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By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is in talks to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to each child and parent who was separated under a Trump-era practice of splitting families at the border. The Wall Street Journal first reported that the government was considering payments around $450,000

By FIRDIA LISNAWATI and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — An American woman convicted of helping to kill her mother on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali has walked free from prison. Heather Mack was released Friday after serving seven years of a 10-year sentence. She was almost 19 and a few weeks pregnant

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California judge has declined to validate a contract granting permanent access to federally controlled water for the nation’s largest agricultural water supplier. A state court needs to approve the deal for the U.S. government to be bound by its terms. Environmentalists had blasted the deal

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A new study says endangered California condors can have “’virgin births.” Researchers with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance say genetic testing confirmed that two male chicks hatched from unfertilized eggs in 2001 and 2009 were related to their mothers. Neither was related to a male. It’s the first report of

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Joel Quenneville resigned as coach of the Florida Panthers on Thursday, two days after the second-winningest coach in NHL history was among those implicated for not swiftly responding to allegations by a Chicago Blackhawks player of being sexually assaulted by another coach during the 2010

By BEN FOX Associated Press FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — A Guantanamo Bay prisoner who went through the brutal U.S. government interrogation program after the 9/11 attacks has described it openly for the first time. Majid Khan described for a military jury in grim detail how he was left terrified and hallucinating from techniques that

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press PURCELLVILLE, Va. (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence has hailed activist parents in suburban Washington who are decrying school curriculums as un-American. He declared Thursday that instruction about the effects of institutional racism has left children “being taught to be ashamed of their skin color.” The fight over schools

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma has executed a man who stabbed a prison cafeteria worker to death in 1998 in the state’s first lethal injection following a six-year moratorium. Sixty-year-old John Marion Grant began convulsing and vomiting shortly after the first drug, midazolam, was administered. He was declared dead about

PHOENIX (AP) — Services for former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods have been set for next month. His wife, Marlene Galan Woods, announced Thursday that Cindy McCain and retired NBA star Charles Barkley are among those who will eulogize Woods at the Nov. 12 celebration of life. The service will be held at 10 a.m.

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta says Africa is at a crossroads, poised on one hand to reap the economic benefits of its youthful population and economic reforms but facing the spread of terrorism and insurgency on the other that are challenging almost all 54 nations on

By JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press ROME (AP) — President Joe Biden promised to show the world that democracies can work to meet the challenges of the 21st century. As he prepares to push that message at a pair of global summits, his case could hinge on what’s happening in Washington, where he