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By MORGAN LEE and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge has cleared the way for a landmark lawsuit to proceed over allegations that the state has failed to meet its constitutional obligations for protecting against oil and gas pollution. Environmental groups and Native Americans who live near

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A judge has ruled that Alaska elections officials did not violate state law or regulations when they let the sponsors of a measure aimed at repealing Alaska’s ranked choice voting system correct errors in petition booklets after they were turned in. The decision Friday by Superior

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Rudy Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and Donald Trump attorney, was processed Monday in the criminal case over the effort to overturn Trump’s Arizona election loss to Joe Biden, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said. The sheriff’s office provided a mug shot but no other

By STEPHANY MATAT Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A teenager who lost both a leg and one of her hands in a Florida shark attack has this to say of her ordeal: “I made it.” That’s according to Lulu Gribbin’s mother, Ann Blair Gribbin, who wrote about the Friday ordeal in a

By WILL WEISSERT and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After back-to-back trips to Europe, President Joe Biden plans to head to the presidential retreat at Camp David next week to prepare for his first 2024 debate with Republican Donald Trump. The woodsy Maryland hideaway has been used by a number of past presidents

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The main shipping channel into Baltimore’s port has fully reopened to its original depth and width following the March 26 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which blocked most maritime traffic into the harbor. Officials announced the full reopening in a news release Monday evening. It

NEW YORK (AP) — A former police officer will serve life in prison for overseeing the murder of four people in upstate New York. Prosecutors say Nicholas Tartaglione tortured and killed one man over stolen drug money and killed three witnesses with the help of criminal associates. Tartaglione had served as a police officer on

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Pres WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump and two of his associates has struck a paragraph from the indictment but denied a defense request to dismiss some of the charges. The paragraph concerns allegations that Trump, in 2021 while no

MOUNT VERNON, Iowa (AP) — Four Iowa college instructors teaching in China were attacked in a reported stabbing while visiting a public park, Cornell College and the U.S. State Department confirmed Monday. Cornell College President Jonathan Brand in a statement said the instructors were at the park with a faculty member from Beihua University when

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A district attorney who brought charges that were ultimately dismissed against a Colorado man accused of killing his wife is facing a discipline hearing that could lead to her disbarment. The two-week hearing is being held to determine if 11th Judicial District Attorney Linda Stanley violated attorney

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will meet with Senate Republicans Thursday, speaking to the group just two weeks after he was convicted on 34 charges in his hush money trial and as GOP senators have increasingly rallied around him. The invitation was issued by GOP Conference Chairman

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A landslide has wiped out a vital two-lane road in western Wyoming. It’s causing a mountain of headaches for thousands of commuting tourist town workers at the outset of the Yellowstone region’s busy summer season. Wyoming Highway 22 is expected to remain closed for weeks after

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s mandatory presentencing interview ended after less than a half-hour of routine and uneventful questions and answers. That’s according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to speak publicly and did so on condition of anonymity.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Bail has been set at $5 million for a woman who authorities say fatally stabbed a 3-year-old boy last week as he sat in a grocery cart outside an Ohio supermarket and wounded his mother. The bail ruling concluded an arraignment hearing for Bionca Ellis that took three attempts and nearly an

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s attorney general’s office is looking into whether Donald Trump’s recent felony convictions in New York make him ineligible to hold liquor licenses at his three New Jersey golf courses. The office says it is reviewing whether Trump’s conviction involving payment of hush money

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California socialite was sentenced Monday to 15 years to life in prison for the hit-and-run deaths of two young brothers in a crosswalk more than three years ago. Authorities said Rebecca Grossman, wife of a prominent Los Angeles burn doctor, fatally struck Mark Iskander, 11, and brother Jacob, 8,

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A closely watched Alzheimer’s drug from Eli Lilly won the backing of federal health advisers on Monday, setting the stage for the treatment’s expected approval for people with mild dementia caused by the brain-robbing disease. Food and Drug Administration advisers voted unanimously that the drug’s ability

By JOHN CARUCCI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As Roger Daltrey hits the road on a short solo tour, he’s unsure if fans will ever see another tour from The Who. While Daltrey plans on playing some Who songs, he wants to concentrate on playing bits from his solo career, along with his favorite

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New Jersey businessman has told a jury that Sen. Bob Menendez told him he’d look into a state criminal probe threatening his business and later assured him there was no threat. Jose Uribe testified in Manhattan federal court on Monday. He said he assumed at

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, EDITH M. LEDERER and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Monday that it plans to stockpile aid shipments on a secure beach in Gaza during a U.N. pause on distributing food from the American-built pier after one of the deadliest days of the Israel-Hamas war. The