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By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press The Justice Department on Friday issued a scathing assessment of Minneapolis police, alleging that racial discrimination and excessive force went unchecked before George Floyd’s killing because of inadequate oversight and an unwieldy process for investigating complaints. The probe began in April 2021, a day after former officer Derek Chauvin, who

BY WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of Reddit discussion forums have gone dark this week to protest a new policy that will charge some third-party apps to access data on the site, leading to worries about content moderation and accessibility. “Reddit is killing third-party applications (and itself),” multiple subreddits wrote in

MONROE TOWNSHIP, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man accused of fatally shooting his three young sons admitted to planning the killings and lined them up before executing them with a rifle, prosecutors said Friday. Chad Doerman, 32, who is also accused of wounding the boys’ mother at the family’s home, has been charged with aggravated

DAUPHIN, Manitoba (AP) — Canadian health officials say six of 10 seniors who survived a bus crash in Canada that killed 15 were listed in critical condition in hospital. The remaining four were also in hospital, with most suffering from head injuries and broken bones. They were among a group of seniors from rural Dauphin,

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Martin Amis, one of the most consequential British authors of his generation and who died last month, has been posthumously knighted by King Charles III in his first birthday honors list, which were unveiled late Friday. Amis, who died of esophageal cancer at the age of 73

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street closed out its best week since March with a quiet finish on Friday, and stocks drifted to modest losses. The S&P 500 fell 16.25 points, or 0.4%, to 4,409.59 after wobbling through the day. It still closed out a fifth straight winning

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee County’s first openly LGBTQ+ county supervisor says an assailant called him a gay slur, then punched him in the face at a suburban mall this week. News outlets on Friday quoted Wauwatosa police as saying that Supervisor Peter Burgelis was struck in the face while inside a store at the Mayfair

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press give ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Greek coast guard on Friday defended its response to a ship that went down off the country’s south coast and left more than 500 migrants presumed drowned. Criticism mounted over Europe’s yearslong failure to prevent such tragedies. Patrol boats and a

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge issued an order Friday stopping an Indiana ban on puberty blockers and hormones for transgender minors from taking effect as scheduled July 1. The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana sought the temporary injunction in its legal challenge of the Republican-backed law, which was

By JIM SALTER and MARK VANCLEAVE Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday issued a withering critique of Minneapolis police, alleging that they systematically discriminated against racial minorities, violated constitutional rights and disregarded the safety of people in custody for years before George Floyd was killed. The report was the result of

By PETER SMITH Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — A truck driver who spewed hatred of Jews was convicted Friday of storming a Pittsburgh synagogue and shooting everyone he could find on a Sabbath morning, killing 11 congregants in an act of antisemitic terror for which he could be sentenced to die. The guilty verdict was

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A new federal lawsuit alleges that the eight police officers who shot Jayland Walker last summer used excessive force when they fired 94 bullets at him during a foot chase, and participated in a “culture of violence and racism” within Akron’s police department. Walker’s

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s plan to overhaul his party’s 2024 presidential primary schedule remains unsettled. A Democratic rules committee has given New Hampshire more time to comply with new rules that leaders there fiercely oppose, but opted not to immediately offer such an extension to another battleground state,

MOUNT CARMEL, Pa. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say three small-town Pennsylvania police officers collectively “kicked, punched, choked and otherwise used excessive force” in 22 arrests over a three-year period. The charges unveiled Friday accuse one current Mount Carmel officer and two former officers of violating civil rights in attacks between 2018 and 2021 that caused

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appealed to a group of African leaders to ask his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to free political prisoners from Crimea and beyond — saying it would be an “important step” in their trip to Russia. Seven African leaders — presidents of

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A longtime producer for Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News after he was deemed responsible for the on-air headline that referred to President Joe Biden as a “wannabe dictator” because of the indictment of former President Donald Trump. The producer, Alex McCaskill, confirmed his

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States Treasury has announced sanctions on a Mexico-based migrant-trafficking gang that supplied asylum seekers with false papers to game the process. Known as the Hernandez Salas organization, the gang is based in the border city of Mexicali, across the border from Calexico, California. Since at least 2018, the gang

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Abortion providers in North Carolina have filed a federal lawsuit that challenges several provisions of a state law banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The new restrictions are set to take effect July 1. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic and Dr. Beverly Gray,

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street’s best week since March is coming to a quiet close, as stocks drift between small gains and losses on Friday. The S&P 500 was 0.2% lower in afternoon trading after wobbling through the day. The benchmark index is still headed for its

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel Ellsberg, the history-making whistleblower who by leaking the Pentagon Papers revealed longtime government doubts and deceit about the Vietnam War and inspired acts of retaliation by President Richard Nixon that helped lead to his resignation, has died. He was 92. Ellsberg, who announced in