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By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Abortion providers and an abortion-rights group want some judges to permit more trained health professionals in North Carolina to prescribe pills for medication-induced abortions. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic filed a request Monday asking that a law be blocked that limits the dispensing from just certain

HOUSTON (AP) — A man has been convicted of capital murder in the 2019 shooting death of a law enforcement officer who was the first Sikh deputy in his Texas agency.  A jury took less than 30 minutes on Monday before finding Robert Solis, 50, guilty in the killing of Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Sandeep

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A police official says a man accused of killing a veteran Las Vegas patrol officer fired 18 shots with a gun described as an “AK-47 pistol,” including one that penetrated the officer’s ballistic vest and one that wounded the man’s mother-in-law in the leg. Assistant Clark

By SAM METZ Associated Press OREM, Utah (AP) — Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee and his independent challenger Evan McMullin are scheduled to face off Monday evening at a televised debate three weeks before Election Day. The debate will be the only time the candidates appear together in the lead-up to next month’s midterm elections.

OKMULGEE, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say four Oklahoma men who were last seen riding their bicycles more than a week ago were shot and dismembered. And authorities say a man considered a person of interest in the case has since disappeared. Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice says the bodies found late last week in the

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, of Iowa, has a kidney infection and is expected to spend Monday night in the hospital, her office said. Hinson was admitted Sunday night to a hospital in Cedar Rapids, her chief of staff, Jimmy Peacock, said Monday. “She is looking forward to being back on

By COLLIN BINKLEY and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday officially kicked off the application process for his student debt cancellation program and announced that 8 million borrowers had already applied for loan relief during the federal government’s soft launch period over the weekend. He encouraged the tens

By BEN FINLEY, HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and ALLEN G. BREED Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An avid runner and the mother of three boys. A woman who was the “rock” of her family and knew everyone in the neighborhood. A Navy veteran whose wedding was two weeks away. These were among the victims of Thursday’s

By SABRA AYRES, HANNA ARHIROVA and INNA VARENYTSIA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Waves of explosives-laden suicide drones struck Ukraine’s capital Monday, setting buildings ablaze, tearing a hole in one of them and sending people scurrying for cover or trying to shoot them down in what the president said was Russia’s attempt to terrorize

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department said Monday that it has sanctioned a group of high-ranking members of the Somalia-based al-Shabab militant group, who act as key middle men between the group and local companies in Somalia. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed the sanctions on more than a

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The retirement of Oregon’s longest serving congressman, Democrat Peter DeFazio, has opened up the U.S. House seat in the state’s 4th District. The absence of the longstanding incumbent has Republicans eyeing the seat. But pollsters view it as leaning toward Democrats, partly due to

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Spacey has testified in a New York courtroom that he never made a sexual pass at the actor Anthony Rapp. Rapp says Spacey put him on his bed after a 1986 party and laid on top of him when he was 14

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In Hollywood’s superhero era thus far, there has been one particularly conspicuous absence: While a parade of big-name actors have taken their turns donning various spandex suits, Dwayne Johnson — arguably the biggest movie star in the world — has, until now, sat out the

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For a news organization, NBC is leaning aggressively into education. The company is making its leaders available to students this week for a one-day digital seminar on how to succeed in the news business. It’s part of NBCU Academy, a nearly two-year-old education initiative that

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian warplane crashed Monday into a residential area in a Russian city on the Sea of Azov after suffering engine failure, killing at least four people and leaving six others missing after a massive blaze that engulfed several floors of a nine-story apartment building. A Su-34 bomber came down in the

By SABRA AYRES, HANNA ARHIROVA and INNA VARENYTSIA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Waves of explosives-laden suicide drones struck Ukraine’s capital Monday, setting buildings ablaze and tearing a hole in one of them. People scurried for shelter or tried to shoot down the kamikazes. The concentrated use of the drones was the second barrage

NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall are dropping their audience mask requirement starting Oct. 24, ending policies in place since they reopened last year. The decisions make wearing of masks optional and put the institutions in line with Broadway theaters, which made face coverings optional last July. The

By MARC LEVY and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The state and national Republican parties are suing anew in Pennsylvania in an effort to block some mail-in ballots — those lacking the voter’s handwritten date on the outside envelope — from being counted in the November election. The GOP’s filing late Sunday

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Officials say three U.N. peacekeepers have been killed in a roadside bomb attack in northern Mali. The explosion on Monday took place 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the town of Tessalit, where the peacekeepers were on a mine search and detection patrol. Their deaths come just

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian military says one of its warplanes has crashed near an apartment building in Yeysk, a port city on the Sea of Azov, after experiencing engine failure on takeoff. The crash ignited a huge fire, killing at least three people and injuring 21 others, eight of whom were in grave condition.