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By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City is adding hundreds of security cameras to the 3,000 already keeping an eye on the seaside gambling resort. But authorities won’t say if the existing cameras recorded anything to help solve the deaths of two men on New Year’s Day in apparently unrelated

BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say the cause of a house fire in northwestern Arizona that left five children dead last month is still unknown. Bullhead City police said Tuesday that the analysis of the fire debris is being done by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. They say it could

By MIKE CATALINI and CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Some officials in suburbs and outlying cities near Chicago and New York are giving migrants arriving from the southern border a cold shoulder amid attempts to circumvent restrictions on dropping migrants in those two cities. The mayor of Edison, New Jersey, warned he

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez used his international clout to help a friend get a multimillion-dollar deal with a Qatari investment fund, partly by taking actions favorable to Qatar’s government, federal prosecutors said Tuesday in a revised indictment. The new allegations deepen the legal challenges for Menendez,

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A group of Michigan Republicans plan to meet Saturday and discuss whether to remove Michigan GOP Chairperson Kristina Karamo. Tuesday’s call for a special meeting comes after eight of the state party’s 13 congressional district chairs last week called on Karamo to resign. Karamo’s co-chair Malinda

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The four-team playoff changed college football. Not just the postseason and crowning of a national champion that finally could be called undisputed. College Football Playoff 1.0, which wraps up a 10-year run Monday night when No. 1 Michigan (14-0) faces No. 2 Washington

HONOLULU (AP) — Authorities in Hawaii say a man shot and wounded a woman, stole a car at gunpoint and was later killed in a shootout with police that left two officers wounded. Honolulu Police Chief Arthur “Joe” Logan told a news conference Monday that the suspect led police on a daylong chase across the

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel is suing a police investigator and the town of Greenwich, Connecticut, more than five years after his murder conviction was overturned. Skakel was found guilty in 2002 of the killing of Martha Moxley in their Greenwich neighborhood in 1975 when they were

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press New York (AP) — The brother of a powerful leftist senator in Colombia has pleaded guilty to federal narcotics charges. Álvaro Córdoba entered the plea Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. Prosecutors say he was arrested during a sting in which he offered to introduce U.S. drug informants

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow Border Patrol agents to cut razor wire that Texas installed on the U.S.-Mexico border, while a lawsuit over the wire continues. The Justice Department filed an emergency appeal Tuesday, asking the justices to put on hold last month’s appellate ruling in favor

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America Cherelle Parker has been sworn in as Philadelphia’s 100th mayor, becoming the first woman in that role. Parker too the oath of office Tuesday at a ceremony in Philadelphia on Tuesday. She succeeds term-limited Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney. Surrounded by family, friends, former mayors and current U.S. and

NEW YORK (AP) — The woman who was pinned under a food truck when a driver fleeing police plowed into pedestrians in midtown Manhattan has been identified as an actor who has appeared in films such as “Black Panther” and “The Color Purple.” Actor and stunt performer Carrie Bernans’ mother posted on Instagram that Bernans

NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Four people from an Arkansas family have been publicly identified as the victims of a fatal house explosion in Michigan over the weekend. Authorities say the explosion Saturday was likely caused by flammable fuel in the air and not a result of foul play. The dead were identified as Hope

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley are set to appear at next week’s Republican presidential debate on CNN, while former President Donald Trump participates in a Fox News town hall at the same time. Both events will be held at

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The bloom is off the final rose for “Bachelorette” star Rachel Lindsay and husband Bryan Abasolo, who found love on the reality dating show. Court records show that Abasolo filed to end their marriage Tuesday. He cited irreconcilable differences for the breakup and his filing in Los Angeles Superior Court says

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli prime minister’s office says Zvi Zamir, a former director of the Mossad spy service who warned that Israel was about to be attacked on the eve of the 1973 Mideast war, has died. He was 98. Zamir led the Mossad from 1968-1974 during a turbulent period that included a number

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Officials with New Mexico’s largest electric utility say a proposed multibillion-dollar merger with a U.S. subsidiary of global energy giant Iberdrola has been scuttled. Under the proposal, Avangrid would have acquired PNM Resources and its two utilities — Public Service Co. of New Mexico and Texas New Mexico Power. The all-cash

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s election board has finalized the candidates for the state’s March 5 presidential primaries. The unanimous decision Tuesday by the State Board of Elections means President Joe Biden is the lone Democrat for the job on the ballots and Republican Donald Trump among the