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EL PASO, Texas (AP) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection has deactivated the agency’s Twitter account for the West Texas region after it retweeted posts criticizing President Joe Biden’s border policies and liked posts that made gay slurs against U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Commissioner Chris Magnus posted a tweet saying the agency was aware

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — An exit poll projected that Sweden’s ruling left-wing Social Democrats have won the most votes in a general election Sunday, while a right-wing populist party had its best showing yet. The exit poll published by Swedish public broadcaster SVT has a margin of error, and the final

JERUSALEM (AP) — An amateur video shows a Palestinian man lying face down, bloody and unconscious, as an Israeli policeman kneels on his neck. The man in the video said Sunday that he was beaten and detained by Israeli forces without provocation last Thursday as he headed to Jerusalem’s chief Muslim shrine. Yousef Adi, 36,

ARVADA, Colo. (AP) — A police officer in the Colorado city of Arvada was killed in the line of duty and a suspect has been taken into custody. Arvada Police say Officer Dillon Vakoff responded to a large family disturbance in the city northwest of Denver early Sunday when he was shot and killed. He

MERCED, Calif. (AP) — Police have arrested a suspect in the death of an 8-year-old girl whose body was found last March inside a central California home after the child was reported missing. Prosecutors and police say Dhante Jackson was taken into custody Saturday in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Newark on suspicion

FORESTHILL, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a huge Northern California wildfire was still growing and threatening thousands of mountain homes across two counties, but firefighters were making some progress against the flames thanks to cooler weather. Cal Fire says the Mosquito Fire in foothills east of Sacramento spread to nearly 65 square miles, with 10%

DONCASTER, England (AP) — British horse racing has paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II as the late monarch’s favorite sport returned after a two-day pause following her death. Two minutes of silence was held at Doncaster on Sunday before the first race of a schedule that included the St. Leger flat-racing classic, which the queen’s

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer She was everywhere and yet not really known. Over the past 70 years, authors, filmmakers, playwrights, songwriters and painters have responded to the queen as both symbol and human being, whether commenting on the heights of her position or attempting to tease out the inner life of a woman

By COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister says he cannot imagine that tensions with neighboring NATO ally Turkey could ever escalate into armed conflict. A recent escalation in rhetoric from Turkey has been led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Asked by The Associated Press if that could be the prelude

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — Three years after premiering “Knives Out” at the Toronto International Film Festival, Rian Johnson has returned to the scene of the crime to debut his whodunit’s much-anticipated sequel, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.” The film was one of the most eagerly awaited premieres in Toronto.

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The heads of the nation’s two largest rail unions said Sunday that the freight railroads’ move to begin delaying some hazardous shipments ahead of this week’s looming strike deadline is only an attempt to get shippers to increase the pressure on Congress to block a

By JENNIFER PELTZ, KAREN MATTHEWS and JULIE WALKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Americans remembered 9/11 on Sunday with tear-choked tributes and pleas to “never forget,” 21 years after the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil. The loss still felt immediate to Bonita Mentis, who wore a necklace with a photo of her slain

By The Associated Press As the war in Ukraine marked 200 days on Sunday, the country has reclaimed broad swaths of the south and east in a long-anticipated counteroffensive that has dealt a heavy blow to Russia. The counterattack began in the final days of August and at first focused on the southern region of

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Residents of Okinawa have reelected their incumbent governor, who opposes an ongoing U.S. Marine base relocation forced by Japan’s central government and wants American troops on the southern island to be reduced further. Denny Tamaki won about 51% of the effective votes cast in Sunday’s election against

MADRID (AP) — Javier Marías, Spain’s most prestigious novelist of the past half century, has died, his publisher said on Sunday. He was 70 years old. Spanish news agency EFE says that Marías passed away in hospital after not recovering from a lung infection. Marías was the author of 15 novels, translations and collections of

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Over a 100,000 Catalan separatists have rallying in Barcelona in an attempt to reignite the independence movement that is fraying as it nears the five-year anniversary of its failed breakaway bid from Spain. The unity between political parties and the civil society groups that led the

By KARL RITTER and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian troops on Sunday successfully pressed their swift counteroffensive in the northeastern part of the country, even as a nuclear power plant in the Russia-occupied south completely shut down in a bid to prevent a radiation disaster as fighting raged nearby. But Russia

By DAVID KEYTON and MIKE CORDER Associated Press EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — In a somber, regal procession, Queen Elizabeth II’s flag-draped coffin was driven slowly through the Scottish countryside Sunday from her beloved Balmoral Castle to the Scottish capital of Edinburgh. Mourners packed city streets and highway bridges or lined rural roads with cars and

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Okinawa’s incumbent governor who opposes an ongoing U.S. Marine base relocation forced by Japan’s central government and calls for a further reduction of American troops on the southern island has secured his reelection. According to exit polls by major Japanese media, Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki, who is

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A visiting U.S diplomat has urged Sri Lankan authorities to tackle corruption and introduce governance reforms alongside efforts to to uplift the country’s economy as a way out of its worst crisis in recent memory. USAID Administrator Samantha Power says such moves will increase international