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By JACK DURA and JOSH FUNK Associated Press A Democratic legislator is calling for an inquiry into South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem’s trip to Texas for dental work and a promotional video in which she praises the dental office. State Sen. Reynold Nesiba says Wednesday he has asked the Republican co-chairs of the Legislature’s

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Massive chunks of hail pelted parts of Kansas and Missouri on Wednesday night, bringing traffic to a standstill along Interstate 70, as storms unleashed possible tornadoes and meteorologists urged residents to stay indoors. There were three unconfirmed reports of tornadoes in Wabaunsee and Shawnee counties with

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe police say they have rescued dozens of children used as labor at a religious sect compound. Graves, including of infants whose deaths were not registered, were also found during a raid at the compound on the outskirts of the capital, Harare. Police arrested a “self-styled

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden could face trial in Delaware on federal firearms charges as soon as June, in the midst of his father’s reelection campaign. U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika set the tentative date during a short telephonic hearing Wednesday, though she is still weighing several defense motions to

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey Republican candidate for U.S. Senate was arrested in 2020 and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and leaving the scene of an accident. That’s according to police reports that came to light Wednesday. Alex Zdan is a former TV news reporter who launched a bid for

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Sex would be defined as binary under a bill passed Wednesday by Mississippi House lawmakers following the lead of Republican-controlled legislatures around the country that are aiming to restrict the legal recognition of transgender identities. Republican Rep. Dana McLean’s bill defines “woman,” “man,” “mother,”

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer A blood test for colon cancer performed well in a study published Wednesday, offering a new kind of screening for a leading cause of cancer deaths. The test looks for DNA fragments shed by tumor cells and precancerous growths. It’s already for sale in the U.S. for $895,

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government says it will back legislation banning foreign state ownership of British newspapers and magazines, a move that could upend a planned takeover by a United Arab Emirates consortium of the Telegraph Media Group. The development comes after numerous lawmakers from across the political divide

By DAVID HAMILTON AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk abruptly canceled “The Don Lemon Show” on his social media network X after the former CNN anchor recorded an interview with the billionaire for its as-yet unaired first episode. Musk owns X, formerly known as Twitter, and frequently proclaims himself a “free speech

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force is reporting the first data on cancer diagnoses among troops who worked with nuclear missiles. While the data is only about 25% complete, the Air Force on Wednesday said the numbers are lower than they would have expected. The Air Force review of cancers

By CHEVEL JOHNSON RODRIGUE Associated Press Dorie Ann Ladner, a longtime fighter for freedom and equality in her home state of Mississippi with contributions to the NAACP, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and voter registration drives, has died, her family confirmed. “My beloved sister, Dorie Ladner, died peacefully on Monday, March 11, 2024,” her younger

The Associated Press Federal civil rights investigators are looking into whether protected health information was exposed in the recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare. The Office for Civil Rights says it’s also examining whether Change Healthcare followed laws protecting patient privacy. Change Healthcare provides technology used to submit and process insurance claims and handles about 14

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A prosecutor has told a jury that a Connecticut state trooper’s fatal shooting of the 19-year-old man who had just crashed a stolen car following a high-speed chase was “overkill” and showed an “extreme indifference to human life.” State Inspector General Robert Devlin told the jury in Milford before it

RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) — One of the last of four men charged in an international murder-for-hire plot that led to the abduction and killing of a Vermont man has pleaded guilty. Berk Eratay of Las Vegas was expected to go on trial in September along with key suspect Serhat Gumrukcu of Los Angeles. On Wednesday,

NEW YORK (AP) — The retired Concorde jet that belongs to New York’s Intrepid Museum will return to its home on a west side pier after a seven-month restoration. Museum officials say the supersonic jet will travel by barge up the Hudson River on Thursday and will be lifted by a crane onto Pier 86.

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch soccer star Quincy Promes has reportedly been arrested by authorities in Dubai at the request of Dutch prosecutors who will seek his extradition. Promes was convicted in absentia last month by an Amsterdam court of involvement in cocaine smuggling and sentenced to six years

LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — A jury has convicted a man in the 2021 slayings of his four children and their grandmother in Southern California. Jurors handed down the verdict Tuesday. Germarcus Lamar David was found guilty of five counts of first-degree murder and three counts of assault on a child causing death. Sentencing is scheduled

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — The Austrian government says that it has ordered two diplomats from Russia’s Embassy in Vienna to leave the country. The Foreign Ministry on Wednesday said that the two Russian diplomats had “engaged in acts incompatible with their diplomatic status” and have been declared “personae non gratae.” It

A federal judge has found the city of Flint, Michigan, in contempt for failing to comply with a court order that spelled out the steps it needed to take to finish replacing old lead pipes after Flint’s lead-contaminated water scandal. U.S. District Judge David Lawson wrote in Tuesday’s decision that he had found Flint in

DALLAS (AP) — The first Black pilot hired at a major U.S. airline has died at age 89. David E. Harris broke barriers in 1964 when he went to work for American Airlines. Before then, Harris had struggled to find work in the airline industry despite having spent six years flying bombers for the Air