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By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Authorities in North Carolina have found two people dead and about 20 remain missing in Haywood County in floods caused by Tropical Storm Fred. Now as a post-tropical cyclone, Fred is drenching New York and New England. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Henri is sending dangerous

FRANKFORT, Ind. (AP) — Police investigating the fatal shootings of a woman and her granddaughter outside an Indiana automotive seating plant have searched the home of a co-worker suspected in the killings. Officers searched 26-year-old Gary Ferrell II’s Frankfort home following Wednesday night’s slaying of 21-year-old Promise Mays and 62-year-old grandmother Pamela Sled. They were

By CURT ANDERSON and KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the order by Gov. Ron DeSantis that parents should decide if their children wear masks at school to combat the coronavirus. The order Thursday by Leon County Circuit Judge John C. Cooper

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — One Albuquerque police officer is in critical condition after being shot while responding to a robbery. Another is recovering from a gunshot wound to the forearm, and a third was saved by a bulletproof vest during Thursday morning’s shooting on the city’s northeast side. A

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Both parties are bracing for a major legal fight over redistricting. Democrats need court wins more than Republicans because they control the redrawing of political maps in far fewer states than the GOP. But a Supreme Court ruling has significantly narrowed the ways to challenge redistricting in federal courts. That

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — When U.S. President Joe Biden took office early this year, Western allies were falling over themselves to welcome and praise him, and hail a new era in trans-Atlantic cooperation. The collapse of Afghanistan certainly put a stop to that. Even some of his biggest fans are now

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Afghanistan’s president, driven out by the Taliban, is the latest leader on the run to turn up in the United Arab Emirates. Others who found refuge here include Spain’s disgraced former king and two Thai prime ministers. In nearby Qatar, meanwhile, the Taliban’s political

By ALEX SANZ and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press The U.S. military and its allies have rescued a high-profile Afghan national police officer who was being hunted by the Taliban because of his years working with the American military. Mohammad Khalid Wardak and his family were airlifted Wednesday to safety in an undisclosed location. The officer

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is directing the federal prison system implement new procedures to monitor government-run prison deposit accounts that have at times been used by inmates to shield themselves from paying debts and for suspicious or illegal activity. The directive was issued this week by Deputy Attorney

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer Just as school doors are reopening across the U.S., children are filling hospital beds instead of classrooms in record numbers, sick with COVID-19. The surging virus is spreading anxiety and causing turmoil and infighting among parents, administrators and politicians around the U.S., especially in states like Florida and Texas,

LONDON (AP) — A 13-day hunger strike by former Nepalese Gurkha soldiers has ended after the British government agreed to enter talks with the Nepalese Embassy over veterans’ pensions. The agreement came a day after a 60-year-old Gurkha veteran was admitted to the hospital with heart problems. Gurkha soldiers, have served the British Army for

By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A pair of new lawsuits contend the office of Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds is illegally delaying the release of public records related to its $26 million, no-bid coronavirus testing contract. Reynolds and her office’s public records custodian are the latest officials to be accused

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer “Candyman” was always more than a surface level horror film. The 1992 film dealt with class, race and trauma. But almost 30 years later, a new version, in theaters Aug. 27, reclaims and recenters the narrative around the Black experience. The original drew some criticisms at the time but

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has announced an agreement with Qatar to resume aid payments to thousands of families in the Gaza Strip. The step is aimed at easing tensions with the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory in the wake of an 11-day war in May. Qatar has provided hundreds of millions of

By MARK STEVENSON and EVENS SANON Associated Press LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — Officials say two doctors at hospitals treating earthquake victims in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince have been kidnapped, forcing one of the institutions to declare a two-day shutdown in protest. The abductions Tuesday and Wednesday dealt a major blow to attempts to control

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A member of the family that owns Purdue Pharma has once again stopped short of offering an apology or acknowledgment of responsibility in the opioid crisis. Mortimer D.A. Sackler testified in U.S. Bankruptcy Court on Thursday and was the third member of the wealthy family to testify in the confirmation

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The number of U.S. tourists who came to Florida in the second quarter of this year has returned to pre-pandemic levels, though the international market is still lagging. Figures released Thursday show 30.6 million domestic visitors came to Florida from April through June of this year. That’s a 6% increase over

By DAVID PORTER Associated Press A former women’s basketball player at Seton Hall has been added to a lawsuit filed against the school by former men’s player Myles Powell. Both Powell and Jasmine Smith claim their knee injuries were misdiagnosed. In an amended complaint filed Tuesday, Smith alleges team staff told her she’d suffered a

By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago police officer who was fatally shot this month has been remembered for her compassion with stories of kindnesses, big and small. At a 90-minute funeral service on Thursday, speakers told of how Officer Ella French rushed a one-year-old gunshot victim to the hospital, and ferried

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators have sharpened their antitrust attack against Facebook. They are alleging in a revised complaint that the social network giant pursued a laser-focused strategy to “buy or bury” innovative rivals to suppress competition. It is the second try by the Federal Trade Commission. A federal