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By REBECCA SANTANA and ALI SWENSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has announced a new campaign proposal on United States immigration — barring “communists” and “Marxists” from entering the country. The Republican former president, who is making another bid in 2024, on Saturday said he would use “Section 212 (f) of the Immigration

By ÉDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A commando of armed men has abducted 14 state police officers in southern Mexico, prompting a heavy deployment of federal and local forces. The Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection in Chiapas province said the 14 officers are all men and an air and ground

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Two sisters have told an Australian court that being sexually abused by their Jewish school’s principal broke their ability to trust and is painful to remember. Malka Leifer was convicted of rape and other crimes in April after years of fighting her extradition from Israel. She

By CAROLYN THOMPSON and MICHAEL HILL Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Zeneta Everhart became a well-known community advocate after her son survived a racist mass shooting in Buffalo. On Tuesday, she won a Democratic primary to represent a neighborhood near where the deadly shooting happened. Everhart defeated India Walton, another prominent activist, in the

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rudy Giuliani, who as a member of Donald Trump’s legal team sought to overturn 2020 presidential election results in battleground states, was interviewed recently by investigators with the Justice Department special counsel’s office. A spokesman for Giuliani confirmed he met with the special counsel. “The appearance was

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine House has voted again to allow later abortions in some circumstances, putting the proposal one final vote away from going to the governor for her signature. The 73-69 vote in the House Tuesday evening capped an emotional day that included demonstrators singing hymns in

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rudy Giuliani, who as a member of Donald Trump’s legal team sought to overturn 2020 presidential election results in battleground states, was interviewed recently by investigators with the Justice Department special counsel’s office, according to a person familiar with the matter. The interview was conducted voluntarily and

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — The NFL RedZone channel will be available to DirecTV customers for the first time as part of a multiyear renewal of its carriage agreement with NFL Media. The renewal keeps NFL Network on DirecTV and adds distribution on DirecTV Stream and U-verse. The NFL RedZone channel also will be carried

By MELINA WALLING, MELISSA WINDER and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Drifting smoke from the ongoing wildfires across Canada is creating curtains of haze and raising air quality concerns throughout the Great Lakes region and in parts of the central and eastern United States. The Environmental Protection Agency’s AirNow.gov site showed parts of

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press The Biden administration has dropped investigations into whether Louisiana officials put Black residents living in an industrial stretch of the state at increased cancer risk. They said in a court filing that a resolution with the state “is not feasible.” The agency said it has taken significant steps already to

By JENNIFER PELTZ and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The hush money case against former President Donald Trump appears headed back to a New York state court. A federal judge showed little inclination Tuesday to let Trump move the history-making prosecution to federal court. Trump’s lawyers argue that he was acting in

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Republican-dominated North Carolina legislature has swept six vetoed bills into law. The House and Senate completed the efforts on Tuesday following a succession of votes with margins large enough to overcome Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s formal objections to the measures. The measures include the

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday agreed to delay Joran Van der Sloot’s extortion trial until the fall to give him more time to prepare a defense or decide if he wants to enter a guilty plea. Van der Sloot’s attorney, Kevin Butler, had asked for the continuance from the July 31 trial

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Authorities in Hawaii have arrested a man and woman they say supplied the fentanyl in a mass overdose in a room at an oceanfront hotel that left two people dead. A criminal complaint filed Monday charges Avery Garrard and Keina Drageset with conspiring with each other

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana woman who watched the man who coerced her into a sex act when she was 16 walk free in a plea deal has lost a legal battle to sue the prosecutor in the case. Louisiana’s Supreme Court had ruled earlier this year that the