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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is facing stinging criticism for missing what observers say were clear signs that Silicon Valley Bank was at high risk of collapsing into what became the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history. The Fed was the primary federal supervisor of the

By ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) — President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Tuesday aiming at increasing background checks to buy guns, promoting more secure firearms storage and ensuring U.S. law enforcement agencies get more out of a bipartisan gun control law enacted last summer. The Democratic

Criminal charges have been dropped against a white couple charged in 2020 after one of them was captured on video pulling a handgun on a Black woman and her daughters outside a Michigan restaurant. Trial had been set to start Monday for Eric Wuestenberg and Jillian Wuestenberg. But The Oakland Press reports a judge dismissed

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister says his government may hand its Soviet-made MiG-29 jet fighters over to Ukraine “within the next four to six weeks.” Poland’s leaders said last week that sending the warplanes would be only done within a larger international coalition. Slovakia has also declared readiness to provide its MiG-29 planes

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles prosecutors say they will not retry Harvey Weinstein on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women. Deputy District Attorney Paul Thompson announced the decision to a judge Tuesday. The judge dismissed the charges and Weinstein will be returned to New York, where

RODANTHE, N.C. (AP) — A house collapsed into the ocean Monday on the string of islands just off the coast of North Carolina, according to U.S. National Park Service officials. Officials warned visitors to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore on the state’s Outer Banks to watch out for debris from a collapsed one-story house along

By JIM SALTER Associated Press The U.S. attorney in North Dakota says he will no longer seek the death penalty for Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., convicted in the kidnapping and killing of a college student nearly two decades ago in a case that led to changes in sex offender registration laws. U.S. Attorney Mac Schneider said

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The mayor of New Orleans is challenging a court settlement that significantly lowered the number of petition signatures her opponents need to force a recall election. Mayor LaToyal Cantrell filed a lawsuit in state court in New Orleans calling for a judge to set aside the

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is urging member countries to deport more people who enter Europe without authorization and are not eligible to stay. The EU’s executive branch says that only around one in five would-be migrants who should be sent home actually is. EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson said Tuesday that “when

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The lines of attack in Wisconsin’s high stakes race for state Supreme Court are broadening beyond abortion with three weeks to go in the contest that is already the most expensive election of its kind. Democratic-endorsed candidate Janet Protasiewicz initially focused largely on abortion. But she

By VITUS-GREGORY GONDWE and WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — The devastating Tropical Cyclone Freddy which has ripped through southern Africa in a rare second landfall has killed at least 216 people in Malawi and Mozambique since Saturday night, with the death toll expected to rise. Heavy rains that triggered floods and mudslides

By SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Dozens of journalists and rights activists have protested outside parliament in Bosnia’s Serb-run part as lawmakers debated whether to advance a contested law which critics say would restrict freedom of expression and silence critical media. The draft law championed by the Bosnian Serb president, Milorad Dodik,

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed into law legislation making it easier to sue providers of gender-affirming care for children, a move that could effectively reinstate a blocked ban on such care. Sanders on Monday signed the new law, which won’t take effect until

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Prosecutors say that two former stars of “The Voice of Holland” will be charged with sex offenses linked to the once-popular Dutch talent show. A case was dropped against a third man for lack of evidence. The show was taken off the air more than a year ago after a

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — A 38-year-old Canadian man is facing murder charges after a pickup truck rammed into pedestrians, killing two men and injuring nine other people walking beside a road. Three of those injured Monday are in critical condition. Police aren’t revealing a possible motive for the attack in the

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to review a judge’s order that is blocking enforcement of Ohio’s so-called heartbeat abortion ban, and to consider whether the clinics that have sued have standing to challenge the law. In a split decision Tuesday, the court, however, denied

By KARL RITTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian missile has struck an apartment building in the center of the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk. Officials said the strike killed at least one person and wounded nine others in one of Ukraine’s major city strongholds in its eastern Donetsk region as it fights against

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is working on a thorough reform of its electricity market to shield citizens from sudden price spikes, speed up the use of renewable energy sources and make the bloc more independent in an increasingly unstable world. Tuesday’s plan from the EU’s executive Commission will seek to phase out the

LONDON Microsoft has struck a deal to make Xbox PC video games available on the Boosteroid cloud gaming platform. The deal announced Tuesday is Microsoft’s latest move to appease antitrust regulators scrutinizing its purchase of game maker Activision Blizzard. The U.S. tech giant says the 10-year agreement also would include Activision Blizzard titles like the

MADRID (AP) — Civil Guard police in northwestern Spain have refloated a homemade semi-submersible vessel they suspect may have been used to transport cocaine. The 16-meter (52-foot) fiberglass vessel was hauled to the surface Tuesday a day after it was spotted a kilometer (half a mile) off the coast in the Arousa estuary. It will