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By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Republicans in Alabama have chosen Justice Sarah Stewart as their nominee to lead the state Supreme Court. The court touched off a furor last month with its decision to recognize frozen embryos as children. Women in Alabama saw their appointments canceled and their path to parenthood

TWO RIVERS, Wis. (AP) — A police chief says the combined reward in the case of a 3-year-old Wisconsin boy who vanished last month has risen to $25,000. Two Rivers Police Chief Ben Meinnert said in a news release Tuesday that a Manitowoc County Crime Stoppers reward for information leading to the location and return

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three farmers have been killed by a bomb apparently planted in a dirt road in the cartel-dominated western Mexico state of Michoacan. A state security official who was not authorized to be quoted by name said the blast occurred Tuesday in the rural township of Tumbiscatio.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Teamsters working for Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch have voted to ratify a labor agreement with the company. The union said Tuesday that the five-year contract was ratified with 86% support. The deal covers 5,000 unionized employees at Anheuser-Busch, including brewers, packagers and warehouse workers. The union said workers will get wage increases

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Netherlands’ National Holocaust Museum opens on Sunday.  It tells the story of Dutch victims of the Holocaust. About 102,000 Jews were deported from the Netherlands and murdered in Nazi death camps. Three-quarters of the prewar Dutch Jews were among the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis. That’s the largest proportion of

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Internationally renowned architect and avid motorcyclist Antoine Predock has died at his home in Albuquerque, according to longtime friends. He was 87. Predock created buildings around the world — from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg to the College of Media and Communications

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A workplace safety investigator says safety complaints by a movie armorer to managers went largely unheeded on the set of the Western movie “Rust,” where actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer. Defense attorneys on Tuesday called their first witnesses to refute allegations of involuntary

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Prosecutors in Costa Rica say they have arrested a man and four women who posed as nuns to accept donations for false charity clinics, but used some of the money for trips and other purchases. Randall Zúñiga, the head of the Central American country’s judicial investigative agency, said the

By JON GAMBRELL and TARA COPP Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday killed three of its crew members and forced survivors to abandon the vessel, the U.S. military said. It was the first fatal strike

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore is one of three Republicans expected to flip U.S. House seats after new district maps were drawn for the 2024 elections. Moore won the 14th District’s Republican nomination Tuesday. The Republican nomination in the 6th and 13th Districts appeared to be heading for a

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO and KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — About 6,000 voters in a new congressional district formed to boost Black representation received postcards with incorrect voting information ahead of Tuesday’s primary election. Montgomery County voters received postcards listing the incorrect congressional district after the county’s election software misidentified people living in

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press was able to call almost every Republican Super Tuesday contest for former President Donald Trump after initial results revealed no path for former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley to overtake him. The AP declared Trump the winner across a dozen states shortly after polls

PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) — A jury in Oregon has ordered PacifiCorp to pay more than $42 million to 10 victims of devastating wildfires on Labor Day 2020 — the latest verdict in litigation that is expected to see the electric utility on the hook for billions in damages. Last June a jury found PacifiCorp liable

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A leading South Sudanese academic and activist living in exile in the United States has been charged in Arizona along with a Utah man born in the African nation on charges of conspiring to buy and illegally export millions of dollars’ worth of weapons to overthrow the

CHICAGO (AP) — A man has been found guilty of shooting and killing a Chicago police officer, wounding her partner and firing at a third officer in August 2021. Emonte Morgan, 23, of Chicago was found guilty Tuesday of killing Officer Ella French, seriously injuring Officer Carlos Yanez Jr. and shooting at a third police

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers said Tuesday that the ex-president deserves a new trial and a fresh chance to tell a jury why he berated writer E. Jean Carroll for her sex abuse claims against him after she revealed them five years ago. The lawyers made the assertion

By STEVE KARNOWSKI, TRISHA AHMED and MARK VANCLEAVE Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Joe Biden has dealt challenger Dean Phillips a Super Tuesday defeat in the Minnesota congressman’s own home state, while former President Donald Trump has beaten Nikki Haley in the state’s Republican primary. Minnesota has 75 Democratic and 39 Republican national convention

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Super Tuesday is traditionally the biggest day nationwide for primary elections and caucuses before the actual Election Day in November. Until now, only one or two primaries or caucuses have been on the same day. On Tuesday, voters in 16 different states are choosing who they want to run

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he is concerned by “unsafe and destabilizing behavior” in the South China Sea such as the latest collision between Chinese and Philippine ships. He spoke on Wednesday after wrapping up a Southeast Asian leaders’ summit that called for disputes to

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A large fire followed by multiple explosions at a building in suburban Detroit killed one person and injured a firefighter. Authorities believe canisters containing gas chemicals may have been responsible for the explosions during Monday night’s fire. They haven’t yet determined the cause of the blaze. The federal Bureau of