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By JULIE WATSON and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of California has reached an agreement with some 36,000 graduate student teaching assistants and other academic workers for increased pay and benefits that could potentially end a monthlong strike at the prestigious state system. The strike disrupted classes at all 10

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A suburban Seattle man has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for threatening to shoot Black customers at grocery stores in Buffalo, New York, and at businesses in other states. The Daily Herald reports Joey George of Lynnwood pleaded guilty in November to making interstate threats and the hate

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — One of the strongest earthquakes in Texas history struck Friday evening in a western region of the state that’s home to oil and fracking activity. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The U.S. Geological Survey said the temblor had a magnitude of 5.4 and struck at 5:35 p.m.,

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — It might be the world’s shortest political honeymoon. Almost since the moment last week when Dina Boluarte took over from the ousted leader Pedro Castillo to become Peru’s first female president, she has appealed for calm and a chance to govern, insisting

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge is promising to rule quickly on whether to grant public access to records detailing the treatment of a death row prisoner who cut off his penis while on a suicide watch. In a lawsuit filed in Nashville, inmate Henry Hodges has accused the

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The word “crisis” ended a Colorado River conference that drew representatives from Southwest U.S. states, tribes and Mexico to Las Vegas this week. A top Interior Department official closed the Colorado River Water Users Association conference on Friday calling the next three months critical for agreements

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Reno mayor Hillary Schieve is suing a private investigator and his company after finding a device attached to her vehicle that was capable of tracking its real-time location. The lawsuit, first reported by The Nevada Independent on Thursday, alleges that the investigator trespassed onto

By FARNOUSH AMIRI, MARY CLARE JALONICK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is considering recommending the Justice Department pursue an unprecedented criminal charge of insurrection and two other counts against former President Donald Trump. Besides insurrection, an uprising aiming to overthrow

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s power company appears destined for an even longer bankruptcy than expected after several creditors have rejected a new debt restructuring plan following years of failed negotiations. A federal control board that oversees the island’s finances filed a plan late Friday that proposes

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press REYNOSA, Mexico (AP) — Restrictions that have prevented hundreds of thousands of migrants from seeking asylum in the U.S. in recent years remained on track to expire in a matter of days after an appeals court ruling Friday, as thousands more migrants packed shelters on Mexico’s border

CHICAGO (AP) — Two students were killed and two other teens were wounded in a shooting Friday afternoon near a high school on Chicago’s West Side, authorities said. Chicago fire officials said the four 16-year-olds were shot near Benito Juarez High School. Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown, speaking at a news conference, confirmed the deaths

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal agency tasked with airport security says so far this year officers have stopped a record number of guns going through airport security. The Transportation Security Administration says it’s anticipating that by the end of the year they’ll have nabbed 6,600 weapons. The agency says that’s nearly a 10% increase over

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer The Transportation Security Administration is raising the fine for people caught with a firearm in their carry-on bag. The TSA says it has intercepted 6,301 guns so far this year at U.S. airports, which is a record. The TSA is raising the maximum fine by a little more than

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The family of Virginia “Jinks” Rogers Holton says the former Virginia first lady has died. She was 97. Holton was the wife of the late Republican Gov. A. Linwood Holton Jr., who served in the 1970s and declared an end to “Massive Resistance.” That was Virginia’s

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Documents filed in a state lawsuit show that a former student who accused ex-LSU football coach Les Miles of sexual harassment in 2013 sought a $2.15 million settlement with the university and Miles. The documents include a detailed account of the ex-student’s allegations that Miles “groomed, sexually and emotionally manipulated,

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The longtime head of the second-largest rail union announced Friday that he will clear the way for the upstart candidate who beat him by retiring instead of fighting to keep his office in a second election. Eddie Hall received 509 more votes than Dennis Pierce

By JESSE BEDAYN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A judge dismissed the 2021 kidnapping case against the Colorado gay nightclub shooter even though she had previously raised concerns about the defendant stockpiling weapons and explosives and planning a shootout, court transcripts obtained Friday by The Associated Press reveal. Relatives, including

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Friday it is buying 3 million barrels of oil to begin to replenish U.S. strategic reserves that officials drained earlier this year in a bid to stop gasoline prices from rising amid production cuts by OPEC and a ban on Russian oil imports.