AP National News

By FELICIA FONSECA and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The Interior Department announced Friday that it will consider revising a set of guidelines for operating two major dams on the Colorado River in the first sign of what could lead to federal action to protect the once-massive but shrinking reservoirs behind them.

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A prosecutor has announced that officers have been cleared of criminal charges in the fatal shooting of a man in an Ohio emergency room. Gary Tyack is the elected prosecutor representing Franklin County in central Ohio, home to state capital Columbus. He said Friday that a

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press Qatar has summoned the German ambassador over remarks by Germany’s interior minister, who appeared to criticize the decision to award the World Cup to the Gulf Arab nation because of its human rights record. It was the first time Qatar has summoned an ambassador following years of heavy international scrutiny

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Relentless Russian attacks on energy infrastructure prompted Ukrainian authorities on Friday to announce worsening blackouts around the country’s largest cities, with Kyiv’s mayor warning that the capital’s power grid is working in “emergency mode” with energy supplies down as much as 50% from pre-war levels. Meanwhile,

By AARON MORRISON AP National Writer Devin Allen admits that he occasionally behaved like a knucklehead, growing up in Baltimore. But he was not so irreverent as a tenth grader that he could see an image of Emmett Till’s open casket and not find it arresting. The story of the 14-year-old Black boy who was

By BARBARA ORTUTAY, TOM KRISHER and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter after a protracted legal battle and months of uncertainty. The question now is what the billionaire Tesla CEO will actually do with the social media platform. The $44 billion takeover means Twitter is becoming a private company

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.N. human rights office has condemned the killing of an anti-dam activist in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca. State prosecutors say the body of Filogonio Martínez was found Wednesday, and didn’t show signs of violence. But the office of the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights said Martínez had

MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin is planning to host the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to help broker a settlement to a conflict between the two ex-Soviet neighbors. Putin’s talks with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev were scheduled to take place at the Russian leader’s

By KEVIN FREKING, MICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The intruder who attacked Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in their San Francisco home confronted him shouting,”Where is Nancy, where is Nancy?” according to a person briefed on the situation and granted anonymity to discuss it. Paul Pelosi was attacked and severely beaten

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is imposing financial penalties on an Iranian-based organization that put a bounty on the head of British-American author Salman Rushdie, who was violently attacked in August at a literary event. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned the 15 Khordad Foundation, which issued a multimillion-dollar

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A massive lottery jackpot got a little bigger Friday as the top Powerball prize climbed to an estimated $825 million ahead of Saturday night’s drawing. The Powerball jackpot ranks as the fifth-largest in U.S. history, though it’s good to keep in mind that it has grown so large because no

By JILL BLEED and SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Authorities say the deaths of eight family members — including six children found in a burning Oklahoma home — are being investigated as a murder-suicide. Broken Arrow Police Chief Brandon Berryhill says the six children ranged in age from 1 to 13 and that the two adults

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press CAMPO GRANDE, Brazil (AP) — President Jair Bolsonaro’s former agriculture minister has become the face of his campaign in Brazil’s agribusiness heartland — a part of the country where the conservative incumbent appears to be leading his leftist rival, ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.  Newly elected Senator  Tereza Cristina

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Elon Musk has taken over Twitter and fired its CEO and other top executives. Trading in company shares was suspended Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and the stock will be officially delisted early next month, according to a filing with securities regulators. So now what? WHY DID

By KEVIN FREKING, MICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was attacked and severely beaten by an assailant with a hammer who broke into their San Francisco home, according to people familiar with the matter. Pelosi, 82, suffered blunt force trauma to his

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” went back on display at the Netherlands’ Mauritshuis museum Friday, a day after climate activists targeted the 17th-century masterpiece. “We are incredibly grateful that ‘The Girl’ remained undamaged and is back in her familiar place so quickly,” the museum’s director, Martine Gosselink, said

By MARK PRATT and BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Virginia (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard, a crew of scientists and others launched an air and sea mission to rescue 13 people, including a child, from a fishing vessel just moments before it sank in darkness early Friday in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast

By BABAR DOGAR Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and thousands of his supporters have started a long-promised march to the capital, Islamabad, to challenge his successor’s government and demand early elections. Hundreds of trucks and cars, and many of the about 10,000 demonstrators walking on foot, left on