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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Authorities in Costa Rica say six people are dead, including a U.S. man, in what may have been a robbery at the American’s ranch in the Central American country. The national detectives’ agency said Monday that the victim has been identified as Steve Sandusky, but did not offer a

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is making the case for the Biden administration’s climate change agenda, standing before the record-low water levels of Nevada’s Lake Mead and warning that “this is where we’re headed.” The vice president is pitching the administration’s $3.5 trillion spending plan as critical to

By CLAUDIA LAUER PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say a man charged with raping a woman on a commuter train just outside of Philadelphia harassed her for more than 40 minutes while multiple people held up their phones to seemingly record the assault without intervening. The police chief for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority said at

By MATTHEW BROWN and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Data shows a massive cargo ship that was supposed to be at anchor repeatedly crossed over an undersea oil pipeline during a January storm. That pipeline just off the Southern California later ruptured, and crude washed up on beaches. The environmental group Skytruth

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of the country’s most competitive U.S. House races is unfolding in California’s farm belt. Republican U.S. Rep. David Valadao is facing a growing list of Democratic and GOP challengers. On Monday, Democratic Assemblyman Rudy Salas became the latest to get in. The Central

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii is demanding reform and $500,000 in damages while alleging Honolulu police officers and officials with Hawaii’s public school system discriminated against a disabled Black child by handcuffing and arresting the 10-year-old girl. The ACLU says the girl’s rights were

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An 1833 statue of Thomas Jefferson will be removed from New York’s City Council chamber by the end of the year. Some members of the City Council have demanded the statue’s removal for years because Jefferson was a slaveholder. But the little-known city commission that held

By JILL COLVIN, COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit to block the release of documents to a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, challenging President Joe Biden’s initial decision to waive executive privilege. Trump claims in the lawsuit that

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — One of the most prominent figures in the QAnon conspiracy movement says he’s running for Congress in Arizona because the state is at the forefront of the fight by many Republicans over the 2020 election results. Ron Watkins is a prominent promoter of false claims that

By GARY D. ROBERTSON, MARC LEVY and JILL COLVIN Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two longtime Democratic congressmen with a combined six decades of experience have announced plans to retire at the end of their terms. Eighty-one-year-old Rep. David Price of North Carolina and 68-year-old Rep. Mike Doyle of Pennsylvania said Monday that they

By SEAN MURPHY The Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A women’s advocacy group is decrying the sentencing of an Oklahoma woman to prison after she suffered a miscarriage while using methamphetamine. Officials with the National Advocates for Pregnant Women on Monday condemned the sentencing of 21-year-old Brittney Poolaw earlier this month in Comanche County.

By MATTHEW DALY and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s Washington’s enduring question: What does Joe Manchin want? But increasingly the answer is crystal clear. The conservative West Virginia Democrat wants to dismantle President Joe Biden’s climate change strategies and proposed social services expansion in ways that are simply unacceptable for most in

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden have recognized the 2021 and 2020 national teachers of the year and all teachers for the work they do. President Biden was a surprise guest at Monday’s White House ceremony. He says teachers are the “single most consequential people

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan is stepping down following the chaotic American withdrawal from the country. The State Department says former ambassador to the United Nations and Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad will leave the post this week after more than three years on the job. Khalilzad

By TERRY SPENCER and DAVID FISCHER FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The families of those killed, wounded and scarred in the 2018 Florida high school massacre have reached a $25 million settlement with the district. More than 50 families of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland will split the money from the Broward County school

By ACACIA CORONADO and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Minority rights groups are suing Texas over proposed new voting maps that they say thwart the political strength of the state’s booming Latino population. The lawsuit filed Monday in federal court comes even before the Texas Legislature has given final passage to

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Long before Denis Villeneuve decided to become a director, he was dreaming about making a movie of “Dune.” Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel about intergalactic power struggles, space worms and an all powerful spice had captivated the filmmaker since he was a teenager. Now, after almost four decades, he’s getting

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A businessman who prosecutors say was a major conduit for corruption by Nicolás Maduro’s inner circle has appeared for the first time in Miami federal court after an extradition that has further strained relations between the U.S. and Venezuela’s socialist government. Only hours after Saab was placed

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft has confirmed that executives in 2008 warned Bill Gates to stop sending flirtatious emails to a female employee but dropped the matter after he told them he would stop. The Wall Street Journal was first to report that Brad Smith, then Microsoft’s general counsel and now its president and vice

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit to block the release of documents to the Jan. 6 select committee of Congress, challenging President Joe Biden’s decision. Trump claims in the lawsuit that the request “is almost limitless in scope,” and seeks records with no reasonable connection