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By MARÍA VERZA and GINNETTE RIQUELME Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Elisa Xolalpa has had three daughters and found a job she enjoys since a former boyfriend tried to destroy her life by tossing acid on her when she was 18. Two decades later, she is still seeking justice. Survivors of acid attacks like

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarusian authorities have detained over 20 people in the latest wave of arrests, continuing their sweeping crackdown on dissent a year after a disputed presidential election. Belarus was rocked by protests, which were fueled by the Aug. 9, 2020 re-election of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko to

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The Census Bureau on Thursday issued its long-awaited portrait of how the U.S. has changed over the past decade, releasing a trove of demographic data that will be used to redraw political maps across an increasingly diverse country. The data will also shape how $1.5 trillion in federal spending is

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal jury has acquitted a former Arkansas lawmaker who was accused of conspiring to bribe an ex-judge who admitted to lowering a jury’s award in a negligence lawsuit in exchange for campaign contributions. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that jurors on Thursday deadlocked on another bribery charge and seven wire

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — The first Black person to have been elected to Oktibbeha County’s governing board has died. George Curry Jr. was 90. Curry served on the county Board of Supervisors in east-central Mississippi for 28 years, starting in the late 1970s. The Commercial Dispatch reports throughout his seven terms, Curry focused on ensure

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as President Joe Biden becomes more aggressive in pressuring Americans to get vaccinated, he has refrained from using all his powers. He’s held off, for instance, on proposals to require vaccinations for all air travelers or, for that matter, the federal workforce. The result is a

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The conservative activist lawyer that sued China for $20 trillion over the coronavirus pandemic has now filed a defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump ally Roger Stone. The lawsuit Larry Klayman filed in Palm Beach County, Florida, is over comments Stone posted on Gab, a social media

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Oakland filmmaker Peter Nicks had already made two well-regarded documentaries capturing the institutions of his city and how they shape local lives in 2012’s “The Waiting Room,” about a public hospital, and 2017’s “The Force,” about the Oakland Police Department. Nicks turned to Oakland

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge has once again rejected one of 11 sexual assault counts in an indictment of Harvey Weinstein. Judge Lisa Lench first dismissed the count of sexual battery by restraint two weeks ago, saying it was too old and outside the statute of

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s governing parties made an unusual show of solidarity with their main challengers Thursday by denouncing an advertising campaign targeting the environmentalist Greens. The ads that appeared in dozens of cities less than two months before the country’s national election feature a wilted version of the Green party’s sunflower symbol, phrases such

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel says it has downed an unarmed Hezbollah drone that crossed the border from Lebanon. The army said in a statement on Thursday that it downed the drone when it crossed the border into Israeli airspace a day earlier. The incident was the latest uptick in activity along Israel’s northern

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals says a U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting state jurisdiction for crimes committed on tribal reservations by or against tribal citizens does not apply retroactively. The ruling could affect hundreds of state convictions that have been overturned and Oklahoma inmates who

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press The COVID-19 surge that is sending hospitalizations to all-time highs in parts of the South is also clobbering states like Hawaii and Oregon that were once seen as pandemic success stories. After months in which they kept cases and hospitalizations at manageable rates, they are watching

By AMANDA LEE MYERS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kit Harington has turned in his bulky black fur coat and brooding “Game of Thrones” character, Jon Snow, for a lighter role in the new season of “Modern Love.” In it, the 34-year-old plays a tech worker and a hopeful romantic dazzled by a woman

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Seton Hall University has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by former basketball player Myles Powell over a knee injury that Powell claims was misdiagnosed. In its brief, the school argues that it is shielded from Powell’s negligence claims under state law governing schools and other institutions. It also

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Ready to go out on the town before summer ends? In parts of the U.S., you might have to carry around your COVID-19 vaccine card or a digital copy to get into restaurants, bars, nightclubs and music festivals. After resisting the divisive concept of vaccine

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian opposition activist and her husband have been handed prison sentences on drug charges they have rejected as a sham. A court in Pskov in northwestern Russia on Thursday convicted Lia Milushkina and her husband Artyom Milushkin on charges of selling illegal drugs and sentenced them to 10 1/2 and 11

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — When a World Health Organization-led team traveled to China earlier this year to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, a top official said he was worried about biosafety standards at a laboratory close to the market where the first human cases were detected, according to

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In the biggest sign yet that Hollywood’s fall plans are being altered by the coronavirus surge driven by the delta variant, Sony Pictures on Thursday delayed the release of the big-budget sequel “Venom: Let There Be Carnage.” Instead of opening in theaters Sept. 24, the

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press EL CEIBO, Guatemala (AP) — Karla Leiva finds herself at a migrant shelter near the Guatemala-Mexico border with her 5-year-old daughter Zoe. They had been in three countries in the past 24 hours, none of them their own. The Hondurans were swept up in the latest U.S. government effort