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By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The troubled son of Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols has been sentenced to prison in Nevada for kidnapping and armed robbery in a February 2020 attack on a man in the Las Vegas area. Joshua Nichols, now 40 years old, and a co-defendant were sentenced

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s top elections official who has faced GOP criticism for how she ran the battleground state’s last presidential election is pushing for officials to vote on her future as she nears the end of her term. Meagan Wolfe, the nonpartisan administrator of the Wisconsin

By CARLOS RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — As a prominent 10-meter diver, Diego Balleza is used to wearing small swimsuits that show off his body. Now, desperate because of a lack of financial resources ahead of next year’s Paris Olympics, the Mexican is making a leap to a different platform in which he

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press KALAMATA, Greece (AP) — A fishing boat crammed to the gunwales with migrants trying to reach Europe capsized and sank Wednesday off the coast of Greece, authorities said, leaving at least 79 dead and many more missing in one of the worst disasters of its kind this

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thousands of people have demonstrated across Poland against the country’s restrictive abortion law after a woman who was five months pregnant died of sepsis. It was the latest such death since a tightening of the law. The protesters vented their fury on Wednesday against the governing

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday after having raised it 10 straight times to combat high inflation. But in a surprise move, the Fed signaled that it may raise rates twice more this year, beginning as soon as next month. The Fed’s

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Jurors in federal court have awarded $25.6 million to a former Starbucks regional manager who alleged that she and other white employees were unfairly punished after the high-profile arrests of two Black men at a Philadelphia location in 2018. Shannon Phillips won $600,000 in compensatory damages and $25 million in punitive

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Guatemalan tribunal has convicted newspaper founder and editor José Rubén Zamora of money laundering, concluding a trial press freedom groups decried as a political persecution aimed at silencing a critical voice. Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei, and specifically his justice system, have been criticized internationally

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Lloyd Webber’s absence from New York City’s stages will be at most 14 months, with “Cats” returning in June 2024 at the World Trade Center’s new Perelman Performing Arts Center. The $500 million building, the next-to-last element of the World Trade Center redevelopment to open

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The head count of every U.S. resident in 2020 helped guide the distribution of $2.8 trillion in annual federal spending, underscoring the importance of participating in the once-a-decade census. That’s according to a new report released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. There were 353 federal assistance programs that used

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks turned lower on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve suggested that it may raise interest rates two more times this year, even though it kept rates steady on Wednesday. Treasury yields rose sharply. The S&P 500 was down 0.7% after being modestly higher before

By STEVE PEOPLES and JILL COLVIN Associated Press BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) — Just last week, former Vice President Mike Pence said he hoped federal prosecutors would not bring charges against former President Donald Trump. On Wednesday, a day after Trump was arraigned on dozens of felony counts related to classified documents, Pence described the allegations

HAHNVILLE, La. (AP) — A 28-year-old woman who enrolled at a Louisiana high school and posed as a 17-year-old student has been arrested along with her mother. The St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office said Martha Jessenia Gutierrez Serrano and her mother, 46-year-old Marta Elizabeth Serrano Alvarado, both of Boutte, were arrested Tuesday on one count