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By TIM SULLIVAN, KATHLEEN FOODY and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press In the devastation wrought by an SUV driver plowing into a suburban Milwaukee Christmas parade, no group was hit harder than the Dancing Grannies. The troupe has been around for nearly 40 years, open to anyone who was a grandmother and was interested in putting

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police say they have tied a car used in the killing of rapper Young Dolph to a shooting that left a woman dead and wounded another person days before the ambush on the hip-hop artist. Memphis police have said that two men exited a white Mercedes-Benz

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa judge has ruled that 2019 state law passed by Republicans prohibiting Medicaid coverage for sex reassignment surgeries for transgender residents violates the Iowa Civil Rights Act and the Equal Protection clause of the Iowa Consitution. Judge William Kelly ordered the Iowa Department of

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Jurors have finished their second day of deliberations without reaching a verdict in the trial of white nationalists accused of conspiring to commit racially motivated violence at the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017. The jury has deliberated for about 15

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Fallen Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes returned to the witness stand on Monday to tell a story likely to determine whether she is convicted or acquitted of criminal charges alleging she duped investors and patients into believing she had invented a breakthrough in blood-testing

PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Jean Castex has tested positive for COVID-19 hours after a visit to neighboring Belgium. The announcement from his office comes as France is seeing a resurgence in virus infections and hospitalizations in what authorities are calling a fifth wave of COVID. The prime minister’s office says Castex tested positive

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is keeping up pressure on Russia over a Russian pipeline project in Europe that the United States opposes. The State Department announced sanctions Monday on what it said was a business with Russian links involved in the Nordstream 2 project. In a statement, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection has issued subpoenas to five more individuals, including former President Donald Trump’s ally Roger Stone and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. The subpoenas include demands for documents and testimony from Stone and Jones as well as three people accused

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The families of most of those killed in the 2018 Florida high school massacre have settled their lawsuit against the federal government. Sixteen of the 17 killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland had sued over the FBI’s failure to stop the gunman even

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Florida man photographed carrying a lectern belonging to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection has pleaded guilty for his part in the riot. Court records show 36-year-old Adam Johnson pleaded guilty Monday in Washington federal court to one count of entering or remaining

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers A late drop robbed the S&P 500 of another record high on Wall Street Monday and left major indexes mostly lower after being up for much of the day. The S&P 500 ended 0.3% lower. It was up as much as 1% earlier. The Nasdaq

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts judge has dismissed criminal neglect charges against two former leaders of a veterans’ home where nearly 80 veterans died after contracting the coronavirus, saying there was a lack of evidence that the leaders’ actions led to any deaths. The Hampden Superior Court judge released the decision Monday. Former Holyoke

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is defending a new law assigning sprawling limits on COVID-19 restrictions, despite his office’s warning that it would violate federal disability law. He also repeated broad promises to review the law he signed. Lee said Monday that he thinks “the bill on

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press CHACO CULTURE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK, N.M. (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland met with state and tribal leaders Monday in northwestern New Mexico where a battle has waged for decades over oil and gas development. Haaland reflected on actions her agency took last week to curb new leasing

By DAVID PORTER Associated Press A New Jersey man who conspired with his girlfriend to concoct a feelgood story about a helpful homeless man and then used the lie to raise $400,000 in donations online has pleaded guilty in federal court. Mark D’Amico pleaded guilty Monday to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud,

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Aykroyd, an Emmy-nominated actor and writer on “Saturday Night Live” for the 1979-80 season who later worked with older brother, Dan, on everything from a TV show about the paranormal to such films as “Dragnet” and “Coneheads,” has died at age 66. Peter Aykroyd’s death was

By MARK THIESSSEN Associated Presss ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A rural Alaska man charged with threatening the lives of Alaska’s two U.S. senators has pleaded not guilty. Jay Allen Johnson’s attorney entered the plea on behalf of his client Monday during an arraignment in U.S. District Court in Fairbanks. Johnson was arraigned after being indicted

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s army said militiamen targeting a camp for displaced people in Congo’s east have killed at least a dozen people in attacks on at least two villages in the Ituri province. Local officials and a group that tracks violence in the region put the toll ranging

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania is suspending his campaign after he lost a court fight over custody of his three children. In a statement, Sean Parnell said he cannot continue his campaign. The high-stakes campaign in the battleground

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — In a story published Oct. 1, 2021, The Associated Press reported about how millions of internet addresses assigned to Africa are not serving Africa’s internet development. The story has been updated to further clarify that AFRINIC, the nonprofit that assigns the continent’s internet addresses, revoked addresses assigned to businessman Lu Heng