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ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — The northern Illinois man charged with killing four people and injuring seven others by stabbing, beating and driving over them has been denied pretrial release. A judge in the city of Rockford ruled Tuesday that Christian Soto must remain in jail pending trial. The judge scheduled an April 15 arraignment for

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — Days after Russian forces withdrew from the outskirts of Kyiv in the dramatic first weeks of their full-scale invasion two years ago, a photo revealed what had become of Nataliia Verbova’s missing husband. Poring over the image of eight men executed and lying on cold concrete

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s top prosecutor says the scope of an investigation into President Dina Boluarte’s ownership of three luxury watches has broaden to include fine jewelry that authorities estimate could be worth more than $500,000 and money transactions that exceed $400,000. Attorney General Juan Villena on Tuesday told Parliament’s oversight committee that the

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — A former Colorado police officer is on trial over the violent arrest of a Black man in 2021. A prosecutor told jurors during opening statements Tuesday that John Haubert repeatedly hit Kyle Vinson with his gun and strangled him for 39 seconds. Haubert’s lawyer said he

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Above a bodega in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood, a mosque congregation hosts iftar, the traditional Islamic end of fast meal, for hundreds of hungry migrants every night during this holy month of Ramadan. Up north in the Bronx, an imam has turned the two-story brick

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — In the 1971 film “Diamonds are Forever,” James Bond stays in a swanky suite at the Tropicana Las Vegas. “I hear that the Hotel Tropicana is quite comfortable,” Agent 007 says. It was the Tropicana’s heyday, a frequent haunt of the legendary Rat Pack, while its

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Private money to fund elections will be banned in Wisconsin after voters approved a constitutional amendment Tuesday put forward by Republicans in reaction to grants received in 2020 that were funded by donations from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Voters also have approved a second question put

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI, ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and JILL COLVIN Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Donald Trump accused President Joe Biden of unleashing a “bloodbath” at the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday, escalating his inflammatory rhetoric as he campaigned in two Midwestern swing states likely to be critical to the outcome of the 2024 election. Trump,

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Ron Eller won a Republican primary runoff Tuesday in Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District and will face longtime Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson in the Nov. 5 general election. Eller, who is a military veteran and physician assistant, defeated Andrew Scott Smith, who has worked in farming

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and TERESA CRAWFORD Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Voters in four states weighed in Tuesday on their parties’ presidential nominees, a largely symbolic vote now that both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have locked up the Democratic and Republican nominations. Biden and Trump easily won primaries in

By BARBARA SURK and DANIEL COLE Associated Press MENTON, France (AP) — When the French Riviera town of Menton prepares to host its lemon festival each year, it needs more than 140 tons of citrus for the showy floats and park displays that attract thousands of spectators. But they won’t use the actual Menton lemon,

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A candidate for mayor of a violence-wracked city in Mexico has been killed just as she began campaigning. Authorities in the north-central state of Guanajuato said candidate Bertha Gaytán was shot to death on a street in a town just outside the city of Celaya. Mayorships

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge refused Monday to toss out a tax case against Hunter Biden, moving the case closer to the possible spectacle of a trial as his father campaigns for another term as president. U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi denied eight motions to dismiss the indictment accusing President

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Pressure keeps mounting against Peru President Dina Boluarte as lawmakers have submitted to Parliament a request to remove her from office for “permanent moral incapacity.” The move came Monday, three days after police broke down the front door of her residence to search for luxury watches tied to an investigation against

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Inmates in New York are suing the state corrections department over the decision to lock down prisons during next Monday’s total solar eclipse. The suit filed Friday in federal court in upstate New York argues that the April 8 lockdown violates inmates’ constitutional rights to practice

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump posted a $175 million bond on Monday in his New York civil fraud case, halting collection of the more than $454 million he owes and preventing the state from seizing his assets to satisfy the debt while he appeals, according

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The judge in Donald Trump’s April 15 hush-money criminal trial declared his family off-limits to the former president’s rancor on Monday, expanding a gag order days after Trump assailed his daughter and made false claims about her on social media. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that lawyers representing migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard nearly two years ago by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis can sue the charter flight company that flew them to the island off the Massachusetts coast. The 50 Venezuelans were flown from Texas amid promised work and housing opportunities. Under

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The leader of an offshoot polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border has pleaded guilty to conspiring to transport underage girls across state lines in what authorities say was a scheme to orchestrate sexual acts involving children. Samuel Bateman also pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit kidnapping in

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — Authorities say multiple people have been hurt in a vehicle pileup at an intersection south of Midland, Texas. The crash came as high winds blew dust making visibility difficult. Texas Highway Patrol Troopers and Upton County Emergency personnel responded to the crash along State Highway 349 around 4:50 p.m. Monday. The