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By SOLVEJ SCHOU Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — His name is Kevin. And he’s a tabby cat. Writer Solvej Schou lived next door to Kevin and his owners for years in Southern California. But it was only when she was working from home during the pandemic that she got to know him. Kevin started

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The state of Alabama has asked to dismiss its lawsuit challenging a controversial statistical method used by the U.S. Census Bureau. The method is aimed at keeping people’s data private in numbers used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts. Alabama and three Alabama politicians had sued the Commerce Department, which

DETROIT (AP) — Attorneys for Detroit and the state of Michigan are seeking $204,000 in fees for successfully defending a post-election lawsuit filed by lawyers aligned with former President Donald Trump. The tally was filed two weeks after a judge said the lawyers would pay a penalty for pursuing the case. The final figure will

ST. ANTHONY, Idaho (AP) — A judge has decided an Idaho woman charged with conspiring with her new husband to kill her two children is still not fit to participate in her own court proceedings. District Judge Steven Boyce made the decision Wednesday to extend Lori Vallow Daybell’s time in a state mental hospital by

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Small businesses from Louisiana to Connecticut are facing an uncertain recovery after being walloped by Hurricane Ida and its residual rains and flooding last week. Days after the destruction, they’re reaching out to clients and staff, assessing damage and trying to plan for the way

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Money that victims of the 2015 Islamic State attacks in Paris are paying in legal fees is going not just to their own lawyers, but to defense lawyers too. It’s just one of the unusual things about the exceptional trial that opened this week into those attacks.

CALLAHAN, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man won $1 million in a lottery game the same day he and his wife opened an auto repair shop. The Florida Lottery says in a news release that 46-year-old Brian Woodle bought the $5 Gold Rush Supreme scratch-off ticket from a Circle K in Callahan. He says he

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Fifty years after the Attica prison uprising in New York, the families of slain and injured prison guards say they’re still waiting for an apology from the state. Deeanne Quinn Miller’s prison guard father was killed by inmates during the five-day uprising and is part of

BRUSSELS (AP) — Champagne makers have had their hopes of winning a legal case against a tapas bar chain boosted after the European Court of Justice clarified the bloc’s rules for the safeguard of products covered by a protected designation of origin (PDO). The case was initiated by the trade association that represents the interests

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Olaf is closing in for a strike on the Los Cabos resort region at the tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula. As the storm approached Thursday, authorities closed ports in the area, prepared temporary shelters and urged people to monitor public announcements. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says

By TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press MULESHOE, Texas (AP) — To avoid Dust Bowl conditions, more farmers are restoring native grasslands in areas where the nation’s largest aquifer is drying up and rainfall is often scarce. Groundwater from the Ogallala aquifer has sustained farming for generations in the Plains states, even through droughts. But it’s becoming

BERLIN (AP) — A German court says former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn’s trial on fraud charges in connection with the automaker’s diesel emissions scandal has been delayed because of health problems. The Braunschweig state court said Thursday that it decided to separate Winterkorn’s case from that of four other defendants, who are set to go

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s president said Thursday that his government would assist Poland in conducting border surveillance on its eastern border with Belarus in an effort to deter migrants from entering the country illegally. Hungary will also help maintain the 370 kilometer (230 mile)-long fence which is currently under

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s defense minister says the country will never accept Greek moves to extend its territorial waters in the Aegean sea, dismissing any possible effort by Athens as “empty dreams.” Addressing a symposium on Turkish-Greek relations on Thursday, Hulusi Akar said Turkey was determined to press ahead

By KANTELE FRANKO and DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Navigating misinformation is among the challenges educators today face in teaching about Sept. 11 to students born since then. Those kids get much of their information from online and social media spaces. They sometimes don’t have the interest or media literacy to differentiate

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s ban on telemedicine consultations between doctors and women seeking abortions and several other abortion restrictions are back in force after a federal appeals court set aside a judge’s ruling that they were unconstitutional. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals panel issued a 2-1 ruling Wednesday that

By AMY TAXIN and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles board of education has voted to require students 12 and older to be vaccinated against the coronavirus to attend in-person classes in the nation’s second-largest school district. The board’s vote Thursday makes Los Angeles by far the largest of a

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch launched her campaign for governor by likening herself to former President Donald Trump and deriding the Democratic incumbent as a weak failure. Kleefisch is seeking to take on Gov. Tony Evers next year in a top race for Republicans who

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s government says it will start paying cash assistance next month to hundreds of thousands of poor families in U.S. dollars as the small nation sinks deeper in its economic crisis. Minister of social affairs said Thursday that some 500,000 families will start receiving $20 a month for every family member up

CAIRO (AP) — The Suez Canal authorities say a bulk carrier vessel became wedged and briefly blocked traffic in one lane of the crucial global waterway. Egyptian officials said the Panama-flagged Coral Crystal ran aground Thursday in a double-lane stretch of the canal. The brief blockage forced authorities to redirect other vessels in the convoy