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By DAVID R. MARTIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An attraction opening Tuesday gives thrill-seekers a unique perspective on New York City from almost 1,300 feet up. It’s called City Climb. Participants are equipped with specially designed safety harnesses that let them ascend to a platform near the top of a Manhattan skyscraper. There,

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona congressman Paul Gosar is facing criticism after he tweeted a video that included altered animation showing him striking congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword. In a tweet Monday night, Ocasio-Cortez said Gosar “shared a fantasy video of him killing me.” She added that Gosar would face no consequences because Minority Leader

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will have a rare virtual encounter this week as they gather online with other Pacific Rim leaders to chart a path to recovery out of the crisis brought on by the pandemic. New Zealand is

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer A global trade union body has joined a long list of human-rights advocates in challenging the propriety of China holding the 2022 Winter Olympics. It has also singled out the International Olympic Committee for acquiescing in the face of alleged genocide and crimes against humanity reportedly taking place China.

By HOPE YEN and TOM KRISHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has created a new requirement for automakers: Find a high-tech way to keep drunken people from driving cars. It’s one of the mandates along with a burst of new spending aimed at improving auto safety in the $1 trillion infrastructure package that President

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a case about whether Texas must allow a chaplain to pray audibly and touch a prisoner during an execution. Executions in the nation’s busiest death penalty state have been delayed while the court considers the question. The case before

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are mixed after Wall Street rose to a record for an eighth day. Tokyo and Sydney advanced while Shanghai, Hong Kong and Seoul declined. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index added 0.1%, boosted by gains for construction-related stocks after Congress approved a $1

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s top anti-money laundering official has resigned, following a scandal over his wedding party held in Guatemala. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday he has accepted the resignation of Santiago Nieto, the former head of the Mexican Treasury’s Financial Intelligence Unit. Nieto had been seen as a trusted ally of

NEW DELHI (AP) — Officials say a fire in a newborn care unit in a hospital in central India has killed four infants. The chief minister in Madhya Pradesh state says an investigation was ordered into the fire that occurred Monday night at a children’s hospital in the state capital, Bhopal. The other 36 patients

By JUAN A. LOZANO and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities in Houston have released the names of eight concertgoers who died last week at a music festival headlined by rapper Travis Scott. Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said Monday he had met with Scott before the show at the Astroworld festival to

By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Chris Boswell’s 40-yard field goal with 26 seconds left lifted the Pittsburgh Steelers past the Chicago Bears 29-27. The Steelers needed the late rally after Chicago scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns to take the lead. Pittsburgh improved to 5-3. The Steelers have won 20 straight home games

By MICHAEL TARM, SCOTT BAUER and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The protester and volunteer medic who survived after Kyle Rittenhouse shot him on the streets of Kenosha testified that he pointed his own gun at Rittenhouse but didn’t mean to and had no intention of firing it. Gaige Grosskreutz, the third

TORONTO (AP) — Egyptian-Canadian author and journalist Omar El Akkad, has won Canada’s richest literary award. El Akkad won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his book “What Strange Paradise” on Monday night. The former Globe and Mail journalist received the honor at a nationally televised Toronto gala. “What Strange Paradise,” published by McClelland & Stewart,

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four astronauts are back on Earth after a 200-day space station mission. They rode home Monday in a SpaceX capsule, parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola, Florida, in darkness. The astronauts from the U.S., France and Japan departed the International Space Station

TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — The leader of an effort by Central American migrants to walk across southern Mexico says the group will now head to the U.S. border, rather than Mexico City. Leader Irineo Mujica said in a video Monday that he will try to organize another caravan of thousands of migrants to reach the

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — A day after questioned elections, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s government has set about painting as a historic democratic victory what many of the world’s democracies condemned as a sham. Nicaragua’s Supreme Electoral Council said that with nearly all the ballots counted, Ortega had won more than 75% of the vote. The

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Authorities say a gunman who killed a man outside of an Alaska grocery store over the weekend didn’t break stride as he continued inside and sprayed gunfire across the store, wounding one other person. Joshua Eric Butcher turned himself into police minutes after Sunday’s shooting in Fairbanks and has been charged