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By COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Police in northern Greece have arrested 11 people after a high school principal was handcuffed by alleged members of a self-styled vigilante group that opposes pandemic restrictions. Greece is battling a spike in infections and a near-record level of deaths as roughly one quarter of the

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British appellate court has opened the door for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be extradited to the United States. The High Court in London on Friday overturned a lower court that found Assange’s mental health was too fragile to withstand incarceration in America.

By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A patrol sergeant who was backing up other officers when Daunte Wright was killed has taken the stand in the manslaughter trial of former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter. Prosecutors called Mychal Johnson to testify Friday. Johnson, who was a Brooklyn Center sergeant, was

By WILL WEISSERT and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Bob Dole is being honored Friday at Washington National Cathedral as top leaders from both parties gathered to display the kind of bipartisanship now rare in modern government. Dole’s flag-draped casket was carried in by a military honor guard as the congregation stood and

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Chess master Magnus Carlsen of Norway has defended his title and won the FIDE World Championship in Dubai. He beat Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia on Friday, securing the one point he needed to cross the seven point threshold to win the global tournament held at Dubai’s Expo 2020 this

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is leaving in place Texas’ ban on most abortions. And the decision on Friday offers only a glimmer of daylight for clinics in the state to challenge the nation’s most restrictive abortion law. The justices ruled that Texas abortion providers can sue over the

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It was just another job for child actor Karolyn Grimes. She was 6 and had already done four movies by the summer of 1946 when filming began on “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The only thing she recalls about the biggest movie of her career was

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Republican David Perdue is furthering his embrace of debunked claims that Georgia’s 2020 presidential election was wrongly decided as he runs for governor. The newly announced candidate on Friday joined a lawsuit claiming fraudulent ballots were counted in Fulton County in the 2020 general election. The

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Authorities say a flight from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles diverted to Oklahoma City after an unruly passenger assaulted a flight attendant. Police say an air marshal who was on board the Delta Air Lines flight had the passenger in custody when the flight landed in Oklahoma Thursday night. The Transportation

By KAREN MATTHEWS, MARINA VILLENEUVE and MICHAEL HILL Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Facing a cold-weather surge in COVID-19 infections, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says that masks will be required in all indoor public places unless the businesses or venues implement a vaccine requirement. Hochul said Friday the decision to impose a mask

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland has agreed to buy 64 Lockheed Martin fighter jets to replace its aging fleet of combat planes in an $11.3 billion deal that represents the Finnish military’s largest ever purchase. Finland picked the American company’s F-35A fighters from among five contenders, which also included the Boeing

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It was just another job for child actor Karolyn Grimes. She was 6 and had already done four movies by the summer of 1946 when filming began on “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The only thing she recalls about the biggest movie of her career was

By MANUEL DE LA CRUZ and EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AP) — Rescue workers arriving at a road accident in southern Mexico found a truck jammed with as many as 200 migrants crashed into the base of a steel pedestrian bridge, killing 54 and injuring dozens. The migrants inside the tractor

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish junior minister and valuable ally of the governing right-wing coalition says he is temporarily stepping aside from his cabinet duties to defend himself against allegations over his past business dealings. Deputy Sports and Tourism Minister Lukasz Mejza, who is an independent lawmaker in Poland’s parliament, said on Twitter Friday

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled that Texas abortion providers can sue over the state’s ban on most abortions, but the justices are allowing the law to remain in effect. The court acted Friday, more than a month after hearing arguments over the law that makes abortion illegal

BERLIN (AP) — A Swiss museum to which the late collector Cornelius Gurlitt bequeathed an art trove he amassed at his home says it will relinquish ownership of works where no specific evidence has been found they were looted under Nazi rule but research points to “conspicuous circumstances.” The reclusive Gurlitt, who died in 2014,

BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors say the owner of a warehousing company for the shipping industry who paid $75,000 to have someone correct his son’s answers on a college entrance exam has agreed to plead guilty in the nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. Federal prosecutors in Boston said Thursday that 67-year-old I-Hsin “Joey” Chen, of Newport

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge has rejected motions to dismiss eight lawsuits that challenge Georgia’s sweeping new election law. Democrats, voting rights groups and other critics say the law disproportionately disenfranchises people of color. State officials reject that criticism, saying Georgia’s election laws are reasonable, don’t discriminate and are

BERLIN (AP) — German security officials said Friday that they have a foiled a planned Islamist attack, after arresting a man in the northern city of Hamburg over the summer who had been trying to buy weapons and make explosives. German news agency dpa reported that Hamburg’s top security official described the incident as “very,

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — ExxonMobil and partner Qatar Energy have expanded their stake in potential oil and gas deposits off Cyprus. The companies signed a deal Friday with the east Mediterranean island nation for a second exploration license in waters that Turkey partly claims. Drilling off Cyprus has been a