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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Police in Oklahoma say a shooting at a party held at an event center left one person dead and wounded 12. Capt. Valerie Littlejohn of the Oklahoma City Police Department says a disturbance led to multiple shots being fired inside and outside the private venue in Oklahoma City around 12:30 a.m.

AP Medical Writer When a woman has a mammogram, the most important finding is whether there’s any sign of breast cancer. The second most important finding is whether her breasts are dense. Since early September, a new U.S. rule requires mammography centers to inform women about their breast density — information that isn’t entirely new

AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface. It won’t search

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani official says tribal clashes in the northwest have killed at least 11 people and injured eight, including women and children. Tensions rose in Kurram district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, after two people were critically injured Saturday in a shooting incident between rival tribes.  It wasn’t clear what caused the shooting.

Associated Press NELSONVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Voters in a ring of congressional districts encircling New York City where Republican candidates often do well but Donald Trump struggled in 2020 could decide which party controls the U.S. House for the next two years. Eleven districts within a 90-mile drive of Manhattan are expected to be among

AP Political Writers COACHELLA, Calif. (AP) — With the presidency on the line in battlegrounds like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, Donald Trump spent Saturday night in solidly liberal California, seeking to link Vice President Kamala Harris to what he described as the failures of her home state. Trump is almost certain to lose California, and that

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The artificial intelligence maker OpenAI may face a costly and inconvenient reckoning with its nonprofit origins even as its valuation recently exploded to $157 billion. Nonprofit tax experts have been closely watching OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, since last November when its board ousted and rehired CEO Sam Altman.

Associated Press Back in 2016, the artificial intelligence maker OpenAI had just incorporated as a nonprofit and applied to the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status. The application shows the vast distance OpenAI and the technology that it researches and develops has traveled in under a decade. At the time, OpenAI told the IRS it

BEIRUT (AP) — A series of U.S. airstrikes have targeted several camps run by the Islamic State group in Syria. The U.S. military said the operation will disrupt the extremists from conducting attacks in the region and beyond. The U.S. Central Command said the airstrikes were conducted Friday without specifying in which parts of Syria.

Excerpts of a memoir written by late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have revealed he believed he would die in prison. The New Yorker magazine published the excerpts Friday in anticipation of the release of “Patriot” on Oct. 22. Navalny was President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest and most prominent foe and relentlessly campaigned against official corruption

Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian state police chief has apologized to the Jewish community after a sergeant allegedly performed an outlawed Nazi salute. Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton says The 65-year-old instructor at the Victoria state police academy in Melbourne is facing charges for the gesture and for praising Nazi leader Adolf

ROME (AP) — British designer Kim Jones is stepping down from his role as artistic director of womenswear and couture at Fendi, parent group LVMH announced. Jones succeeded the late Karl Lagerfeld in designing Fendi haute couture, ready-to-wear and fur in September 2020. He said he will now concentrate fully on his role as artistic

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is in “excellent health” and “possesses the physical and mental resiliency” required to serve as president, her doctor said in a letter released Saturday that summarizes her medical history and status. Dr. Joshua Simmons, an Army colonel and physician to the vice president, wrote that Harris,

KILIFI, Kenya (AP) — Dozens have rallied against a proposal to build Kenya’s first nuclear power plant in one of the country’s top coastal tourist hubs which also houses a forest on the tentative list of the UNESCO World Heritage site. Kilifi County is renowned for its pristine sandy beaches where visitors boat and snorkel

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say a fire that broke out on board an oil tanker off Germany’s Baltic Sea coast has been extinguished. The blaze didn’t spread to the ship’s load. The maritime rescue service was alerted to the fire on board the German-flagged Annika on Friday morning and took all seven crew members off

PEACH BOTTOM TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — Authorities in Pennsylvania say adults and children were transported to a hospital in Pennsylvania after being sickened by mushrooms. A social media post by a fire station says emergency medical personnel responded to a report around 9:30 p.m. Friday of 11 people becoming ill after ingesting the “toxic mushrooms”