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BOSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are investigating whether the police department in Massachusetts’ second largest city routinely uses excessive force or discriminates against residents based on race or gender. The U.S. attorney’s office in Boston announced the civil investigation Tuesday into the Worcester Police Department. Worcester has roughly 200,000 residents, and Census Bureau statistics show

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Thousands of text messages sent from Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s city-issued iPhone are missing from the public record. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports that Wheeler’s phone often used a text message setting that makes it impossible for archiving software to capture the messages. The outlet reports that Wheeler was frequently reminded to

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Republican challenger to Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada is conceding that he lost the election and won’t contest the result. GOP candidate Adam Laxalt said Tuesday that any challenge of the results would not alter the ultimate outcome. But in Twitter and email

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is asking Congress to provide more than $37 billion in emergency aid to Ukraine. The funding request comes as lawmakers begin their post-election session. The request also includes $9.25 billion to combat a possible COVID-19 winter surge. The latest funding request for Ukraine is

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A police commander at the scene of the Uvalde massacre was informed that children were alive in a classroom with the gunman more than 30 minutes before officers breached the room. A dispatcher can be heard on audio recordings obtained by CNN telling the acting city police chief that there were

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A small business lobbying group has filed suit to block the Treasury Department’s upcoming requirement that tens of millions of small businesses register with the government as part of an effort to prevent the criminal abuse of anonymous shell companies. The National Small Business Association argues that

By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leader Kevin McCarthy cleared the first major step Tuesday toward becoming House speaker, winning the nomination on a vote by his GOP colleagues, but he now faces a weeks-long slog to quell objections from his right flank before a final vote. McCarthy has

By SEUNG MIN KIM, ZEKE MILLER and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — Leaders of most of the world’s economic powers are nearing approval of a declaration strongly denouncing Russia’s invasion that has devastated Ukraine and roiled the global economy. Even China, which has mostly declined to censure Russia until now, and

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian authorities say four people drowned and two are missing after the inflatable boat they were on sank off the coast of Tunisia after departing for Europe. Amid a protracted economic and social crisis in Tunisia, more and more young people and sometimes entire families are trying to cross the Mediterranean

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A year after Novak Djokovic’s high-profile deportation from Australia because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19, the 21-time Grand Slam champion is set to be granted a visa to enter the country so he can compete at the Australian Open in January. The Australian Broadcasting Corp. said Tuesday it had confirmed

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Four University of Idaho students found dead in an off-campus home were targeted, and the killer or killers used a knife or other “edged weapon” in the attack, police said Tuesday. The Moscow Police Department made the announcement in a news release, adding that investigators were

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock’s campaign and Democratic groups are suing the state of Georgia to overturn guidance by Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that counties can’t offer Saturday voting ahead of next month’s Senate runoff election. The lawsuit was filed late Monday and challenges the state’s

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia pounded Ukraine’s energy facilities Tuesday with its biggest barrage of missiles yet, striking targets from east to west and causing widespread blackouts. A defiant President Volodymr Zelenskyy shook his fist and declared: “We will survive everything.” Neighboring Moldova was also affected. It reported massive power

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Beyoncé has propelled herself into the highest Grammy echelon: The star singer claimed a leading nine nominations Tuesday, making her tied — with her husband Jay-Z — as the most nominated music act in the history of the awards show. Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul”

By HANK KURZ Jr. and BEN FINLEY Associated Press CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Three University of Virginia football players killed in an on-campus shooting are being remembered by head football coach Tony Elliott as “incredible young men with huge aspirations and extremely bright futures.” Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr., and D’Sean Perry were returning from

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Officials say a Palestinian killed three Israelis and wounded three others in a settlement in the occupied West Bank before he was shot and killed by Israeli security personnel. The Zaka paramedic service confirmed the three were killed in the settlement of Ariel on Tuesday. The

By ED WHITE and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors said they’ll seek a life sentence with no chance for parole for a 16-year-old boy who killed four fellow students at a Michigan school and pleaded guilty to murder and terrorism. They disclosed their plans in a court filing Monday, three weeks after

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldova has reported “massive power outages across the country” after Russian military strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure downed a key power line that supplies the small nation. Moldova’s infrastructure minister made the announcement in a statement Tuesday. The minister noted that the downed power lines “were not damaged, but were automatically

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A University of Virginia spokesperson has confirmed that a student who went on a field trip to see a play with classmates is the one suspected of opening fire inside the bus they were riding in when the group returned to campus. Spokesperson Brian Coy says

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Investigators are looking for a suspect in the deaths of four University of Idaho students whose bodies were found at an off-campus home during the weekend, a newspaper reported. Authorities in the city of Moscow, Idaho, have released little information about the deaths, including the cause,