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By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers are demanding that the judge in his New York City criminal case step aside, echoing the former president’s complaints that he’s “a Trump-hating judge” with a family full of “Trump haters.” Trump’s lawyers said Friday that Judge Juan Manuel Merchan has shown

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A building under construction near the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, partially collapsed Friday when a concrete pour went awry, injuring eight people including two critically, city officials said, adding there were no fatalities. City firefighters and other authorities were called to Lafayette Street shortly after 12:30

By SUSIE BLANN and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that the United States and its allies should not support a cease-fire or peace talks to end the war in Ukraine until Kyiv gains strength and can negotiate on its own terms. As an anticipated

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A building under construction near the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven partially collapsed Friday when a concrete pour went awry, injuring seven people including two critically, city officials said, adding there were no fatalities. City firefighters and other authorities were called to Lafayette Street shortly after 12:30 p.m.

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are rushing higher Friday after a strong report on the U.S. job market suggested a recession may not be as close as Wall Street had feared. The S&P 500 was 1.6% higher in late trading, the latest surge in a rally that’s propelled it

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge has granted bond for three activists involved in supporting the protest against a planned police and fire training center in Atlanta that opponents have derisively dubbed “Cop City.” Adele MacLean, Marlon Scott Kautz, and Savannah Patterson were arrested Wednesday on charges of charities fraud and

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Three chemical companies said Friday they had reached a $1.18 billion deal to resolve complaints of polluting many U.S. drinking water systems with potentially harmful compounds known as PFAS. DuPont de Nemours Inc., The Chemours Co. and Corteva Inc. said they would establish a

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Scores of residents from Canada’s Atlantic Coast province of Nova Scotia whose homes have been destroyed by wildfires boarded buses to get a look at what little remains of where they used to live. The region’s executive director of community safety says about 200 people would be part of the

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Two passenger trains derailed Friday in India, killing at least 50 people and trapping hundreds of others inside more than a dozen damaged rail cars, officials said. About 400 people were taken to hospitals after the accident, which happened in eastern India, about 220 kilometers (137

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man charged with fatally shooting an Indianapolis police officer in 2020 will be allowed to seek insanity as a defense as he tries to avoid the death penalty. A judge made the ruling Friday and will assign psychiatrists to evaluate Elliahs Dorsey’s mental health. Attorneys for Dorsey filed a motion with