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By DEEPTI HAJELA and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As the world waits to see whether a grand jury indicts former President Donald Trump, crowds of reporters have gathered outside a courthouse in lower Manhattan. The long wait has brought out onlookers and demonstrators too. But not everyone is caught up

LONDON (AP) — British police say a man arrested on suspicion of setting a man on fire in the central English city of Birmingham has been linked to a similar attack in London last month. Police arrested a suspect Tuesday in Birmingham after a man walking home from a mosque was approached and sprayed with

LAKE WORTH, Fla. (AP) — Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, whose testimony against his own gang helped convict two high-ranking members, was assaulted by several people at a gym in Florida, officials said Wednesday. An “altercation between several individuals” brought Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies to an LA Fitness outlet in Lake Worth on Tuesday night, the

By JOCELYN GECKER and COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Bus drivers shuttle America’s children to schools where cafeteria workers feed them and teacher aides assist students who need the most help. And their pay is notoriously low. School support staffers earn, on average, about $25,000 a year in Los Angeles, barely

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A 5,000-mile seaweed belt lurking in the Atlantic Ocean is expected in the next few months to wash onto beaches in the Caribbean Sea, South Florida, and the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt — as the biomass stretching from West Africa to the

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has insisted “hand on heart” that he did not lie to lawmakers about government parties during the COVID-19 pandemic. The House of Commons standards committee questioned Johnson on Wednesday over misleading statements he made to Parliament about a slew of parties

By PAUL WISEMAN and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Only 10% of U.S. adults say they have significant confidence in the nation’s banks and financial institutions, a new poll finds. That is down from the 22% who said they had high confidence in banks in 2020. The poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Israeli and Polish foreign ministers have met in a step that they are hailing as a breakthrough in restoring a relationship that’s been badly damaged for years due to disagreements over how to remember Polish behavior during the Holocaust. The ministers signed an agreement on

BOSTON (AP) — A Boston pizza shop owner accused by federal authorities of abusing employees who were not legally in the U.S. has been ordered held without bail. A magistrate judge cited a history of violence and threats in Tuesday’s detention order for Stavros Papantoniadis. He’s been charged with forced labor, and federal prosecutors say

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press Defense lawyers say a former truck driver about to face trial for shooting to death congregants in a Pittsburgh synagogue more than four years ago has schizophrenia and structural and functional brain impairments. Lawyers for Robert Bowers told a federal judge in a court filing this week that they are