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By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JAKE OFFENHARTZ, COLLEEN LONG and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The first week of testimony in Donald Trump’s hush money trial was the scene-setter for jurors. This week, prosecutors are working on filling in the details of how they say he pulled off a scheme to bury

By JIM SALTER Associated Press The Missouri Supreme Court has taken the unusual step of striking down a 2022 voter-approved constitutional amendment that required Kansas City to spend a larger percentage of its money on the police department, and ordered that the issue go back before voters in November. Democratic Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s Republican-led Legislature will not take final votes on two bills that attempted to restrict legal recognition of transgender people. The bills died quietly when House and Senate leaders failed to agree on compromise versions before a Monday night deadline. Lawmakers were working on several

NEW YORK (AP) — Witness testimony in Donald Trump’s criminal trial has advanced with three people taking the stand, including Stormy Daniels’ former lawyer, Keith Davidson. Before witness testimony resumed Tuesday, the judge in the case found that Trump violated his gag order and fined him $9,000 over online posts. Charges in the case center

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer At least a dozen people in California and Washington have been sickened with E. coli food poisoning linked to organic walnuts sold in bulk in 19 states, U.S. health officials said Tuesday. The nuts were sold in natural food and co-op stores such as Whole Foods and Market of

WHITE SANDS NATIONAL PARK, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say an F-16 fighter jet has crashed west of Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico and the pilot safely ejected. Base officials say the Fighting Falcon went down shortly before noon Tueasdy near White Sands National Park. They say the pilot was the only person aboard

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Several transgender, intersex and nonbinary Arkansas residents are suing the state over its decision to no longer allow “X” to be listed instead of male or female on state-issued driver’s licenses and identification cards. The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas filed the suit on

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Tuesday announced an investigation into the federal funding for universities where students have protested the Israel-Hamas war, broadening a campaign that has placed heavy scrutiny on how presidents at the nation’s most prestigious colleges have dealt with reports of antisemitism on campus. Several House

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Iditarod says mushers who finish the race next year will guide their dog teams under a new burled arch finish line. The current arch collapsed in Nome on Saturday night, likely after salty air blowing in from the nearby Bering Strait caused wood rot. The

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There are two things to keep in mind while being burned alive for a movie scene. The first, says stunt performer Ben Jenkin, is not to breathe in a flame. That would be bad. Jenkin was reminded of that over and over before doing his

By ZEKE MILLER, JOSHUA GOODMAN, JIM MUSTIAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country. The proposal,

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida is on the verge of repealing what’s left of a 16-year-old law that puts climate change as a priority when making energy policy decisions. Instead, a bill waiting for Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signature would make energy affordability and availability the main focus. The bill

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press Galena, a 6-year-old house cat from Utah, likes hiding and playing with cardboard. Earlier this month, the combination of the two made for a stressful trip in an Amazon package, feverish searching, a California rescue and a tearful reunion. Her family is still waiting to “reintroduce cardboard to her

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Mike Tyson’s fight against Jake Paul in Texas this summer has been sanctioned as a competitive boxing match rather than an exhibition. The rounds will be shorter and the gloves will be heavier. The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation this week approved terms for the July 20 fight at AT&T

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — More worries about inflation and interest rates staying high knocked U.S. stocks lower on Tuesday, as the market closed out its worst month since September. The S&P 500 tumbled 1.6% to cement its first losing month in the last six. Its momentum slammed into reverse

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press Best-selling novelist Amy Tan of “The Joy Luck Club” fame combines entries from her nature journal with astonishing illustrations thanks to lessons in bird illustration in “The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” to share a birdwatching obsession that dates back to before the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s among recent books grabbing onto the

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Armed men burst into a hospital in central Mexico and killed a patient who was being treated for a previous gunshot wound. Prosecutors in the state of Morelos, just south of Mexico City, said the attack occurred early Tuesday. The killers made their way into an intensive care ward and shot