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By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the case prosecutors brought against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried says the cryptocurrency entrepreneur can remain on the West Coast while his lawyers attend a hearing Friday. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan set the pretrial hearing in New York City on Tuesday and

By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer The attorney representing a dozen former Iowa football players who settled their racial discrimination lawsuit with the university’s athletic department for over $4 million — half of which is coming from taxpayer funds — said Tuesday that Black Hawkeyes players will continue to be at risk of harassment “as

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri law banning local police from enforcing federal gun laws has been struck down as unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Brian Wimes on Tuesday tossed the law. The law forbid local police from enforcing federal gun laws that don’t have an equivalent state law. The

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer The Pritzker Architecture Prize — the highest honor in the field — has been awarded to British architect and urban planner David Alan Chipperfield, hailed on Tuesday for “a commitment to an architecture of understated but transformative civic presence.” Organizers called Chipperfield’s work — more than 100 projects over

By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer Ja Morant’s skyrocketing basketball career is on hold following a series of off-court decisions by the young NBA star involving a gun in a strip club, actions which have temporarily derailed his meteoric rise. Morant is the target of a second NBA investigation in weeks with no timetable

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors have urged a jury to impose the death penalty on a man who killed eight people on a Manhattan bike path in a 2017 vehicle attack. But a defense lawyer insisted in closing statements Tuesday that death was not the answer. Arguments in Manhattan federal

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Five women who said they were denied abortions even when pregnancy endangered their lives are suing Texas over its abortion ban, the latest legal fight against state restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade. The lawsuit filed Monday in state court said

By JOSH FUNK and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal investigators are opening a wide-ranging investigation into one of the nation’s biggest railroads following a fiery derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border last month and several other accidents involving Norfolk Southern, including the death of a train conductor Tuesday. The National Transportation Safety

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A seventh Memphis Police Department employee was fired and another retired who was recommended to lose his jobs for their roles in the fatal arrest of Tyre Nichols in January. Memphis’ chief legal officer has told city councilmembers Tuesday that these actions mark the end of

By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Pro Football Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Vikings wide receiver K.J. Osborn said he was in the “right place at the exact right time” to help save a man from a burning car. Osborn was riding in an Uber on an expressway around 2:30 a.m. Monday in Austin, Texas, when the

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An initiative that would shore up abortion access in New Mexico amid a flurry of local anti-abortion ordinances cleared a last major hurdle with the state Senate’s approval. A 23-15 vote of the Senate Tuesday nearly ensures the bill will reach the desk of supportive

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A bill that would criminalize transgender people using restrooms that match their gender identity has won initial approval in the Arkansas Legislature. Critics said the bill approved by state Senate on Tuesday would be the most extreme in the country and goes further than a

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Black, non-binary Democratic state legislator in the Oklahoma House has been formally censured by the Republican majority. The House voted along party lines Tuesday to censure Rep. Mauree Turner. House leaders say Turner refused to let state troopers question a transgender rights activist accused assaulting

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “A toast to the disruptors,” Edward Norton’s tech billionaire says in Rian Johnson’s Oscar-nominated “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.” And why not a toast? Sunday’s Academy Awards won’t give a prize for best villain, but if they did, Miles Bron would win it in

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer WeightWatchers’ stock soared Tuesday after the company said it is getting into the prescription drug weight loss business with the acquisition of Sequence. Sequence is a telehealth provider that offers users access to drugs used to treat diabetes and obesity under the brand names including Ozempic, Wegovy and Trulicity.

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Federal prosecutors say they have proved beyond a reasonable doubt that former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and lobbyist Matt Borges engaged in a $60 million bribery scheme. The scheme involved securing Householder’s power, electing his allies, then passing and defending a $1 billion nuclear

By LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Handed some 41,000 hours of Jan. 6 security footage, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson has launched an impassioned new effort to explain away the deadly Capitol attack, linking the Republican Party ever more closely to pro-Trump conspiracy theories about the 2021 riot.

By ALFREDO PEÑA, FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — A road trip to Mexico for cosmetic surgery ended with two Americans dead — and two others found alive in a rural area near the Gulf coast — after a violent shootout and abduction that was captured on video, officials

By NARDOS HAILE Associated Press PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is now forever immortalized on a stamp honoring the prolific writer, editor, scholar and mentor that was unveiled Tuesday morning in a tribute at Princeton University, where she taught for almost two decades. Guest speakers, some who had close personal relationships with

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Ben Savage, who starred as a child in the ABC teen sitcom “Boy Meets World,” is running for a U.S. House seat in California, marking his latest attempt to make the jump from Hollywood to politics. Savage, a Democrat, said in an Instagram post Monday that “it’s time to restore