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By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Former Florida Gov. and U.S. Sen. Bob Graham has been remembered by Republicans and Democrats alike as a man whose love for the state and people transcended politics. Graham was a two-term governor and a three-term U.S. senator who died last week at 87. He was

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — PEN America has canceled its annual World Voices Festival, as the literary and free expression organization continues to face widespread unhappiness with its response to the Israel-Hamas War. PEN called off its awards ceremony earlier this week after nearly half of the finalists withdrew from

Associated Press NEW KENT, Va. (AP) — The former medical director of a Virginia hospital that treats vulnerable children and young adults has been acquitted of sexually abusing two teenage patients during physical exams. Dr. Daniel Davidow worked for decades as the medical director of the Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents, a facility that

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities have revealed the conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges that were filed against an ex-aide of former President Donald Trump and four attorneys in Arizona’s fake elector case. But the names of former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Rudy Giuliani remained blacked out. The Arizona attorney

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A bill to ban the use of confidentiality agreements when negotiating potential laws in California has failed to pass. The bill by Republican Assemblymember Vince Fong failed to pass a legislative committee on Thursday. The bill was inspired by negotiations last summer around a law that

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — An American Airlines flight attendant has been indicted after authorities say he tried to secretly video record a 14-year-old girl using an airplane bathroom. A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted 36-year-old Estes Carter Thompson III, of Charlotte, North Carolina. Police say he also had recordings of

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A shark attack on a British tourist in the southeastern Caribbean prompted the government of Trinidad and Tobago to close seven beaches and a marine park. Authorities said the man attacked on Friday was hospitalized in an intensive care unit. Beaches along the northwest coast of Tobago were closed, including Turtle

By MATTHEW PERRONE and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is indefinitely delaying a long-awaited menthol cigarette ban, a decision that infuriated anti-smoking advocates but could avoid a political backlash from Black voters in November. In a statement Friday, Biden’s top health official gave no timeline for issuing the rule,

NEW YORK (AP) — Transit officials say the start date for the $15 toll most drivers will be charged to enter Manhattan’s central business district will be June 30. Under the so-called congestion pricing plan, the $15 fee will apply to most drivers who enter Manhattan south of 60th Street during daytime hours. Tolls will

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — An aspiring challenger to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has renewed his calls for change. He led a protest Friday of several thousand people demanding a more robust child protection system and the resignation of Orbán’s government. The demonstrators gathered outside Hungary’s Interior Ministry in Budapest and called for its head

By CARLOS RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — When the Houston Astros take on the Colorado Rockies this weekend, it will be the seventh regular-season series played in Mexico. Major League Baseball’s presence in the country, however, goes far beyond that. Mexico became one of only six countries in the world with an MLB

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A judge upheld the disqualification of a candidate who had had planned to run against the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s 2020 Georgia election interference case. Tiffani Johnson is one of two people who filed paperwork to challenge Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee. An administrative law judge

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — Help is finally on the way for the most critically eroded part of the Jersey Shore. North Wildwood and the state have been fighting in court for years over measures the town has taken on its own to try to hold off the encroaching seas

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian hacker activist group claims to have infiltrated the network of the country’s main security agency and obtained access to personal files of over 8,600 staffers of the KGB, the security service that still goes under its Soviet name. The authorities have not commented on

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Officials say Google plans to invest $2 billion to build a data center in northeastern Indiana to help power its artificial intelligence technology and cloud business. The Journal Gazette reports that the planned data center in Fort Wayne was announced in January, but Google and Gov. Eric Holcomb’s office disclosed

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that New York can move ahead with a law requiring internet service providers to offer heavily discounted rates to low-income residents. The decision from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Friday reverses a lower court ruling from 2021 that blocked the

SEWARD, Neb. (AP) — A former Nebraska deputy has been jailed after a grand jury indicted him on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with the shooting death of a man in October. Lancaster County Attorney Pat Condon on Friday announced the indictment of former Seward County Deputy Anthony Gann. Gann is jailed on $100,000 bond

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wildlife activists and others are calling on a boycott of Wyoming tourism as Yellowstone National Park opens for its busy summer season. The reason is the state’s laws that give people wide leeway to people to kill wolves with little oversight in most of the state.

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A real estate company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to pay $250 million to settle lawsuits nationwide. The lawsuits claimed that longstanding practices by real estate brokerages forced U.S. homeowners to pay artificially inflated broker commissions when they sold their homes. HomeServices

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore publishing company has filed a class action claim arguing the owner and manager of the massive container ship that took down the Francis Scott Key Bridge last month should have to pay damages to businesses impacted by the collapse. The claim was filed Thursday on behalf of American Publishing LLC.