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By SEAN MURPHY and JOHN RABY Associated Press MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say a Kentucky man suffered a fatal heart attack while cleaning up storm debris at his daughter’s home. Warren County coroner Kevin Kirby says Terry Martin Jayne was stricken on Saturday. Jayne had been helping clean up debris at his daughter’s home

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has rejected arguments aimed at dismissing sex assault charges against a former New York gynecologist. U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman also rejected a request Wednesday by lawyers for Robert Hadden that his upcoming trial be moved outside New York. The Englewood, New Jersey,

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Patrick King wants the record to show that “Sex and the City” had a “slow burn of a love affair” with viewers on its way to becoming a hit. The producer’s motive: to ask that his HBO Max sequel, “And Just Like That…,” gets

By RUSS BYNUM and BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A nursing home worker from Kentucky who had “such a bright personality.” Sisters from western Kentucky who worked at the only funeral home in their small town. A father and son from Florida who had traveled to Tennessee for a duck hunting trip.

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — The U.S. Treasury has imposed sanctions on people and businesses connected to drug trafficking gangs, including the biggest criminal organization in Brazil, known as the PCC. The PCC was one of the 15 entities and 10 individuals targeted in four countries Wednesday by the Treasury. The

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City lawmakers have voted to bar most new buildings from using natural gas. Wednesday’s vote positions the nation’s most populous city to become a showcase for a climate-change-fighting policy that has been both embraced and blocked around the country. Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio

MIAMI (AP) — A Florida grand jury has issued a lengthy list of recommendations aimed at preventing another condominium collapse like the one that killed 98 people in June. In its Wednesday report on the Surfside collapse, the Miami-Dade County Grand Jury called on state and local officials to require condominium towers to have an

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Partisan election reviews of the 2020 presidential election are under way in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin while Republican lawmakers elsewhere continue their calls to bring them to their states. They argue they are needed to restore public confidence in elections, but experts say

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — An electrical engineer who examined the USS Bonhomme Richard after it was destroyed by fire last year testified it might have started with an electrical malfunction. The testimony by Andrew Thoresen on Wednesday contradicts findings by the government’s investigation that determined arson caused the blaze. Thoresen

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced he’s nominating Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of President John F. Kennedy who served as ambassador to Japan during the Obama administration, to serve as ambassador to Australia. And he’s nominating Michelle Kwan, the renowned U.S. Olympic figure skater, to serve as his chief envoy to

By MARGERY A. BECK and MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A powerful storm system is blowing through the Great Plains and Midwest, combining with unusually warm temperatures to close highways and prompt numerous tornado warnings. The winds gusting up to 80 mph hit parts of Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa. The winds caused

NEW YORK (AP) — A former OppenheimerFunds analyst has pleaded guilty to a securities fraud charge alleging he used company secrets to collect over $8 million in illegal profits. Sergei Polevikov entered the plea Wednesday in Manhattan federal court. In a release, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams says Polevikov will forfeit the over $8 million he

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is defending lawmakers’ right to trade stocks. The practice has come under scrutiny because it offers members of Congress the potential to profit off of insider information gained through their official duties. But Pelosi says there’s no reason to bar them from participating,

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press The Army Corps of Engineers has canceled a $450 million Mississippi flood control project following the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent decision to overturn the project. The statement was made in a document filed Wednesday with the federal court in Washington, where environmental groups had sued the Corps over the Yazoo

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Capitol Police chief is about to gain new authority to request help from the National Guard. Congress this week passed a bipartisan bill that allows the police chief to request District of Columbia National Guard troops or federal law enforcement agencies in certain emergencies without

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said he made France’s economy stronger and sought to show he is not out-of-touch with French ordinary people in a long interview Wednesday on national television. The program appears as a bid to boost his popularity ahead of April’s presidential election. Macron,

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — What could be California’s first major new reservoir in years has cleared a key regulatory hurdle. The California Water Commission on Wednesday voted in favor of the feasibility of the Sites Reservoir project. The vote means that the project stays eligible to receive more than $800

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press DAWSON SPRINGS, Ky. (AP) — President Joe Biden is pledging to do “whatever it takes, as long as it takes” to help Kentucky and other states recover and rebuild after a series of deadly tornadoes that he says left a trail of unimaginable devastation. During a stop

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press The legendary rugby player, coach and leader of the women’s sport in the U.S., Kathleen “Kathy” Flores, has died. She was 66. Hundreds of her former teammates, fellow coaches, former players and friends gathered on Saturday for a virtual remembrance organized by the U.S. Women’s Rugby Foundation, of which she

By BRITTANY PETERSON and FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Water leaders in California, Arizona and Nevada have signed an agreement to further reduce their take of Colorado River water to help stave off wider, mandatory cuts in the future. The signing took place Wednesday at the annual Colorado River Water Users Association