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By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — DeAnna Mireau reached into a container and fished out a scrap of paper. “The next one is — do we have a drumroll?” she called out to a room crowded with some two dozen older adults and a half-dozen journalists. “Justice! Justice for all.” Nobody stirred,

By DAVE COLLINS and JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones appears on the brink of losing the Infowars media platform that he turned into a multimillion-dollar moneymaker over the past 25 years, as a bankruptcy judge is set to rule on whether to liquidate his assets to help

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press BARI, Italy (AP) — Leaders of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations turned their attention to migration at the start of the second day of their summit Friday, seeking ways to combat trafficking and increase investment in countries from where migrants start out on often life-threatening journeys. The gathering

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland will host scores of world leaders this weekend to try to map out first steps toward peace in Ukraine even though Russia, which launched the ongoing war, won’t take part. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government didn’t want Russia involved, and the Swiss — aware of Moscow’s

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Following their leaders who got them this far in the playoffs and a winning recipe that has worked all season, the Florida Panthers are on the verge of lifting the Stanley Cup. Captain Aleksander Barkov set up a goal and scored another, Sergei Bobrovsky made

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. says the Iranian-backed Houthis launched two anti-ship cruise missiles and struck a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden off Yemen, setting it on fire and severely injuring one civilian mariner. U.S. Central Command says the M/V Verbena was still ablaze and

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials say U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich, jailed in Russia for over a year on espionage charges, will stand trial in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg. Russia’s Prosecutor General’s office said Thursday an indictment of the Wall Street Journal reporter has been finalized and his case was filed to a regional

By GONZALO SOLANO Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Officials in one of Ecuador’s most dangerous cities are acknowledging a building of unidentified and unclaimed bodies beyond the capacity of Guayaquil’s main morgue. The statement Thursday came after media reports that about 200 bodies in excess of the morgue’s capacity had accumulated and a refrigeration

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration’s new Title IX rule expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students has been temporarily blocked in four states after a federal judge in Louisiana found that it overstepped the Education Department’s authority. In a preliminary injunction granted Thursday, U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty called

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An Army health official told a panel investigating a mass shooting by a reservist experiencing a psychiatric crisis that there are health care differences for Army reservists that could limit the flow of information to commanders. Col. Mark Ochoa says Thursday that there are no Army

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York Police Department inspector has been indicted on charges that he lied to investigators and tried to get incriminating video footage erased after his girlfriend drunkenly crashed his police car into a cab. Manhattan prosecutors say Deputy Inspector Paul Zangrilli tried to cover up the 2022 wreck by switching

NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Bennett’s two daughters are suing their brother, alleging he mishandled and failed to disclose some of their father’s assets in his role as trustee of the late singer ‘s estate. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York by Antonia and Johanna Bennett accuses D’Andrea “Danny” Bennett of not accounting for

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Texas man has been charged with allegedly threatening an FBI special agent who had been involved in an investigation into the dissemination of personal data from Hunter Biden’s laptop. Timothy Muller was arrested Thursday. Federal prosecutors say he allegedly called the FBI agent on Tuesday shortly after a federal

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer PINEHURST, N.C. (AP) — Rory McIlroy sent his 20-foot birdie putt on its way at the 18th hole Thursday and started walking toward the cup when the ball was still some 6 feet away from falling. It looked like the walk of a four-time major champion in control of