AP National News

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — People were still lined up nearly two hours after voting was supposed to close in Nigeria during the country’s presidential and parliamentary election on Saturday, which opened with large delays. Thousands remained in line at polling stations waiting to cast ballots and sparking frustration. “No one

By JOHN ANTCZAK, AMY TAXIN and ED WHITE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A powerful winter storm that lashed California with heavy rain and frigid temperatures shifted its focus Saturday to wind and heavy snow, although forecasters said the risk of life-threatening flash floods in the Los Angeles area has passed. The National Weather

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Authorities say a woman who shot at officers at an abandoned house in Pittsburgh was shot and killed by police. Allegheny County police said Pittsburgh officers were dispatched shortly after 3 p.m. Friday to the city’s St. Clair neighborhood and were directed to an abandoned house, where they saw a woman inside.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gas prices dropped in New Jersey and around the nation at large amid a decline in crude oil prices. AAA Mid-Atlantic says the average price of a gallon of regular gas in New Jersey on Friday was $3.22, down eight cents from last week. Drivers were paying $3.62 a gallon on

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland man convicted of fatally shooting the mother of a U.S. Naval Academy football player with a stray bullet has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The Capital Gazette reports that Angelo Harrod’s life sentence on Friday was the maximum punishment sought in the case.

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, SOPHIE AUSTIN and MANUEL VALDES Associated Press/Report for America SEATTLE (AP) — Legislators in at least two states are trying to allow transgender people to keep records of their name change out of the public record. A bill in Washington would allow gender expression and identity as reasons to seal a petition

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press Investigators like to say the crime scene at a killing tells the story even if no one else does. In the double murder trial of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, his defense lawyers want jurors to believe the crime scene can’t tell them much about the deaths of his

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Fighting is grinding on in Ukraine after the country marked the anniversary of Russia’s invasion, with Ukrainian authorities on Saturday reporting dozens of new Russian strikes and attacks on cities in the east and south. After a somber and defiant day of commemorations on Friday and

By ADELLE M. BANKS, Religion News Service HYATTSVILLE, Md. (RNS) — As worshippers entered the sanctuary of Metropolitan Seventh-day Adventist Church, doorman Percy Joseph greeted them with “Happy Sabbath,” his bright red Trinidad and Tobago T-shirt showing beneath his long black coat. Inside, guest steel drum players began to play “Lift Every Voice and Sing,”

By MARIAM FAM Associated Press As the Taliban once again assert control of Afghanistan and push women further out of public view, a female Afghan filmmaker is working thousands of miles away to help bring to life a wildly popular tale of two heroines living in her homeland, including under the group’s first reign. The

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s justice minister says investigations have been launched against more than 600 people in relation to buildings that collapsed in the country’s catastrophic earthquake earlier this month. The minister said Saturday that 184 of the 612 suspects had been jailed pending trial including construction contractors and building owners or managers. The aftermath

BY AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers in several Democratic-controlled states are advocating sweeping voter protections this year, reacting to what they view as a broad undermining of voting rights by the Supreme Court and Republican-led states as well as a failed effort in Congress to bolster access to the polls. Legislators in

STAGECOACH, Nev. (AP) — All five people aboard a medical transport flight, including a patient, were killed in a plane crash Friday night in a mountainous area in northern Nevada. The Lyon County Sheriff’s office said authorities began receiving calls about the crash near Stagecoach, Nevada, around 9:15 p.m. and found the wreckage two hours

By GHAITH ALSAYED Associated Press IDLIB, Syria (AP) — Local officials say that schools are reopening in Syria’s rebel-held northwest Saturday after closing for nearly three weeks following an earthquake that devastated the region. Many schools were turned into temporary shelters following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey and neighboring parts of Syria on

By MICHAEL PHILLIS and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In its latest ambitious roadmap to tackle climate change, California relies on capturing carbon out of the air and storing it deep underground on a scale that’s not yet been seen in the United States. The plan — advanced by Democratic Gov. Gavin

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t have far to look if it wants a personal take on the “crushing weight” of student debt that underlies the Biden administration’s college loan forgiveness plan. Justice Clarence Thomas was in his mid-40s and in his third year on the

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is imposing new sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. The bloc is targeting more officials and organizations accused of supporting the war, spreading propaganda or supplying drones. It’s also slapping trade restrictions on products that could be used by the armed forces. The EU’s Swedish presidency said