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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A man from Mexico has been sentenced to 39 years in a Michigan prison for killing his girlfriend and leaving her body along a highway. The murder last spring became a political flashpoint in the U.S. presidential race because the man was in the U.S. illegally. Ruby Garcia was found

Republican David McCormick won a Senate seat in Pennsylvania on Thursday, defeating Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and padding the GOP’s Senate majority. McCormick, 59, is a two-time Senate challenger and a former hedge fund CEO who served in former President George W. Bush’s administration. McCormick had strong support from Wall Street donors and contacts across

Associated Press ST. JOHN’S, Antigua (AP) — The government of Antigua and Barbuda is seeking help from authorities in London to solve the killing of a Parliament member who was found stabbed to death this week. The decision was taken Wednesday by Cabinet members in the death of Asot Michael, 54, a boisterous and often

AP Film Writer Megan Park is just getting started as a filmmaker. The 38-year-old writer-director of “My Old Ass,” the Sundance breakout that’s now streaming on Prime Video, came to filmmaking a little backwards. As a product of a small town in Canada, she said she didn’t even know that filmmaking was a viable career,

JERUSALEM (AP) — The French foreign ministry says armed Israeli police forced their way into a French-owned church compound in the contested city of Jerusalem, briefly detaining two consulate members and prompting the top French diplomat to abandon his planned visit to the site. The unusual incident Thursday threatened to further strain relations between Israel

The Associated Press/Report For America MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Amazon workers in Alabama will have the opportunity decide whether to unionize for the third time in three years. A federal administrative judge ruled on Tuesday that the retail giant improperly influenced the most recent election, in which employees rejected a bid to unionize. The judge

ATLANTA (AP) — Certain voters in Georgia’s third-largest county who received their absentee ballots late will have their votes counted as long as their ballots were postmarked by Election Day and are received by Friday. Cobb County, just north of Atlanta, didn’t mail out absentee ballots to some 3,400 voters who had requested them until

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian police have arrested the head of the country’s soccer federation as part of an investigation into fraud, extortion, money laundering and other crimes. Agustín Lozano is the second Peruvian soccer boss to be detained since 2018 when his predecessor was investigated for his alleged role in two murders. Lozano vowed

Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan man has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison in an investigation of a sinister online community that pressures children into acts of self-harm and sexual abuse images. The government says Richard Densmore ran chat rooms as a member of 764. That’s an international group that targets

Democratic Rep. Steven Horsford won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Nevada on Thursday. Horsford, a four-term congressman, became the first Black person to represent Nevada in Congress when he was first elected to the House. This year, he defeated former North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee. The district stretches north from Las Vegas,

Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming officials are proceeding with selling a spectacular, pristine piece of state property within Grand Teton National Park to the federal government for $100 million. A 3-2 vote on Thursday by the state’s top five elected officials ends decades of threats to sell the square-mile parcel to the highest-bidding