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SEATTLE (AP) — A 31-year-old Seattle man is being held without bail after what police describe as a three-day spate of shootings that left the owner of one business dead, the owner of another in critical condition, and the driver of a car wounded in the leg. The victims included the owner of an African

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Giorgia Meloni has become the first woman installed as Italy’s premier. Meloni took the oath of office on Saturday along with her 24 ministers also took oaths of office. Her three-party governing coalition is the country’s first led by the far right since the end of World

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Baton Rouge police say 11 people were hurt in a shooting at a fraternity house near Southern University’s campus in Baton Rouge and two people are in custody. Authorities initially said nine people were injured early Friday at the party held just off campus. The Advocate reports Deputy Chief Myron

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A surge in migration from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua in September brought the number of illegal crossings to the highest level ever recorded in a fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The year-end numbers reflect deteriorating economic and political conditions in some countries,

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Joanna Simon, an acclaimed mezzo-soprano, Emmy-winning TV correspondent and one of the three singing Simon sisters who include pop star Carly, has died at age 85. Simon, the eldest of four, died Wednesday, just a day before her sister Lucy died, according to Lucy’s daughter, Julie Simon.

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A recent wave of political ads and warnings from some in law enforcement paint a picture of a Houston in which crime is out of control. A popular local megachurch pastor even called Houston “the most dangerous city in America.” But the police chief and other

ATLANTA (AP) — The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tested positive for COVID-19. The agency said in a statement that Dr. Rochelle Walensky tested positive Friday night and has mild symptoms. She is up to date on her vaccinations. The CDC said she will isolate at home and close

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Just weeks before the Nov. 8 election, Utah’s senior senator, Republican Mike Lee, is now acknowledging a real political threat from Evan McMullin. McMullin is an anti-Donald Trump independent and former Republican who is challenging Lee in the state’s most competitive Senate race in decades.

By JAVIER CÓRDOBA Associated Press SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Six people, including the German businessman behind Gold’s Gym, are feared dead after a small plane crashed into the Caribbean off the Costa Rican coast. All five passengers are believed to be German citizens. Costa Rican authorities say pieces of the twin-engine turboprop aircraft

By ANDREW MELDRUM and JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian-installed authorities in Ukraine told all residents of the city of Kherson to leave “immediately” Saturday ahead of an expected advance by Ukrainian troops waging a counteroffensive to recapture one of the first urban areas Russia took after invading the country. In a

KEENE, N.H. (AP) — Authorities say a small plane crashed into a building in New Hampshire, killing the two people on board and sparking a large fire on the ground. The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that a single-engine Beechcraft Sierra aircraft crashed into a building north of Keene Dillant-Hopkins Airport on Friday.

BERLIN (AP) — Tens of thousands of people gathered in Germany’s capital Saturday to show solidarity with antigovernment protesters in Iran, where a movement sparked by the death of a woman in the custody of morality police has evolved into a challenge to the Islamic Republic. Berlin police estimated that 37,000 people had joined the

By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s plan to start counting absentee ballots early hit a roadblock Friday when a state judge ruled the law unconstitutional. Saratoga County judge Diane Freestone said the law clashes with an individual’s constitutional right to challenge ballots in court before they are counted. It was

ROME (AP) — Nearly 300 migrants disembarked have disembarked in the southern Italian port of Taranto after being rescued at sea in five different operations by a ship operated by the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders.  Rescuers said on Saturday that about one half of the 293 rescued migrants were unaccompanied minors. The humanitarian organization

By JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — With Formula’s One popularity and viewership booming in the United States, ESPN and the global motorsports series announced a new broadcast deal Saturday through 2025. ESPN has broadcast F1 in the U.S. since 2018 and the new deal will keep commercial-free, live telecasts for all

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Inside the Minneapolis Police Academy’s sprawling campus on the city’s north side, six people sat soberly and listened to a handful of officers and city officials make their pitch about joining an understaffed department that is synonymous with the murder of George Floyd. Officers would

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press The Supreme Court’s June ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and left the question of abortion rights up to the states has produced ballot questions in a handful of states this fall. Three states are asking voters some variation of whether they want to establish a right to abortion, while