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By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has rejected a request by lawyers for former President Donald Trump to delay progression of a defamation lawsuit while an appeals court decides if the United States can be substituted as the defendant. A Manhattan federal judge issued a denial Wednesday of the request

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors at the sex trafficking trial of R. Kelly have played video and audio recordings for the jury they say back up allegations he abused women and girls. Jurors listened to the tapes on Wednesday in federal court in Brooklyn using headphones. The press and public weren’t

By DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer Los Angeles County’s board of supervisors voted unanimously on Wednesday to phase out oil and gas drilling and ban new drill sites in the unincorporated areas of the county. Over 1,600 active and idle oil and gas wells in the county could be shuttered as a result. The sites

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An Australian man who pleaded guilty to securities fraud for cheating investors in his cryptocurrency fund of over $50 million has been sentenced to over seven years in prison. U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni imposed the sentence Wednesday on 24-year-old Stefan He Qin after saying

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A man previously described by U.S. authorities as the world’s most prolific purveyor of child pornography has been sentenced to 27 years in federal prison. Eric Eoin Marques was arrested in Ireland in 2013. The 36-year-old created and operated computer servers on the dark web that

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration says federal protections may need to be restored for gray wolves in the western U.S. after Republican-led states made it much easier to kill the predators. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday that the region’s wolves face new potential perils, after

By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press/Report for America NAMBÉ, N.M. (AP) — Tesla has sidestepped car dealership laws by setting up shop on Native American land for the first time. The move in New Mexico could be a model for Tesla’s efforts to sell in other states that require car companies to sell through dealerships. The

By MICHAEL TARM Associated Press YORKVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Lawyers say once powerful former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and a man who accused him of child sexual abuse have reached a tentative out-of-court settlement over Hastert’s refusal to pay $1.8 million in exchange for the man’s silence. The lawyers would not release details of

By AAMER MADHANI and JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced that the United States is forming a new Indo-Pacific security alliance with Britain and Australia that will allow for greater sharing of defense capabilities — including helping equip Australia with nuclear-powered submarines. It’s a move that could deepen a

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri inmate who admitted to a long-unsolved killing while serving time for robbery says he confessed to the crime because his conscience was nagging him. DeAngelo Thomas says he felt relief when he penned his admission from his Missouri prison cell. “Just like a weight lifted on my shoulder,” he

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s “build back” agenda is poised to be the most far-reaching federal investment since FDR’s New Deal or LBJ’s Great Society. The prodigious effort to tax the rich and shift money into projects and programs would touch the lives of nearly every American. As

NEW YORK (AP) — Jaap van Zweden will leave the New York Philharmonic at the end of the 2023-24 season after six years as music director, the shortest tenure of anyone in a half-century. Van Zweden cited the coronavirus pandemic as causing him to change priorities. He informed the orchestra at the end of a