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By ANGELO FICHERA and SOPHIA TULP Associated Press Jake West was a seemingly healthy 17-year-old before he collapsed during football practice and died of sudden cardiac arrest. It happened in 2013, years before the coronavirus pandemic — but that hasn’t stopped headlines about his death from being misappropriated in a widely shared video seeking to

By PETER SMITH and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press All the former hostages from a U.S.-based missionary group kidnapped in Haiti have been flown out of the country after a two-month ordeal and are “doing reasonably well.” That’s according to a statement Friday by the head of Christian Aid Ministries, the Ohio-based missions organization. David Troyer,

FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — Time is of the essence for the Salvation Army in New Mexico now that the Grinch has thrown a wrench into the group’s holiday toy program. A van loaded with $6,000 worth of toys set to be passed out to hundreds of children on Monday was stolen this week from a

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has gotten into a testy exchange with media host Charlamagne Tha God, defending President Joe Biden from questions over roadblocks to passage of his social spending package. Harris sat for a taped interview with Charlamagne airing Friday night on Comedy Central’s “Tha God’s

By AMY FORLITI and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The suburban Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed Black motorist Daunte Wright said she’s sorry it happened. Kim Potter was the last witness Friday before the defense rested in her trial. She’s charged with manslaughter in Wright’s death during an April 11 traffic

By PATTY NIEBERG Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — The U.S. military’s new Southern Command Gen. Laura Richardson says she’s focused on strengthening military relationships with South American countries despite fraught politics. Richardson is the highest ranking female in the U.S. Army and was in Denver on Friday to speak at a graduation ceremony

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif (AP) — A lawyer for former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes on Friday capped off his attempt to convince a a jury to acquit her of fraud charges by likening her final days running the troubled blood-testing startup to a captain valiantly trying to save a sinking

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After 12 days of testimony over three weeks, jurors heard from the final witnesses in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking trial. The British socialite told the judge Friday she wouldn’t testify because she was confident prosecutors hadn’t proved their case. Closing arguments are

A school bus crashed on a rural southeast Texas road, killing an adult bus aide and injuring the driver and three students, one seriously. The Texas Department of Public Safety says the Hempstead school district bus with four students and two adults aboard rolled over at 12:10 p.m. Friday on Farm-to-Market Road 1887, about 45

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The National Labor Relations Board has confirmed a vote to form a union at a Starbucks store in Buffalo. That means the coffee retailer, for the first time, will have to bargain with organized labor at a company-owned U.S. store. The union has filed objections in