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Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italy’s culture minister has resigned, days after tearfully acknowledging an affair with a ministry consultant that embarrassed Premier Giorgia Meloni’s government. After standing by him for nearly two weeks as the scandal brewed, Meloni accepted the resignation of Gennaro Sangiuliano, calling him “an honest man.”  Beyond the affair, the scandal

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for talks next week in Washington that are expected to touch on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. Next Friday’s meeting with the leader of one of America’s closest allies comes as Biden looks to step up engagement on the international stage

AP Technology Writer A federal judge on Friday gave the U.S. Justice Department until the end of the year to outline how Google should be punished for illegally monopolizing the internet search market and then prepare to present its case for imposing the penalties next spring. The loose-ended timeline sketched out by U.S. District Judge

WHITEWATER, Wis. (AP) — A 23-year-old man has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the fatal shooting of a national gymnastics champion in his apartment near the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater campus. Chad Richards made an initial appearance Friday via video in Walworth County Court. A criminal complaint says 21-year-old Kara Welsh suffered multiple gunshot

JOPPA, Md. (AP) — Authorities say a student at a Maryland high school has died after being shot by another student during a dispute in a bathroom at Joppatowne High School. Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler identified the victim in Friday’s shooting as 15-year-old Warren Curtis Grant. They identified the shooter as a 16-year-old fellow

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man whose courtroom leap and attack on a judge in Las Vegas was recorded on video has pleaded guilty but mentally ill to attempted murder and other charges. Deobra Redden ended his trial Thursday after Judge Mary Kay Holthus testified that she feared for her life when Redden leaped over

Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s governor says there has been a huge jump in law enforcement requests for Maine courts to allow guns to be seized from people deemed a danger to themselves or others since the deadliest mass shooting in state history. Maine’s extreme risk protection order law was strengthened after an

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Samuel Alito has reported that he accepted $900 worth of concert tickets from a German princess, but disclosed no trips paid for by other people. His new financial disclosure form doesn’t include details of the event tickets gifted by socialite Gloria von Thurn und Taxis of Germany. Alito didn’t

Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Critics have found a skeleton in the closet almost as soon as Michel Barnier was named France’s new prime minister. Back in 1981, when he was a 30-year-old lawmaker, Barnier was among more than 150 conservatives in the National Assembly who voted against a law that decriminalized young homosexuals. That

Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge says an abortion-rights campaign didn’t meet legal requirements to qualify for the November ballot. But Cole County Circuit Judge Christopher Limbaugh on Friday stopped short of removing the proposal from November’s ballot. Instead, he gave the campaign a chance to appeal before a Tuesday deadline

Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney, a lifelong Republican, will vote for Kamala Harris for president, he announced Friday. Liz Cheney, who herself endorsed Harris on Wednesday, first announced her father’s endorsement when asked by Mark Leibovich of The Atlantic magazine during an onstage interview at The Texas Tribune Festival

GENEVA (AP) — Helicopter crews ferried down scores of tourists stranded atop of one of Switzerland’s most popular mountain resorts on Friday after a mudslide a day earlier cut off road access until next week. Teams from Air Zermatt rescue and helicopter service led the operation to evacuate the tourists caught at the Saas Fee

AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Pierre is a star in the making, and Jeremy Saulnier’s new Netflix thriller, “Rebel Ridge,” shows you why. This December, Pierre will also voice Mufasa in “The Lion King.” Though Pierre has been seen in a number of earlier films and series, “Rebel Ridge” is his first

ATLANTA (AP) — An autopsy has been performed on rapper Rich Homie Quan, but his cause of death won’t be given until further tests are completed. Georgia’s Fulton County Medical Examiner said the autopsy was done Friday, a day after the rapper died at a hospital in his hometown of Atlanta at age 33. The

ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) — A single-engine plane traveling from Iowa to Indiana crashed in a central Indiana cornfield Friday, killing everyone on board, authorities said. The plane left Fort Dodge, Iowa, just after 6:45 a.m. and was projected to land at Anderson Municipal Airport, about 9:55 a.m. but crashed into a nearby cornfield, said Capt.

Associated Press/Report For America MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The mayor of Alabama’s state capital has signed a local ordinance into law requiring anyone carrying a concealed firearm to also carry a photo ID. The new Montgomery ordinance drew immediate outrage from state GOP officials who had supported a 2023 law granting gun owners the right

Associated Press LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Although it has been nearly four years since hurricanes Laura and Delta decimated southwest Louisiana and caused an estimated $22 billion in damage nationwide, some residents say they are still far from recovery. Delays in Congress and a lengthy process to approve federal funding forced people in a