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By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for Gov. Ron DeSantis have asked that a trial involving Disney be postponed until the middle of 2025, well after the GOP presidential nomination race wraps up and voters have picked a winner in the November 2024 general election. In a Tallahassee federal court filing

MOORPARK, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say an Amtrak train carrying nearly 200 passengers struck a water truck and derailed on Wednesday in Southern California but caused no major injuries. A Ventura County fire captain, Brian McGrath, says three of the train’s seven cars went off the tracks following the collision Wednesday in Moorpark. Seven people

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A neurologist says a gunman who massacred 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue has schizophrenia and epilepsy. Dr. Siddhartha Nadkarni testified Wednesday as a defense expert at Robert Bowers’ federal death penalty trial. Bowers has already been convicted in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Jurors must now decide whether Bowers

By JOSH BOAK, EMILY SWANSON and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — President Joe Biden had a tough sell Wednesday, trying to convince voters that the U.S. economy is flourishing. The president showcased on what he now touts as “Bidenomics” in a speech in Chicago. But a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities on Wednesday arrested a man they accused of helping Russia direct a missile strike that killed at least 11 people, including three teenagers, at a popular pizza restaurant in eastern Ukraine. The Tuesday evening attack on Kramatorsk wounded 61 other people, Ukraine’s National Police

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state Attorney General Letitia James charges in a lawsuit that the operators of four nursing homes in New York neglected residents and misused more than $83 million in government funds. James says some residents were malnourished or were left to sit for hours in

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida state prison inmate already serving a three-decade sentence will serve an additional one year and three months in federal prison for threatening to kill a federal judge and his family. Court records show that 35-year-old Curtis Brown was sentenced Tuesday in Jacksonville federal court. He pleaded guilty in December

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Smoky air from Canada’s wildfires shrouded broad swaths of the U.S. from Minnesota to New York and Kentucky on Wednesday, prompting warnings to stay inside and exacerbating health risks for people already suffering from industrial pollution. The impacts are particularly hard on poor and

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in the Cayman Islands say a controversial legislator and former premier has been charged with rape and indecent assault. McKeeva Bush pleaded not guilty to the charges Wednesday that police said stem from a 2000 incident. Bush told The Associated Press in a

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s 23 largest banks passed the Federal Reserve’s so-called stress tests this year, a sign that the nation’s banking system remains resilient despite the recent banking crisis that that led to the failure of three banks. But Wednesday’s results did show some relative weakness

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City’s casinos are trying to understand why New Jersey lawmakers plan to drastically shorten the length of time that internet gambling can be conducted in the state. A state Assembly panel on Tuesday amended a bill that would have extended internet gambling for another

By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Welcome Wren Alexander Stephens, the fourth child of John Legend and Chrissy Teigen. The baby was born June 19 via surrogate. The couple announced his arrival Wednesday on Instagram. “We want to say thank you for this incredible gift you have given us, Alexandra,” they wrote of

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Taylor Swift, best supporting actor Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan, “Elvis” star Austin Butler, “Nope’s” Keke Palmer and The Weeknd have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The organization behind the Oscars said Wednesday that it extended invitations to 398 individuals to join

By SOPHENG CHEANG and GRANT PECK Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, a devoted and very active user of Facebook, says he will no longer upload to the platform and will instead depend on the Telegram app to get his message across. Until now, he has used Facebook for

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a young Michigan man who is accused of making threats over social media and having plans to target a synagogue near Lansing. Seann Pietila, of Pickford in the Upper Peninsula, has been in custody since June 16. Now an indictment charging him with making threats,

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Taylor Swift, best supporting Oscar actor winner Ke Huy Quan, “Elvis” star Austin Butler and “Nope’s” Keke Palmer and The Weeknd have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The organization behind the Oscars said Wednesday that it extended invitations to 398 individuals to

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is insisting that right-wing populism won’t gain the upper hand in his country, days after a far-right party won control of a county administration for the first time since the Nazi era. Alternative for Germany, which has come under scrutiny from security services over its ties to extremists,