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By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — NASCAR has denounced its association with the “Let’s go, Brandon” political cry that’s being used as an insult to President Joe Biden. NASCAR President Steve Phelps says the top motorsports series in the United States does not want to be associated with politics “on

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to hear appeals from two doctors who were convicted of illegally distributing pain medication after writing thousands of prescriptions in short periods. The court will take up the case of Xiulu Ruan of Mobile, Alabama, and Shakeel Kahn, who practiced medicine in Ft. Mohave, Arizona, and Casper,

By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers says he sought alternative treatments instead of the NFL-endorsed COVID-19 vaccinations because he is allergic to an ingredient in two of the FDA-approved shots. The 37-year-old Rodgers did not say what ingredient he was allergic to, or how he knows he is

CATSKILL, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say an upstate New York man is in grave condition at a hospital after police used a Taser to subdue him and he burst into flames. The Times Union of Albany reports that the 29-year-old man walked into the Catskill village police department last weekend and got into a confrontation

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The company that runs a for-profit immigration jail in Washington state has suspended its detainee work program, rather than pay the detainees minimum wage for cooking, cleaning and other tasks. A federal jury last week ruled that the GEO Group must pay the detainees minimum wage instead

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten are publicly celebrating their adopted baby son’s return home after being hospitalized for a health scare.  The couple adopted an infant boy and girl, named Penelope Rose and Joseph August Buttigieg, about two months ago. On Friday, Chasten Buttigieg

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Court hearings have been set for Nov. 12 for two Iowa teens charged with murder in the death of high school Spanish teacher Nohema Graber. Her family was left pondering what could have prompted such a violent act against Graber. Her daughter Nohema Marie Graber

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press The long-standing practice of allowing attorneys to dismiss prospective jurors without giving a reason has come under intense criticism. That’s after a nearly all-white jury was picked to decide whether three white men are guilty of murder for shooting and killing Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was jogging though

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An effort by prosecutors at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial to portray one of the men he shot as a hero never got off the ground, and one legal expert says they were probably fortunate it didn’t. Rittenhouse faces homicide and other charges in the August 2020 shootings

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A prosecutor investigating accusations that former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo groped a woman has asked a judge for more time. Albany County District Attorney David Soares said in a letter Friday that the criminal complaint filed last week by the local sheriff was “potentially defective.”

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s fuel crisis is deepening, with the country’s Professional Association of Banks announcing that a shortage of petroleum is forcing institutions to cut their hours and days as dozens of gas stations across the capital remain closed. The association said Friday that starting next week, banks will operate only three days

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and STAN CHOE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks pushed further into record heights on Friday following an encouraging report on hiring across the country. The S&P 500 closed 0.4% higher, clinching an all-time high for the seventh straight day. Trading was scattershot, though, and after climbing to

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Election officials in northern Virginia say a juvenile son of Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin tried twice to cast a ballot in this week’s election. The Fairfax County general registrar said in a statement Friday that the 17-year-old son presented an ID but was told he was ineligible

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON The Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A stabbing death in Florida is fueling criticism of the federal government’s handling of immigration after local authorities discovered the suspect had lied about his identity and recently been apprehended crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. The office of Gov. Ron DeSantis alerted journalists to the case

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — Ruth Ann Minner, the only woman to serve as Delaware’s governor, has died. She was 86. Agriculture Secretary Michael Scuse a close friend and former chief of staff for Minner, said she died Thursday morning. Minner was a sharecropper’s daughter and a high school dropout who

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has called for an end to the intensifying and expanding conflict in Ethiopia,, and for unhindered access for humanitarian aid to tackle the world’s worst hunger crisis in a decade in the war-torn Tigray region. The U.N.’s most powerful body also

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal agents searched the New York homes of people tied to the conservative group Project Veritas months after the group received a diary that a tipster claimed belonged to President Joe Biden’s youngest daughter. The group’s leader, James O’Keefe, detailed the searches in a video posted Friday on YouTube. He said

DOVER, Del. (AP) — In a story published Nov. 4, 2021, about the death of Ruth Ann Minner, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of another former governor of Delaware. The correct spelling is Sherman Tribbitt, not Sherman Tribbit.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana congressman has regained control of his office Twitter account after deleting a post about a transgender Biden administration official that the social media company found violated its rules. Twitter’s action came after Republican Rep. Jim Banks posted tweets last month regarding Dr. Rachel Levine becoming the first openly

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A prosecutor investigating accusations that former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo groped a woman has asked a judge for more time, saying the criminal complaint filed last week by the local sheriff was “potentially defective.” The request from Albany Country District Attorney David Soares throws the high-profile case in turmoil a