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By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump say the district attorney in the Georgia election interference prosecution should be removed from the case. They say Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis “inappropriately injected race into the case and stoked racial animus” in response to allegations of misconduct against

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Two federal agencies are looking to better protect endangered whales amid a surge in offshore wind farm development. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released final plans Thursday to protect endangered North American right whales. Only about

The Associated Press Four current members of the National Hockey League and a former NHL player have been charged with sexual assault. The allegations stem from their time on Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team. Attorneys for Carter Hart of the Philadelphia Flyers, Michael McLeod and Cal Foote of the New Jersey Devils, Dillon Dube

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA says its little Mars helicopter has flown its last flight. The space agency announced Thursday that the 4-pound chopper named Ingenuity can no longer fly because of rotor blade damage, and its mission is officially over. Ingenuity logged 72 flights over three years

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer Hall of Famers Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova are calling on the women’s tennis tour to stay out of Saudi Arabia. The two former on-court rivals wrote in an op-ed piece printed in The Washington Post on Thursday that holding the WTA Finals there would represent regression instead of

By SEUNG MIN KIM and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is zeroing in on an expected rematch against Donald Trump after this week’s New Hampshire primaries. Ten months from Election Day, Biden’s write-in victory in a New Hampshire race he didn’t formally contest put a fork in any plausible path

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An unsanctioned tent camp is growing outside New York City’s largest migrant shelter. New immigrants trying to earn a living are also operating a makeshift bazaar, selling coffee, snacks and other items. The shelter is on Randall’s Island, where the Harlem and East rivers meet along

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian rights group is reporting dozens more home raids and arrests in the latest intensification of a years-long crackdown on dissent in Belarus. The Viasna human rights center said Thursday that it knows of at least 159 people targeted by searches and detentions in multiple

By STEPHEN GROVES and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan Senate deal to pair border enforcement measures and Ukraine aid faced potential collapse Thursday as Senate Republicans grew increasingly wary of an election-year compromise that Donald Trump, the likely Republican presidential nominee, says is “meaningless.” Senate negotiators have been striving for

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers say a woman and five children have died in a fire at a home in rural northwest Alaska. Troopers said Thursday that the remains of the six have been recovered. The home was in the Inupiat village of Noovik. The bodies have been sent to the state medical

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A jury has convicted a California man of murder for shooting and killing a 6-year-old boy. The boy was riding in the back of his mother’s car in May 2021 on his way to kindergarten. Authorities say 26-year-old Marcus Eriz shot at the car driven

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Survivors say gunmen killed at least 50 villagers over two days in Nigeria’s north-central Plateau state. The attacks prompted a 24-hour curfew and calls for authorities to end violence between nomadic cattle herders and farming communities. No group took responsibility Thursday for the killings over a

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey has published a measure approving Sweden’s membership in NATO in its official gazette. That finalizes the ratification, bringing the previously nonaligned country a step closer to joining the military alliance. Hungary now remains the only NATO ally not to have ratified Sweden’s accession. Turkey’s parliament endorsed Sweden’s accession in a

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Court records show that Brazil’s federal police are investigating the country’s former intelligence chief as part of a wider probe into alleged spying on political opponents under former President Jair Bolsonaro. The former intelligence chief, Alexandre Ramagem, was among those targeted by the 21 search

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writer MILAN (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni is slamming carmaker Stellantis, accusing it of weakening Italy’s industrial footprint since the merger of FiatChrysler and Peugeot that created the world’s fourth largest auto maker. As one of Italy’s top private sector employers, Fiat and its successors, FiatChrysler and then Stellantis,

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A group of Senate Republicans is urging the Justice Department to release its investigative file on a key financial fixer for Venezuela’s socialist government pardoned by President Joe Biden ahead of trial on money laundering charges. Alex Saab was released from federal prison last month as part

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Lorrie Moore, Naomi Klein and the Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji are among the finalists for National Book Critics Circle awards. Honorary prizes are going to Judy Blume and to a longtime ally of Blume’s in the fight against book bans, the American Library Association. On

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers in a show of support for Israel have given final passage to a bill to define antisemitism in state law, sending it to the governor for his expected signature. The Senate approved the measure by a 44-6 vote Thursday with Republicans united in support of

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is visiting Illinois and electoral battleground Wisconsin this week to make a case for the Biden administration’s economic agenda and offer a reminder of the Trump administration tax cuts, which she says added to the deficit and did little to promote investment. Yellen’s

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The United States is expressing concerns over Sri Lanka’s controversial online regulation bill a day after it was passed in Parliament over protests by the media, opposition and rights activists. The Online Safety bill would allow the government to set up a commission with a