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By JIM MORRIS Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canadian consumers aren’t yet feeling the impact of the weekold port strike in British Columbia, but businesses are beginning to be pinched by the shutdown of docks that handle 25% of the country’s foreign trade, experts said Friday. The strike by 7,400 members of the

ATLANTA (AP) — Police in the sprawling suburbs northeast of Atlanta say an investigator with a county prosecutor’s office was shot and wounded by another motorist while driving. Police say the investigator with the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office was fired on shortly after 6 p.m. Friday and sustained a leg wound that was not

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California Edison and two other companies have paid $22 million to settle U.S. government claims that they caused a 2016 wildfire that burned thousands of acres of national forest. The Department of Justice announced Friday that the money agreed to in May has been paid by Edison, Frontier Communications and

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — An electoral official in Guatemala says a court-ordered review of the country’s June 25 presidential election that included a second look at dozens of precinct tally sheets appears to have upheld the original vote totals. If candidates Sandra Torres and upstart Bernardo Arévalo remain the

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials say an explosion at an offshore gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico killed two workers, injured six and left one missing. The explosion and subsequent fire occurred early Friday at the Nohoch gas transfer platform. The state-owned oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos, says in a statement six workers were

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s federal crime agency has arrested three railway officials in connection with one of the country’s deadliest train accidents, which killed more than 290 people last month. The Central Bureau of Investigation said in a statement Friday that three men have been charged with culpable homicide

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Another month, another solid gain for America’s job market. The pace of hiring by businesses and government agencies in June — 209,000 added jobs — was the smallest monthly gain in 2 1/2 years. Yet it was still a healthy increase, enough to reduce the unemployment

By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s governor announced Friday that he won’t ask the state Supreme Court to block parole for Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, paving the way for her release after serving 53 years in prison for two infamous murders. In a brief statement, the governor’s office said

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, a congressman from the suburbs of the nation’s capital, has announced he will not run for the U.S. Senate seat that is opening with the retirement of Sen. Ben Cardin. Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Reform Committee who

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday rolled out a new set of initiatives to reduce health care costs: a crackdown on what he called “junk” insurance plans that play consumers as ‘suckers,’ new guidance to prevent surprise medical bills and an effort to reduce medical debt tied to

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press Authorities say DNA testing has led to the arrest of a Nebraska man who was repeatedly questioned over decades in the 1978 stabbing death of a woman while he was stationed with the U.S. Army in Germany. The U.S. Marshals Service said Thursday that 69-year-old Tommy Molina

By The Associated Press Skateboarding is more than just a way of life for Reese Nelson, it’s all she’s ever known. The 10-year-old Canadian can’t remember when she first started skating or when she first dropped into a halfpipe, it’s just been omnipresent. Given that, it’s no surprise she has caught the attention of skateboarding

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A judge in Virginia has ruled that lawyers for a teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student can start the process of interviewing eyewitnesses and reviewing the boy’s disciplinary file for a $40 million lawsuit against the school system. But the judge is yet

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C (AP) — A 69-year-old woman killed by an alligator in South Carolina on Tuesday had drowned and experienced blunt force trauma, according to local news reports on the autopsy. Holly Jenkins has been identified by the local coroner as the woman who the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources said was

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Campaigning in Iowa, former President Donald Trump attacked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as an enemy of corn-based ethanol in his largest campaign event in the leadoff caucus state in nearly four months. Trump, appearing Friday in Council Bluffs in the western part of the state,

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Authorities say two men have been arrested in a shooting that killed three people and injured eight others as hundreds gathered in a Texas neighborhood on the eve of the Fourth of July. Fort Worth police say 20-year-old Christopher Redic Jr. and 19-year-old Brandon Williams were both

By ANDREW DeMILLO, THOMAS PEIPERT and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) — The last of the United States’ declared chemical weapons stockpile was destroyed at a sprawling military installation in eastern Kentucky, the White House announced Friday, a milestone that closes a chapter of warfare dating back to World War I. Workers at