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BIG SPRING, Texas (AP) — Officials say three people were killed when a wrong-way pickup truck on a West Texas interstate highway slammed into a bus carrying members of a high school band. The crash happened Friday afternoon on Interstate 20 in Big Spring, about 250 miles west of Fort Worth. The Texas Department of

MALACCA, Malaysia (AP) — Voters wearing masks are casting their ballots in a Malaysian state election that pits Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s Malay party against its allies in the government for the first time amid a widening rift. Saturday’s polls in southern Malacca state are seen as a bellwether for voting behavior that could

PARIS (AP) — French authorities say 12 people will stand trial in Paris over a $10 million jewelry heist targeting Kim Kardashian West in 2016. The reality TV star said she was tied up at gunpoint and locked in a bathroom after armed robbers forced their way into her rented Paris apartment during fashion week.

By FÉLIX MÁRQUEZ Associated Press COATZACOALCOS, México (AP) — Mexican authorities discovered more than 400 migrants transiting the country in the back of two semi-trailers Friday, not far from where two migrant caravans were more visibly, and slowly, making their way north. The migrants were held by authorities in a walled yard until federal immigration

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A Canadian mining company hoping to build an open-pit gold mine in Idaho west of Yellowstone National Park can resume exploratory drilling. The U.S. Forest Service on Friday announced it had approved Excellon Idaho Gold’s Kilgore Gold Exploration Project in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest in Clark

DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — Air Force officials say a pilot was killed and two other pilots were injured, one critically, in a crash of two jet trainers at Laughlin Air Force Base in West Texas. The crash involving two T-38C aircraft happened about 10 a.m. Friday on the ground at the base near Del

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The new Manhattan U.S. attorney says he’s establishing a civil rights unit in his office’s criminal division to concentrate greater resources on problems worsening in what he called troubled times. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams made the comments Friday after he was formally sworn in as the

By JIM MORRIS Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The British Columbia government has announced limits to the amount of fuel people can purchase at gas stations in some parts of the province and is restricting non-essential travel as highways begin to reopen following torrential rains that caused floods and mudslides. Provincial Public Safety

PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona says a man from Bullhead, Arizona, has been convicted of threatening to kill or harm Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.  A Friday statement from the office said a jury found 77-year-old Steven Arthur Martis guilty Thursday of one count of communicating an

CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say drivers scrambled to grab cash Friday morning after bags of money fell out of an armored truck on a Southern California freeway. The California Highway Patrol says the truck was on Interstate 5 in Carlsbad near San Diego when a door popped open and bags fell out, bursting open.

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sequoia National Park says lightning-sparked wildfires in the past two years have killed a minimum of nearly 10,000 giant sequoia trees in California. The estimate released Friday accounts for 13% to 19% of native sequoias that are the largest trees on Earth. The trees are reliant

MEDORA, N.D. (AP) — The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota has agreed to take a controversial equestrian statue of the 26th president that has stood on the steps of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City since 1940. The bronze statue was commissioned by the New York State Roosevelt Memorial

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — Thousands of Afghans have applied for temporary admission into the U.S. for humanitarian reasons, but few have been approved since the Taliban recaptured control of their homeland. Federal immigration officials say more than 28,000 Afghans have applied for what’s known as humanitarian parole, but only about

By KATHLEEN FOODY The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — For many Black Americans, Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal on all charges by a Wisconsin jury on Friday confirmed their belief in two justice systems: one for white people and another for Black people. Rittenhouse, the two men he killed and the man he wounded are all white,

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Police have fired warning shots, injuring an unknown number of people, as riots broke out in downtown Rotterdam at a demonstration against plans by the government to restrict access for unvaccinated people to some venues. Police said in a tweet that “there are injuries in

PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Senate has confirmed President Joe Biden’s choice to be the top federal law enforcement officer in Arizona. Gary Restaino was confirmed as the United States Attorney for Arizona on Friday. Restaino has been a federal prosecutor in Arizona since 2003 and was previously the chief of the criminal division and

KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — After a six-year moratorium on the death penalty because of a series of botched lethal injections, Oklahoma officials announced plans to execute seven men, leading some pro-execution leaders to hope the state’s death penalty would be carried out. But after Julius Jones’ death sentence was commuted by

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Moments of documentary make cameos in “C’mon C’mon,” but the entire film pulses with something tenderly close to real life. The performances, by Joaquin Phoenix and Woody Norman, are loose and often improvised. The story of an uncle thrust into parenting his sister’s 9-year-old son,

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas State Police has agreed to change its policy for using a maneuver where troopers intentionally bump a car during a pursuit under a tentative legal settlement. Attorneys for a woman injured when a trooper caused her vehicle to flip announced the settlement on Friday.

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Friends of slain rapper Young Dolph have handed out Thanksgiving turkeys at a neighborhood church in Memphis, Tennessee, two days after he was gunned down in broad daylight inside his favorite bakery. Known for his contributions to charitable causes in his hometown, the hip-hop artist and