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By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of a British national for his role in a hostage-taking scheme by the Islamic State group that tortured and killed Americans and other westerners a decade ago. El Shafee Elsheikh was convicted and sentenced to life in prison

VOORHEES TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A New York City police officer has been charged with attempted murder after officials say he shot another driver during an instance of road rage in New Jersey. Officer Hieu Tran is awaiting extradition to Camden County, New Jersey, where the shooting took place May 17. Officers from the Voorhees

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman who was convicted of lying on the witness stand in the O.J. Simpson trial three decades ago, is now barred from law enforcement under a California police reform law meant to strip the badges of police officers who act

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kia America is recalling nearly 463,000 Telluride SUVs — and urging owners to park their cars outside and away from other structures until an issue posing a fire hazard is fixed. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the front power seat motor on the

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers The investor at the center of the pandemic meme stock craze says he still believes GameStop’s management team can turn the struggling video game retailer around. But remarks Friday from the man known on social media platforms as “Roaring Kitty” didn’t keep shares in the company

GEARHART, Ore. (AP) — A massive rare fish thought to only live in temperate waters in the southern hemisphere has washed up on Oregon’s northern coast. The Seaside Aquarium says the over 7-foot hoodwinker sunfish first appeared on the beach in Gearhart on Monday. The news of the unusual fish prompted a New Zealand-based researcher

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Washington Post’s new publisher is facing questions about whether he made efforts to conceal — in his own newspaper and elsewhere — his involvement in a British phone hacking scandal from his time working for Rupert Murdoch a decade ago. The weeklong saga, which

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A new Mississippi law requiring users of websites and other digital services to verify their age will unconstitutionally limit access to online speech for minors and adults, a tech industry group says in a lawsuit filed Friday. Legislators said the new law is designed to

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman charged with leaving her boyfriend to die after he was zipped into a suitcase in their home will go on trial in October. An Oct. 7 trial date was set during a hearing Friday for Sarah Boone in state court in Orlando, almost four years after her arrest.

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A judge’s order that three attorneys for Southwest Airlines get religious liberty training has been put on hold by a federal appeals court. A panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Friday that the district judge in the case likely exceeded his authority

ROME (AP) — The total global volume of fish, shrimp, clams and other aquatic animals that are harvested by farming has topped the amount fished in the wild from the world’s waters for the first time ever. That’s according to the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization on Friday. FAO says in its latest report on

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Authorities say a man who died in a house explosion six months ago outside the nation’s capital deliberately detonated gasoline canisters in his basement that caused the blast. Arlington County police in Virginia held a news conference Friday announcing the cause of the explosion. They say

By TODD RICHMNOD Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Relatives of two inmates who died in an aging maximum security prison in Wisconsin say they’re stunned that prosecutors haven’t filed charges in their cases after bringing multiple counts against the warden and other employees in connection with two other prisoners’ deaths. Authorities announced misconduct and

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. secretary-general will tell the Security Council next week that both Israel and Hamas are violating children’s rights and leaving them exposed to danger in their war to eliminate each other. The secretary-general annually makes a global list of states and militias that are menacing

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The New York state Legislature on Friday passed a bill that would allow parents to block their kids from getting social media posts suggested by a platform’s algorithm — a regulation that tries to curtail feeds that critics argue are addicting to children. Gov. Kathy Hochul,

By JEFF AMY Associated Press An internet trade group is suing the state of Georgia to block a law requiring sites to gather data on high-volume sellers who collect payment in cash or some other offline method. NetChoice, which represents companies including Facebook parent Meta and Craigslist, filed the lawsuit Thursday in federal court in

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Former Donald Trump presidential chief of staff Mark Meadows and Trump 2020 Election Day operations director Michael Roman have pleaded not guilty in Phoenix to nine felony charges for their roles in an effort to overturn Trump’s election loss in Arizona to Joe Biden. The two men

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New vehicles sold in the U.S. will have to average about 38 miles per gallon of gasoline in 2031 in real-world driving, up from about 29 mpg this year, under new federal rules unveiled Friday by the Biden administration. The final rule by the National Highway Traffic

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Authorities say four people were hospitalized in serious to critical condition after a small plane crashed into the front yard of a suburban Denver home after trying to land in the street. The NTSB says the plane burst into flames after crashing, and the injuries to the

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken is returning to the Middle East on his eighth diplomatic mission to the region since the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza began in October. Blinken is currently in France accompanying President Joe Biden on a state visit. The State Department says Blinken