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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s top elections official recently spoke with federal prosecutors as part of the special counsel’s probe into the 2020 election and pressure tactics by former President Donald Trump in battleground states he lost. Wisconsin Elections Commission spokesperson Riley  Vetterkind said Tuesday that elections administrator Meagan Wolfe

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An ongoing eruption of a remote volcano in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands produced an ash cloud so large Tuesday warnings were sent to pilots about potentially dangerous conditions. The ash cloud with an initial height of over 5.5 miles was drifting south-southeast from Shishaldin Volcano. The volcano is about 700 miles southwest

By FELIPE DANA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine said its forces shot down Russian drones and cruise missiles targeting the Black Sea port of Odesa before dawn Tuesday in what Moscow called “retribution” for an attack that damaged a crucial bridge to the Crimean Peninsula. The Russians first sought to wear down Ukraine’s

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Major League Baseball will take over broadcasts of Arizona Diamondbacks games after a federal bankruptcy judge on Tuesday granted a motion for Diamond Sports to reject its rights agreement. MLB will take over production of the broadcasts beginning with Tuesday’s game at Atlanta. The Diamondbacks are the second team

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — The family of a Ukrainian veteran who was tortured and killed during the Russian occupation of Bucha finally has been able to give him a proper burial. His gravestone carries his photograph and birthday, but the date Roman Shadlovskyi died is a broad estimate: March 2022.

By HYUNG-JIN KIM, KIM TONG-HYUNG, TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An American soldier facing military disciplinary actions fled across the heavily armed border from South Korea into into North Korea, U.S. officials said Tuesday, becoming the first American detained in the North in nearly five years. Two

By KATHIA MARTÍNEZ Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for money laundering. Martinelli, 71, had been trying to mount a political comeback in next year’s general elections, but a judge sentenced him Tuesday to 128 months in prison in a

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration and major consumer tech players are launching an effort to put a nationwide cybersecurity certification and labeling program in place. The program announced Tuesday is to help consumers choose smart devices that are less vulnerable to hacking. Officials liken the new U.S. Cyber Trust Mark initiative to the Energy

By MEG KINNARD and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a brief news conference Tuesday as part of a shift in strategy for his presidential campaign, but the governor took only four questions, almost all of which centered on the party’s front-runner Donald Trump. DeSantis’ attempt

CAIRO (AP) — A representative of BBC staff in Cairo on a three-day strike for equal pay with colleagues in the Middle East has accused the broadcaster of “gross discrimination.” The North African country is in the midst of spiraling economic crises, with inflation running at 36% in June. The representative said 75 staff members

By The Associated Press Low-slung buildings, blue huts and somber soldiers dot the border village of Panmunjom inside the DMZ, or demilitarized zone, the swath of land between North and South Korea where a U.S. soldier on a tour crossed into the North under circumstances that remain unclear. The soldier was on a tour of

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of a state law ending cash bail, ordering implementation in mid-September. The ruling overturns a Kankakee County judge’s opinion in December that the law violated the constitution’s provision that  “all persons shall be bailable by sufficient

By ED DAVEY Associated Press Major American providers of oilfield services supplied Russia with millions of dollars in equipment for months after its invasion of Ukraine, helping to sustain a critical part of its economy even as Western nations launched sanctions aimed at starving the Russian war effort. The largest – SLB, formerly Schlumberger –

By COLLEEN BARRY and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Officials warned residents and tourists packing Mediterranean destinations on Tuesday to stay indoors during the hottest hours as the second heat wave in as many weeks hits the region and Greece, Spain and Switzerland battled wildfires. In Italy, civil protection workers monitored crowds for

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — The Cuban government opened the door to the creation of more small- and medium-sized businesses in September 2021. And there are now over 8,000 of these type of enterprises operating legally on the island. Among them is a group of entrepreneurs who benefited from a business training