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By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s chief auditor says he plans to audit the state’s supervision of the secret services following revelations of illegal surveillance of government critics with powerful spyware. Marian Banas, president of the Supreme Audit Office, an independent institution charged with ensuring public funds are spent properly, spoke

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Connecticut opera singer who drew law enforcement fire when she sped through a checkpoint outside then-President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida has been found not guilty by reason of insanity. Florida prosecutors accepted Hannah Roemhild’s plea during a brief hearing Tuesday with the

By HASSAN BARISE Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The Somali National News Agency reports that at least four people have been killed and 10 others wounded in Somalia’s capital when a man detonated an explosive vest in a teashop. The teashop is located opposite a Somali military training camp in Mogadishu and frequented by

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — An investigating judge in Lebanon has ordered the freezing of some assets belonging to the country’s central bank governor. Tuesday’s move is the latest against the governor, Riad Salameh, as he faces allegations of corruption and dereliction of duty during Lebanon’s ongoing economic meltdown. A judge

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The airline industry is raising the stakes in a showdown with AT&T and Verizon over the telecom companies’ plan to launch new 5G wireless service this week, warning that thousands of flights could be grounded or delayed if the rollout takes place near major airports. CEOs of the nation’s

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration plans to significantly increase efforts to stave off catastrophic wildfires that have been torching areas of the U.S. West by more aggressively thinning forests around areas where nature and neighborhoods collide. Officials have crafted a $50 billion plan to more than double the

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Microsoft is paying the enormous sum of nearly $70 billion for Activision Blizzard, the maker of Candy Crush and Call of Duty, a deal that would immediately make it a larger video-game company than Nintendo while raising questions about the deal’s possible anti-competitive effects. The all-cash $68.7 billion deal

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Data show it’s rare for police officers to be convicted of on-duty killings. But three recent convictions of police officers in Minnesota have some people wondering whether that’s changing. Legal experts say maybe. But it’s complicated. It depends largely on the strength of evidence. But experts also

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former Attorney General William P. Barr has a memoir coming out in March. It’s titled “One Damn Thing After Another” and is billed by his publisher as a vivid and forthright account of his time serving two very different presidents Donald Trump and George H.W.

LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of mourners in Ireland have turned out for the funeral Mass of a 23-year-old elementary school teacher whose killing has reignited debate about how to tackle violence against women. The body of Ashling Murphy, a musician and teacher, was found on the banks of a canal near the town of Tullamore