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By TAMMY WEBBER, MICHAEL TARM and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A friend of Kyle Rittenhouse testified that the Illinois teen was “freaking out” and “really scared” in the moments after he shot three people during street protests against racial justice, and that Rittenhouse told him he had to do it because

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Candidates for Virginia’s statewide down-ballot offices are engaged in tight races. The Democratic candidates were slightly trailing their GOP rivals early Wednesday, with some races too early to call. But Republicans were claiming a sweep. Voters electing the lieutenant governor chose between two women, guaranteeing

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former police captain Eric Adams easily won the race for New York mayor, and Boston elected its first woman and Asian American to the city’s top job. The results emerged Tuesday after voters across the U.S. picked local leaders who were largely defined by their

By BEN WALKER AP Baseball Writer HOUSTON (AP) — The Atlanta Braves have won their first World Series championship since 1995, hammering the Houston Astros 7-0 in Game 6. Jorge Soler hit his third home run of the Series, and Freddie Freeman and Dansby Swanson also connected. Max Fried threw six innings in the signature

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Moderate candidates were leading in early Seattle election returns following a months-long debate about how to address the city’s problems of homelessness, policing and racial and economic injustice. In the mayor’s race Tuesday, Bruce Harrell, a former City Council president, was ahead of current City Council President

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares are mostly lower in Asia, weighed down by concerns over disrupted supply chains and shipping, despite the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s first close above 36,000 points. Tokyo markets were closed for a holiday. On Tuesday, the Dow added 0.4%, the broader S&P 500 also added 0.4% and the

By TERRY TANG Associated Press Two major U.S. cities have elected their first Asian American mayor and a third could join them. Boston’s next mayor will be Michelle Wu. The city’s first Asian American city councilor beat Annissa Essaibi George, who is Arab Polish American. In Cincinnati, Aftab Pureval, who is of Tibetan and Indian

By WILL WEISSERT and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Tight races for governor were unfolding in Virginia and New Jersey late Tuesday with the Democratic candidates narrowly trailing their Republican rivals in states that President Joe Biden easily captured a year ago. Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin were locked in

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The University of California Hastings College of the Law wants to remove the name of its founder, who sponsored massacres of Native Americans in the 1850s. The Board of Directors voted Tuesday to have the college work with state lawmakers and others to remove the name. Hastings college was founded in