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AP National Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago has a long-standing tradition of protest, and college student YM Masood has been immersed in it in recent months, including at the Democratic National Convention. Masood was among thousands of protesters outside the just-finished party gathering. Their main messages to the Democratic Party and nominee Kamala Harris, were

Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Before dropping his bid for reelection, President Joe Biden framed voters’ choice in November in dark and ominous terms, painting Republican nominee Donald Trump as a menace to American democracy and questioning whether the country could survive if he won. The Democratic Party’s new nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, isn’t

Associated Press BIXBY, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma’s Bixby school district has lots to show off for a fast-growing Tulsa suburb, including a state-of-the-art new high school and plans for a $12 million upgrade to its football complex. But, what the district does not have as students returned this week is a Bible in every classroom.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s electoral institute has voted to give the governing Morena party and its allies about 73% of seats in the lower house of Congress, even though the coalition won only about 60% of the votes in the June 2 elections. The ruling Friday would give the governing party the two-thirds majority

Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Fires broke out Friday on a Greek-flagged oil tanker previously attacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels this week, with the vessel now appearing to be adrift in the Red Sea, authorities said. It wasn’t immediately clear what had happened to the oil tanker Sounion, which had been abandoned

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The same Iranian hacking group believed to have targeted both the Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns have tried to go after the WhatsApp accounts of staffers in the administrations of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. That’s according to a statement Friday from Meta Platforms, which said it

The Associated Press The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has disheartened LGBTQ+ activists after issuing a slew of new policies this week that would significantly restrict the role of its transgender members. The guidelines were released Monday as part of updates to the General Handbook of the denomination known widely as the Mormon

Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — King County prosecutors have filed charges against a man they say forced his way into a vehicle occupied by a beloved 80-year-old Seattle dog walker, pushed her out and ran over her before going to a park and stabbing her dog to death. Forty-eight-year-old Jahmed Kamal Haynes was charged Friday

HOUSTON (AP) — The largest broadcaster of regional sports networks across the country will continue to televise games for more than a dozen NBA teams and nine NHL teams through the 2024-2025 season even as it moves through bankruptcy proceedings. The Athletic reports that according to court filings on Friday, Diamond Sports Group, which broadcasts

Associated Press SOLINGEN, Germany (AP) — An attacker with a knife killed three people and seriously wounded at least five late Friday at a festival in the western German city of Solingen, authorities said. Witnesses alerted police shortly after 9:30 p.m. to an unknown attacker having wounded several people indiscriminately with a knife on a

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man plead guilty to detonating an explosive device outside of the state attorney general’s office in February, federal prosecutors say. Twenty-six-year-old Kyle Calvert pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to the charge of malicious use of an explosive device. Calvert faces a minimum sentence of five years and

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A federal judge has handed a Michigan man who pleaded guilty to kidnapping and killing a 2-year-old girl a second life sentence. Rashad Trice acknowledged that he took Wynter Cole Smith from her home in Lansing in July 2023 as part of a dispute with the girl’s mother, his former

Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A jury swiftly acquitted three security guards of involuntary manslaughter Friday in the death of a man who was held to the floor at a Detroit-area mall in 2014, a case that was closed without charges years ago but reopened by state prosecutors. The jury of eight women and

Associated Press BUELLTON, Calif. (AP) — The White House says that ongoing cease-fire talks in Cairo have been constructive and will continue over the weekend as the U.S. and Mideast allies continue to press Israel and Hamas to forge an agreement. CIA Director William Burns and Brett McGurk, a senior adviser on the Middle East