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By BEN FINLEY, HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and ALLEN BREED RALEIGH, North Carolina (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 a shooting rampage

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s interior minister says an explosion inside a coal mine in northern Turkey has left 14 people dead and at least 28 injured, while nearly 50 remain trapped underground. The explosion occurred Friday at a state-owned mine in the town of Amasra, in the Black Sea coastal province of Bartin. The

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A judge has tossed out one of  five counts against a think-tank analyst charged with lying to the FBI about his role in the creation of a flawed dossier about former President Donald Trump. The remaining counts against Igor Danchenko will go to a jury Monday

By GARY D. ROBERTSON, HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and ALLEN G. BREED Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A 15-year-old boy killed five people and injured two more in a shooting rampage in Raleigh, police said, horrifying a community that is now mourning victims whose lives were cut short as they were going about their daily routines.

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican state lawmakers involved in Ohio’s political map-making process have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review an Ohio Supreme Court decision finding the state’s second set of congressional maps unconstitutional. The appeal by Ohio Senate President Matt Huffman, Ohio House Speaker Bob Cupp and

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press The Connecticut medical examiner’s office says two Bristol police officers who were killed in an apparent ambush both died from multiple gunshots to their heads and torsos. The chief medical examiner’s office released the findings Friday, two days after Sgt. Dustin Demonte and Officer Alex Hamzy were gunned down. A

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man found guilty of murder, robbery and other charges in the 2015 killing of an Indianapolis pastor’s wife during a break-in was sentenced Friday to 86 years in prison. Larry Jo Taylor Jr. in September also was convicted after a four-day bench trial of burglary, theft, criminal confinement and carrying a

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that the current version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children can continue, at least temporarily. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen said Friday that the policy set to

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Ellen French House was among family members who gathered at a Dallas courthouse Friday to speak to a man charged with killing 22 elderly women a week after his second conviction. In her victim impact statement, House told Billy Chemirmir, who was wearing a striped jail uniform,

By KEVIN SCHEMBRI ORLAND and MATTHEW AGIUS Associated Press VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — A judge in Malta sentenced two brothers to 40 years in prison each after they abruptly reversed course and pleaded guilty Friday to the car-bomb murder of an anti-corruption journalist, which had shocked Europe and triggered angry protests in Malta. Hours earlier,

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administrating is putting forth seven new Justice Department and judicial nominations covering three U.S. attorney’s offices in Texas and other senior posts. One is a prosecutor who vowed to seek the death penalty for a man who killed nearly two dozen people

BERLIN (AP) — The European Investment Bank says the world’s top development banks provided more than $80 billion last year to help countries tackle climate change, passing a goal they set in 2019. The EIB said Friday it and seven other financial institutions committed almost $50.7 billion to low- and middle-income countries and over $31

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Babyface, Arctic Monkeys and a Taylor Swift original, a documentary about the last known ship to bring African captives to the American South for enslavement and “Doc Martin” gets a proper farewell on Acorn TV. Young viewers are in luck this week when

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department has gotten a request from SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk to take over funding for his satellite network that has provided crucial battlefield communications for Ukrainian military forces since almost the beginning of its war with Russia, U.S. officials

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Karl headed for an expected landfall Friday on an easily flooded stretch of Mexico’s southern Gulf coast. The storm was expected to hit in Tabasco state or neighboring Campeche by late Friday. Karl had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph) on Friday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center

CHICAGO (AP) — A United Airlines flight from Chicago to Miami had to return Friday to Chicago O’Hare International Airport when the aircraft struck a bird shortly after takeoff, the airline said. United Airlines said in a statement that Flight 1930 returned safely to Chicago O’Hare International Airport “after experiencing a bird strike shortly after

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Moscow-installed authorities in Ukraine’s occupied southern region of Kherson are urging local residents to evacuate to Russia. The move indicates that Ukrainian military gains along the war’s southern front are worrying the Kremlin, which is struggling to cement its hild on areas it illegally annexed from

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A prosecutor says a 24-year-old man accused of killing a Las Vegas police officer fired 18 shots before driving away and that his girlfriend’s mother was also wounded during an exchange of gunfire between him and police. Officer Truong Thai was killed in the Thursday shooting.

By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Federal prosecutors say AT&T Illinois has agreed to pay a $23 million fine to resolve a probe into its alleged illegal efforts to influence former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.  Federal prosecutors in Chicago also say Madigan has been indicted in the case. In a news release

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department has gotten a request from SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk to take over funding for his satellite network that has provided crucial battlefield communications for Ukrainian military forces during the war with Russia, a U.S. official said. The official,