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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Maple Leaf Mel was leading the field in the $500,000 Test at Saratoga when she sustained a catastrophic injury to her leg just before the finish line and was later euthanized on Saturday. Jockey Joel Rosario was unseated and went to a hospital in Albany for further evaluation and to

Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon has extended rules restricting the number of crab traps in the water and how deep they can drop in the late-season months when humpback whales are more likely to swim there. Oregon’s Dungeness crab fishery is one of the backbones of the Pacific Northwest’s fishing industry. But veteran

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Doctors from Nigerian public hospitals who have been on strike since last week say they will embark on a nationwide protest, accusing the country’s president of ignoring their demands for better work conditions. The protest is scheduled to take place on Wednesday and it became necessary

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press VINTON, Iowa (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is increasingly urging Republicans to avoid the temptation to refight the 2020 election next year, even as former President Donald Trump remains the dominant favorite for the 2024 GOP nomination on a message of vindicating his defeat. Though DeSantis recently cast doubt

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell received a rousing welcome from the party faithful Saturday at a high-profile home-state political gathering amid renewed scrutiny of his health after the 81-year-old lawmaker froze up midsentence during a recent Capitol Hill news conference. “This is my 28th Fancy

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Some of the people who were arrested during a 2017 protest over the acquittal of a white police officer in the shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith have started receiving their share of a $4.9 million settlement. The first checks were distributed Friday to some of the 84 people covered by

NEW YORK (AP) — Police have arrested a 17-year-old high school student on a hate-motivated murder charge in the fatal stabbing of a professional dancer during an altercation between two groups of friends at a New York City gas station last weekend. Police took the teenager into custody Friday in connection with the killing of

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A judge has asked federal land managers to explain why they should be allowed to continue capturing more than 2,500 wild horses in northeastern Nevada — a roundup opponents say is illegal and has left 31 mustangs dead in 26 days. Wild Horse Education, a nonprofit

By LEAH WILLINGHAM and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A half-century ago, the nation’s top health experts urged the federal agency in charge of mine safety to adopt strict rules protecting miners from poisonous rock dust. The inaction since — fueled by denials and lobbying from coal and other industries — has

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Social media influencer Kai Cenat is facing charges of inciting a riot and promoting an unlawful gathering in New York City, after the online streamer drew thousands of his followers, many of them teenagers, with promises of giving away electronics, including a new PlayStation. The

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas bar where nine people were wounded by gunfire last month has permanently closed. City Nightz attorney Charley O’Hara told the Wichita Eagle that the club owner felt he had no choice but to close because of all the negative publicity after the shooting. Wichita police suspended the bar’s liquor

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s immigration agency says it has found 491 migrants being held at a compound by the side of a highway east of Mexico City. All but six of the migrants were from Guatemala; the others are Hondurans. There were 277 children and adolescents among the migrants, most of whom were traveling

WREXHAM, Wales (AP) — Ryan Reynolds, Rob McElhenney and Hugh Jackman watched an eight-goal thriller which had an unhappy ending for the Hollywood stars as Welsh soccer club Wrexham lost its first match back in England’s Football League. Host Wrexham was beaten 5-3 by MK Dons at the Racecourse Ground in the opening round of

CAIRO (AP) — The authority that oversees Egypt’s Suez Canal says one of its tugboats has sunk in the waterway after a collision with a tanker. It did not mention whether other traffic had been affected but said the tugboat took on water after it hit a Hong-Kong flagged transport ship Saturday. In a statement,

MOSCOW (AP) — Turkmenistan’s flagship carrier, Turkmenistan Airlines, has announced it will extend its suspension of flights to Moscow until the end of October, citing safety concerns after an increase in drone attacks on the Russian capital. The suspension of flights between the Turkmen capital Ashgabat and Moscow would be in place until Oct. 28

By GHAITH ALSAYED and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press JINDERIS, Syria (AP) — A baby girl who was born under the rubble of her family home destroyed by the deadly earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria six months ago is in good health, loves her adopted family and likes to smile even to strangers. The dark-haired