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By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say the sheriff of a rural Tennessee county illegally profited from the work of jail and prison inmates under his care and housed dozens of them in a home outside of the prison without permission. Tennessee Comptroller Jason Mumpower says Gibson County Sheriff Paul Thomas

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Environmental groups have petitioned the U.S. Department of Interior to review climate impacts related to the decades-old trans-Alaska pipeline system. They’re also asking the federal government to develop a plan for a “managed phasedown” of the 800-mile pipeline, which is Alaska’s economic lifeline. The request comes

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah has vowed to intensify its attacks along the Lebanon-Israel border to avenge the killing of its most senior military commander by Israel since the latest round of violence began eight months ago. The coffin of Taleb Sami Abdullah was brought to Hezbollah’s stronghold in southern Beirut

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s highest court is giving childhood victims of sexual abuse a renewed opportunity to file damage lawsuits. The state Supreme Court issued a 5-2 ruling Wednesday upholding a so-called look-back law that was passed in 2021 and amended in 2022. The law gave victims of past

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man has been convicted in federal court of leaving the U.S. to train and fight with the Islamic State group in Syria a decade ago. A jury in Bowling Green convicted Mirsad Hariz Adem Ramic, 34, of multiple counts of supporting and receiving military-type training from the Islamic

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota voters have just approved a ballot initiative that bars anyone who would be 81 years old during his or her U.S. House or Senate term from running for Congress. Legal scholars view the measure approved overwhelmingly Tuesday as an effort to revisit a nearly

By MARTINA REBECCA INCHINGOLO and KAITLYN HUAMANI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — At the London premiere of the second part of season 3, the stars of “Bridgerton” shared some wisdom for fans hoping to find a romance as passionate as their characters’. Season 3 stars Nicola Coughlan and Luke Newton play Penelope Featherington and Colin

DENVER (AP) — Authorities say four people, including two children, were shot and killed in an apparent murder-suicide late Tuesday in a small city in southeastern Colorado. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation says two adults and two children were found shot in a home in La Junta, a city of about 7,100 people in a

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two advocacy groups have asked a judge to unseal court records and preserve public access to hearings in the class action lawsuit against the federal Bureau of Prisons over the sexual abuse of incarcerated women at a now-shuttered California prison. The bureau announced suddenly on April 15 that it would close

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 46-year-old man who was driving while impaired when he fatally struck two Nevada troopers last November has been sentenced to prison. Jemarcus Williams got the maximum sentence of 16 to 40 years for two counts of DUI resulting in death. Sgt. Michael Abbate and trooper Alberto Felix were checking on

By JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The president of the University of Miami has been chosen to become the next chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles, where the retiring incumbent is leaving a campus roiled by protests over Israel’s war in Gaza. Dr. Julio Frenk was selected by regents of

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABOARD THE USS LABOON IN THE RED SEA (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a boat-borne bomb attack against a commercial ship in the Red Sea on Wednesday, authorities said, the latest escalation despite a U.S.-led campaign trying to protect the vital waterway. The use of a boat loaded with

By TERESA CRAWFORD Associated Press DIXON, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say three sheriff’s deputies have been shot while responding to a northern Illinois home. Ogle County Sheriff Brian VanVickle said at a Wednesday news conference that the deputies were shot while responding to a report that someone inside the home was threatening to kill themself

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The state’s next budget will be slightly less than the current year’s after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed about $1 billion to bring the spending plan down to $116.5 billion. The budget provides 3% raises for state employees and sets aside $1.5 billion that has to

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Quincy Jones, casting director Juliet Taylor, filmmaker Richard Curtis and James Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli are getting honorary Oscars. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced the five Wednesday. They’ll receive their golden Oscar statuettes at an untelevised ceremony in Hollywood in November

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s Senate narrowly approved key state overhaul and tax bills proposed by President Javier Miliei, delivering an initial legislative victory to the libertarian leader in his efforts to enact his promises of radical change. Senators voted 37 to 36 late Wednesday to give their overall

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Food authorities in Denmark have recalled three types of spicy instant noodle products imported from South Korea over possible risks of “acute poisoning.” Consumers are asked to discard them or return the noodles to the retailer. The noodles are made by Seoul-based Samyang Foods, one of South Korea’s largest companies, and

WAITSFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Noah and Kristen Dweck have seen a number of black bears around their home in Vermont but this was a first: a bear relaxing on their hammock. Noah Dweck took iPhone video of two young bears in their yard in Waitsfield on Tuesday with one sitting on the swinging hammock before

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has kept a lower court’s ruling banning the use of mobile voting sites in the upcoming presidential election in place for now, a win for Republicans. However, in a victory for Democrats, the court also ensured late Tuesday that municipalities across the

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The University of Cambridge has repatriated more than three dozen traditional artifacts to Uganda in a major act of restitution welcomed by the local officials who sought them. Some of the objects were shown exclusively to AP journalists. The objects, selected by Ugandan curators, represent a