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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A TikTok video showing dozens of San Diego beachgoers running and jumping out of the way of two fast-moving sea lions has generated nearly 10 million views and sparked conversations about whether the mammals were going after people and reclaiming picturesque La Jolla Cove’s narrow strip of sand. But sea lion

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man is in custody after police say he admitted hanging a man and killing another man as part of a “purge” that he claimed was directed by a higher power. KSL-TV reports 28-year-old Christian Taele was arrested after police responding to a report of an assault found the

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. government has agreed to a request from environmental groups to study increasing critical habitat designations in Alaska waters for one of the rarest species in the world. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries estimates there are about 30 North Pacific right whales left

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Days after former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination, his party vowed to use its victory in a parliamentary election to achieve his unfinished goals, including strengthening the military and revising the country’s pacifist, postwar constitution. While the comfortable majority secured Sunday by the governing Liberal Democratic

RENO A 70-year-old Nevada man has been charged in the 1982 killing of a 5-year-old girl who disappeared while walking to her kindergarten class in California after detectives solved the case using DNA evidence, authorities said. Robert John Lanoue, of Reno, Nevada, was charged last week in the killing of Anne Pham. Pham disappeared while

By DIANE JEANTET and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The killing of a leftist party official allegedly by a supporter of Brazil’s president is raising fears of an increasingly violent campaign ahead of October’s highly polarized elections. Police say a federal prison guard shot a local official for the Workers’ Party

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says it will start monitoring the war in Ukraine and conflicts in Ethiopia, Mozambique and Africa’s central Sahel region for violations against children, including killings, injuries, recruitment, rape and other forms of sexual violence. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a report Monday

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A trial began Monday for a former police officer charged with murder in a man’s death during a 2020 struggle with officers in Las Cruces, New Mexico. A prosecutor said Officer Christopher Smelser didn’t properly use a chokehold that gradually ended the life of Antonio Valenzuela, who fled on foot

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Police in a Dallas suburb have concluded that heat stroke caused the death of former Dallas Cowboys running back Marion Barber III. In a statement Monday, Frisco police say the Collin County medical examiner ruled Barber’s death an accident. Police provided no further elaboration, and the medical examiner’s office didn’t immediately

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Our view of the universe just expanded: The first image from NASA’s new space telescope unveiled Monday is brimming with galaxies and offers the deepest look of the cosmos ever captured. The first image from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is the farthest humanity has ever seen

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Supporters of a one-year extension of humanitarian aid deliveries from Turkey to 4.1 million Syrians in the rebel-held northwest have given in to Russia’s demand for a six month extension, paving the way for approval of a UN resolution on Tuesday. Ireland and Norway, who

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s nationalist prime minister will speak at a conference of prominent U.S. conservatives, the latest sign of tightening relations between Hungarian and American conservatives. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s office said Monday he has been invited to give an opening address at the Conservative Political Action Conference

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two people were killed and three wounded in shootings before dawn Monday at four 7-Eleven stores in Southern California and authorities said they were seeking a lone gunman in at least three of the shootings. The shootings appear to have occurred after robberies or attempted robberies

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — A judge has rejected an effort by the Loudoun County School Board to shut down a special grand jury investigating the school system’s handling of two sexual assaults. The school board says the special grand jury empaneled by Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares is politically motivated

PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man charged with killing three officers in an ambush while police were serving a protective order has been indicted on 20 charges. Forty-nine-year-old Lance Storz was indicted Monday on three counts of murder of a police officer and six counts of attempted murder of an officer. Police say Storz

LONDON (AP) — Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah has disclosed he was brought into Britain illegally from Djibouti under the name of another child. “The truth is I’m not who you think I am,” the 39-year-old Farah told the BBC in a documentary called “The Real Mo Farah.” Farah, who became the first British track

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Monday said it believes Russia is turning to Iran to provide it with “hundreds” of unmanned aerial vehicles, including weapons-capable drones, for use in its ongoing war in Ukraine. U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said it was unclear whether

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — An appeals court has stayed this week’s execution of a death row inmate who had raised questions about whether prosecutors had presented false and inaccurate testimony from an expert on whether he would commit more crimes in the future.  Ramiro Gonzales had been set to receive

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday told hospitals that they “must” provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk, saying federal law on emergency treatment guidelines preempts state laws in jurisdictions that now ban the procedure without any exceptions following the Supreme Court’s decision

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and STAN CHOE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street got back to slumping Monday to kick off a week full of updates about how bad inflation is and how corporate profits are handling it. The S&P 500 fell 1.2% and gave up the majority of its gains from