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By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Port of Los Angeles is on track to move a record volume of import cargo this year. Officials at the nation’s busiest port expect to hit the new mark, even as they struggle to clear a backup of ship traffic and ease supply chain

By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Blackhawks have settled a lawsuit by a former player who said he was sexually assaulted by an assistant coach during the team’s run to the 2010 Stanley Cup title. After representatives for the Blackhawks and former first-round pick Kyle Beach met with a mediator

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s congress has voted to strip a politician accused of making a deal with the country’s powerful street gangs of the legislative immunity that had prevented his prosecution. Sixty-six of the Legislative Assembly’s 84 lawmakers voted Wednesday to support the attorney general’s petition to open Norman Quijano to

By JOHN ANTCZAK and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California has emerged largely unscathed from drenching rainfall and heavy snow in the mountains as it prepares for a weaker round of storms likely to bring more relief to the drought-stricken state. Parts of the state were mopping up Wednesday from small mudslides

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Enbridge Energy is trying to shift to federal court a Michigan lawsuit seeking shutdown of an oil pipeline that runs beneath a channel linking two of the Great Lakes. Attorney General Dana Nessel filed suit in 2019, arguing that Enbridge’s Line 5 should not

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has pleaded guilty to a federal count alleging he willfully deprived George Floyd of his rights during the May 25, 2020, arrest that led to the Black man’s death. It means that Chauvin admitted for the first time that

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a Tennessee man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of an off-duty police officer in 2015. The U.S. Marshals Service and the Shelby County district attorney’s office said Wednesday that 42-year-old Lorenzo Clark was arrested at a home after he was indicted on a charge of second-degree murder

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell responded to surging inflation by counseling patience and stressing that the Fed wanted to see unemployment return to near-pre-pandemic levels before it would raise interest rates. But on Wednesday, Powell suggested that his patience has run out. High inflation