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By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has made a pitch to North Korean officials to increase the sale of munitions to Moscow. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Thursday that Shoigu spoke last week to

By REBECCA BOONE and ED KOMENDA Associated Press People seeking medication abortions on the U.S. Territory of Guam must first have an in-person consultation with a doctor, a federal appeals court says, even though the nearest physician willing to prescribe the medication is 3,800 miles (6,100 kilometers) — an 8-hour flight — away. The ruling

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Fulton County has reached a settlement with the family of a man who died in a bedbug-infested cell in the county jail’s psychiatric wing, the family’s lawyers said Thursday. Lashawn Thompson, 35, died in September, three months after he was booked into the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. Attorneys Ben Crump

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M University reached a $1 million settlement Thursday with a Black journalism professor whose hiring was sabotaged by backlash over her past work promoting diversity. The nation’s largest public school agreed to pay Kathleen McElroy and apologized to her while admitting “mistakes were made during

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — Officials in Delaware’s largest county have agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle a lawsuit stemming from a fatal police shooting in 2021. The settlement was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request. It calls for New Castle

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former president of one of the nation’s largest police unions has been sentenced to two years in prison for stealing $600,000 from a fund consisting of contributions from members of the Sergeants Benevolent Association. U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl has sentenced Ed Mullins Thursday.

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s justice minister has approved extraditing an Italian priest sought by Argentina on charges of murder and torture during that country’s last military dictatorship. But a lawyer and rights groups say the priest has an appeal in Italian courts seeking to block extradition. Attorney Arturo Salerni, who

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Focusing on the Bidens rather than Donald Trump’s federal court appearance, House Republicans released a transcript Thursday of their interview with Hunter Biden’s former business associate detailing overseas financial dealings by the president’s son. The more than five-hour closed-door interview with Devon Archer by

By LINDSEY BAHR and ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writers The actors and writers strikes have resulted in most Hollywood film and television productions being shut down, from the “Gladiator” sequel to the live action “Lilo & Stitch.” But some independent films and television productions are still filming after reaching agreements with the Screen Actors Guild-American

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The fatal stabbing of a gay man after a confrontation between a group of friends who were dancing to a Beyoncé song and a group of young men who apparently took offense has outraged New York City’s LGBTQ community and spurred Beyoncé herself to post a

GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — Copper Beech Farm, with 50 acres (20 hectares) of waterfront property in the tony New York suburb of Greenwich, has sold for just under $139 million, believed to be a record home sale in Connecticut, Sotheby’s International Realty said Thursday The estate, once owned by a family that helped start what

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s interior minister has conceded that small groups of sub-Saharan migrants trying to enter the country are pushed back into the desert border areas.  In an interview with The Associated Press, Kamel Fekih says the security forces don’t engage in “collective” expulsions, dumping migrants into

David Keyton STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish media are reporting that an Eritrea-themed cultural festival in a Stockholm suburb took a violent turn when about a thousand anti-Eritrean government protesters stormed the event, leaving at least 52 people injured.  The protesters on Thursday set booths and vehicles ablaze, sending smoke billowing into the sky. Swedish police

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Infants should get a recently approved drug to protect them against a respiratory virus that sends tens of thousands of American children to the hospital each year, U.S. health officials said Thursday. An infection with RSV is a coldlike nuisance for most healthy people, but it can be

NEW YORK (AP) — Officials say several passengers suffered minor injuries when a commuter train derailed in New York City. A Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesperson says about 100 riders were on the Long Island Rail Road train Thursday when it derailed shortly after 11 a.m. east of the Jamaica station. A Fire Department spokesperson says

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — United States co-captain Lindsey Horan brushed aside criticism leveled at the team by former striker-turned-pundit Carli Lloyd, calling it outside noise. Now an analyst with Fox Sports, Lloyd didn’t hold back after the Americans eked out a spot in the knockout round at