AP National News

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A report released by a U.S. House committee says backers of a proposed copper and gold mine in southwest Alaska “tried to trick regulators by pretending to pursue a smaller project with the intention of expanding” after the project was approved. The report focuses on the

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge Friday refused to bar a group from monitoring outdoor ballot boxes in Arizona’s largest county, saying that to do so could violate the its constitutional rights. U.S. District Court Judge Michael Liburdi issued the ruling Friday. Local and federal law enforcement have been alarmed

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A former police officer already imprisoned for one fatal shooting in a wealthy San Francisco suburb won’t face criminal charges in a second slaying. Contra Costa District Attorney Diana Becton said Friday that she won’t charge former Danville officer Andrew Hall in the death of a

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Just hours after voting started in Texas, Kimberly Rubio cast her ballot in the same Uvalde city building where she waited in May to learn that her daughter, Lexi, was one of 19 fourth-graders fatally shot at Robb Elementary School. “If our children aren’t safe, neither

By STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Wall Street closed sharply higher, capping another strong week with gains led by Apple and other companies that made even bigger profits during the summer than expected. The S&P 500 rose 2.5% Friday and marked its first back-to-back weekly gain since August. Stocks

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Colorado businessman has been convicted of charges that he and others siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars from an online fundraiser to build a wall along the U.S. southern border despite promising donors every cent would go to the wall. Timothy Shea was convicted Friday

By HALELUYA HADERO and SOPHIA TULP The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Shortly after Elon Musk took control of Twitter, some conservative personalities wasted no time to jump on the platform and recirculate long-debunked conspiracy theories in a tongue-in-cheek attempt to “test” whether Twitter’s policies on misinformation were still being enforced. Twitter has made

By STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Wall Street is rallying Friday to cap another strong week for stocks, led by Apple and other companies that made even bigger profits during the summer than expected. The S&P 500 was 2.4% higher in afternoon trading and heading for its first back-to-back

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Want to know the age and sex breakdown of people of Japanese ancestry in your U.S. state or territory? You may not be able to get that in the future if you live in North Dakota or Puerto Rico under a new plan the U.S. Census Bureau is putting together

By FELICIA FONSECA and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The Interior Department announced Friday that it will consider revising a set of guidelines for operating two major dams on the Colorado River. It’s the first sign of what could lead to federal action to protect the once-massive but shrinking reservoirs behind them.

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A prosecutor has announced that officers have been cleared of criminal charges in the fatal shooting of a man in an Ohio emergency room. Gary Tyack is the elected prosecutor representing Franklin County in central Ohio, home to state capital Columbus. He said Friday that a

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Relentless Russian attacks on energy infrastructure prompted Ukrainian authorities on Friday to announce worsening blackouts around the country’s largest cities, with Kyiv’s mayor warning that the capital’s power grid is working in “emergency mode” with energy supplies down as much as 50% from pre-war levels. Meanwhile,

By AARON MORRISON AP National Writer Devin Allen admits that he occasionally behaved like a knucklehead, growing up in Baltimore. But he was not so irreverent as a tenth grader that he could see an image of Emmett Till’s open casket and not find it arresting. The story of the 14-year-old Black boy who was

By KEVIN FREKING, MICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The intruder who attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in their San Francisco home was searching for the Democratic leader, shouting “Where is Nancy, where is Nancy?” before assaulting Paul Pelosi with a hammer. That was a chilling echo of the chants

By JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Renewed clashes between government soldiers and M23 rebels have forced more people from their homes in eastern Congo. The fighting that resumed around 5 a.m., Friday sent panic-stricken residents fleeing the towns of Rugari, Kalengera and Kabaya. Some headed for Kanyaruchinya near Goma. The U.N. has

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer Jerry Lee Lewis, the untamable rock ‘n’ roll pioneer whose outrageous talent, energy and ego collided on such definitive records as “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and sustained a career otherwise upended by personal scandal, died Friday morning at 87. The last survivor of

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian security forces have opened fire on demonstrators in a southeastern city that has seen weeks of unrest amid nationwide demonstrations. Activists say the shooting on Friday in the city of in Zahedan killed at least two people, threatening to reignite tensions there. Zahedan,

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press Qatar has summoned the German ambassador over remarks by Germany’s interior minister, who appeared to criticize the decision to award the World Cup to the Gulf Arab nation because of its human rights record. It was the first time Qatar has summoned an ambassador following years of heavy international scrutiny

By BARBARA ORTUTAY, TOM KRISHER and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter after a protracted legal battle and months of uncertainty. The question now is what the billionaire Tesla CEO will actually do with the social media platform. Musk gave one indication of where he’s headed in a tweet

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authorities in Belarus added 625 people, most of them with political opposition ties, to an official list of alleged “extremists.” The eastern European country’s Ministry of Internal Affairs released a sweeping update on Friday that increased the number of blacklisted individuals by a third, to a