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By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin is scheduled for a hearing next week on whether she should be held in contempt of court for failing to comply with a judge’s order in a public records lawsuit. Fourth District Judge Steven Hippler ordered the contempt hearing set for

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A court has set a Dec. 23 deadline for former President Donald Trump to undergo questioning in a former “Apprentice” contestant’s defamation lawsuit over what he said in denying her sexual assault allegations. Lawyers for Summer Zervos and Trump discussed the case during a Manhattan court

The Associated Press A global investigation has revealed how the rich and powerful have being hiding their investments in mansions, exclusive beachfront property, yachts and other assets for the past quarter-century. Collectively these assets are worth trillions of dollars. The investigation, dubbed the Pandora Papers, was published late Sunday and involved 600 journalists from 150

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chilean police say they’ve detained an international group of migrant traffickers who have sent more than 1,000 migrants out of the South American nation, including lone children heading to the United States. The group also is accused of slipping people illegally into Chile. The Investigative Police said Monday that while making

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have doubled down on their hard-line trajectory in a third round of Afghanistan government appointments that encompassed a host of men named to deputy positions. None of the 38 new appointments announced by chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid included women. They were comprised of members drawn entirely from the Taliban

HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a 17-year-old has been charged with murder after being accused of striking and killing three parking valets as he attempted to flee from Houston police. Authorities announced Monday that Ahmedal Tayeb Elnouman Modawi is facing three counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault for the deadly Friday night

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — News outlets are reporting that Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren has agreed to resign before her term ends as part of a deal to settle charges she violated campaign finance rules during her 2017 reelection campaign.  Warren was scheduled to go on trial Monday on felony charges she and two assistants took

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s center-left forces, led by Democrats, are triumphing or clinching runoff slots in Milan and other big city mayoral elections, according to partial vote counts after two days of balloting. But populist 5-Star Movement candidates were apparently headed to stinging losses of their high-profile mayoral posts in

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Newly leaked documents showing that Jordan’s King Abdullah II quietly amassed luxury real estate properties risk hurting the longtime monarch at home and abroad. In Jordan, he has been careful not to flaunt his wealth and has carefully cultivated an image of a caring father of a

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The son of an Iranian-American man who has been detained in Iran for more than five years is calling for his father’s immediate release so that he can receive emergency and potentially life-saving surgery. Baquer Namazi is 84 years old and requires surgery within days to clear

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer The weekend oil leak along the Southern California coast happened not far from the site of the catastrophe more than a generation ago that helped give rise to the modern environmental movement itself: the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. That still ranks in the top tier of human-caused disasters

By TERRY TANG and MICHELLE A. MONROE Associated Press Police say one person is in custody after someone opened fire aboard an Amtrak train in Tucson, Arizona. The shooting happened Monday just after 8 a.m. on a train parked at the station in the city’s downtown. Authorities say there is no more threat. An Amtrak

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A medical glove manufacturing facility promising to employ nearly 2,500 people is coming to southwest Virginia. Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam made the announcement Monday, calling it a transformational, generational opportunity. Two companies have formed a joint venture that plans to invest $714 million to create a

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s government says at least 14 soldiers were killed and seven injured by extremists at the Yirgou military barracks in Burkina Faso’s Sanmatenga province. Minister of Defense Aime Barthelemy Simpore said in a statement the soldiers were targeted at 5 a.m. by a large

By FRANK BAJAK and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms are back online after a massive global outage plunged the services and the businesses and people who rely on them into chaos for hours. Facebook said late Monday that “the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change”

By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer The Mohegan Sun casino has suspended wagering on the WNBA after questions were raised over a potential conflict in taking bets on the Connecticut Sun, a team also owned by the Mohegan Tribe. The issue came up last week after Gov. Ned Lamont opened the sportsbook by placing a

By AMY TAXIN and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The company that operates the pipeline suspected in a large California oil spill has been cited 72 times for safety and environmental violations that were severe enough that drilling had to be curtailed or cut off to fix the problem. That’s according

By JOSH BOAK and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is urging Republican senators to “get out of the way” and let Democrats suspend the nation’s debt limit. Biden said Monday he wants action to keep the U.S. government from coming dangerously close to a devastating credit default. Senate Republican leader

NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a person was shot in the leg Monday near New York City’s Times Square. It was the third shooting this year in an area that is a top destination for Big Apple tourists. The shooting happened shortly after noon near the entrance to a subway station at 40th Street

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press The Treasury Department has announced plans to start reallocating rental assistance money in a bid to get more cash into the hands of families facing eviction. The details released Monday follows the slow pace of distribution in many parts of the country. A little more than 16.5% of the tens