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By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is seeking to add to a new member to his team negotiating in Mexico with his political opponents — an ally jailed in Cape Verde awaiting extradition to the U.S. on money laundering charges. An announcement on Venezuela’s state television Tuesday said

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s largest hospital is implementing crisis standards of care, or prioritizing resources and treatments to those patients who have the potential to benefit the most. The move comes as Alaska hospitals have been overwhelmed by a surge in COVID-19 patients. The announcement came Tuesday in a

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. official says 4 million Afghans are facing “a food emergency” and the majority live in rural areas where $36 million is urgently needed for the coming months to ensure the planting of winter wheat, feed for livestock, and cash assistance for vulnerable families,

By JOHNSON LAI, HUIZHONG WU and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press JIADONG, Taiwan (AP) — An F-16 screeched across the sky before landing on a highway cut through pineapple fields in southwestern Taiwan to refuel quickly and take off again. The Taiwanese military exercise Wednesday envisions a Chinese attack taking out the island’s main airfields, necessitating

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A case seen as an early test of New York’s law criminalizing police chokeholds has ended without an indictment. A Queens grand jury on Tuesday declined charges for David Afanador, a former New York City police officer who was seen on cellphone video last year

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The foreign ministers of South Korea and China are meeting for talks expected to focus on North Korea and other regional security issues. Wednesday’s meeting in Seoul came two days after North Korea claimed to have tested a newly developed cruise missile. South Korean Foreign

MIAMI (AP) — Prosecutors say a former University of Miami professor, his wife and his sister are facing federal charges related to purchasing genetic sequencing equipment from U.S. manufacturers and illegally shipping it to Iran. Court records show that Mohammad Faghihi, his wife Farzeneh Modarresi and his sister Faezeh Faghihi made their initial appearances Tuesday

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska lawmaker is apologizing after saying Nazi experimentation on prisoners “produced results.” State Rep. Sara Hannan, a Juneau Democrat, made the comment Saturday when House minority Republicans were attempting a vote on whether an ethics code devised after Nazi experimentation on people in World War II remains valid. Hannan apologized

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is releasing nearly $200 million in military aid to Egypt but will hold back millions more over human rights concerns. The State Department said Tuesday that Secretary of State Antony Blinken would withhold $130 million of $300 million in foreign military financing for

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials are giving the go-ahead for temporary storage of highly radioactive waste in west Texas. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission granted a license to Interim Storage Partners to build and run a facility that could take up to 5,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel rods from power plants and 231 million

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court has rejected the state Senate’s effort to keep records of its ongoing review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County secret. The high court without comment rejected the appeal filed after lower courts ruled the documents held by the contractor conducting the review

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s public health officials say crisis standards of care are imminent for the state’s most populated region as hospitals continue to be overrun with unvaccinated coronavirus patients. Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Director Dave Jeppesen says southern Idaho including the Boise metro area could join

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Members of a New York City crime family threatened violence, pressured workers and pocketed phony “pension” payments in a two-decade plot to seize control of a city construction union and its lucrative employee health insurance program, prosecutors alleged in an indictment unsealed Tuesday. Ten members

MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida man claiming to be a film financier was sentenced to 13 years in prison for running a scheme to steal over $60 million from investors and producers seeking financing for movies and Broadway shows. Court records show 39-year-old Benjamin Forrest McConley was sentenced Tuesday in Miami federal court. Besides

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police bomb technicians made major miscalculations in June when they detonated illegal fireworks improperly and caused a massive explosion that rocked a city neighborhood and injured 27 people in June. Federal investigators on Tuesday released a report saying the technicians overloaded a containment chamber

MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say four people found slain in an abandoned SUV in a western Wisconsin cornfield had been shot and were all from Minnesota. Dunn County sheriff’s officials said Tuesday autopsies showed the two men and two women died of gunshot wounds. Authorities don’t have a suspect or motive and believe the

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fellow comedians and many others are paying tribute to standup comic and “Saturday Night Live” star Norm Macdonald, who died Tuesday at 61. Conan O’Brien said Macdonald had “the most unique comedic voice I have ever encountered” and he “will never laugh that hard again.” Jim Carrey

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats have begun the serious work of trying to implement President Joe Biden’s expansive spending plan. But getting there will require remarkable legislative nimbleness, since Biden has said the revenue to pay for it must come only from Americans who earn more than $400,000 a

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — One of the primary insurers of the Boy Scouts of America has reached a tentative settlement agreement with the Boy Scouts and attorneys representing tens of thousands of men who say they were molested as youngsters decades ago by scoutmasters and others. The Hartford announced Tuesday

By MARK GILLISPIE and KANTELE FRANKO Associated Press A man has pleaded guilty in the murders of his child’s mother and seven other members of her family in southern Ohio. Edward “Jake” Wagner pleaded guilty to 23 counts in Pike County court on Thursday, the fifth anniversary of when the shootings were discovered. The deal