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CHULA VISTA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man has been arrested on suspicion of killing his wife nine months ago, and her family is pleading for help in finding her body. Larry Millete was arrested Tuesday at his home in the San Diego suburb of Chula Vista, a day after prosecutors charged him with

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Scientists have temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work. The feat is a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants. Surgeons in New York attached the pig kidney to blood vessels outside

By LISA MASCARO, ALAN FRAM and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Scaling back his big government-overhaul plans, President Joe Biden has described a more-limited vision to Democratic lawmakers. In meetings at the White House on Tuesday, Biden told lawmakers he wants a $2 trillion package with at least $500 billion to tackle climate

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The case against a rural Alaska man who federal authorities say threatened to kill the state’s two U.S. senators will go to a grand jury. A federal magistrate judge on Tuesday decided there was probable cause for the case against Jay Allen Johnson to continue. Because

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — An emergency call made by a 4-year-old New Zealand boy asking for police to come over and check out his toys prompted a real-life callout and confirmation from an officer that the toys were, indeed, pretty cool. Police shared audio of the call on social

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police say a man who fell to his death from the upper level of a basketball arena is believed to have “leapt from an elevated area of the arena,” causing his death. Officer Grace Gatpandan said in a statement Tuesday that the 47-year-old man did not appear to come

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian senators are discussing details of an investigative committee’s final report that will call for President Jair Bolsonaro to be indicted on criminal charges for bungling the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and producing the world’s second-highest death toll. The latest draft of

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s governor says COVID-19 case counts and hospitalizations have declined to the point where the islands are ready to welcome travelers once again. Gov. David Ige’s announcement comes nearly two months after he he asked travelers to avoid Hawaii because case counts were surging with the spread

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s government says it is leading a transition to more renewable energy, even though President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has proposed restricting private wind and solar projects. López Obrador has submitted a bill to guarantee preferences for dirtier state-owned power plants that burn coal and fuel-oil. In a statement Tuesday following