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By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer New Mexico State has fired basketball coach Greg Heiar in the wake of hazing allegations on the team that shut down the program for the rest of the season. Chancellor Dan Arvizu announced the firing, saying hazing has no place on the New Mexico State campus, and that those

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department prosecutors investigating the mishandling of classified documents at Donald Trump’s Florida estate are seeking to pierce the attorney-client privilege and want to again question one of the former president’s lawyers before a grand jury, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday night. The privilege

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A bill criminalizing gender-affirming healthcare for minors has overwhelmingly passed the Idaho House, despite warnings from opponents who say it would likely increase suicide rates among transgender teens. The bill, approved Thursday, would subject physicians to felony charges if they provide puberty blockers, hormone treatment or

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has expressed support for Iran during a visit by its president as Tehran tries to expand relations with Beijing and Moscow to offset Western sanctions over its nuclear development. The Chinese government account of Xi’s meeting with Ebrahim Raisi gave no indication whether they discussed Russia’s war against

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Department of Public Safety says a collision involving a commercial tanker truck caused a hazardous material to leak onto Interstate 10 outside Tucson, prompting state troopers to shut down traffic on the freeway. Agency spokesman Raul Garcia said liquid nitric acid was leaking after the tanker rolled over in

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, whose groundbreaking political career shattered gender barriers from San Francisco’s City Hall to the corridors of Capitol Hill, said Tuesday she won’t seek reelection in 2024. The senator, who turns 90 in June, is the oldest member of Congress and

By JOHN FLESHER and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — One student was a fraternity chapter president. Another was a science student with fond memories of her days as a high-school athlete — and the third was a frequent volunteer who wanted to become a surgeon. Family and friends mourned the deaths

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California, a U.S. trendsetter for progressive policies and a state where the current governor once made news issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in San Francisco before it was legal, will attempt to enshrine marriage equality in the state constitution. The effort comes 15

By TARA COPP, ERIC TUCKER, COLLEEN LONG and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The three still-unidentified aerial objects shot down by the U.S. in the past week likely had merely a “benign purpose,” the White House acknowledged Tuesday, drawing a distinction between them and the massive Chinese balloon that earlier traversed the U.S.

DENVER (AP) — In earlier versions of a story published February 13, 2023, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Congress passed a bill in 2011 giving car owners the right to repair their own vehicles. That bill did not pass, but automotive industry groups agreed to a memorandum of understanding in 2014 to provide independent

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man already accused of keeping a woman hidden in the basement of his home while repeatedly sexually abusing her is facing new charges. Clay County Prosecutor Zachary Thompson announced Tuesday that a grand jury indicted Timothy Haslett on nine felony counts, including rape, sodomy,

By JOHN SEEWER and PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press Plumes of smoke, questions about dead animals, worries about the drinking water. A train derailment in Ohio and subsequent burning of some of the hazardous chemicals has people asking: How worried should they be? It’s been more than a week since about 50 cars of a freight

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Belgium man whose wife lost her legs in a terrorist attack on a New York City bike path that killed eight people five years ago says he contemplated suicide after he had largely recovered from his physical wounds. Aristide Melissas testified in Manhattan federal court

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Dave Hollis, who left his post as a Disney executive to help his wife run a successful lifestyle empire, has died at his home in Texas. He was 47. Hollis, whose ex-wife Rachel Hollis wrote the bestseller “Girl, Wash Your Face,” was pronounced dead Sunday afternoon at

By JULIE CARR SMYTH and SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A battle for political control of the Ohio House has laid bare the risks the Republican Party faces as factions of its legislative supermajority square off more over tactics and the willingness to thwart long held institutional norms than policy.

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has named Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard as the new director of his National Economic Council. That makes the Ph.D. economist a key point person for coordinating policy, talking with business leaders and negotiating with Congress. Biden has also nominated

The South Carolina Secretary of State says more than 600 fake championship rings for professional and collegiate sports were confiscated by law enforcement agents last week during a raid of a South Carolina memorabilia store. Spokesperson Shannon Wiley says the haul seized from Kirk’s Collectibles had an estimated retail value of about $15 million and

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Hundred Acre Wood has seen some pretty unsettling things over the years. A honey jar shortage. Rather blustery days. The omnipresent threat of a Heffalump. But in “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey,” a new microbudget R-rated horror film, Pooh wades into far darker

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma officials say nearly one-quarter of Oklahomans on Medicaid, about 300,000 people, will lose coverage by the end of this year as pandemic-era protections are phased out. Oklahoma Health Care Authority officials on Tuesday laid out plans to notify people over the next nine months.

By GISELA SALOMON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — U.S. authorities have arrested four more people in the slaying of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, including the owner of a Miami-area security company that hired ex-Colombian soldiers for the mission, prosecutors announced Tuesday. The squad of former Colombian soldiers are among dozens of suspects