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By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ governor has signed legislation enabling the state to lure the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and Major League Baseball’s Royals away from neighboring Missouri. The measure signed Friday by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly would help the teams pay for new stadiums by allowing Kansas

By TOM NOUVIAN Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The Paris Olympics are a month away and city police chief Laurent Nunez has addressed security concerns. In regard to the July 26 opening ceremony on the Seine river, security boats and snipers will safeguard the parade of boats carrying athletes along a six-kilometer section of the

By MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The torrential rains hitting El Salvador caused the deaths of another six people on Friday when two girls and four adults were killed after being buried in their homes. Wall collapses and landslides on the outskirts of the capital brought a total of 19

SAC CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa truck driver who vanished last fall and whose body was found in a farm field this spring died of hypothermia related to acute methamphetamine intoxication, an autopsy found. State medical examiner Dr. Kelly Kruse ruled that 53-year-old David Schultz’s death was an accident, the Sioux City Journal reported.

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Car dealerships across North America have faced a major disruption this week. CDK Global, a company that provides software for thousands of auto dealers in the U.S. and Canada, was hit by back-to-back cyberattacks on Wednesday. That led to an outage that was continuing to

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Local and federal law enforcement agencies have released a security plan for next month’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee that allows people to carry guns inside an outer perimeter and gives protesters a view of the arena. The U.S. Secret Service, the FBI and local police released

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Belarus has sentenced a top opposition figure living in exile to 20 years in absentia. The court in the capital of Minsk passed the sentence late on Thursday for Franak Viachorka, an advisor to opposition leader Svitalana Tsikhanouskaya. He was convicted on charges including treason and insulting the

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The bodies of a Utah man and an Air Force colonel who served as director of operations for the Alaskan Command have been recovered after their small plane plunged into an Alaska lake. The plane was found Thursday over 190 feet deep in Crescent Lake on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. Volunteers with

By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed a North Carolina masking bill that previously removed a pandemic-era exemption that allowed people to mask in public for health reasons. That provision was later changed after pushback to include language that protects masking for health purposes. But Cooper said

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department has fleshed out its proposed rule that would restrict and monitor U.S. investments in China for artificial intelligence, computer chips and quantum computing. The proposed rule, released Friday, stems from President Joe Biden’s August 2023 executive order regarding the access that “countries of concern”

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Playwright Donald Rupe didn’t intend to write a musical about the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, Florida. What he wanted to write about was his friends. But the more he dug into it, the more he returned to his hometown’s 2016 trauma. What the playwright

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized the first menthol-flavored electronic cigarettes for adult smokers, acknowledging that vaping flavors can reduce the harms of traditional tobacco smoking. The FDA said it authorized four menthol e-cigarettes from Njoy, the vaping brand recently acquired by tobacco giant

NEW YORK (AP) — Rail service in the Northeast has been disrupted for a second day. Amtrak trains into and out of New York City were delayed or canceled Friday morning. By the start of the afternoon rush, the rail announced service had been restored along the busy transit corridor. And service on the commuter

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a former tribal leader in South Dakota to serve nearly two years in prison and pay about $82,000 in restitution after a jury convicted him in April of defrauding his tribe. Julian Bear Runner was convicted of six counts of wire fraud in addition

By ED DAVEY Associated Press BATANGAS, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines is engaged in a major buildout of natural gas power at a time when scientists say the world needs to urgently phase out fossil fuel use because of climate change. Analysts say Filipinos will likely pay more for their electricity and that additional future

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian security official says that Ukraine’s military struck three oil refineries and a drone launch site inside Russia overnight. Despite improvements in Russia’s air defenses, Ukraine has continued its campaign to strike oil infrastructure across the border, hitting multiple sites in 2024, as part of

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, asked the Supreme Court on Friday to delay his prison sentence while he fights his convictions for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the attack on U.S. Capitol. The emergency application came after a

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Steeplechase runner Mason Ferlic is taking aim at the stars both on the track and in his field. Ferlic’s focus was on the U.S. Olympic Trials, but a tweaked hamstring kept him out of his first-round heat in the steeplechase. Tumbles, plunges and injuries happen,

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors on Friday urged the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case to uphold provisions of a gag order that bar him from criticizing jurors and court staff, while agreeing to lift a restriction on his public statements about trial witnesses. In court papers filed

By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA and DIARLEI RODRIGUES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro is famous for its beaches and vibrant parties in the Southern Hemisphere’s summer. The city now has a growing attraction for winter: humpback whales. The tourism agency of Rio sister city Niteroi across the Guanabara Bay on Thursday