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BUENA, N.J. (AP) — An explosion has destroyed a house in southern New Jersey and left three people dead and two children seriously injured. The third victim was found Friday. Authorities are still searching for one other person they believe was inside. The cause of Thursday morning’s explosion in Buena is being investigated. It damaged

MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (AP) — The latest summer storm dumped a month’s worth of rain in one Vermont community, leading to the rescue of three people from a car roof, and more rain is on the way. The National Weather Service says the highest rain totals were in Addison County, in the western part of the

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ, JENNIFER PELTZ and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. (AP) — A woman whose remains were among discoveries that became known as the Gilgo Beach killings has been identified after 27 years, authorities said Friday, disclosing the latest in a series of recent revelations about the long-cold case. Known until now to the

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press MANCHESTER, Conn. (AP) — Hospitals and clinics in several states on Friday began the time-consuming process of recovering from a cyberattack that disrupted their computer systems, forcing some emergency rooms to shut down and ambulances to be diverted. Many primary care services at facilities run by Prospect Medical Holdings remained

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A Texas man has been convicted in the fatal shooting of a west Texas deputy sheriff and faces a death sentence or life in prison without parole. A jury in El Paso deliberated for about 30 minutes Thursday before finding 31-year old Facundo Chavez guilty of capital murder in the

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Doctors in Kenya say the bullet wounds that civilians received during opposition protests last month show that most were shot while running from police or trying to surrender. The findings are in a report by the Kenya Medical Association, Amnesty International Kenya and the Law Society

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The FBI has joined a weekslong search for a missing Wisconsin boy. Thirteen-year-old James Yoblonski’s father reported him missing from the family’s Reedsburg home on June 12. A sheriff’s deputy found the family’s van abandoned in the town of Sumpter about three hours before Yoblonski reported him missing. Deputies found a

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he has high hopes to discuss further strengthening of three-way strategic cooperation with the United States and South Korea at a summit hosted by President Joe Biden at Camp David later this month. The Aug. 18 summit with Biden and South

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The men who came forward to allege they were sexually abused as teenagers by Japanese boy band producer Johnny Kitagawa now have a powerful listener: the United Nations. The chair of the U.N. Working Group on Business and Human Rights told reporters on Friday that the number

By MATTHIAS SCHRADER and DANA BELTAJI Associated Press CLAUSTHAL-ZELLERFELD, Germany (AP) — Tiny bark beetles have been causing havoc in Germany’s Harz mountains, eating away at trees and killing off swaths of the spruce population by hampering their ability to take in nutrients. Drought — made longer and more intense by climate change — is

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Kashmir’s top pro-India politician says the disputed region lacks democracy four years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Hindu nationalist party stripped its statehood. Kashmir’s separate constitution and inherited protections on land and jobs were also removed with the decision. In an interview Friday with The

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republicans in Ohio have set in motion a summer special election over a measure that would make it harder for voters to pass future constitutional amendments. The Legislature acted in the spring to put the question on the August ballot and so far the

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The battle over abortion rights looms over an Ohio ballot measure being voted on statewide Tuesday. Issue 1 would raise the threshold needed to amend the state’s constitution from a simple majority of state voters to 60%. Although the text of the proposal does not address abortion,

BERLIN (AP) — The United Nations’ human rights chief says his office in Uganda will close this weekend after the East African country decided not to renew an agreement allowing it to operate. The closure comes amid concern over human rights violations including extrajudicial killings and over a new law that prescribes the death penalty

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The United Nations says damage to the school complex in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp from clashes between factions could delay the start of the school year for some 6,000 children. Dorothee Klaus, Director of UNRWA in Lebanon, told The Associated Press Friday that a heavily fortified

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A landslide has hit a resort area in the mountains of the country of Georgia, killing at least seven people and leaving more than 30 missing. Officials say the landslide hit the Shovi area on Thursday. The region is popular for its mineral springs and rugged mountain vistas and contains cottages

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Men who had sworn an oath to protect and serve were huddled on the back porch of a Mississippi home as Michael Corey Jenkins lay on the floor, blood gushing from his mutilated tongue where one of the police officers shoved a gun in

By The Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Global prices for food commodities like rice and vegetable oil have risen for the first time in months after Russia ended a deal allowing Ukraine ship grain and India restricted some rice exports. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said on Friday that its index of food prices

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tuesday is primary day in Mississippi, with Gov. Tate Reeves’ bid for renomination to a second term topping the list of contests voters will decide. Reeves, who was first elected in 2019 after serving two terms as lieutenant governor, faces two challengers in the Republican primary: military