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By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid a surge in hateful rhetoric and violence, President Joe Biden on Monday formed a new interagency group to develop a national strategy to combat antisemitism, the White House announced. The action comes at a time when anti-Jewish vitriol is being spread by prominent public

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO and REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press ANDAHUAYLAS, Peru (AP) — The anger of Peruvians against their government is nowhere more visible than in Andahuaylas, a remote rural Andean community where the poor have struggled for years and where voters’ support helped elect now-ousted President Pedro Castillo, himself a peasant like them. Their

By JORGE RUEDA AND ASTRÍD SUAREZ Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Colombian government and the nation’s largest remaining rebel group say they will continue to stage peace talks in Mexico, following three weeks of negotiations in Venezuela that have only yielded modest results. Negotiations between Colombia and the National Liberation Army began in

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than three decades after a bomb brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing everyone aboard, a former Libyan intelligence official accused of making the explosive appeared Monday in federal court, charged with an act of international terrorism. The extradition of Abu Agila Mohammad

LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — A former priest in northern Virginia has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy more than 35 years ago. Sixty-five-year-old Scott Asalone was priest at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Purcellville from 1984 to 1993. He pleaded to a single count of felony carnal knowledge of a minor.

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An environmental group is petitioning federal officials to help reintroduce the jaguar to the Southwest, where it ranged for hundreds of thousands of years before being whittled down to just one of the big cats known to roam the region. The male jaguar named Sombra has been

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is restoring another pre-pandemic tradition, announcing decisions in a public session in the courtroom. Beginning in January, or whenever the first opinions of the term are ready, the justices will read summaries of their opinions from the bench, the court said Monday. The long-standing practice was abandoned when the

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Florida man who posted a Facebook video of himself during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol faces more than two decades in prison following a felony conviction. Court records show that a District of Columbia federal judge found 44-year-old Bradley Weeks guilty Friday of a felony count of

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The boyfriend of Breonna Taylor who fired a shot at police as they burst through Taylor’s door the night she was killed has settled two lawsuits against the city of Louisville, his attorneys said Monday. The city agreed to pay $2 million to settle lawsuits filed

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge has put on hold a case from a death row inmate alleging mistreatment by prison officials. The stay of no more than 90 days is to allow Henry Hodges time to exhaust his administrative appeals. Hodges cut off his penis in October while

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The former CEO of the failed cryptocurrency firm FTX will testify before a Congressional committee Tuesday, his first appearance under oath since FTX filed for bankruptcy roughly a month ago. Sam Bankman-Fried is scheduled to testify in front of the House Financial Services Committee, along

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A massive winter storm blew across the center of the U.S. on Monday, threatening millions of people with heavy snow, freezing rain and flooding. The National Weather Service warned that there would be “numerous, widespread, and impactful weather hazards in the heart of the country this week.” People from Idaho

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to 14 months in prison on charges of assaulting, resisting or impeding police officers during the January 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Prosecutors said 38-year-old Troy Sargent, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, swung his hand at a U.S. Capitol police officer, briefly making contact with him. Sargent

DETROIT (AP) — A government report says fuel economy for 2021 model year vehicles in the U.S. stayed flat with 2020 as people continued to buy less-efficient trucks and SUVs. The fleet of new vehicles got 25.4 miles per gallon (10.8 kilometers per liter) for the model year, while greenhouse gas emissions dropped slightly to

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday refused a request from tobacco companies to stop California from enforcing a ban on flavored tobacco products that was overwhelmingly approved by voters in November. R.J. Reynolds and other tobacco companies sought the high court’s intervention to keep the ban from taking effect by Dec. 21. There

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch has formally started her 2024 campaign for governor. She launched her effort Monday and says she won’t shy away from Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb’s record despite the discontent he faces among many conservatives over his COVID-19 policies and other actions. She’s joining

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa, the so-called last Hawaiian princess whose lineage included the royal family that once ruled the islands and an Irish businessman who became one of Hawaii’s largest landowners, died on Sunday. She was 96. Her death was announced Monday morning at ʻIolani Palace,

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Crews have removed the plywood box that had been placed over a Philadelphia statue of Christopher Columbus that saw tense standoffs in 2020 between supporters of the monument and opponents who viewed it as a symbol of white supremacy. The box was removed Sunday night, as a small crowd cheered. The work

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is slapping corruption sanctions on the son of Zimbabwe’s president as the U.S. prepares to host a major summit of African leaders in Washington. The Treasury Department announced Monday it was hitting four Zimbabwean people and two companies with penalties for their roles in undermining democracy and facilitating high-level