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By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas association of professors is demanding that the University of Texas cancel the firings of multiple employees. This comes as the university shut down the school’s community engagement division this week to comply with the state’s diversity, equity and inclusion ban. The University of Texas

By The Associated Press Boeing CEO David Calhoun is getting compensation valued at $33 million for last year, nearly all of it in stock awards. But the company said Friday that the CEO declined a bonus of nearly $3 million after a panel blew out of a Boeing 737 Max during flight in January. And

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press William Woods was homeless and living in Los Angeles when he learned that someone was racking up debt using his name. But when he reported his concerns to the branch manager of a bank, he wound up spending nearly two years locked up, accused of identity theft himself. As he

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers have approved another year’s worth of funding for most state agencies and services. Their action Friday came after a few legislators staged a last-minute public protest over a 93% pay increase for lawmakers coming next year. The Republican-controlled Senate approved a bill 26-12

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court says a Biden administration plan to provide student debt relief for people who say they were victims of misleading information by trade schools or colleges is “almost certainly unlawful.” The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, dated Thursday, came in a

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUNEOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An Argentine judge has ruled that 20 cloistered nuns had suffered abuse for more than two decades at the hands of high-ranking clergy in a conservative northern province. The ruling — closely watched in part because it took place in the homeland of Pope Francis

NEW YORK (AP) — The American families of hostages held in Gaza say they don’t have time for “progress” on a cease-fire deal. They say any deal to halt the fighting must also bring their loved ones home. The families fear time is running out as the hostages face dire humanitarian conditions after six months

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press Months after Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, state lawmakers held an hourslong hearing to debate a so-called red flag bill that would let family members petition a judge to remove guns from someone experiencing a psychiatric crisis. Supporters at Friday’s hearing said it’s important to reconsider the proposal after a gunman

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and HAVEN DALEY Associated Press HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — A migrant farmworker who survived a mass shooting at a Northern California mushroom farm has filed a lawsuit against the farm and one of its owners. The lawsuit filed this week says the owner failed to keep him safe from

ANTLERS, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says three people are dead after the single-engine aircraft they were aboard crashed in southeastern Oklahoma. The crash happened Thursday near Antlers. The OHP has identified the dead as pilot Brian Davis and passengers Michael Davis and Kelly Thompson. All were from Antlers. The Federal Aviation Administration

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — In a story published April 5, 2024, about an excessive force lawsuit filed by a woman whose hand was nearly severed during a protest near the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, The Associated Press reported that Sophia Wilansky alleged her injury resulted from an “explosive munition” fired at her by

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in one of Mexico’s largest cities say they have found seven bodies — five of them decapitated and another completely dismembered — in a car left in the middle of traffic on a main expressway. Prosecutors said all of the bodies bore hand-written messages outlining the reasons each were killed.

By The Associated Press Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher say they filed for divorce last year after more than 20 years together. The English “Borat” star and the Australian “Wedding Crashers” actor who married in 2010 announced their split Friday in joint Instagram posts that showed them together in tennis outfits. “After a long

By SEAN MURPHY A brazen Los Angeles cash heist on Easter weekend in which thieves cracked a safe and got away with as much as $30 million is believed to be one of the largest such heists in U.S. history. The heist has triggered rampant speculation among a public long infatuated with daring burglaries and

NEW YORK (AP) — Procter & Gamble is recalling more than 8 million bags of Tide, Gain, Ace and Ariel laundry detergent packets sold in the U.S. and Canada due to a defect in the products’ child-resistant packaging. According to Friday notices from both P&G and product-safety regulators in the U.S. and Canada, the outer

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday wrote to the leaders of Egypt and Qatar, calling on them to press Hamas for a hostage deal with Israel, according to a senior administration official, one day after Biden called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to redouble efforts to reach

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press A voting company owner on Friday acknowledged making a “coercive” demand of 32 Texas counties: Pay an additional surcharge for the software that runs their voting registration system, or lose it just before November’s elections. John Medcalf of San Diego-based VOTEC said he had to request the counties pay a

BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — Norby Williamson, ESPN’s head of event and studio production, is leaving the network after nearly 40 years. The move was announced in a memo by Burke Magnus, the network’s president for content. Williamson had overseen ESPN’s studio content — including “SportsCenter” — as well as NFL and college football. Williamson was

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is demanding a new judge just days before his hush-money criminal trial is set to begin, rehashing longstanding grievances with the current judge in a long-shot, eleventh-hour bid to disrupt and delay the case. Trump’s lawyers — echoing his recent social

By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN AP Science Writer DALLAS (AP) — East Coast residents were jolted Friday by a 4.8-magnitude earthquake centered near Lebanon, New Jersey, with weak rumblings felt as far away as Baltimore and the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border. No life-threatening injuries or major damage have been reported. Here’s what to know about earthquakes on the