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BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) — A judge has ordered a mental evaluation for a homeless woman accused of using an ax and knife to kill a shelter coordinator in Vermont. Zaaina Mahvish-Jammeh appeared in court on Tuesday, a day after the attack at Morningside House in Brattleboro. Police said she purchased the ax from a hardware

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — The potential loss of conch in the Bahamas reflects the threat overfishing poses around the world to traditional foods. Nowhere is as synonymous with a seafood as the Bahamas is with conch, a marine snail whose shell and image are seen throughout the island nation. No

By The Associated Press Regulators are worried that faucet leaks in Boeing 787 jets could pose a safety hazard by water seeping into the planes’ electronics during flights. The Federal Aviation Administration proposed Friday to order repetitive inspections and, if leaks are found, replacing faucet parts. The move comes after reports of water from lavatories

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate’s top two leaders demanded on Friday that Russia immediately release Evan Gershkovich in a rare bipartisan statement that condemned the detention of the Wall Street Journal reporter and declared that “journalism is not a crime.” The statement from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch

By SARAH RANKIN and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A newly filed lawsuit argues Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s “purely discretionary and arbitrary” process for restoring the voting rights of people with felony convictions should be declared unconstitutional. The suit was filed Thursday in federal court in Richmond. Youngkin’s administration confirmed quietly last

By HAVEN DALEY and ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — This Easter, Americans will devour more than 1 billion Peeps — those radiant marshmallow chicks whose appearance on store shelves each year is as much a herald of spring as azaleas at the Masters. What makes the treats so vibrant is erythrosine, a

By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dust off your eclipse glasses: It’s only a year until a total solar eclipse sweeps across North America. On April 8, 2024, the moon will cast its shadow across a stretch of the U.S., Mexico and Canada, plunging millions of people into midday darkness. It’s

By STEPHEN McGRATH and ANDREEA ALEXANDRU Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Farmers in Romania and Bulgaria are protesting over the European Union’s response to a glut of agricultural products from Ukraine that they say are flooding local markets and undercutting prices. About 100 farmers converged Friday in Romania’s capital, Bucharest, outside an EU Commission

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer The quiet perceptions, everyday troubles and intermittent moments of transcendence that make up Kelly Reichardt’s films have always had a rhythm apart from most American movies. Reichardt’s latest, “Showing Up” is no exception. But it’s also more directly about the compulsions and pains of making modest, hand-crafted art. Michelle

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mary J Blige and Clifford “Method Man” Smith are two of the most prominent names in hip-hop. Now, the music icons have transitioned their careers into acting and are current mainstays on the Starz hit series “Power Book II: Ghost,” which airs Fridays. Blige

DETROIT (AP) — About a dozen people were hurt in an apartment building fire early Friday morning on Detroit’s west side. Twenty people were displaced and 11 people suffered injuries including smoke inhalation, bumps and bruises, Fire Chief James Harris told The Detroit News. The blaze was reported around 3:30 a.m. It left the five-story

NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say 20 people were injured in a fire set by an inmate at New York City’s troubled Rikers Island jail complex. The city Correction Department says 15 staff members and five inmates were injured in the fire that started about 1:30 p.m. Thursday. The New York Fire Department extinguished the

By The Associated Press LONDON (AP) — For “Star Wars” lovers, new entertainment is a little less far, far away — Lucasfilm announced three new live-action films in the franchise Friday. The news, which includes the return of Daisy Ridley as Rey in one of the films, was revealed at Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A religious freedom activist says more than 60 asylum-seeking members of a Chinese Christian church who were detained last week in Thailand are en route to the United States. The 63 members of the Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church, who have been in Thailand since last September, were

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Recently hospitalized Pope Francis won’t go to the Colosseum for the traditional Good Friday Way of the Cross procession, but instead will watch it from his home at the Vatican due to unseasonably cold nighttime temperatures in Rome, the Holy See said. Francis still planned to attend an evening prayer service

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Yields are rising in the U.S. bond market Friday following a highly anticipated report on the U.S. job market. The U.S. stock market is closed in observance of Good Friday, as are many markets across Europe. That leaves the U.S. bond market as one of

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added a solid 236,000 jobs in March, suggesting that the economy remains on solid footing despite the nine interest rate hikes the Federal Reserve has imposed over the past year in its drive to tame inflation. The unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, just above

By SUZAN FRASER and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Russia’s top diplomat says Moscow may pull out of a wartime deal that allows the export of Ukrainian grain to global markets if the West fails to remove obstacles to Russian agricultural exports. The deal was brokered by the United Nations and Turkey

By RICH PEDRONCELLI and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press ROSEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A man fleeing police in Northern California took two hostages at a public park, killing one of them before surrendering, after earlier wounding a California Highway Patrol officer, authorities said. It happened Thursday in Roseville, a city of about 150,000 northeast of Sacramento,