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By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. federal agents have simultaneously searched three properties linked to a billionaire Russian oligarch whose $120 million yacht was seized in April. Agents searched a high-rise in Manhattan, an estate in a posh Hamptons beach community, and an exclusive Miami island. The

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Tougher clean energy goals and a ban on new oil and gas wells near homes and schools are among the climate wins for California Democrats in the final days of the legislative session. Most of the proposals are being celebrated by Democrats and environmentalists who say

NEW YORK (AP) — A California movie producer has pleaded guilty in a prostitution case, admitting that he conspired to run a business that prosecutors say delivered women to clients across the United States and in England. Dillon Jordan was permitted to enter the plea remotely Thursday and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to operate a

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers have approved more than a dozen bills this year to make it easier for women to get an abortion. State lawmakers wrapped up the legislative session on Wednesday. They passed 15 bills and approved $200 million in new spending to bolster the state’s already

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer U.S. health advisers are endorsing new COVID-19 boosters that target today’s most common omicron strains. The tweaked shots made by Pfizer and rival Moderna contain half the regular vaccine and half protection against the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron versions. It’s not clear just how much more protection the extra

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The utility that oversees California’s last operating nuclear power plant is taking steps to seek federal approval for an extended lifespan, just hours after the Legislature opened a pathway for a run that could last through 2030. The five-year extension for the Diablo Canyon Power

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A jury in Kansas could not reach a verdict in the case of a woman accused of killing her ex-husband and his girlfriend. After deliberations spread over six days, a Shawnee County jury told a judge on Thursday that it was unable to determine if Dana Chandler shot and killed 47-year-old

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired New York Police Department officer was sentenced on Thursday to a record-setting 10 years in prison for attacking the U.S. Capitol and using a metal flagpole to assault one of the police officers trying to hold off a mob of Donald Trump supporters. Thomas Webster’s

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks has named a longtime PepsiCo executive as its new CEO. The coffee giant said Thursday that Laxman Narasimhan will join Starbucks on Oct. 1 after relocating from London to Seattle, where Starbucks is based. He will work closely with Starbucks’ interim CEO, Howard Schultz, through April 1, when

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and SARA BURNETT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An abortion-rights group has asked the Michigan Supreme Court to approve a November ballot question on whether the right to abortion should be enshrined in the state constitution. Reproductive Freedom for All filed its request with the high court on Thursday after the

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration is phasing out a program that aimed to give at-risk Afghans a quicker legal pathway to the U.S. through humanitarian relief but was criticized for its bureaucratic barriers. Instead, starting Oct. 1, the U.S. government says it will focus on beefing up efforts

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge Thursday appeared to give a boost to former President Donald Trump’s hopes for appointing an outside legal expert to review government records seized by the FBI, questioning the Justice Department’s arguments that Trump couldn’t make the request

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — For at least the third time in a dozen years, portable toilets are parked outside the ornate Mississippi Capitol because Jackson’s water system is in crisis. The big “Gotta Go” trailer is just one example of the city’s desperation. Many homes, businesses and government offices

By YESICA FISCH and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — A U.N. inspection team entered Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant Thursday on a mission to safeguard it against catastrophe, reaching the site amid fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces that prompted the shutdown of one reactor and underscored the urgency of the task.

By CALEB JONES Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The last bits of ash and greenhouse gases from Hawaii’s only remaining coal-fired power plant slipped into the environment this week when the state’s dirtiest source of electricity burned its final pieces of fuel. The last coal shipment arrived in the islands at the end of July,

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago officials say 75 immigrants have arrived in the city on buses from Texas, as part of a border policy by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office confirmed that the migrants arrived Wednesday night and that the city has welcomed them and will make sure they receive shelter and food.

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer A late burst of buying erased some of the stock market’s losses Thursday, leaving indexes mixed on Wall Street though still on pace to end lower for the week. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% after having been down 1.3% earlier in the day. The benchmark index’s positive turn in

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In the classic format of an adult, R-rated rom-com, Billy Eichner’s coming film “Bros” depicts an uncommonly honest and insightful portrait of life as a single gay man. Like Eichner’s “Billy on the Street,” it’s frequently laugh-out-loud funny and packed with keen observations about Hollywood

CASTAIC, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters battling a Southern California wildfire were pulled back at times to find rest and shade on Thursday, a day after seven were sent to the hospital in the midst of a grueling heat wave. Progress on the Route Fire in northwestern Los Angeles County gave strike team leaders the luxury

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration hopes to make getting a COVID-19 booster as routine as going in for the yearly flu shot. That’s at the heart of its campaign to sell the newly authorized shot to an American public that has widely rejected COVID-19 boosters since they first became