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BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Authorities are seeking a suspect who allegedly started a fire outside the Vermont office of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. The small blaze Friday caused minor damage but no injuries. Police in Burlington say a male suspect sprayed something on the office door, lit it on fire and fled. The Burlington Fire

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office in 2018 hoping to recover Mexico’s old reputation as the diplomatic leader of Latin America. What he’s managed to do, however, is get several of his country’s ambassadors kicked out of countries in the region. On Thursday, Ecuador ordered

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israel-Hamas war has stretched on for half a year and become one of the most destructive, deadly, and intractable conflicts of the 21st century. Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 cross-border attack, Israel has pummeled the Gaza Strip, displacing the vast majority of the population and causing many

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s mandate for auto dealers to provide an increasing number of electric vehicles for sale across the state will remain in place pending a legal challenge. Members of the state Environmental Improvement Board on Friday rejected an effort to stall implementation of the rules

ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) — In a story published April 5, 2024, about a police ticket-writing scandal in Connecticut, The Associated Press erroneously reported that six troopers and a constable would not face state criminal charges due to the statute of limitations passing. Four troopers won’t face state criminal charges due to the statue of

Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — State security services in Moldova’s Russia-backed breakaway region of Transnistria say that a drone attacked a military unit close to the border with Ukraine, causing minor damage to a radar station but no casualties. The region’s state security ministry says the incident occurred in the region of Rabnita, about

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — For three years, many Atlantic City casino workers have been trying to get their elected officials to ban smoking in the gambling halls, to no avail. Now they’re taking their fight to court. The United Auto Workers filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to overturn the state’s

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio is pulling out all the stops for Monday’s total solar eclipse, as it braces for potentially hundreds of thousands of visitors. At a Friday news conference, Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said it was 1806 when a total eclipse last crossed the state’s path. The

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A Dominican judge denied a request by Wander Franco to suspend required monthly meetings with authorities investigating allegations the Tampa Bay Rays shortstop had a relationship with a 14-year-old girl. The judge also rejected a petition to return a $33,000 deposit Franco paid

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Federal job safety officials are beginning their investigation into the collapse of a crane in downtown Fort Lauderdale that killed a worker. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Friday began trying to determine what caused Thursday afternoon’s collapse that crushed two cars on a busy bridge that crosses the

INNSBRUCK, Austria (AP) — Skiing power couple Mikaela Shiffrin and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde have announced they’re engaged to be married. Shiffrin, a two-time Olympic champion who has won a record 97 World Cup races, holds her ring up to the camera in one of several photos they posted on their social media accounts. Aamodt Kilde

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed former Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop as his special envoy for Myanmar. The post has been vacant for 10 months as the country’s conflict escalated into the worst violence since the military takeover in 2021. Bishop will replace Noeleen Heyzer, a former U.N. undersecretary-general for

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press A new Hulu limited-series called “We Were the Lucky Ones” follows a Jewish family in Poland during World War II who get separated and spend years trying to reunite. It’s based on a book by Georgia Hunter, who wrote about her own family history. The show’s main cast is all

NEW YORK (AP) — A majority of workers at a Mercedes-Benz plant near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, are calling for a vote to join the United Auto Workers union, which is on a drive to sign up non-union plants across the country. According to the UAW, the Mercedes workers have filed a petition with the National Labor

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man found guilty but mentally ill in the killing of an Indianapolis police officer has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for shooting his then-girlfriend but to time served for killing the officer. The city’s police chief calls the sentence “deeply” disappointing. Thirty-one-year-old Elliahs Dorsey was found guilty but mentally

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee is advancing a bipartisan bill to allow people convicted of felonies to apply to vote again without getting gun rights restored. The bipartisan effort to untangle the two rights has cleared early hurdles but several remain. The bill faces some GOP skepticism in the session’s

By JIM SALTER Associated Press Karen Nickel has been dealing with lupus and other illnesses for years, illnesses she blames on childhood exposure to a suburban St. Louis creek where Cold War-era nuclear waste was dumped decades ago. It’s time, she said Friday, for the federal government to start making amends. “People have died and

By The Associated Press This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include a sequel to the powerful documentary “Food, Inc.,” Dating expert Patti Stanger has a new TV show on The CW and “Dora the Explorer” gets a reboot on Paramount+. In music offerings, Linkin Park will release their first career-spanning greatest hits collection, titled “Papercuts

MINNETONKA, Minn. (AP) — Family members described an American tourist who was killed in Africa when a bull elephant charged the truck she was riding in as an adventurer. They identified her as 79-year-old Gail Mattson, of Minnetonka, Minnesota. A safari company says she was with other tourists on a game drive in a Zambian

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The English indie-pop band Glass Animals, who made a splash with the song “Heat Waves” a few years ago, returns this summer with an album exploring love. A few furious weeks of writing by frontman, songwriter and producer Dave Bayley ended up with the band’s