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By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky school district has agreed to make “institutional changes” to settle a federal investigation into complaints of widespread harassment of Black and multiracial students, the U.S. Justice Department announced. The investigation of the Madison County school district, launched in October 2021, uncovered numerous cases of

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump is expected to become the first former president to face a judge on federal charges as the city of Miami prepared for possible protests by crowds that officials said could number in the tens of thousands. Security was tight outside the

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The first national tour of Broadway’s “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical” makes its California debut this week for the first time, arriving as a poignant, posthumous celebration following the rock music icon’s death last month. Co-writer Katori Hall says she hopes “we’ll always be

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks climbed Tuesday after a cooler reading on inflation cemented Wall Street’s bets for the Federal Reserve to hold off on hiking interest rates this week. The S&P 500 was 0.6% higher in early trading, ticking further into heights it hasn’t touched since April 2022.

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s ruling party has retained leadership of the country’s parliament with the election of its consensus candidates as Senate president and speaker of the House of Representatives. Godswill Akpabio was elected Senate president and Tajudeen Abbas became House speaker on Tuesday before members of parliament who

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — An independent German commission is recommending the restitution of a painting by Wassily Kandinsky currently owned by the Bavarian state bank to the heirs of a Jewish family that the artwork originally belonged to. The advisory commission on the return of cultural property seized as a result

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Kara Murphy, a transgender woman helping to organize the Union County Pride in a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina, is heartened to see Pride celebrations across the country, big and small, shining a spotlight on transgender rights this year. “When we look and see who’s standing

By EDWIN KINDZEKA MOKI Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — The leader of Cameroon’s opposition Social Democratic Front and one of the party’s founders has died after a prolonged illness. John Fru Ndi was 81. The party says he died on Monday in the capital, Yaounde. Fru Ndi had been battling health issues for months.

By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China has criticized new sanctions imposed by the United States on companies believed to be involved in training Chinese military pilots and weapons development. A Foreign Ministry spokesperson urged Washington to stop abusing export control measures to hobble Chinese companies. On Monday, the U.S. government placed

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Artificial intelligence has been used to extract John Lennon’s voice from an old demo to create “the last Beatles record,” decades after the band broke up, Paul McCartney said Tuesday. McCartney, 80, told the BBC that the technology was used to separate the Beatles’ voices from background

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country is ready to open a consulate in Shusha, a city that Azerbaijan took from Armenian forces in a war in 2020. Erdogan made the comment on Tuesday during a visit to Azerbaijan at the start of his third term in office following elections

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles hit civilian buildings in a central Ukrainian city overnight, killing at least 10 people in a warehouse and a residential building, regional officials said Tuesday. The devastation in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown is the latest bloodshed in Russia’s war in Ukraine, which began in

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By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press SOMBOR, Serbia (AP) — It was barely dawn when Nikola Jokic’s hardcore fans in his Serbian hometown of Sombor chanted “MVP! MVP!” and celebrated the Denver Nuggets’ first NBA title. Denver trailed the Miami Heat at halftime of Game 5 but rallied to win 94-89, with two-time league MVP Jokic

MOSCOW (AP) — Belarus’ authoritarian leader says he wouldn’t hesitate to use Russian tactical nuclear weapons that are set to be deployed to Belarusian territory in the event of an aggression against his country. Earlier this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the planned deployment of the short-range nuclear weapons to Moscow’s neighbor and ally

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles hit civilian buildings in a central Ukrainian city overnight, killing at least 10 people, regional officials said Tuesday as rescuers searched for at least one person still believed to be trapped under the rubble. Kryvyi Rih mayor Oleksandr Vilkul said that the death toll

DENVER (AP) — Nine people were wounded in a mass shooting early Tuesday in Denver in an area where basketball fans had been celebrating the Nuggets first NBA title win, police said, and a suspect was taken into custody. The shooting happened about 12:30 a.m. — about 3 1/2 hours after the game — and

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A leading independent television broadcaster in Poland is expressing concern that the state broadcasting regulator has not yet renewed a license that expires next year for its main channel. TVN, which is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, told The Associated Press that it has been six

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press MUNICH (AP) — Matthias Weniger put on a pair of white cloth gloves and carefully lifted a tarnished silver candleholder, looking for a yellowed sticker on the bottom of it. The candlestick is one of 111 silver objects at the Bavarian National Museum that the Nazis stole from Jews during