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By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press A federal judge has thrown out all charges against a University of Tennessee professor accused of hiding his relationship with a Chinese university while receiving research grants from NASA. Anming Hu was arrested in February, charged with wire fraud and making false statements. In June, the judge declared a mistrial

NEW YORK (AP) — A memoir by Philip Roth biographer Blake Bailey will be reissued this fall after publisher W.W. Norton and Company dropped it amid multiple allegations against Bailey of sexual assault and abuse. Skyhorse Publishing announced Friday that Bailey’s “The Splendid Things We Planned,” first published in 2014, will come out an e-book

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — All but four of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi citizens and the Saudi kingdom was the birthplace of Osama bin Laden, the head of al-Qaida and mastermind of the attack. But that was 20 years ago. While still politically repressive, Saudi Arabia

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer The Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine chief is pledging to rapidly evaluate COVID-19 vaccines for younger kids — as soon as the studies are in. Dr. Peter Marks tells The Associated Press he is “very, very hopeful” that vaccinations for 5- to 11-year-olds will be underway by year’s end.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Foreign Ministry has summoned US Ambassador John Sullivan to complain about alleged interference by what it called American “digital giants” in Russia’s upcoming parliamentary election. A ministry statement Friday said the deputy foreign minister claimed Russia “possesses irrefutable evidence of the violation of Russian legislation by the American ‘digital giants’ in

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and FARES AKRAM Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli media reports say two more of the six Palestinians who broke out of a maximum-security prison this week have been arrested, leaving two prisoners at large. The prisoners captured Saturday morning included Zakaria Zubeidi, a well-known militant leader from the second Palestinian uprising

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The state of Arizona has sold off $93 million in Unilever bonds and plans to sell the remaining $50 million invested in the global consumer products company because subsidiary Ben & Jerry’s stopped selling its ice cream in Israeli-occupied territories. The move is the latest by states

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Fifteen to 20 villagers including several teenagers have been reported killed in some of Myanmar’s deadliest fighting since July between government troops and resistance forces. The fighting near Gangaw township in the northwestern Magway region started on Thursday. It followed a call for a nationwide uprising by

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer Advocacy groups want the Biden administration to help provide safe drinking water in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Tests in recent years have shown excessive lead levels in the low-income, predominantly Black city’s water. A petition filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says state and local officials haven’t done enough

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A judge expressed skepticism about a military contractor’s latest legal arguments seeking to toss out a lawsuit filed by inmates who say they were tortured at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison. The inmates are suing Virginia-based CACI, which supplied civilian interrogators to Abu Ghraib. Photos of

By ARITZ PARRA and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Wigs, a fake moustache and a new safehouse every three months are just some of the tools of deception that authorities in Spain believe a former Venezuelan spymaster relied on to evade capture on a U.S. warrant for narcoterrorism.  The manhunt for Gen. Hugo

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The “Mad Max Fury Road” prequel “Furiosa” isn’t speeding into theaters anytime soon. The film’s release date was pushed back a year to May 24, 2024, Warner Bros. said Friday. It had originally been set for June 2023.  George Miller is returning to write and direct the film, which

By JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time, Joe Biden will hold the rank of commander in chief as he marks the anniversary of the nation’s worst terror attack. Now, he must shoulder the responsibility borne by previous presidents to prevent future tragedy, and he must do so against fresh

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In the closing days of the recall effort that could remove Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, his campaign has found a familiar foil that’s as big as Texas. In fact, it is Texas. New Texas laws banning most abortions and restricting ways to vote are highlighted by

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The on-again, off-again ban imposed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to prevent mandating masks for Florida school students is back in force. The 1st District Court of Appeal ruled Friday that a Tallahassee judge should not have lifted an automatic stay two days

CLEVELAND (AP) — The former director of Cleveland’s troubled Cuyahoga County jail has been convicted of negligently mismanaging the facility where several inmates died three years ago. Kenneth Mills was found guilty Friday of misdemeanor falsification and dereliction of duty but was acquitted of felony tampering with records. He now faces a potential sentence of

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press The U.S. has halted U.S.-bound flights of Afghan evacuees after discovering a few cases of measles among Afghans arriving in the United States. A U.S. government document viewed by The Associated Press warned the development would have a severe impact on an evacuation that since Aug. 15 has moved many

By MARK LENNIHAN, JOHN MINCHILLO and JULIE JACOBSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty years after terrorists flew two planes into the World Trade Center, the memorial at ground zero is like a lot of city tourist sites. Visitors from around the world come and go, snap selfies and then leave. But for those

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United Nations is raising the alarm about a Taliban crackdown on peaceful protests, many of them by women demanding equal rights, and journalists covering such events. In one case, two Afghan television reporters were beaten with an iron rod by Taliban fighters at a police

By DAVID B. CARUSO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two decades after the collapse of the World Trade Center, people are still coming forward to report illnesses that might be related to toxic dust that billowed over the city after the terror attack. To date, the U.S. has spent $11.7 billion on care and