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By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras’ dominant political parties have both declared their candidates victorious in presidential elections despite electoral officials’ orders, while at some polling sites voters remained in line as crowds tussled over when to cut off voting. From their official accounts, the conservative National Party and leftist Liberty

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Actor Matthew McConaughey isn’t running for Texas governor after months of publicly flirting with the idea of becoming the latest celebrity candidate. The 52-year-old Academy Award winner said in a video posted Sunday night that political leadership was not a route he was choosing to take “at this moment.” He said

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper claims in a lawsuit against the Defense Department that material is being improperly withheld from his use as he seeks to publish an “unvarnished and candid memoir” of his time in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet. The lawsuit was filed Sunday in U.S. District Court in Washington. The

GLEN BURNIE, Md. (AP) — Police in Maryland’s Anne Arundel County say that an officer fatally shot a knife-wielding man and later found a woman who was dead inside the same home. Police said the incident in Glen Burnie began Sunday afternoon with a phone call to police. A woman said that she and a

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in northern Mexico say a drug gang was behind a shooting attack outside a city hall that killed a feminist activist and a bodyguard. The attacker also died in the shooting outside the city hall in Guaymas, in the northern border state of Sonora. The state prosecutor said Sunday that

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court says a Hispanic Iraq War veteran can revive his lawsuit over a beating by two New Orleans police officers who he says called him a “fake American.” The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Jorge Gomez on Nov. 18. Gomez says he wore

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press Weather officials are urging Northwest residents to remain alert because more rain is on the way to an area with lingering water from extreme weather from a previous storm. Everson Mayor John Perry says the Nooksack River topped Main Street in his city on Sunday afternoon. Main Street’s flooding

By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Former Florida congresswoman Carrie Meek has died at the age of 95. Meek was a Democrat and one of the first Black Floridians elected to Congress since Reconstruction. She was the grandchild of a slave and a sharecropper’s daughter. In Congress, Meek championed affirmative action,