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By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Police have arrested an American Airlines flight attendant on suspicion of trying to secretly record a 14-year-old female passenger using a bathroom aboard an airplane he was working on last September. Police also allege 37-year-old Estes Carter Thompson III had recordings of four other minor female passengers

VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) — The ordeal of a Northern California woman whose kidnapping from her boyfriend’s home was first dismissed as a hoax by law enforcement is getting renewed attention as the subject of a new Netflix docuseries. “American Nightmare” details the March 23, 2015, abduction of Denise Huskins by a masked intruder who broke

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — A judge has postponed the sentencing of a former Virginia school system superintendent, saying he needed more time to consider setting aside the guilty verdict altogether. Former Loudoun County Superintendent Scott Ziegler was convicted in September on a misdemeanor count of violating the state’s conflict of

By R.J. RICO Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Officials say the longstanding and at times violent protests against Atlanta’s planned police and firefighter training center are partially responsible for a nearly $20 million rise in costs connected with the project. Atlanta Deputy Chief Operating Officer has told City Council members on Wednesday that the 85-acre

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is seeking to end a whistleblower lawsuit by former top staff members. He announced Thursday that his agency would not contest the facts of the case and would accept any judgement. The lawsuit brought by a group of former top deputies

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX has launched Turkey’s first astronaut along with a Swede and Italian to the International Space Station. It’s the third private flight to the space station arranged by a Houston company. The Falcon rocket blasted off from Florida on Thursday, carrying the three aviators

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is telling world business leaders that the state must increase its supply of electricity produced without burning fossil fuels to meet industries’ demand for clean energy. The Republican spoke Thursday on a panel focused on electric vehicles at the World Economic Forum in

ELLSWORTH, Maine (AP) — A wealthy attorney who twice ran for governor in Maine is out of jail after completing his sentence for possessing thousands of images of child sexual abuse. Eliot Cutler was sentenced to nine months under a plea agreement and was released Thursday about a month-and-a-half early for good behavior. The criminal

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A scathing Justice Department report into law enforcement failures during the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, includes a minute-by-minute accounting of missteps by police at the scene. Heavily armed officers did not kill the 18-year-old gunman until about 77 minutes after the first officers arrived at the school. During

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico and Chile have asked the International Criminal Court to investigate possible crimes against civilians in Gaza and the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel. Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department said in a statement that it filed the request “because of a growing concern about the recent escalation in violence, especially against

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen covered everything from the state’s response to recent winter storms to his support for a bill to limit transgender students’ access to bathrooms in his state of the state address. But it was the Republican’s plan to slash local government property

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities in Kenya say a donkey cart carrying a suspected improvised bomb has blown up at a checkpoint on the Kenya-Somalia border, killing one Kenyan police officer and critically wounding four others. A police report says the cart pulled by two donkeys and ridden by one

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man who pleaded guilty to making a threatening phone call to a member of Congress has been sentenced in federal court to three years of probation. Twenty-four-year-old Allan Poller was a Keene State College student when he was accused of calling the office of a U.S. House member

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross has been losing influence, funding and staff. Now, disparaging remarks from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are the latest headache for the Geneva-based humanitarian aid group. It did arrange the release of 109 Israeli hostages last fall. Netanyahu has

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered in Tel Aviv to mark the first birthday of Kfir Bibas, the youngest Israeli hostage held in Gaza. Relatives called the occasion on Thursday the “saddest birthday in the world.” Israeli children’s music stars performed a song written in his honor,

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former professional basketball player whose ex-girlfriend was sentenced to prison last year for fraud is now facing his own federal indictment, accusing him of falsifying applications for pandemic relief loans. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the indictment of 40-year-old Lorenzo Gordon comes three months after his former girlfriend, Brittish

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill to create a bipartisan commission that would tackle the nation’s soaring debt and make policy recommendations to Congress has won approval from a House committee. House Republicans are making the bill a priority. The chairman of the House Budget Committee says “everything’s on the table”

By The Associated Press Surgeons externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human body and watched it successfully filter blood, a step toward eventually trying the technique in patients with liver failure. The University of Pennsylvania announced the novel experiment Thursday, a different spin on animal-to-human organ transplants. In this case, the pig liver

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a block on the enforcement of a Texas law requiring vendors to evaluate and rate the sexual content of books they sell or have sold to schools. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans says opponents of

By JONATHAN MATTISE, ADRIAN SAINZ and KRISTIN M. HALL Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A new layer of ice formed over parts of Tennessee on Thursday after a deadly storm blanketed the state in snow and sent temperatures plummeting earlier this week — part of a broader bout of bitter cold sweeping the country