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Associated Press BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Loved ones of the man killed when a sniper opened fire at a rally for former President Donald Trump describe him as a beloved family man and girl dad who served his community with “quiet resilience.” An obituary released Monday for 50-year-old Corey Comperatore says he had worked as

A judge’s ruling keeps an abortion-rights question on the South Dakota ballot in November. A judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by an anti-abortion group seeking to have it removed. Supporters of the measure gathered enough valid signatures to put it before voters and turned them in earlier this year. South Dakota is slated

PARIS (AP) — Officials in France say a French soldier has been stabbed outside a big train station in Paris, and the attacker has been arrested. Paris is under a high security alert 11 days before the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics. A French military official says that the soldier is hospitalized but is

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is ready to propose a 5% cap on annual rent increases for tenants of major landlords. That’s according to a person familiar with the plan who insisted on anonymity to discuss the upcoming announcement. Biden is expected to unveil the plan during a visit to Nevada on

CHICAGO (AP) — Federal authorities have charged a former Loretto Hospital executive in a scheme to embezzle $15 million from the health care facility. Anosh Ahmed is charged with eight counts of wire fraud, four counts of embezzlement, 11 counts of aiding and abetting embezzlement and three counts of money laundering. He was chief financial officer

LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) — Authorities suspended the search for a tour helicopter pilot and one of his passengers after they crashed into the ocean off the Hawaiian island of Kauai last week. The U.S. Coast Guard and Kauai officials said they suspended the search Sunday after searching for about 60 hours across hundreds of square

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — The New York attorney general and the New York Civil Liberties Union have sued a county on Long Island over its latest attempt to ban transgender females from playing on women’s sports teams at county facilities. The separate lawsuits were filed Monday. They came on the same day Nassau County Executive

Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Three hikers have died in suspected heat-related cases at state and national parks in Utah. The victims include a father and daughter from Wisconsin who got lost on a strenuous hike in Canyonlands National Park in triple-digit temperatures. The 23-year-old woman and her 52-year-old father sent a 911

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s mayor and city council are trying to stop a proposed ballot measure that would give all new parents a $1,000 “baby bonus” meant to help reduce childhood poverty from birth. City leaders filed a lawsuit last week after organizers secured the necessary 10,000 signatures to bring the question to Baltimore voters

BOSTON (AP) — A former Boston lawyer and prosecutor who was once named one of People magazine’s most eligible bachelors has been sentenced to between five and 10 years in state prison for rape. Fifty-two-year-old Gary Zerola was found guilty last month after a jury deliberated for five hours in a case dating to 2021.

Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The pet rail project of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador could wind up costing as much as $30 billion. The Maya Train is only half finished as he heads into the final two months of his term and it has wreaked major damage on the environment. But the most

Associated Press ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Health workers in Ivory Coast have begun giving children the latest malaria vaccine. It’s the beginning of a regional campaign that experts hope might curb the impact of one of Africa’s top killers. The West African country on Monday became the first to start rolling out the newest