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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A movie set armorer is challenging her conviction on an involuntary manslaughter charge in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film “Rust,” court records released Monday show. Defense attorneys for “Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed filed a request for a new trial

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth will not enter into collective bargaining with the union its men’s basketball players voted to join earlier this month, the school said Monday in a move that could send the case to federal court. In a statement announcing its refusal to bargain a labor deal with the athletes, the school

KATE BRUMBACK and SUDHIN THANAWALA ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and other defendants in Georgia’s election interference case filed court papers Monday seeking to appeal a judge’s ruling not to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from their prosecution or dismiss the charges. The resignation of the special prosecutor with whom Willis

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — R. Kelly’s lawyer told an appeals court Monday that all kinds of legitimate organizations — even college fraternities — could be deemed racketeering organizations under a law used to convict the R&B superstar at his Brooklyn trial of sexually abusing young fans, including children, for decades.

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s attorney general is blaming a delay of the release of a key report into a deadly Maui wildfire on county agencies that forced investigators to issue subpoenas. Investigators have needed to issue eight additional subpoenas for documents and 53 additional subpoenas for interviews about the

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The state of Iowa will provide “contemporaneous” access to newly filed civil court cases to settle a lawsuit that accused the state of violating the First Amendment by delaying access to those filings, the Des Moines Register reported Monday. The newspaper publishing company Lee Enterprises, based in Davenport, Iowa, and

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court justices appeared receptive Monday to National Rifle Association claims that a former New York state official violated its free-speech rights by pressuring banks and insurance companies to blacklist the group after the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida. The NRA is suing former New York

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused in a new lawsuit of sexually assaulting a police colleague seeking his career help in 1993. According to the suit, Adams drove the woman to a vacant lot, then offered to use his police connections to help her if she performed

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The parents of four students killed at a Michigan school are calling for a state investigation of all aspects of the 2021 mass shooting. They say the convictions of a teenager and his parents are not enough to close the book. The parents also want a

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner has thrown her support behind a local New York official’s order banning female sports teams with transgender athletes from using county-owned facilities. The reality television star came out as a transgender woman in 2015. She argued transgender athletes would undermine female

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A conservative social media influencer has been charged with storming the U.S. Capitol and passing a stolen table out of a broken window, allowing other rioters to use it as a weapon against police, according to court records unsealed on Monday. Isabella Maria DeLuca was arrested last Friday in Irvine,

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two Black men who were tortured by six Mississippi law enforcement officers called on a federal judge Monday to impose the harshest possible penalties against the disgraced former lawmen. The former law officers admitted in August to subjecting Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Can you feel the Kenergy? Ryan Gosling’s 2024 Academy Awards performance of the “Barbie” power ballad “I’m Just Ken” stole the show earlier this month. The popularity of his star-studded, Slash-soloing, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”-channeling set is still being felt. Luminate, the industry data and analytics

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A badly decomposed body of a child has been found inside a duffel bag by crews who were cleaning a site in west Philadelphia. The body was found Monday morning in the city’s Mantua neighborhood by workers with the Community Life Improvement Program. Police say it wasn’t immediately clear how the child

NEW YORK (AP) — Soprano Kathleen Battle is returning to the Metropolitan Opera at age 75 for a recital on May 12. It’s only her second appearance there since the company fired her in 1994 and publicly accused her of what it called “unprofessional actions.” Battle will be accompanied by harpist Bridget Kibbey and guitarist

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — James Burton, John Anderson and Toby Keith are the newest members to join the Country Music Hall of Fame. The Country Music Association announced the 2024 inductees on Monday in Nashville, Tennessee. Burton is a guitarist who served as Elvis Presley’s band leader and will enter

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — There’s a little too much Atlantic in Atlantic City this year for some casinos. Weeks of winter storms have washed away much of the sand from the gambling resort’s north end beaches. That’s left the Ocean, Resorts and Hard Rock casinos urgently trying to get

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Sports Illustrated will continue operations after the company that owns the brand agreed with a new publisher for its print and digital products. Minute Media took over on Monday after reaching a licensing agreement with Authentic Brands Group. On Jan. 19, Authentic announced that it was revoking The Arena

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Freddie Mercury ’s sanctuary in London, where he lived the last decade of his life, is on sale for the first time in nearly half a century — minus his “exquisite clutter.” Garden Lodge, as the neo-Georgian brick home in the posh Kensington neighborhood is known, is

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers’ mega-stars Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto might prompt some to learn a few words of Japanese. Inside the country they’ve stirred pride in almost every Japanese and marked 150 years of baseball evolution in the country. They have also provided