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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Jeremy Renner says he is out of the hospital after being treated for serious injuries from a snow plow accident. In response to a Twitter post Monday about his Paramount+ TV series “Mayor of Kingstown,” Renner tweeted, “Outside my brain fog in recovery, I was very excited to watch episode

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and Democratic lawmakers are calling on Republicans to ask voters whether the state should ban abortions rather than seek their views on welfare eligibility. The move Tuesday comes hours before the Republican-controlled state Senate was scheduled to vote on an

LOUISIANA, Mo. (AP) — A former police chief in a small northeast Missouri town is charged with second-degree murder after his girlfriend’s brother died of a drug overdose in his home in October. A Pike County grand jury indicted 50-year-old William Jones, who was arrested Friday and is being held on $1 million cash bail.

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will be joined by two of his highest-profile South Carolina supporters at the first public campaign event of his 2024 White House bid later this month in the early voting state. Gov. Henry McMaster and U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham will be with

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A jury has been seated in a federal criminal trial for a man prosecutors say became fixated on a Kansas congressman and threatened to kill him. The trial started Tuesday for 32-year-old Chase Neill comes amid a rise in treats to the nation’s lawmakers and their

By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Two Illinois paramedics face first-degree murder charges, having been accused of strapping a patient facedown on a stretcher while taking him to a hospital last month. Illinois authorities filed the charges against Peggy Finley and Peter Cadigan on Jan. 9, nearly a month after Earl L. Moore

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — Peoria police and fire officials are investigating a fire at a central Illinois Planned Parenthood clinic as arson, police said Tuesday. The incident occurred Sunday night, two days after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law reproductive health care legislation to protect out-of-state abortion seekers. The

By AMANCAI BIRABEN and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A group of South Dakota Republican lawmakers are pushing a bill to outlaw gender-affirming health care for transgender youth. At least a dozen states are considering anti-transgender legislation this year. The South Dakota bill aims to keep children under 18 from accessing puberty-blocking

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Officials say the death toll from a weekend Russian missile strike on an apartment building in southeastern Ukraine has climbed to 45. The victims of the deadliest attack on civilians since the spring included six children, according to the head of the Ukrainian president’s office. He

By CARLA BRIDI Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Authorities have charged dozens of people accused of rioting in Brazil’s capital to overturn former President Jair Bolsonaro’s recent election defeat. In a statement Monday, the prosecutor-general’s office said it had filed charges against 39 people in connection to the Jan. 8 riots. The defendants have

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Police in western Germany carried Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and other protesters away Tuesday from the edge of an open coal pit mine where they demonstrated against the ongoing destruction of a village to make way for the mine’s expansion, German news agency dpa reported. Thunberg

By LORNE COOK Associated Press STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Belgian prosecutors say the alleged ringleader of a European Union cash-for-influence corruption scandal linked to Qatar and Morocco has decided to reveal information about the affair in exchange for a lighter sentence. Pier Antonio Panzeri was charged last month with corruption, money laundering and membership of

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sally Field will be honored at the 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards with the SAG lifetime achievement award. The actors guild announced Tuesday that Field will be the 58th recipient of the tribute award, following recent honorees including Helen Mirren, Robert De Niro, Alan Alda and Morgan Freeman. “She has an

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will be joined by two of his highest-profile South Carolina supporters at the first public campaign event of his 2024 White House bid later this month in the early voting state. Gov. Henry McMaster and U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham will be with

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s migration minister says the number of migrants arriving in Greece has dropped dramatically over the past two years, while the number of asylum-seekers living in the country has also fallen. Speaking Tuesday at an event marking the third anniversary of the Migration and Asylum Ministry’s foundation, Notis Mitarachi credited the

By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A 30-year-old woman has died following a shooting that broke out between rival gang members during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in Florida, sheriff’s officials said Tuesday. The woman, whose name has not been released, was attending a party with her 6-year-old daughter Monday evening

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks edged mostly lower in uncertain trading on Wall Street Tuesday to kick off a holiday-shortened, but earnings-heavy week. The S&P 500 fell 0.1% as of 11:50 a.m. Eastern. The tech-heavy Nasdaq rose less than 0.1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 338 points,

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s weather was calmer Tuesday after weeks of atmospheric rivers that drenched the state and covered its mountains in heavy snow. Light rain and snow showers lingered in some areas, but skies were finally largely clear. A shot of precipitation from a quick system was predicted for Wednesday or Thursday, followed

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The head of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning World Food Program says support from donors like the United States and Germany have allowed it to postpone — though not entirely avert — famine in Somalia. But WFP Executive Director David Beasley stressed that “we’re not out of