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By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Turkey’s deputy president says his country is “not afraid of anyone” and won’t be deterred from continuing drilling for oil and gas in disputed waters that have been a source of tension between Ankara and ethnically-divided Cyprus. Deputy President Fuat Oktay made the comments Monday during

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A Connecticut judge has found Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones liable for damages in lawsuits brought by parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The parents of several children sued Jones over his claims that the massacre was a hoax. Judge Barbara Bellis took

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lawmakers have moved to subpoena a document and a former state employee at the center of questions about whether Gov. Kristi Noem used her influence to aid her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license. The Legislature’s Government Operations and Audit Committee

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson has joined the parents of Ahmaud Arbery in court for the trial of three white men charged with murdering their son. Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley declined a request by defense attorney Kevin Gough to have Jackson leave the courtroom. The 25-year-old

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The trial has begun for a man who is charged with killing 18 older women in Dallas and its suburbs over a two-year span. Billy Chemirmir is being tried in Dallas in one of the deaths. The 48-year-old faces life in prison without parole if convicted of

By BERENICE BAUTISTA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Maná will return to its second home with a concert residency at The Forum in Los Angeles next year. The rock band, which that already holds the record for the most concerts in a year at the Forum, says it is not focused on breaking records

By GRANT SCHULTE Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska will likely be facing two opponents in the 2022 election: a progressive Democrat with a lot of support in the state’s second-largest city, and a federal prosecutor in California who has accused him of lying to the FBI. Democratic state

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned of a “blizzard” of new coronavirus infections coming into the U.K. from continental Europe this winter. His warning came as the independent body of scientists that makes vaccine recommendations to Johnson’s government said people aged 40 to 49 will also

By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government has increased the terror level to severe, meaning an attack is highly likely. The decision follows an taxi explosion in Liverpool on Sunday that killed a man. Home Secretary Priti Patel said the terror threat level had been raised because there

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson has joined the parents of Ahmaud Arberry in court as testimony continues in the murder trial of three white men. The 25-year-old Black man was chased and gunned down in the street Feb. 23, 2020, and a cellphone video of the killing

PARIS (AP) — At least 1,500 migrants are living in tents on a muddy lot in northern France as growing numbers of people fleeing Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries seek to traverse the English Channel and reach the U.K. Aid workers say the migrants have converged on the site of a former industrial complex in