Side Broadcasting Network has become a major player in Donald Trump’s MAGA universe — a reference to the ex-president’s “Make America Great Again” slogan — amassing more than 2 million subscribers on its YouTube channel and on Rumble, an alternative video-sharing

By RICHARD LARDNER and BILL BARROW Associated Press OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) — On the second floor of a single-family home in a sprawling suburban development, a three-member production crew sat behind banks of computer monitors and guided the conservative Right Side Broadcasting Network’s coverage of a recent Donald Trump rally. RSBN’s show director, whispering into

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The 2024 primary season is roughly halfway over and there have been few shakeups so far. But the runoffs in Texas on Tuesday are putting two prominent Republicans on edge. Republican congressman Tony Gonzales and powerful Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan are both trying to save

By ADRIAN SAINZ and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The catalyst behind the failed gambit to sell off the iconic Graceland property in Memphis is a mystery. The self-styled investment company also is under fire from a lawsuit alleging fraud, an aggressive attorney general and a community of Elvis Presley loyalists who

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of Indians voted Saturday in the next-to-last round of a grueling national election with a combined opposition trying to rattle Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign for a third-consecutive term for himself and his Hindu nationalist party. Many people lined polling stations before the start of

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state man has been found guilty of murder for his role in the death of a police officer who was mistakenly shot by a sheriff’s deputy. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports that a Clark County jury convicted Julio Segura on Friday in the death of Vancouver police officer Donald Sahota.

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press Prosecutors in New York have accused Harvey Weinstein’s lead defense lawyer of making public statements intended to intimidate a potential witness ahead of the fallen movie mogul’s retrial and have asked a judge to take action. New York’s highest court last month threw out Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction. The Manhattan

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The friend of a prominent Congolese opposition leader’s son said he turned down a six-figure offer to travel there as part of the family’s security detail in what turned out to be a failed coup attempt. Opposition leader Christian Malanga was killed in a shootout

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — The estate of a 25-year-old dancer who died after eating a mislabeled cookie containing peanuts has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The lawsuit filed Thursday in Connecticut says Órla Ruth Baxendale died Jan. 11 after eating a Florentine cookie sold by grocery retailer Stew Leonard’s and suffering an anaphylactic reaction. The

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Friday asked the judge overseeing the classified documents case against Donald Trump to bar the former president from public statements that “pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents” participating in the prosecution. The request to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon

By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Lara and Eric Trump both addressed North Carolina Republicans at the state’s GOP convention to tout changes at the Republican National Committee and former President Donald Trump’s race back to the White House. The Friday address highlighted fundraising increases and staff changes at the RNC that

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Highway bandits in Mexico made off of with over 40 tons of avocados. Federal prosecutors said Friday the avocados were stolen in two separate robberies in the western state of Michoacan, Mexico’s main producer of the fruit. In both cases, armed men stopped freight trucks carrying about 20 tons each, and