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Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A makeshift aquarium that popped up this summer in a puddle beneath a leaky New York City fire hydrant is no more. City workers have paved over the Bed-Stuy goldfish aquarium days after fire officials fixed the leak. The pond’s disappearance comes to the dismay of area residents who

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — An appeals court in the battleground state of Georgia has declined a request for expedited review of an appeal of a judge’s order that county election officials must vote to certify results by the legal deadline. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled this month that those officials cannot

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Authorities say a former U.S. border inspector has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for taking bribes to allow people and drug-laden vehicles to enter the country. Witnesses testified at trial that 42-year-old Leonard Darnell George agreed to allow the vehicles through his lane in late 2021 at the San

Associated Press YARDLEY, Pa. (AP) — Russian actors were behind a widely circulated video falsely depicting mail-in ballots for Donald Trump being destroyed in Pennsylvania, U.S. officials confirmed on Friday. The video had taken off on social media Thursday but was debunked within three hours by local election officials and law enforcement after members of

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Amsterdam police say they have found a prematurely born baby who was abducted from the maternity ward of a Paris-region hospital earlier this week. The baby, Santiago, was discovered Friday in a hotel with his parents and taken to a hospital. Police say in a message on X that his parents were

AP Sports Writer A new league format on the U.S. beach volleyball tour is bringing a team concept to what has always been a two-person sport. Instead of competing for tournament titles, the AVP is combining a men’s and women’s pair into teams that will play for a spot in the season-ending championship. Teams also

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — At least one U.S. airline has temporarily canceled flights to Haiti’s capital after gang members opened fire and hit a U.N. helicopter flying near the country’s main airport. Spirit Airlines said in a statement Friday to The Associated Press that its daily flight to Port-au-Prince has been suspended through

Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A senior United Nations official has called for more international attention to “the forgotten crisis” in Sudan, where more than a year and a half of war has pushed the African country to the brink of famine. The appeal Friday by Ted Chaiban, deputy head of the U.N. children’s agency

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A man who kidnapped the manager of a Michigan sporting goods store and then stole 123 handguns has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. A judge sentenced Darnell Bishop on Friday. Bishop now joins his brother behind bars. Investigators say they handcuffed a Dunham’s Sports manager outside his

Associated Press Hallmark Media executive vice president of programming Lisa Hamilton Daly instructed a former employee not to cast “old people” for Hallmark roles, saying that “our leading ladies are aging out,” according to a lawsuit filed against the network this month and obtained by The Associated Press. Penny Perry, a 79-year old casting director

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a founding member of the Grateful Dead, died Friday at age 84. Lesh’s death was announced on his Instagram account. Lesh was the oldest and one of

STOUGHTON, Wis. (AP) — Pizza inadvertently laced with THC has apparently sickened dozens of people in Wisconsin. Health officials say Famous Yeti’s Pizza in Stoughton served pizza contaminated with THC from Monday through Thursday. THC is the principal psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. Paramedics began alerting health officials in Dane County on Thursday that they had