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By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A local North Carolina grand jury has advanced its consideration of possible criminal charges against state Attorney General Josh Stein and two aides over an investigation into a political ad targeting Stein’s 2020 opponent. The Wake County grand jury asked the Wake district attorney

By SAM METZ and JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press A levee was breached Monday in a small town near the Arizona-New Mexico state line, forcing the evacuations of 60 people after a weekend of flash floods across the American Southwest that also swept away one woman who is still missing in Utah’s Zion National Park. In

By AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO Associated Press BENI, Congo (AP) — Congo’s health ministry has confirmed a new Ebola case in Congo’s eastern Beni city and say it was linked to a previous outbreak. The woman was hospitalized in July with Ebola symptoms and died Aug. 15. The ministry says the National Institute for Biomedical Research

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An Afghan refugee charged in the slayings of two Muslim men is facing new charges in the shooting death of another man in the parking lot of a refugee resettlement agency on Aug. 5. A grand jury indicted Muhammad Syed in the three killings Monday.

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — In a story published August 22, 2022, about the abortion recount, The Associated Press erroneously reported based on numbers provided by Sedgwick County that the side that supported the amendment changed by 87 votes. It changed by 57 votes.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A military veteran pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to faking his own death off the Alabama coast to try to avoid sexual abuse charges in Mississippi. Jacob Blair Scott pleaded guilty to charges of sending a false distress call that led to a Coast Guard search; illegally shipping weapons across

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — A mother whose daughter prosecutors say R. Kelly sexually abused starting when she was 14 told jurors has testified at Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago. She told jurors Monday that she lied to a state grand jury 20 years ago, in part, because she and

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández to 12 years in prison and bar her from holding public office for life for allegedly leading a criminal conspiracy that irregularly awarded public works contracts to a friend and ally. Prosecutor Diego Luciani said in his closing arguments

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say a landslide collapsed the ceiling of a Shiite shrine in central Iraq over the weekend and killed at least eight people, including a child. Rescuers were still trying to remove the rubble as they continued to search for survivors on Monday. The landslide struck the Qattarat al-Imam Ali shrine

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Weary of Venezuela’s autocratic government and the pittance he earned in the military, Dario Maldonado deserted and fled with his family to neighboring Colombia. But life remained hard — money was tight and expenses mounted. So he set off for the United

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer Under threat of Russian attacks in a war that stopped all soccer in Ukraine in February, a new league season starts Tuesday in Kyiv with the goal of restoring some sense of normal life. The elegant Olympic Stadium has staged the biggest European soccer games in the past decade

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked a federal judge Monday to halt the FBI’s review of documents recovered from his Florida estate earlier this month until a neutral special master can be appointed to inspect the records. The request was included in a federal lawsuit, the

ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta police say a woman fatally shot two people and wounded a third at two different locations in Atlanta’s Midtown neighborhood and was later taken into custody at the city’s airport. Investigators did not immediately know what prompted Monday’s attack but said they believed the victims were targeted. The suspect’s name was

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota regulators are investigating a massive spill of  oilfield wastewater from a broken pipeline in the northwest part of the of the state. Karl Rockman, of the state Department of Environmental Quality, says Hess Corp. reported the saltwater spill near Ray on Aug. 15. The

By SAM METZ and JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press An Arizona woman was still missing Monday after being swept away at Utah’s Zion National Park three days earlier as flooding surged through the southwestern United States and imperiled tourists visiting the region’s scenic parks. Farther east, heavy rains pummeled the drought-stricken Dallas-Fort Worth area on Monday,

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The developers of a proposed copper-nickel mine upstream from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota are suing the Biden administration. Twin Metals is seeking the reinstatement of federal mineral rights leases that are crucial to the $1.7 billion project. The proposed underground mine near

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has acknowledged that redactions to an FBI affidavit spelling out the basis for the search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate might be so extensive as to make the document “meaningless” if released to the public. But he said Monday that he continued

The Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Conditions are dimming at many movie theaters around the world. Cineworld Group PLC, one of the industry’s biggest theater operators, confirmed Monday that it’s considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S., as it contends with billions of dollars in debt and more empty seats in front