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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says he won’t appeal a ruling that struck down most of the state’s restrictions on abortion as unconstitutional. Ellison said Thursday that the state has already spent enough time and money on the case and would be unlikely to win an appeal. The decision wasn’t a surprise

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A man who accosted U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin on stage as the Republican campaigned for governor will remain in custody while a federal judge considers his lawyer’s plea to release the Army veteran, who he said was in an alcoholic relapse. David Jakubonis faces a federal

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese living near Beirut’s port who survived a devastating explosion there two years ago are in fear for their lives again amid a smoldering fire in the port’s massive grain silos that was destroyed in the blast. They say the stench of the rotting grains has been

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve sent a sobering message Wednesday after it announced its latest big interest rate hike: It plans to keep raising rates as long as it takes to conquer the worst inflation bout in decades — even at the risk of causing a recession in

By SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Since her breakthrough role as Vanessa in the film adaptation of “In The Heights,” Melissa Barrera has been working non-stop on the big and small screen. Starting Thursday, she can be seen in “Keep Breathing,” a Netflix miniseries about a woman battling the elements as the

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Stocks turned higher on Wall Street in midday trading Thursday after shaking off an early slide following a report signaling the U.S. economy is either already in a recession or well on its way. The S&P 500 was up 0.7% as of 12:03 p.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Facebook is letting violent hate speech slip through its controls in Kenya, according to a new report from the nonprofit groups Global Witness and Foxglove. This is the third such test that Facebook has failed. Each time, Global Witness submitted ads with blatant, violent hate speech to see if

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For more than a decade, US Bank pressured its employees to open fake accounts in their customers’ names in order to meet unrealistic sales goals, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Thursday, in a case that is deeply similar to the sales practices scandal uncovered

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — An Australian and a Canadian mountain climber died last week in northern Pakistan while attempting to scale K2, the world’s second-highest mountain, officials from the two countries said Thursday. The death of Matthew Eakin was announced by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, which expressed

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge says that a Republican-ordered, taxpayer-funded investigation into the 2020 election found “absolutely no evidence of election fraud,” but did reveal contempt for the state’s open records law by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and a former state Supreme Court justice he hired. Dane County

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Opposition lawmakers in Nigeria have threatened to impeach the country’s president Muhammadu Buhari over accusations he has failed to implement recommendations to stem rising violence in the West African nation just as Nigeria’s National Security Council announced plans for a new strategy to end the violence.

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A man accused of raping and impregnating a 9-year-old Ohio girl who traveled to Indiana for an abortion was ordered held without bond Thursday by a judge who cited overwhelming evidence and the fact that he apparently is living in the U.S. illegally. Gerson Fuentes, 27,

By LISA MASCARO and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told fellow Senate Democrats on Thursday they now have an opportunity to achieve two “hugely important” priorities on health care and climate change, if they stick together and approve a deal he brokered with hold-out Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A second person has been found dead after record rains swamped the St. Louis region earlier this week, police said. A man’s body was found Wednesday about a mile from his abandoned semi-trailer truck, which appeared to have been submerged in floodwaters that hit the area, the Hazelwood Police Department said

By ROB GILLIES and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ST-ANNE-DE-BEAUPRÉ, Quebec (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Thursday at Canada’s national shrine and came face-to-face with a long-standing demand from Indigenous peoples: to formally rescind the papal decrees underpinning the so-called “Doctrine of Discovery” that seemingly legitimized the colonial-era seizure of Native lands and resources.

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s army says at least three civilians and 15 Malian soldiers have been killed in separate attacks in Mali’s central region,  the latest round of attacks as insecurity worsens in the West African nation. Army spokesman Col. Souleymane Dembele said two attacks Wednesday targeted Mali army

By COURTNEY WALSH Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — Olympic gold medalist Tom Daley will protest intolerance toward the LGBTQ+ community at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games. The British diver will play a key role in the ceremony as the final bearer in the Queen’s Baton Relay. Commonwealth Games Federation chief executive Katie

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s president is urging Italians to reinvigorate their democracy as the country notes the 100th anniversary of an attack that paved Benito Mussolini’s path to power. President Sergio Mattarella on Thursday was commemorating a 1922 attack by fascist thugs on a farm cooperative building in the northern

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state TV says the death toll in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in northwestern Tehran has reached six, with 14 people believed missing. The report said that heavy rains in the early hours of Thursday caused flash floods and then landslides in a neighborhood at the foothills of the

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping held the fifth conversation of their presidencies on Thursday, speaking for more than two hours as they chart the future of their complicated relationship at a time of simmering economic and geopolitical tensions. The call began at