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By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Puma, you’re all boxed in. Nike, what have you done to the U.S. and Canada? Adidas, you’re making a few style waves. With millions at stake in retail sales, this year’s World Cup in Qatar has soccer fans playing rate the shirt — and what to

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Lillianna Alfaro was a recent high school graduate raising a toddler and considering joining the Army when she and a friend bought what they thought was the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in December 2020. The pills were fake and contained fentanyl, an opioid that can be 50 times as powerful as

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The U.N.’s International Organization for Migration says gang violence has forced some 96,000 people to flee their homes in Haiti’s capital as the country faces a crisis that has prompted the government to request foreign troops. The IOM said Friday that gang-related violence has led to “racketeering, kidnappings and wider criminal

By MICHAEL PHILLIS, JIM SALTER and JEFF ROBERSON Associated Press ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER (AP) — Adam Thomas starts harvesting soybeans on his Illinois farm when the dew burns off in the morning. This year, dry weather accelerated the work, allowing him to start early. His problem was getting the soybeans to market. About 60%

NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, who welcomed generations of worshippers as well as political leaders from across the nation and around the world at Harlem’s landmark Abyssinian Baptist Church, died Friday at age 73, the church announced. “The Butts Family and entire Abyssinian Baptist Church membership solicit your prayers for

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, was “violently assaulted” by an assailant who broke into their San Francisco home early Friday, and he is now in the hospital and expected to make a full recovery, said her spokesman, Drew Hammill. Pelosi was not in the residence at

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities have announced further rolling blackouts in and around the country’s largest cities amid ongoing Russian strikes targeting energy infrastructure. Ukrenergo, the sole operator of Ukraine’s high-voltage transmission lines, says “emergency outages” of four hours a day or more have resumed in the Kyiv region. The capital region’s governor says

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Barack Obama is trying to do something he couldn’t during two terms as president: help Democrats succeed in national midterm elections when they already hold the White House. Of course, Obama is more popular than he was back then, and now it’s President Joe Biden, Obama’s former

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Protesters have confronted security forces in a southeastern Iranian city that’s seen weeks of unrest amid nationwide demonstrations after the September death of a woman detained by the country’s morality police. The demonstrations in Zahedan were initially sparked by rape allegations against a police officer

MILAN (AP) — The surgeon who operated on soccer player Pablo Marí’s wounded back says being in top physical form helped the Spaniard avoid life-threatening injuries in a knife attack at an Italian shopping center. Niguarda hospital surgery and trauma director Osvaldo Chiara says “the surgery was a relatively simple one” since “there were only

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin appeals court is refusing to block a lower court’s ruling banning the practice known as ballot spoiling, which allows voters who already submitted an absentee ballot to void it and vote again. The state appeals court on Thursday decided against hearing an appeal of

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases are all hotting up the planet. But where do they come from? The main human activity that spews out these gases is energy — heating up or cooling homes or keeping the lights on. Agriculture

By JAY REEVES Associated Press MOUNT VERNON, Ala. (AP) — Native American groups in Alabama and North Carolina are hoping that two outgoing U.S. senators can help them achieve something that’s been elusive so far: federal recognition as tribes. Victories in Congress could mean millions in federal funding for both. Retiring Sen. Richard Shelby is

MIAMI BEACH (AP) — An evacuation order has abruptly forced out residents of a 14-story oceanfront building on the same avenue where a condominium collapse killed nearly 100 people last year. The city posted an unsafe structure notice Thursday evening at the Port Royale condominium, Miami Beach spokesperson Melissa Berthier said in an email. A

DODOMA, Tanzania (AP) — One of Africa’s largest and fastest growing cities has imposed water restrictions as officials blame dry weather and dropping river levels. Some of the more than 6 million residents of Tanzania’s commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, say thousands of homes have had no water for weeks. The country’s water minister, Jumaa

MILAN (AP) — Spanish soccer player Pablo Marí has undergone surgery to treat wounds to his back. The Monza club in Serie A that Marí plays for on loan from Arsenal says that the operation consisted of repairing two torn muscles. Monza adds that “the operation went well” and that Marí should spend another “two

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 New York Stock Exchange began the process Friday to delist

GRANITE FALLS, Minn. (AP) — A decommissioned coal-fired power plant in western Minnesota has crashed to the ground with a thunderous boom as part of a planned implosion that marks the end of an era in Granite Falls. Minnesota Public Radio News reports that Xcel Energy used explosives to implode the Minnesota Valley Generating Station

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Swedish prosecutor wants “a supplementary crime scene investigation” at the site of explosions that damaged two natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea. Prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist said Friday a preliminary probe concluded the cause was “suspected gross sabotage.” Ljungqvist said he understood the intense interest in determining what happened to