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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde is launching his first television ad of the race on Tuesday, part of a seven-figure statewide buy his campaign said Monday will include multiple spots over the next month. Hovde is a multimillionaire businessman running to take on Democratic U.S.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Shoe and sports clothing maker Adidas says it has started a third sale of the Yeezy sneakers it was left with after severing ties with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. The company has accompanied the sales with donations to groups fighting antisemitism and other forms of hate. Adidas

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police have identified three suspects in the killing of a man on a subway car last week. Transit authorities are meeting Monday to discuss crime in the city’s transit system. The NYPD said Sunday that its seeking Justin Herde, Betty Cotto and Alfredo Trinidad in the killing of

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — February’s end is bringing wild weather to much of the United States, with record heat allowing for golf in Wisconsin and outdoor food trucks in Minnesota, along with an increased fire risk across much of the Great Plains. But blinding snow in the Northwest is blowing eastward,

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian authorities on Monday imposed an entry ban on two Russian citizens suspected of espionage for Moscow’s foreign intelligence service. Bulgaria’s agency for national security identified the two as 39-year-old Vladimir Nikolayevich Gorochkin and 37-year-old Tatiana Anatolievna Gorochkina, and barred them from entering European Union member states for a period of

By ELOGE WILLY KANEZA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An official in Burundi says nine people have been killed in an attack by rebels opposed to his government and again accuses neighboring Rwanda of supporting the armed group. Government spokesman Jérôme Niyonzima described a “cowardly attack” by assailants in western Bubanza province Sunday night.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Hungary’s parliament has approved Sweden’s application to join NATO, paving the way for the Scandinavian country to become the alliance’s 32nd member. Hungary was the last holdout after Turkey agreed to Sweden’s accession in January. Newcomers need to be approved by all existing NATO members. Once neutral Sweden and neighboring Finland decided

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Tep Vong, the senior monk who headed Cambodia’s Buddhist community and was vital for its rejuvenation in the wake of the Khmer Rouge genocide in the late 70s, has died. He was 93. Cambodia’s Ministry of Cult and Religion said Tep Vong died Monday after an extended illness. He was

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s bid to join NATO — held up for almost two years — cleared its last hurdle when Hungary gave its go-ahead Monday to let the Nordic country into the alliance. It brought an end to more than 18 months of delays by the nationalist government in Budapest that have frustrated Hungary’s

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.S. couple whose catamaran was hijacked last week in the Caribbean by three escaped prisoners were presumed dead and likely had been thrown into the ocean, police said Monday. The accounts by police in Grenada and in St. Vincent and the Grenadines were

By SEUNG MIN KIM, COLLEEN LONG, ZEKE MILLER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will make dueling trips to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Thursday following the failed border deal that was opposed by the Republican front-runner. That’s according to White House press secretary

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lunar lander is expected to cease operations Tuesday, its mission cut short after landing sideways near the south pole of the moon. Intuitive Machines, the Houston company that built and flew the spacecraft, said Monday it will continue to collect data until

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has appealed his $454 million New York civil fraud judgment, challenging a judge’s finding that he lied about his wealth as he grew the real estate empire that launched him to stardom and the presidency. The former president’s lawyers filed notices of appeal

LONDON (AP) — You gotta have more than “Faith” to pocket the new George Michael coin. A commemorative minting of coins that rolled out on Monday ranged in price from a couple of banknotes to a small fortune as the late musician continues to rack up posthumous honors years after his death. A silver-colored version

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Don Henley never gave away handwritten pages of draft lyrics to “Hotel California” and other Eagles hits, he said Monday, calling them “very personal” in testimony that also delved into an ugly but unrelated episode: his 1980 arrest. Henley, the Grammy-winning co-founder of one of the

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has made clear that he remains reluctant to send Taurus long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine, pointing to a risk of his country becoming directly involved in the war. Germany is now the second-biggest supplier of military aid to Ukraine after the United States and is further stepping up

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has marked the anniversary of the 1993 bombing at the old World Trade Center. Six people were killed and more than 1,000 injured when the bomb detonated in an underground garage. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey held a memorial Mass on Monday at St.

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities say a ferry carrying day laborers sank in the Nile just outside the Egyptian capital, killing at least 10 of the 15 people on board. The five who survived were transported to a hospital and later discharged, the Ministry of Manpower said in a statement. The cause of the sinking

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer On the same night Caitlin Clark was adding to her NCAA women’s basketball scoring record before a packed house in Indiana, and a national audience on television, the Iowa sensation was losing ground to the most prolific active scorer in her sport. In a gymnasium smaller than those of

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Suspected illegal loggers have shot and killed three forest rangers and wounded a fourth on patrol in central Mexico, near the slopes of the Iztaccihuatl volcano. Police in the central state of Puebla, east of Mexico City, said late on Sunday that the killings took place earlier in the day. Police