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By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Businessman Dave Taylor has defeated 10 of his fellow Republicans in a crowded primary for southern Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District seat, and State Sen. Michael Rulli has won the Republican primary in Eastern Ohio’s 6th Congressional District. The 2nd District extends from the eastern

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that he’d support a national ban on abortions around 15 weeks of pregnancy, voicing for the first time support for a specific limit on the procedure. The Republican former president has taken credit for striking down a federally guaranteed right to

By ELAINE KURTENBACH and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A report by a European business group says that uncertainty and “draconian regulations” have drastically raised risks for foreign businesses in China. The report by the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, released Wednesday, urges China’s leaders to do more to address concerns

INDEX, Wash. (AP) — The bodies of two people recovered over the weekend after they fell into the water at a dangerous swimming area in Washington state made popular by TikTok have been identified as men from Japan. The Daily Herald reports the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the deceased Tuesday as 21-year-old Hiroya

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday gave final approval to a bill that would outlaw paid assistance with absentee ballot applications and another that would restrict diversity, equity and inclusion programs at universities and state agencies. Republicans had named the bills as priorities for the legislative session. The

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Catastrophic hunger is so dire in two world hotspots that famine is imminent in northern Gaza and approaching in Haiti, with hundreds of thousands of people in both places struggling to avoid starvation. That’s according to food security experts and aid groups, who are warning about the toll from

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A strong performance among voters who cast their ballots the day of the election in Ohio has powered Bernie Moreno to a win in the state’s GOP primary for U.S. Senate. The Associated Press declared Moreno the winner Tuesday at 8:35 p.m. EDT, when he led state

Associated Press PAHRUMP, Nev. (AP) — A new clerk was chosen Tuesday to oversee elections in a deep-red rural Nevada county that has been roiled by false claims of widespread election fraud since 2020. Nye County Commissioners appointed Cori Freidhof to replace Mark Kampf when he steps down at the end of the month after

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed concern over the escalating violence in Myanmar after reports and residents of the country’s western Rakhine state said military airstrikes killed at least 25 members of the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority, including children. Tuesday’s reports said the attack the previous day

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A businessman pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring with the leader of an offshoot polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border to transport underage girls across state lines, making him the first man to be convicted in what authorities say was a scheme to orchestrate sexual acts involving children.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A human body has been found in a western New York reservoir that supplies drinking water to parts of Rochester, prompting a boil-water advisory for several neighborhoods. Workers with the city’s Water Bureau discovered the body Tuesday morning in the Highland Park Reservoir. Officials say the reservoir was immediately disconnected from

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge has ordered the state to grant Medicaid coverage for abortions without any restrictions. Clark County District Judge Erika Ballou in Las Vegas said from the bench on Tuesday that she plans to issue a written order. The state could appeal the judge’s ruling

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court late Tuesday again prevented Texas from arresting and deporting migrants accused of entering the U.S. illegally, hours after the the law briefly took effect. Before a divided U.S. Supreme Court earlier let the state law take effect while a legal challenge plays

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea successfully tested a solid-fuel engine for its new-type intermediate-range hypersonic missile, state media reported Wednesday, claiming a progress in efforts to develop a more powerful, agile missile designed to strike faraway U.S. targets in the region. A hypersonic missile is among an array

By The Associated Press JetBlue Airways is cutting back. In June, it will end service in Kansas City and three destinations in South America, and it will reduce flights out of Los Angeles and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The moves announced Tuesday are designed to focus JetBlue’s flying on more profitable routes. The airline has been

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press The Yurok Tribe will be getting back a slice of its ancestral land dotted with majestic redwoods and a key creek for salmon spawning. The tribe signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday with California and the National Park Service for 125 acres in Humboldt County to be transferred to the

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s former White House adviser and his son-in-law, praised the “very valuable” potential of Gaza’s “waterfront property.” Kushner in an interview with a Harvard University professor last month suggested that Israel should remove civilians while it “cleans up” the area. Kushner also suggested

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer Former NHL enforcer Chris Simon has died. He was 52. Simon died Monday night in his hometown of Wawa, Ontario, a spokesperson for the NHL Players’ Association, who has been in touch with the late forward’s agent, said Tuesday. Paul Theofanous, who represented Simon, did not respond to a

RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Fire officials say four people were killed and four others were hurt in a multiple vehicle crash in suburban Seattle. Puget Sound fire spokesperson Pat Pawlak said that at about 12:45 p.m. firefighters were sent to a crash involving four vehicles in Renton. He said four people died at the scene

By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s parole board has rejected clemency for a man set to die Wednesday night in the state’s first execution in more than four years. Barring an 11th-hour court stay, William James Pye is to receive a lethal injection Wednesday night for the 1993 killing of his former