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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Iraq is urging the country’s new government to keep fighting corruption and move quickly on much-needed economic, fiscal and financial reforms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that many other areas also require immediate government attention, from

CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Bengals running back Joe Mixon has been charged in a warrant with pointing a gun at a woman and threatening her, according to court documents. Mixon faces a misdemeanor charge of aggravated menacing, according to the documents, which were filed Thursday in Hamilton County Municipal Court and obtained by The Associated

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A “high chance” of a mass shooting in Hollywood has been thwarted by police seizing a cache of guns and ammunition in a high-rise apartment where several rifles were pointed toward a nearby park, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Braxton Johnson was taken into custody

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A rescue official in northwest Pakistan says a head-on collision between a passenger bus and a speeding truck trailer killed at least 17 passengers. The crash happened overnight near a tunnel in Kohat district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to the emergency official and state-run media. Rehmat Ullah said the dead

HOOD RIVER, Ore. (AP) — Police in Oregon say gunshots broke out as officers responded to a call at a home in the scenic vacation town of Hood River, Oregon. The police department said the suspect was in a house surrounded by law enforcement as of 2:30 p.m. Thursday. The initial law enforcement bulletin about

By ELÉONORE HUGHES and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian magazine on Thursday released audio of a senator claiming then President Jair Bolsonaro sought help in a plot to annul the October elections and keep himself in power. In the recording, Sen. Marcos do Val tells the magazine Veja that

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A former U.S. Navy captain who was caught up in a massive contracting scandal has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for taking nearly $91,000 in bribes. Retired Capt. David Haas was sentenced Thursday in San Diego. Prosecutors say he was among dozens of Navy officials who helped

By AARON MORRISON AP National Writer MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The sound of the djembe drums started as a low tremble and grew more distinct as the musicians drew closer to the hundreds gathered inside the Memphis church. “We love you, Tyre,” the drummers chanted, referring to Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man whose beating

NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA has further adjusted the schedule of nationally televised games with LeBron James closing in on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the league’s scoring record. James is on pace to break the record Tuesday at home against the Oklahoma City Thunder. That game will now be shown on TNT, a change that

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Award-winning actor and bestselling author Bob Odenkirk was feted Thursday as 2023 Man of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals, which included a roast during which he donned a pink dress over his clothes. Odenkirk, best known as shady lawyer Saul Goodman on “Breaking

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas plans to give $304 million in taxpayer-funded incentives to a semiconductor company in its largest city to build a huge new factory. But state officials and Wichita-based Integra Technologies said Thursday that the $1.8 billion project won’t go forward without funds the U.S. government has

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon has reported worse-than-expected profits but its revenue beat expectations boosted by sales in its cloud-computing unit AWS. Amazon said it earned $300 million, or 3 cents per share, in the October-December quarter. Industry analysts were expecting the Seattle-based company to earn 17 cents a

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, FARNOUSH AMIRI and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have left a meeting with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris with an agreement on how to address the issue of policing in America after the recent killing of Tyre Nichols. Rep. Steven

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been spotted over U.S. airspace for a couple days, but the Pentagon decided not to shoot it down over concerns of hurting people on the ground, officials said Thursday. The discovery of

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Prosecutors in San Francisco have dropped all charges against two men accused in the murder of famed private investigator Jack Palladino. The San Francisco district attorney’s office said it dismissed the case because of a lack of evidence. Police in February 2021 said Palladino died of

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Officials say a second high school student has died following a shooting over the weekend at a hookah lounge in Austin, Texas, that also left three other people injured. Austin Police say 18-year-old Jaitron Tatum died Wednesday from his gunshot wounds. Tatum was one of five people shot when a gunman

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s Republican Gov. Tate Reeves said in a private conversation that expanding Medicaid to people working low-wage jobs would be in the best interest of the state, but that he refuses to support the policy for political reasons, a former chancellor of the University

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday said 15 Native American tribes will get a total of $580 million this year to fund settlements that ensure access to water that’s legally theirs. The money will help carry out agreements known as water rights settlements. They define the tribes’ rights

CINCINNATI (AP) — New details have emerged at former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder’s federal corruption trial on the use of the state plane scheduled to retrieve out-of-town state lawmakers for a vote on the now-tainted nuclear bailout legislation. Text messages presented in U.S. District Court on Thursday showed Householder sharing the plane’s schedule with

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas woman accused of killing a close friend in 2019 who had just given birth and abducting the baby as part of an elaborate scheme to pass the infant off as her own pleaded guilty to murder charges Thursday, prosecutors said. Magen Fieramusca, 37,