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By MARY CLARE JALONICK, ERIC TUCKER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House investigators have issued subpoenas to 10 more former officials who worked for Donald Trump at the end of his presidency. They are part of a committee’s effort to find out more about what the president was doing and saying as

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The owner of a San Francisco Bay Area solar energy company has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for an audacious Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of $1 billion. Jeff Carpoff received the maximum penalty Tuesday after pleading guilty last year to conspiracy to

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he canceled a trip to an international climate conference so he could take his kids trick-or-treating on Halloween. The United Nations’ climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, was supposed to provide a global stage for Newsom to tout the state’s work on

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has launched a $738 million investment fund to fast-track emerging low emissions technologies including carbon capture and storage. The ruling conservative coalition wants the fund to be administered by the Clean Energy Finance Corp., a government-owned green bank. But that would require

SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego is suing scooter companies to get them to pay the city’s costs to defend any lawsuits generated by the two-wheeled vehicles that have proliferated on public sidewalks. The Union-Tribune reports the city attorney filed suit against Bird, Lyft and other firms that signed operating agreements with San Diego to

GENEVA (AP) — An auction buyer has acquired a pair of diamond bracelets that once belonged to Marie Antoinette for $8.34 million. The bracelets were commissioned for the famed wife of French King Louis XVI years before she met her fate at the revolutionary guillotine. The opulent bracelets sold for well over the presale estimate

SEATTLE (AP) — A small publishing company in Vermont is suing Sen. Elizabeth Warren, saying her chastising Amazon over the sale of a book that promotes misinformation about COVID-19 amounted to censorship. The company, Chelsea Green, published a book called “The Truth About COVID-19,” which accuses the “global elite” of using the pandemic to grab

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man has admitted at his murder trial that he buried his wife’s body in a park but insisted that her death was an accident. Joseph Elledge is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife, 28-year-old Mengqi Ji, whom he reported missing in October 2019. Her remains

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A new Amnesty International report says Ethiopia’s rival Tigray forces raped or gang-raped local women after attacking a community in the Amhara region as they pushed toward the country’s capital, opening a new front of horror in the yearlong war. The report is based on interviews

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new report says more than half of Air Force and Space Force personnel who responded to a survey said they’ve experienced some type of mental or physical abuse in the past two years. That ranges from workplace bullying and hazing to rape or murder. Of

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas’ attorney general is dropping her bid for Arkansas governor and clearing former White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders’ path to the Republican nomination for the post. Attorney General Leslie Rutledge on Tuesday announced she was dropping out and would instead seek the Republican nomination

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has launched a billion Australian dollar ($738 million) investment fund to fast track emerging low emissions technologies including carbon capture and storage. The ruling conservative coalition wants the fund to be administered by the Clean Energy Finance Corp., a government-owned green

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Live video coverage will be allowed in the trial of a former suburban Minneapolis police officer charged in the death of Daunte Wright. The judge overseeing the case reversed herself Tuesday, citing the state of the pandemic. Judge Regina Chu had ruled in August against recording or

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative Supreme Court justices are expressing skepticism about saying that Texas must agree to a death row inmate’s request to allow a chaplain to pray out loud and touch him during his execution. Executions in Texas have been delayed while the court considers the question. The outcome

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Colombian President Iván Duque has high hopes for the medical marijuana industry in a country that has been waging a costly war against a different drug — cocaine — for decades. But in an interview with The Associated Press he says the promotion of cannabis

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) — A California parole panel has recommended for the fifth time that Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten be freed from prison. Her release has been blocked twice by then-Gov. Jerry Brown and twice by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Tuesday’s recommendation is likely headed back to Newsom after

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Mexico says the two countries are negotiating to get Mexico to approve visas for agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency to work in Mexico. Local media reported that Mexico basically stopped issuing visas for DEA agents, after enacting a law that limited their operations in Mexico

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Facebook’s parent company Meta says it will remove sensitive ad targeting options related to health, race or ethnicity, political affiliation, religion or sexual orientation beginning on Jan. 19. Advertisers can currently target people who, through their online activity the company tracks, have expressed interest in issues, public figures or