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By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Lore Mayerfeld was 4 years old when she escaped from the Nazis in 1941. Together with her mother, the little Jewish girl ran away from her German hometown of Kassel with nothing but the clothes she wore and her beloved doll, Inge. Mayerfeld found a safe haven

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a gun battle at an Oakland gas station has killed one person and wounded seven others in the second shooting Monday night in the San Francisco Bay Area. It occurred around 6 p.m. at the Valero station on Macarthur Boulevard. One person died at a hospital and seven others

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer When Rylae-Ann Poulin was a year old, she didn’t crawl or babble like other kids her age. A rare genetic disorder kept her from even lifting her head. Her parents took turns holding her upright at night just so she could breathe comfortably and sleep. Then, months later. doctors

By BERNARD CONDON, JIM MUSTIAN and JULIE WATSON Associated Press Lost in the aftermath of the Monterey Park, California, ballroom dance hall shooting that left 11 people dead is an alarming fact: It took five hours for authorities to alert the public that the gunman was on the loose. Even after the 72-year-old shooter brought

By JEFF CHIU and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — A gunman killed seven people at two agricultural businesses in Northern California, plunging the state into mourning again in the wake of its third mass killing in eight days. Officers arrested a suspect in Monday’s shootings, 67-year-old Chunli Zhao, after

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks were higher in Asia on Tuesday after a tech-led rally on Wall Street as investors bet the Federal Reserve will trim its rate hikes to tamp down inflation. Many markets in the region were closed for Lunar New Year holidays. A preliminary reading for manufacturing

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A year after a streaming service won Hollywood’s top honor for the first time, big-screen spectacles are poised to dominate nominations to the 95th Academy Awards on Tuesday. Nominations will be announced 8:30am EST from the academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California. They

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Former Guatemala President Álvaro Colom, who governed from 2008 to 2012 and supported a United Nations anticorruption mission that later investigated him, has died at age 71. Lawmakers from his National Unity of Hope Party announced his death late Monday. Colom won office in a

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge is set to hear arguments Tuesday on whether to release a report by a special grand jury tasked with investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies broke any laws as they sought to overturn his narrow 2020 election loss in Georgia. Fulton County Superior

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The debate around raising the debt ceiling sounds eerily similar: Newly elected House Republicans, eager to confront the Democratic president in the White House, refused to raise the debt limit without cuts to federal spending. Negotiations over the debt ceiling consumed Washington in 2011, a high-stakes

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Attorneys for a Native Hawaiian man who has been imprisoned for more than 20 years for the 1991 sexual assault, kidnapping and murder of a white woman visiting Hawaii will ask a judge Tuesday to dismiss his conviction due to new evidence — including DNA testing

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Over the past few years, a number of companies have attempted to act as the cryptocurrency equivalent of a bank, promising lucrative returns to customers who deposited their bitcoin or other digital assets. In a span of less than 12 months, nearly all of the

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Natasha Lyonne stars in the new anthology procedural series “Poker Face” for Peacock debuting Jan. 26. Lyonne plays a woman named Charlie who can innately tell if people are lying. In each episode Charlie finds herself stumbling upon a murder where she pieces together how someone

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer TIANJIN, China (AP) — As technicians in a distant control room watch on display screens, an automated crane at one of China’s busiest ports moves cargo containers from a Korean freighter to self-driving trucks in a scene tech giant Huawei sees as its future after American sanctions crushed its

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE and JOSH FUNK Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two teenage students were killed Monday and a man was seriously injured in what police said was a targeted shooting at an alternative educational program designed to keep at-risk youth away from trouble. The injured man was identified as the program’s founder

MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. officials say they are still far from agreement with Mexico over that country’s plans to ban imports of genetically modified corn for human consumption. Mexico has said it may eventually ban GM corn for animal feed as well. The U.S. Trade Representative’s office said Monday that Mexico had proposed some

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A human rights group and 16 individuals have filed a criminal complaint in Germany seeking punishment of Myanmar’s generals for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The complaint alleges those crimes were committed after the 2021 government takeover and during a 2017 crackdown on minority Rohingya

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Jacinda Ardern made her final public appearance as New Zealand’s prime minister Tuesday, saying the thing she would miss most was the people, because they had been the “joy of the job.” Ardern, who has been a global icon of the left, shocked the nation

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Authorities in Nepal have handed to relatives the bodies of 60 of the 72 people killed in a plane crash last week. Rescuers are still searching for two bodies at the site where a Yeti Airlines flight crashed at the resort town of Pokhara. The airline said that among the 10