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By MICHELLE L. PRICE and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press WINDHAM, N.H. (AP) — Donald Trump is blasting special counsel Jack Smith and vowing to continue talking about his criminal cases even as prosecutors seek a protective order to limit the evidence that Trump and his team can share. Fresh off his latest indictment, Trump called

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Retired Air Force Lt. Col. and former Lt. Gov. candidate Tony Grady announced his bid for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, joining an increasingly crowded GOP field hoping to unseat Democrat Jacky Rosen in what will be one of the most closely watched Senate races

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Recently unsealed search warrants describe the moments after a 6-year-old shot his teacher in Virginia. The warrants quote a reading specialist who ran into the classroom after the shooting and restrained the boy. The warrants say the child made statements including “I shot that (expletive)

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A helicopter that crashed on Alaska’s North Slope in July, killing three state scientists and the pilot, stopped sending flight-status data to a real-time tracking system as it passed over the southeastern shoreline of an Arctic lake. That is according to a preliminary report on the

BURLINGAME, Calif. (AP) — Electric bus, van and truck maker Proterra says it is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from a federal court in Delaware. The Burlingame, California, company is a big supplier of buses to transit systems across the nation. A statement on Proterra’s website Monday said it intends to maintain normal operations and

PARIS (AP) — The lead prosecutor in the French city of Sarreguemines says a 55-year-old German man who was arrested after his wife accused him of holding her captive for over a decade will be released without charges. The woman, aged 53, was found bedridden, half-naked, and with a shaved head in the couple’s home

CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors say the man accused of shooting a 9-year-old Chicago girl who had been riding her scooter crossed a street and headed straight toward her in the vestibule of her apartment building before shooting her. Prosecutors said during a court hearing Tuesday that Serabi Medina’s father, who had told her to come

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey declared a state of emergency Tuesday, citing an influx of migrants seeking shelter at a time when the cost of housing — already in short supply — continues to rise. There are nearly 5,600 families or more than 20,000 people – many of

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit the Iowa State Fair Saturday, a time-honored rite of presidential candidates working for support in the state’s leadoff nominating caucuses next January. Campaign aides Tuesday confirmed Trump’s plan to visit the fair Saturday afternoon, on the 10-day

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A decision by a bloc of West African nations to shut down their borders with Niger as a way of sanctioning its coup plotters is harming local businesses in northern Nigeria, where a cross-border economy has boomed for years. Niger accounts for 75% of the total

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A St. Paul man has been sentenced to nearly 37 years for his role in a mass shooting at a bar that left one person dead and 14 others injured. Jurors found 35-year-old Terry Lorenzo Brown Jr. guilty in June of second-degree intentional murder and other counts. Ramsey County Judge

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Bill Clinton’s presidential center is planning a major expansion that will include a new Hillary Rodham Clinton Institute holding personal archives from the former Democratic presidential nominee and first lady. The Clinton Foundation did not release information on the size or cost of the planned

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Three white boaters in Alabama’s capital city will be charged with misdemeanor assault for a riverfront brawl with a Black boat captain that drew nationwide attention, with more charges likely to come, police said. Videos of the incident, which circulated widely on social media, have proven

DETROIT (AP) — Former Detroit Tigers catcher and broadcast analyst Jim Price has died. He was 81. The Tigers announced his death Tuesday. No cause was given. Price played for the Tigers from 1967 to 1971, backing up All-Star and Gold Glove-winning catcher Bill Freehan. He hit .214 with 18 homers and 71 RBIs in

MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a suburban Kansas City police officer who was wounded in a shootout that killed a car chase suspect has died. Police in Fairway, Kansas, announced late Monday in a news release that Officer Jonah Oswald had died of injuries suffered in the Sunday morning shooting at a QuikTrip store

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Alia Bhatt had been weighing her Hollywood options for a few years. A popular star of Hindi films for over a decade with nearly 79 million Instagram followers, she’d been interested in making an English language film, but nothing had been working out. Then Bhatt got word of a

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer Jay-Z ‘s annual Made in America festival, scheduled for next month in Philadelphia, has been canceled. “Due to severe circumstances outside of production control, the 2023 Made in America festival will no longer be taking place,” the festival shared in a statement on social media. Made in America had

LONDON (AP) — The U.K.’s election watchdog says hackers may have information on tens of millions of British voters after they got access to electoral registers. The Electoral Commission apologized on Tuesday for the breach. It said much of the information was already in the public domain and the names and addresses of people who

By MICHAEL WARREN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Native American Journalists Association is aiming to become more inclusive as its members vote on whether to rebrand as the Indigenous Journalists Association. The group with more than 950 members is voting ahead of its annual conference this week. Practical reasons for the change involve more