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By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Silicon Valley-backed initiative to build a green city for up to 400,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area has qualified for the Nov. 5 ballot. Voters will be asked to allow urban development on land currently zoned for agriculture. The land-use change is necessary

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has cracked walls and caused other minor damage in a fishing community in southwestern South Korea. No injuries were reported from the quake Wednesday morning. The earthquake in Buan was the strongest detected in South Korea this year. The National Fire Agency has confirmed eight minor

By CLAUDIA LAUER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden’s legal woes are not over after his conviction on three felony firearms charges in a trial that put a spotlight on his drug-fueled past. Now, President Joe Biden’s son faces sentencing, and another criminal trial on tax charges in the

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld California’s ban on gun shows at county fairs and other public properties, deciding the laws do not violate the rights of firearm sellers or buyers. The 3-0 decision Tuesday by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturns a federal judge’s ruling in October that blocked

CHICAGO (AP) — A 22-year-old man has entered a plea of not guilty in the fatal shooting of an off-duty Chicago police officer. Xavier L. Tate Jr. was arraigned Tuesday on charges including first-degree murder in the April 21 slaying of 30-year-old Officer Luis M. Huesca. Huesca had completed his work shift and was on

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Lawyers for the gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket say he should be exempt from the death penalty because he was 18 at the time of the attack. The Supreme Court in 2005 carved out protections against executing people under 18. Payton

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A hotly contested East Coast natural gas pipeline has been given the go-ahead to start operating. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s approval Tuesday comes six years after construction began on the Mountain Valley Pipeline in West Virginia and Virginia. Environmental groups, landowners and some elected officials

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — One person died after being shot on a commuter bus Tuesday afternoon that led officers on a wild chase for miles from Atlanta into an outlying suburb, striking several vehicles as it barreled through rush hour traffic with frightened passengers aboard, authorities said. TV news helicopters followed

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press The commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard has tried to assure frustrated senators she is not attempting to cover up the branch’s failure to adequately handle cases of sexual assault and harassment at the service academy in Connecticut. Appearing Tuesday before a Senate investigative subcommittee, Admiral Linda L. Fagan said

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — An off-duty security guard has been charged with second-degree murder by prosecutors who say that he fatally shot a 17-year-old six times in the back as the teen tried to return what the guard believed to be a firearm, but was actually a toy gun, to a

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Only six to eight critically endangered vaquita marina porpoises were sighted this year in the Gulf of California. But researchers suggested Tuesday that some of the few remaining vaquitas — the world’s most endangered marine mammal — may have moved elsewhere in the Gulf, the only place in the world where

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — An 80-year-old northwestern Montana man has been sentenced to two months in a federal prison, fined $10,000 and ordered to forfeit a rifle he used to kill a female grizzly bear on his property in November 2020. Othel Lee Pearson pleaded guilty in February to felony tampering with evidence for cutting

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — American investor Martin Shkreli is facing a new lawsuit for allegedly retaining and sharing recordings from a one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album that he was forced to sell following his 2017 conviction on fraud charges. The lawsuit was brought Monday by a cryptocurrency collective, PleasrDAO, which purchased

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The government’s prized turncoat witness at the bribery trial of Sen. Bob Menendez has been politely combative as defense lawyers try to poke holes in his testimony and portray him as a habitual liar. Jose Uribe spent a third day on the witness stand Tuesday. He

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday said Washington will spell out in state law that hospitals must provide abortions if needed to stabilize patients, a step that comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule this month on whether conservative states can bar abortions during

By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A reworked version of a bill that originally caught flak for removing a pandemic-era health exemption for wearing a mask in public has been approved by North Carolina lawmakers. The amended bill approved Tuesday still increases punishments for people wearing masks while committing a crime. It

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. officials say the United States will send Ukraine another Patriot missile system. It answers Kyiv’s desperate calls for more air defenses as it battles against an intense Russian assault on the northeastern Kharkiv region. The officials said Tuesday that President Joe Biden has approved

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A pastry competition kicked off what Chef Emeril Lagasse calls a kind of “culinary Olympics” taking place in New Orleans this week. The Pastry World Cup event started Tuesday. It coincides with the Bocuse d’Or Americas competitions. While pastry was the focus Tuesday, events involving savory creations open Wednesday. Participants are

CLAYTON, Ohio (AP) — State troopers in Ohio say a truck hauling more than 150 pigs overturned on an Ohio interstate highway ramp. Troopers say the driver on Tuesday suffered serious injuries and roughly half of the pigs were killed in the crash or had to be euthanized. Authorities did manage to corral the pigs

By KAITLYN HUAMANI Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Billy Ray Cyrus has filed for divorce from singer Firerose after seven months of marriage. The 62-year-old country musician filed for divorce from the 36-year-old whose legal name is Johanna Rose Hodges in a Tennessee court on May 22, citing irreconcilable differences and “inappropriate marital conduct.”