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EAST POINT, Ga. (AP) — A grand jury has returned an indictment against two law enforcement officers in the 2016 death of a man shot 76 times during an attempted fugitive arrest. News outlets reported the indictment Tuesday of Eric Heinze, an assistant chief inspector with the U.S. Marshal’s Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, and

By DOUG FEINBERG and ERICA HUNZINGER AP Sports Writers The NCAA has fallen short of upholding its commitment to gender equity, spending more on male athletes on average than female ones. That’s according to a second report by a law firm, which released its 153-page report Tuesday night. The report includes a series of recommendations

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — At first glance, broadcast newcomers “Ghosts” and “The Wonder Years” have barely had a chance to prove themselves in the ratings. The CBS comedy “Ghosts” is showing early promise, so far landing just outside the top 20 for the young season so far, while ABC’s

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A Brazilian Senate committee has recommended that President Jair Bolsonaro face a series of criminal indictments for actions and omissions related to the world’s second-highest COVID-19 death toll. The 7-to-4 vote by the 11-member committee on Tuesday ends its six-month investigation of the government’s handling of

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — State election officials told a congressional committee they’ve received graphic threats to their safety since the 2020 election and warned that pressure on election workers is a threat to democracy. The bipartisan group of state election officials told a Senate panel Tuesday that experienced election administrators

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — President Joe Biden is campaigning in Northern Virginia for Democrat Terry McAuliffe in a governor’s race that looks to be extremely tight just a week before Election Day. Biden carried Virginia by a comfortable 10 percentage points just last fall, but his approval ratings have been

By ACACIA CORONADO Report for America/ Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Voting rights advocates have filed a new lawsuit in federal court over Texas’ newly redrawn congressional district maps. The lawsuit, filed by Texas voters and voting advocacy organization Voto Latino, claims the maps dilute the vote of communities of color. The GOP-drawn map

NEW YORK (AP) — Comedian Mort Sahl has died. He was 94. Sahl helped pioneer a new, socially minded kind of comedy after World War II. During an era when many comedians dressed in tuxedos and told mother-in-law jokes, Sahl faced his audience wearing slacks, a sweater and an unbuttoned collar and carrying a rolled-up

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Some Native Hawaiians are objecting to President Joe Biden’s choice for U.S. attorney in the 50th state, saying Clare Connors treated dozens of elders like criminals when her office prosecuted them for blocking a road while protesting the construction of a telescope in Hawaii. The protesters consider

By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is ending its statewide indoor mask mandate after emerging from its latest and worst coronavirus spike of the pandemic and seeing a sharp decline in new COVID-19 infections. Gov. John Bel Edwards announced the decision Tuesday. It marks one of the first mask mandates

By JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California police officer has been convicted of assault with a firearm in the 2018 fatal shooting of an unarmed mentally ill man in a wealthy San Francisco suburb. A jury in Contra Costa County agreed Tuesday that Officer Andrew Hall was guilty of the charge

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Another group of workers is suing Los Alamos National Laboratory over its COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The complaint argues the mandate discriminates against employees who seek religious or medical exemptions. The lawsuit was filed in federal court by a Chicago-based law firm on behalf of eight

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prince Andrew’s lawyer has asked a New York judge to keep sealed a 2009 legal agreement that he says can protect Andrew against a lawsuit’s claims that he sexually assaulted an American woman when she was under 18. The request was made in court papers late

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press A suburban St. Louis man alleges in a lawsuit that police officers beat him and illegally searched his apartment after claiming he had committed a minor traffic infraction. The lawsuit was filed Monday in federal court on behalf of 38-year-old Tranell Stewart and his former girlfriend, Lisa Jones. It contends

By The Associated Press The full, 107-page report from the independent investigation of the Chicago Blackhawks sexual assault allegations from 2010 was made public. It describes in great detail the encounters between video coach Brad Aldrich and a player who sued the team earlier this year alleging Aldrich sexually assaulted him. The report also reveals

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A former top executive in a North Carolina-based health care system who claimed in a lawsuit that he lost his job because he is a white male has been awarded $10 million by a federal jury. In his 2019 lawsuit, David Duvall said he lost his job as senior vice president

By LISA MASCARO, AAMER MADHANI and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill is now half its original size and being pulled apart and reconfigured as Democrats edge closer to satisfying their most reluctant lawmakers. They’re trying to wrap up talks on what’s now about a $1.75 trillion

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Officials say the death of a child whose skeletal remains were found inside a Houston area apartment along with three surviving siblings who appear to have been abandoned has been ruled a homicide. The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences in Houston listed the primary cause

By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana will receive $595 million in federal disaster block grant aid to help with housing restoration and other recovery needs from last year’s back-to-back blows of Hurricanes Laura and Delta. U.S. Sens. Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy announced the official amount Tuesday. The money is

By JAY COHEN and STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writers CHICAGO (AP) — Stan Bowman has resigned as general manager of the U.S men’s hockey team at the 2022 Winter Olympics after an investigation into sexual assault allegations in 2010 with the Chicago Blackhawks revealed he knew about the situation and did not report it to