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By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — U.S. authorities say they seized over a dozen website domains used by sanctioned Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. The Department of Justice announced Thursday that they had seized 13 website domains, including those of the Iran-backed group’s al-Manar television, and that of senior officials and affiliated charities. Washington

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a transgender Guatemalan woman who is fighting deportation on the grounds that she would face persecution if returned to her native country. The court’s unanimous decision Thursday in favor of Estrella Santos-Zacaria gives her another chance to argue that immigration officials were wrong to

LIMA, Peru (AP) — The prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway on a Dutch Caribbean island is now facing extradition to face criminal charges in the United States. Peru’s government on Wednesday issued an executive order allowing the temporary extradition of Joran van der Sloot. The Dutchman will be prosecuted

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have created a stunning mosaic of baby star clusters hiding in our galactic backyard. The montage, published Thursday, reveals five vast stellar nurseries less than 1,500 light-years away. A light-year is nearly 6 trillion miles (9.7 trillion kilometers). To come up with their

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Swimming, gymnastics and track & field fans can rejoice. For the first time in a European Olympics, those events will be televised live on network television in the United States. NBC will have at least nine hours of weekday daytime coverage, expanding to at least 11 hours on weekends.

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices in the United States rose modestly last month, the latest sign that inflationary pressures may be easing more than a year after the Federal Reserve unleashed an aggressive campaign of steadily higher interest rates. From March to April, the government’s producer price index rose

NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of rare photos and other images from the archives of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will be featured in “Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine,” coming out this fall. The new release also will include dozens of essays, with novelist Michael Ondaatje, critic Greil Marcus and former U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is formally recognizing 21 Coptic Orthodox workers who were beheaded by Islamic militants in Libya as martyrs. Pope Francis announced the inscription of the workers in the Roman Martyrology, the compendium of saints celebrated liturgically in the Catholic Church. He made the announcement during

BERLIN (AP) — A man opened fire at a Mercedes-Benz factory in southwestern Germany on Thursday, leaving two people dead, authorities and the company said. The shooting occurred in Sindelfingen, a city near Stuttgart. The suspect, a 53-year-old man, was taken into custody, a spokesman for the Stuttgart prosecutor’s office said. Police received the first

By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro’s state-owned media says that a trial has opened in the country against Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon and another citizen of South Korea. RTCG television reported that they are charged in the Balkan country with using forged identification documents. The two men were in court

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Jacklyn Zeman, who became one of the most recognizable actors on daytime television during 45 years of playing Bobbie Spencer on ABC’s “General Hospital,” has died. She was 70. Zeman died after a short battle with cancer, her family confirmed Wednesday. News of her death was first announced by the

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans filing for jobless claims last week rose to its highest level in four months, though the labor market remains healthy by historical standards. The Labor Department reported Thursday that applications for unemployment benefits for the week ending May 6 rose by 22,000 to 264,000. That’s

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and FRANKLIN BRICENO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s government that it will allow the extradition to the United States of the prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway on the Dutch Caribbean Island of Aruba, bringing her family hope there will be justice in