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By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Simone Ashley was already a working actor with credits including “Broadchurch” and “Sex Education” when she won the role of Kate Sharma, a fiercely independent woman who wins the heart of Anthony Bridgerton in its second season. Her charm and grace make her one of The Associated

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Best new artist nominee Tobe Nwigwe didn’t expect to be considered when submitting his music to the Grammys, but like much of his life, he’s learned to embrace the unexpected. He’s one of music’s most buzz-worthy rappers with no major label deal, booking agent or

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dressed as Elvis and nonchalantly walking a pig on a leash, Stephanie Hsu made a memorable big screen impression this year. Hsu actually had two roles in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” playing both a sullen teen and an intergalactic supervillain. Her performance — combining

CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say one student has been killed and three other teenagers were wounded in a shooting near a Chicago high school. Chicago fire officials say the four 16-year-olds were shot Friday afternoon near Benito Juarez High School in Pilsen on the West Side. Chicago Police Department spokesman Tom Ahern says the victims

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press REYNOSA, Mexico (AP) — Thousands of migrants packed shelters on Mexico’s border with the United States on Friday as an end neared to Trump-era asylum restrictions, with fresh numbers showing that fewer single adults crossed illegally last month. Border Patrol agents stopped single adults 143,903 times along the Mexican border

By KATHLEEN FOODY and MICHAEL TARM The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors say the father of an Illinois man charged with killing seven people in a mass shooting at a July 4 parade has been charged with seven felony counts of reckless conduct. Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart said Robert Crimo Jr. surrendered

PHOENIX (AP) — As Phoenix gets ready to host the Super Bowl, Mayor Kate Gallego has announced Sky Harbor International Airport will be the world’s first airport to offer the self-driving ride-hailing service Waymo. Gallego said during a news conference Friday that fans who come to the city for the Feb. 12 Super Bowl will

By The Associated Press They worked hard, with the rewards coming slowly but surely. Then something came along — often a key role or sometimes a cluster, maybe an album — and it all became next-level, a shift triggering where-did-you-come-from vibes. That describes most of this year’s nine Associated Press’ Breakthrough Entertainers of the Year,

OBERLIN. Ohio (AP) — Oberlin College has finished paying out a $25 million judgment to an Ohio bakery that won a libel lawsuit against the school after a shoplifting incident involving three Black students. The store’s owners sued Oberlin College in 2017 claiming they had been libeled by the school and their business had been

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Iowa construction worker and QAnon follower was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, when he led a crowd chasing a police officer who diverted rioters away from lawmakers. Wearing a T-shirt celebrating

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has rejected attempts by Myanmar’s military junta, Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers and Libya’s eastern-based government to take their countries’ seats at the United Nations. The 193-member world body voted by consensus Friday to approve a recommendation by its credentials committee that the

By MAE ANDERSON and MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writers Elon Musk’s abrupt suspension of several journalists who cover Twitter widens a growing rift between the social media site and media organizations that have used the platform to build their audiences. Individual reporters with The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Voice of America and

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi police officer shot and killed a woman even as the woman was fatally shooting the officer and his partner in the parking lot of a Gulf Coast motel on Wednesday, authorities now say. Mississippi Public Safety Commissioner Sean Tindell said in a statement and interviews that body

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Red Wings forward Jakub Vrana practiced for the first time in two months, returning to the team after entering the player assistance program of the NHL and NHL Players’ Association. Vrana declined Friday to specify why he entered the program. He added there’s bigger things than hockey in life. The 26-year-old

By MAE ANDERSON and MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writers Elon Musk’s abrupt suspension of several journalists who cover Twitter is adding to a growing rift between the social media site and media organizations that have used the platform to build their audiences. Accounts of reporters with The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Voice of

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Angelina Jolie and the United Nations’ refugee agency are parting ways after more than two decades. In a joint statement issued Friday, the U.S. actor and the agency announced she was “moving on” from her role as the agency’s special envoy “to engage on a broader set of humanitarian and human

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City police department reached a legal settlement Friday that requires it to abandon a practice in which officers use prolonged street stops to check for arrest warrants and ties to other cases, a tactic critics denounced as “digital stop and frisk.” Under

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Senate passed a massive expansion of a northern Nevada naval air base as part of its defense spending bill that is set to finalize a historic transfer of public land to military use. The amendment designates 558,000 additional acres for military training

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Speaking at a conference of Orthodox Jews on Friday, Donald Trump did not address a widely criticized private meal he shared last month with a Holocaust-denying white nationalist and a rapper who has spewed antisemitic conspiracies. The former president told the audience he was

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will travel in January to South Africa, Zambia, and Senegal. The trip is the first of a string of Biden administration official visits to sub-Saharan Africa next year. The world’s second-largest continent is crucial to the global economy due to its rapidly growing