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WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. (AP) — A broad effort to find two young siblings who were swept away from their car during flash flooding in the Philadelphia suburbs over the weekend may soon pivot to underwater searching, authorities said Tuesday. Upper Makefield Fire Chief Tim Brewer provided an update near the search area, saying the team

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A bison severely injured a Minnesota woman on Saturday in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, the National Park Service said in a statement on Tuesday. Park officials reported she was in serious but stable condition after suffering “significant injuries to her abdomen and foot.” The woman was

By RIO YAMAT and MARIA SHERMAN Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities in Nevada confirmed Tuesday that they served a search warrant this week in connection with the long-unsolved killing of rapper Tupac Shakur nearly 30 years ago. Shakur, one of the most prolific figures in hip-hop, was killed on the night of Sept.

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks of several financial titans are leading Wall Street higher Tuesday following some mixed reports on the economy. The S&P 500 was 0.7% higher in afternoon trading, with the majority of the stocks in the index on the upswing. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a man who fired shots into the air on a busy street near South Carolina’s capital has been wounded in a shootout with police. Investigators in Columbia say the gunman is a gang member on probation and can’t legally have the handgun he was

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court has sentenced a rights activist to three years in prison over an opinion article he wrote in 2019. Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights said the court on Tuesday convicted Patrick George Zaki of “disseminating false news” related to his article about alleged discrimination against

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida judge who issued a court ruling last year that critics said was unduly favorable to Donald Trump is set to preside over the first pretrial conference in his landmark criminal case concerning the willful retention of classified documents. Prosecutors

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel’s figurehead president Isaac Herzog sought to assure President Joe Biden that Israel remains committed to democracy amid deepening U.S. concerns over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial plans to overhaul his country’s judicial system and ongoing settlement construction in the West Bank. Sitting by Biden’s

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