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Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief is warning that the world is at an especially dangerous moment in history, with disregard and disrespect for international law “is reaching a deafening crescendo.” Volker Türk said this week that conflicts are spreading and intensifying and humanitarian and human rights laws are being

Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire attorney general’s office has announced more charges related to an investigation into the state’s director of ports and harbors. State Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi has been indicted on charges alleging she solicited Gov. Chris Sununu to influence an investigation into her husband. Authorities

Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine authorities continue to investigate the death of ex-One Direction singer Liam Payne, who died Oct. 16 at age 31 after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires. An official tells The Associated Press that there was cocaine in Payne’s system. But it’s not yet clear how

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama man has been arrested for his alleged role in the January hack of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission social media account that led the price of bitcoin to spike, the Justice Department said. Eric Council Jr. is accused of helping to break into the SEC’s account on

Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s killing of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ top leader and the mastermind of the group’s Oct. 7 2023, attack, is a dramatic turning point in the brutal yearlong war that it touched off. Sinwar’s killing on Wednesday decapitates the Palestinian militant group that has already been reeling from months

Associated Press Megan Marshack, an aide to Nelson Rockefeller who was with the former vice president when he died in 1979, has died. Marshack died on Oct. 2 of liver and kidney failure in Sacramento, California. She had a long and varied career in journalism. But she suddenly gained national attention after Rockefeller collapsed and

Associated Press DENVER (AP) — State regulators have ordered a former Colorado gold mine where a tour guide was killed and a group of tourists was trapped for hours after an elevator accident to remain closed while its operations are reviewed. The move was announced Thursday. A spokesperson for the state’s mining division said it

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Secretary of State Elections Division shut down its phone lines following a barrage of calls from people responding to false claims that the state’s voters pamphlet does not include Republican nominee Donald Trump. The voter’s pamphlet does list Trump as a candidate and notes that he declined to provide

AP Music Writer One Direction member Liam Payne was found dead this week after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at just 31. In life, Payne was critical part of One Direction, a boy band unlike any other. Experts told The Associated Press that he was the grounding force of the group,

Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man has been sentenced to life in federal prison in the killing of a Black transgender woman after their secret sexual relationship was exposed. A judge sentenced Daqua Lameek Ritter in federal court in Columbia on Thursday. Ritter had been convicted in February of a hate

AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Teen smoking hit an all-time low in the U.S. this year. It’s part of a big drop in the youth use of tobacco that includes electronic cigarettes and hookahs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday reported a 20% drop in the estimated number of middle

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to hundreds of victims of clergy sexual abuse dating back decades. Experts say the settlement with 1,353 people who allege that they were abused by local Catholic priests is the largest single child sex abuse settlement with a Catholic archdiocese.

AP Science Writer How a sperm and an egg fuse together has long been a mystery. New research by scientists in Austria provides tantalizing clues, showing fertilization works like a lock and key across the animal kingdom, from fish to people. “We discovered this mechanism that’s really fundamental across all vertebrates as far as we

Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new report says more than 1 billion people in the world live in acute poverty, over half are children and nearly 40% live in conflict-torn and fragile countries. The report released Thursday by the U.N. Development Program and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative says more than