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By NAYARA BATSCHKE Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Heavy rains lashed much of Chile, damaging homes, flooding roads, knocking out power and causing mudslides that have swept through residential areas. Storms have drenched the center and south Chile throughout the week, displacing people and closing schools. More than 2,000 homes have been damaged and

By JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Top executives at a California telemedicine company were arrested for allegedly distributing Adderall online and conspiring to commit health care fraud through reimbursements for the medication. U.S. Justice Department officials say Ruthia He, the founder and CEO of Done Global Inc, and clinical president David Brody

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A second suspect was arrested Friday in connection with the abduction and death of a 4-year-old Louisiana girl who was found in Mississippi, Jackson Police Chief Joseph Wade said. Wade told WJTV-TV that the suspect, a 32-year-old woman, is an acquaintance of a 36-year-old man who was captured Thursday. The woman

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal investigators say a loss of engine power due to poor maintenance caused a 2022 helicopter crash in New Mexico that claimed the lives of four Bernalillo County first responders as they were returning home from a firefighting mission. The National Transportation Safety Board issued

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she is considering a ban on face masks in the New York City subway system, following what she described as concerns over people shielding their identities while committing antisemitic acts. Hochul told reporters Thursday that what the policy would look

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina judges are deciding whether a redistricting lawsuit claiming a state constitutional right to “fair” elections can go to trial. On Thursday, a panel of trial judges questioned lawyers for voters who sued over some congressional and legislative district boundaries and for Republican legislative

BOSTON (AP) — An Oklahoma man accused of throwing a pipe bomb at the Massachusetts headquarters of a group called The Satanic Temple has pleaded not guilty in federal court in Boston. Sean Patrick Palmer has been charged with using an explosive to damage a building following the attack in April on the headquarters. The

PHOENIX (AP) — Officials say a wildfire near a historic old Arizona mining town destroyed at least six homes, prompted overnight evacuations and closed the main highway between Phoenix and Las Vegas for nearly 23 hours. Firefighters worked Thursday to stem the flames. No injuries were reported after the blaze spread quickly late Wednesday through

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has opened a trial run allowing a limited number of people to apply to renew their passports online. Windows will open at midday Eastern time each day and then close once the system has reached its daily limit. The department says it’s taking it slow so it can monitor

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Legislation to legalize recreational marijuana in New Hampshire has died on the House floor, but the effort by New England’s only holdout state got further than it ever has. The House has passed multiple legalization bills over the years only to have them blocked in the Senate. This year, both chambers

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California Legislature is signaling that it could cancel a $400 million loan payment to help finance a longer lifespan for the state’s last nuclear power plant. The votes in the state Senate and Assembly exposed a rift with Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who says

By STEPHEN SMITH and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The chefs heading Team USA at an international food competition this week in New Orleans are incorporating flavors of their native California in dishes featuring New Orleans regional ingredients. The team is led by Stefani De Palma, who helped the San Diego restaurant

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A bill aimed at outlawing “revenge porn” has been approved by lawmakers in the Massachusetts House and Senate and shipped to Democratic Gov. Maura Healey, a move advocates say was long overdue. If signed by Healey, the bill — which bars the sharing of explicit images or

By JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer was convicted of accepting bribes to let drug-filled cars enter the United States from Mexico. Authorities say Leonard Darnell George would give traffickers a one-hour window to reach his lane at a San Diego border crossing. He allowed

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin says his committee has uncovered at least three additional luxury trips given to Justice Clarence Thomas by donors as part of the panel’s ethics investigation into the Supreme Court. Durbin said Thursday that the committee obtained information from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow that

By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took 15 months to act on a whistleblower complaint about the Abbott Nutrition factory at the center 2022’s nationwide infant formula shortage. That’s according to an audit by the inspector general of Health and Human Services. It’s just the latest evidence that federal

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Attorneys for the two remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre say they will petition the Oklahoma Supreme Court for a rehearing in their reparations case. In an 8-1 decision on Wednesday, the state’s highest court upheld the decision of a district court judge last year to dismiss the

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Republican former Gov. Larry Hogan, one of former President Donald Trump’s fiercest critics in the GOP, has received Trump’s endorsement in his Maryland Senate bid. In an interview on Fox News, Trump said he’d like to see Hogan win. He also said he believes Hogan “has a good chance to win.”

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer Former Illinois standout Terrence Shannon Jr., a potential first-round NBA draft pick, was found not guilty Thursday on a rape charge in Kansas. A jury in Douglas County spent less than two hours deliberating the verdict. The 23-year-old Shannon was accused of committing sexual assault last September while visiting

By NICK PERRY Associated Press MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Cannabis regulators in Massachusetts have issued an administrative order that will allow pot to be transported to Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket islands for the first time. The order Thursday comes as Martha’s Vineyard was about to run out of pot, with one dispensary temporarily closing in