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By JAMIE STENGLE and JILL BLEED Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a student opened fire inside a Dallas-area high school during a fight, injuring four people before he fled. The shooting happened Wednesday morning at Timberview High School in Arlington, which is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. Arlington Assistant Police

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s Holocaust memorial center has revealed the names of 159 Nazi SS troops who took part in the killing of Jews during the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine eight decades after one of the most infamous Nazi mass slaughters of World War II. Nearly 34,000 Jews

By LISA MASCARO, JONATHAN LEMIRE and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is escalating his campaign to get Congress to lift the federal debt limit. He will host business leaders at the White House on Wednesday and is warning that failure to extend the government’s borrowing authority could set off a

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma prosecutor is again asking the state Supreme Court to remove two members of the Pardon and Parole Board from the case of a high-profile death row inmate. District Attorney David Prater on Monday filed a motion to remove Kelly Doyle and Andrew Luck from

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Negotiating Medicare drug prices is a linchpin of President Joe Biden’s ambitious health care agenda. But Congress barred the program from negotiating with drugmakers when it created the prescription benefit. That was nearly 20 years ago, and medicines costing $100,000 a year were rare. Now Biden and

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization has recommended that the world’s first malaria vaccine be given to children across Africa, in a move officials hope will spur stalled efforts to curb the spread of the parasitic disease. Following a meeting of the United Nations health agency’s vaccine advisory

By WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Tens of thousands of Palestinians have lined up outside chambers of commerce across the Gaza Strip, hoping to get permits to work inside Israel. The rush came after rumors circulated that more would be issued to residents of the coastal territory, which is ruled

By DAVID PORTER Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A serial killer has been sentenced to 160 years after friends of one victim used fake social media accounts to lure the suspect and turn him in to police. Khalil Wheeler-Weaver was sentenced Wednesday in Newark, New Jersey, for killing three women and trying to kill

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is restoring federal regulations guiding environmental reviews of major infrastructure projects such as highways and pipelines. It’s the latest reversal of a Trump-era environmental rollback. The White House Council on Environmental Quality said Wednesday it will restore key provisions of the National Environmental Policy

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is apologizing for traveling for a vacation on a day meant to honor Indigenous survivors of Canada’s residential schools system. The newly reelected prime minister has faced intense criticism for Sept. 30 trip after he was filmed on a beach on Vancouver island.