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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Rick formed Friday off Mexico’s southern Pacific coast and is forecast to hit that coast at hurricane strength early next week. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Rick was located about 320 miles (515 kilometers) south of the resort of Zihuatanejo. The storm had winds of 40 mph (65

By LISA MASCARO, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A deal within reach, President Joe Biden and Congress’ top Democrats have edged close to sealing their giant domestic legislation. But Friday’s informal deadline was slipping as they worked to scale back the measure and determine how to pay for it. Biden

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and SOPHIA EPPOLITO Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal civil rights investigation found widespread racial harassment of Black and Asian American students at a Utah school district, including hundreds of documented uses of the N-word and other racial epithets over the last five years. The probe released Thursday by

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A San Jose, California woman born in India was one of two foreign tourists killed in the apparent crossfire of a drug-gang shootout in Mexico’s Caribbean coast resort of Tulum. Authorities said one of the dead women was Anjali Ryot. An Instagram account under the same name showed a post of

By MORGAN LEE, SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Court records show that an assistant director unwittingly handed Alec Baldwin a loaded weapon and told him it was safe to use in the moments before the actor fatally shot a cinematographer. The assistant director referred to the gun

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A jury weighing the fate of fallen Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes has had its first chance to listen to recordings of her boasting to investors about purported breakthroughs in blood-testing technology. The technology heralded as a quantum leap in blood testing later dissolved

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has allowed a Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in effect for now. But in an unusual move the justices said they want to hear arguments in the case at the soonest opportunity. Those arguments at the high court on Nov. 1

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. investigator says North Korea has never been more isolated from the international community as a result of its drastic steps to prevent COVID-19. TTomás Ojea Quintana said the ruptured global ties are having “a dramatic impact on the human rights of the people

By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — The Phoenix Suns have released a statement regarding a potential media investigation into the workplace culture of the franchise, denying that the organization or owner Robert Sarver have a history of racism or sexism. The statement says the organization is aware that ESPN is working on

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators’ ambitious plan to block new oil and gas wells within 3,200 feet of schools and homes is far from finalized. Environmental groups plan to push the state to do more to close existing wells within that zone over a two-month comment period. The oil

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — A judge in California has ruled that state prison guards who work in and around facilities’ health care settings must be vaccinated against the coronavirus. The judge’s decision Friday does not extend to all state prison employees, including guards who work in other settings. The state Department of Public Health in

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Health Commissioner Dr. Lance Frye has announced his resignation from the post. Frye, who was named commissioner in May 2020, is stepping down immediately, the Oklahoma State Department of Health said Friday. The announcement comes a day after state Republican leaders, including Gov. Kevin Stitt,

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The cinematographer who was fatally shot with a prop gun by Alec Baldwin on a movie set grew up on a Soviet military base in the Arctic Circle and worked on documentary films in Europe before studying film in Los Angeles. Halyna Hutchins was 42.

By CLAUDIA TORRENS The Associated Press New York (AP) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and two other legislators have reintroduced a bill in the House to put immigrants who cleared debris after the Sept. 11 attacks on a fast track to legal immigration status in the U.S. Immigrants in New York who worked after the attacks

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include new albums from Ed Sheeran and The War on Drugs as well as “Army of Thieves,” a prequel to Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead,” which invites viewers to join a Europe-trotting heist. On the small screen, Colin Kaepernick and moviemaker Ava DuVernay are the

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court says a Turkish bank must face criminal charges that it evaded sanctions against Iran by processing billions of dollars of Iranian oil revenue. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday. It upheld a decision by District Judge Richard M. Berman. An indictment said the bank

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An attorney for members of the San Carlos Apache tribe has asked the the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to back a nonprofit group’s efforts to keep a copper mining company from gaining federal Arizona land the Apaches consider sacred. The attorney for

By LISA MASCARO, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A deal within reach, President Joe Biden and Congress’ top Democrats have edged close to sealing their giant domestic legislation. But the leaders appeared to be letting Friday’s informal deadline slip as they worked to scale back the measure and determine how

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. authorities say illegal border crossings from Mexico fell in September for only the second time in 17 months, but the federal fiscal year ended with the highest count ever. Authorities stopped migrants more than 1.7 million times during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, nearly quadruple the previous

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A federal magistrate determined Friday that Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s former chief of staff can remain free before his trial on charges that he defrauded a state agency he led by inducing it to pay him nearly $280,000 in mostly severance pay before moving to the governor’s office. The Baltimore Sun