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By SETH BORENSTEIN and BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn’t really pour or flood — at least nothing like what drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralyzed Dubai. Meteorologists say cloud seeding, although decades old, is still controversial in the weather community, mostly because it has been hard

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday misstated key details about his uncle’s death in World War II as he honored the man’s wartime service and said Donald Trump was unworthy of serving as commander in chief. While in Pittsburgh, Biden spoke about his uncle, 2nd Lt.

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s legal team says it tried serving a subpoena on Stormy Daniels as she arrived for a screening of her documentary at a gay bar in Brooklyn last month, but the porn actor and hush money trial figure refused to take

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Ellen Ash Peters, the first woman to serve as Connecticut’s chief justice, has died. She was 94. The Connecticut Judicial Branch says Peters passed away Tuesday. The cause and location of her death have not been disclosed. Peters was also the first female faculty member at

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Casinos in the northeastern U.S. are dealing with numerous challenges as they brace for the arrival of new competitors in New York City. A potential smoking ban in Atlantic City, an ongoing debate over whether internet gambling hurts or helps the bottom line of physical

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Police in the capital of Georgia on Tuesday unleashed tear gas to break up a large demonstration outside the country’s parliament that was protesting a proposed law that would require media and non-commercial organizations to register as being under foreign influence if they receive more than 20% of their funding from

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a bill that would provide new sentences for about 30 inmates who were given the death penalty despite a jury’s recommendation of life imprisonment. The House Judiciary Committee voted 9-4 against the bill that would give life without parole sentences to

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press BERLIN, Vt. (AP) — Hundreds of Vermont farms are still recovering from July’s catastrophic flooding and other extreme weather as they head into this year’s growing season. Dog River Farm lost nearly all its produce crops in the summer flooding. The owner says they removed truckloads of river silt and

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — In a story published April 17, 2024, about people losing their voting rights after some felony convictions in Mississippi, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Kenneth Almons began a 23-year prison sentence soon after graduating from high school. He was released from prison at age 23 after serving about six years.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say skeletal remains found at a house in Springfield have been identified as those of a woman who vanished in 2008. Sangamon County Coroner Jim Allmon says a post-mortem examination identified the remains as those of Michelle Renee “Shelly” Bianco of Springfield. Allmon says Bianco’s official cause and manner of

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s decision to order New Jersey Democrats scrap a ballot design widely viewed as helping candidates with establishment backing. The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals considered a slimmed-down appeal brought by the Camden County Democrats after the county clerks — the officials charged with

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Air National Guard flew 159 civilian search-and-rescue missions last year in the nation’s largest state, often during vicious storms that prevented air ambulances from taking off. It also patrolled the skies for spy balloons and missiles from China, Russia and North Korea, and supported

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina coach Dawn Staley has gotten plenty of prominent congratulations since winning her third national title earlier this month. Staley may have been most thrilled over the flowers, merchandise and note she got from the “Queen B” herself, Beyonce. Staley gushed in a video posted to social media Wednesday where

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A civilian contractor sent to work as an interrogator at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison resigned within two weeks of his arrival and told his corporate bosses that mistreatment of detainees was likely to continue. Jurors saw the October 2003 email from the interrogator who worked

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says two more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an endangered species in the U.S. These three slinky predators are genetically identical to a single animal frozen back in the 1980s. The

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California Attorney General has declined to file criminal charges against a Los Angeles police officer who fired a rifle at a suspect inside a clothing store in 2021, killing a 14-year-old girl in a dressing room. Attorney General Rob Bonta released a report Wednesday into

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — The question of holding the Paris Games opening ceremony on the Seine River loomed large as countdown clock to the Olympics passed the 100-day mark. Organizers, French government officials and French athletes have assured visitors and fans that they will be safe in Paris during the

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press A Republican lawmaker has signaled plans to mount another effort to limit diversity, equity and inclusion practices at Kentucky’s public universities after GOP supermajorities failed to resolve differences on the issue during the recently ended legislative session. Kentucky lawmakers will convene again in January, and state Sen. Mike Wilson said

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — A lockdown prompted by a report of a gunshot at the Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota has lifted. Security officers completed a door-to-door sweep of the base Wednesday afternoon, the base said in a social media post. Earlier that afternoon, base security received the report of a

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Workers who help bring Disneyland’s beloved characters to life have filed a petition to form a labor union. Parade and character performers at Disney’s Southern California theme parks said Wednesday that more than two-thirds of roughly 1,700 eligible workers signed the petition filed with the National