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By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Six of the 43 college students “disappeared” in 2014 were allegedly kept alive in a warehouse for days then turned over to the local army commander who ordered them killed, the Mexican government official leading a Truth Commission said Friday. Interior Undersecretary Alejandro

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in western Germany say two young brothers who drowned in a lake near the border with Belgium were British tourists. The 7- and 9-year-old boys were reported missing by their parents at a designated swimming area on Eiserbach Lake south of Aachen. Rescuers retrieved the children from the water and they

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The virus that causes polio has been found in wastewater samples from another upstate New York county, prompting state health officials to warn of expanding “community spread” of the life-threatening virus. The state Department of Health said the polio virus was detected in four samples from Sullivan County, two each in

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The publisher of a weekly newspaper in New Hampshire is accusing the state attorney general’s office of government overreach after she was arrested on charges that she published political advertisements for local races without properly marking them as political advertising. The six misdemeanor charges allege that

MOSCOW (AP) — The 44th Moscow International Film Festival has opened with reduced foreign representation amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Festival head Nikita Mikhalkov, the Academy Award-winning director of “Burnt By The Sun,” brushed that off on Friday. He said “It makes no difference how big are the stars that come. I’m interested in people who

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department faces pushback from the cryptocurrency industry over sanctions imposed on a virtual currency mixing firm. The firm is accused of helping launder billions of dollars — with some funds going to North Korean hackers. Earlier this month, the Treasury Department imposed sanctions on the

Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An airstrike by Ethiopia’s air force hit a kindergarten in the country’s embattled Tigray region, causing deaths and injuries on Friday, according to local broadcasters. It was the latest escalation of a conflict that has created a humanitarian crisis for millions of people. Tigray Television quoted witnesses saying the

By BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press Some international legal scholars say Russia’s attack on a Ukrainian train station that killed more than 20 people this week is the latest in a series of strikes on the country’s railway system that may be war crimes. Russia has offered little evidence to back up its claim that Ukrainian

NEW YORK (AP) — Some 150 artworks from the collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen will be auctioned at Christie’s in New York this fall and are expected to bring in more than $1 billion in total. Christie’s says the works to be auctioned span 500 years of art history from Old Masters to

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A lawyer for an Afghan refugee accused in the slayings of three Muslim men in Albuquerque has entered a not guilty plea on her client’s behalf. The public defender entered the plea for Muhammad Syed on Friday during a remote court hearing. Police have said

By STAN CHOE and DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are tumbling in disappointment Friday after the head of the Federal Reserve dashed Wall Street’s hopes that it may soon let off the brakes for the economy. The S&P 500 was 2.2% lower, and on track for its biggest drop

MORAG, Poland (AP) — Poland has sealed a deal with South Korea to purchase $5.8 billion worth of tanks, howitzers and ammunition. Poland’s deputy prime minister on Friday signed the contract to confirm it. The ceremony took place at a military base in Morag, in northern Poland. Poland’s conservative government has moved to strengthen the

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press The Biden administration says it has shipped enough monkeypox vaccine to deliver the first of two doses to all of the 1.6 million people identified to be at highest risk of infection from the virus. Now public health officials need to ensure the vaccines are given to those who need

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s Rules Review Commission has rejected two temporary rule changes recommended last week by the state Board of Elections that would have tightened restrictions for partisan poll watchers in the November elections. The decision follows a unanimous elections board vote to more clearly

BRUSSELS (AP) — Authorities have arrested a suspect after a speeding van clipped a sidewalk terrace in the center of Brussels and slightly injured at least three people. A spokesperson for the Brussels prosecutor’s office said the van’s driver rode off after running into the some tables in Belgium’s capital on Friday. The spokesperson says

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Republican-led states continue to ban nearly all abortions, President Joe Biden said Friday that such restrictions were “beyond the pale.” Biden and Democrats are trying to harness outrage over the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide, in this year’s midterm

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a stark message Friday: The Fed is determined to fight inflation with more sharp interest rate hikes, which will likely cause pain for Americans in the form of a weaker economy and job losses. “These are the unfortunate

By PAUL BYRNE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities began distributing iodine tablets to residents near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant Friday in case of a radiation leak, amid mounting fears that the fighting around the complex could trigger a catastrophe. The move came a day after the plant was temporarily knocked offline because

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — A former Rhode Island high school basketball coach who authorities say for years asked male student-athletes to remove their clothes while alone with him so he could check their body fat has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges. Aaron Thomas, the former boys’ coach at North Kingstown High School, was

MOSCOW (AP) — The leader of Azerbaijan says the country has reclaimed control of a strategic city on the edge of Nagorno-Karabakh. President lham Aliyev said Friday that Azerbaijani forces have moved into Lachin and two nearby villages. Lachin sits on a road that has served as the main link between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan