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By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled House has impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S.-Mexico border. It was their second attempt. A vote last week fell short. The vote Tuesday marks the first time in nearly 150 years that a Cabinet secretary has been

By JEFF AMY Associated Press Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says he will send more of his state’s National Guard soldiers to aid Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s effort to control illegal crossings on the U.S.-Mexico border. The move comes as fellow Republican Abbott pursues a showdown with the Biden administration over immigration enforcement. Kemp said Tuesday

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House voted Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, with the Republican majority determined to punish the Biden administration over its handling of the U.S-Mexico border after failing last week in a politically embarrassing setback. The evening roll call proved tight, with Speaker

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Years before starting a family of her own, Stella Belia was already waging a tireless campaign for legal recognition. Her fight may finally be over this week — a few months shy of her twin boys’ 17th birthday. Greek lawmakers are expected to legalize same-sex marriage

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer inflation in the United States cooled last month yet remained elevated in the latest sign that the pandemic-fueled price surge is only gradually and fitfully coming under control. Tuesday’s report from the Labor Department showed that the consumer price index rose 0.3% from December to

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer The longest Super Bowl game will also go down as the most-watched program in U.S. television history. According to Nielsen and Adobe Analytics, Kansas City’s 25-22 overtime victory over San Francisco on Sunday night averaged 123.4 million viewers across television and streaming platforms. That shattered last year’s mark of

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska state health officials say an elderly man has died from Alaskapox. It’s the first known fatality from the recently discovered virus. A bulletin issued last week says the man died in late January. He lived in the forest in the remote Kenai Peninsula. Alaskapox, also known as AKPV, is related

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a small plane with two people aboard landed safely at Buffalo Niagara International Airport after its rear door fell off.  Police in the Buffalo suburb of Cheektowaga say there are no reports of injuries or property damage on the ground. The plane lost the door around 5:30 p.m. Monday

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia has opened polling stations where nearly 205 million eligible voters will choose a new president and some 20,000 other public officials. The world’s third-largest democracy on Wednesday is holding its fifth presidential and legislative elections since shaking off a dictatorship in 1998. Three candidates are

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia is accusing the West of sabotaging agreements that would have prevented the war in Ukraine – but the U.S. and its allies put the blame squarely on Moscow, saying there is no escaping that President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion. Russia called Monday’s U.N.

By STEPHEN GROVES and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson late Monday sharply criticized a $95.3 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other countries, casting serious doubts about the future of the package just as Senate leaders were slowly muscling it toward a final vote. Senate leaders, trying

By STEVE PEOPLES and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump wants a leadership change at the Republican National Committee in an attempt to install a new slate of loyalists — including his daughter-in-law — atop the GOP’s political machine even before the former president formally secures the party’s next presidential nomination.

ATLANAT (AP) — A  federal appeals court has upheld the multiple life sentences given to a man for fatal bombings at an Alabama abortion clinic and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Eric Robert Rudolph’s bid for a new sentence in a ruling Monday. The three-judge panel ruled that

BEND, Oregon (AP) — Public health officials in Oregon have reported a case of bubonic plague in a local resident who they said likely contracted it from a pet cat. All close contacts of the person and the cat have been contacted and provided medication, Dr. Richard Fawcett, the health officer for Deschutes County, said

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Golden State Warriors assistant coach Dejan Milojevic, a mentor to two-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic, has been buried in his native Serbia after suffering a heart attack last month. Hundreds of mourners including Warriors coach Steve Kerr attended the funeral on a rainy day at a Belgrade cemetery. The 46-year-old Milojevic

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico is preparing to set aside billions of dollars to sustain government spending in the future in case an oil production bonanza fades in the transition to cleaner sources of energy. The Senate on Monday approved a $10.2 billion annual spending plan that also

By BROOKE LEFFERTS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Carolina Herrera show at New York Fashion Week included bright colors and flowered prints and embroidery. Creative director Wes Gordon says one of the inspirations for his fall/winter collection was a painting of a peony flower, which he and his design and tailoring team replicated

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Usher and longtime partner Jenn Goicoechea married in Las Vegas just hours after the R&B superstar’s headline appearance at the Super Bowl halftime show, according to officials and documents. The officiant who wed the pair is known to dress as an Elvis Presley impersonator. The couple

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The whereabouts of a prominent human rights attorney, her daughter and ex-husband remain unknown, three days after Venezuelan authorities detained her at an airport as she and her adult child awaited a flight to Miami. Attorneys for lawyer and activist Rocío San Miguel, Miranda Díaz

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A 15-year-old boy is being held and charged with capital murder after the bodies of three people were found shot dead at a home in a central Arkansas community over the weekend. The Saline County Sheriff’s Office said the victims were found Saturday shot dead at a home when it