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By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Department of Justice on Wednesday acknowledged the agency wrongly made public the personal information of perhaps hundreds of thousands of gun owners in up to six state-operated databases, a broader exposure than the agency initially disclosed a day earlier. Rob Bonta, the Democrat who

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — A stolen Olympic gold medal belonging to a member of the 2020 U.S. Women’s Volleyball Team has been found in Southern California, authorities said Wednesday. Jordyn Poulter reported the medal stolen May 25 after the Olympian discovered her car broken into at a parking garage in Anaheim, police said. Detectives later

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Donald Trump on Wednesday endorsed the Republican running against Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, who last week gave powerful testimony to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. Bowers, who is blocked by term limits from seeking another term in the Arizona

By LORI HINNANT Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Evidence suggests twin Russian airstrikes deliberately targeted a theater being used as a shelter in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol. That’s according to rights group Amnesty International. The report released Thursday calls the attack a war crime. Amnesty says there is no evidence the Donetsk Academic

By ERIC TUCKER and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee has heard dramatic testimony from former White House aides and others about Donald Trump’s relentless efforts to overturn the 2020 election — and his encouragement of supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol bent on achieving his goal. But

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors want a judge to sentence one of the four former Minneapolis police officers convicted of civil rights violations in George Floyd’s killing to as many as 6 1/2 years in prison, but to impose stiffer sentences on two others. They urged the court Wednesday to

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Congo is warning that the M23 rebel group has increasingly acted as a conventional army during escalating military action in the country’s volatile east and could threaten the U.N. peacekeeping force charged with protecting civilians. Bintou Keita urged the U.N.

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has voted to maintain the U.N. peacekeeping mission in turmoil-wracked Mali. The resolution adopted Wednesday also condemns Mali’s military rulers for using mercenaries that commit human rights and humanitarian violations. And it expresses “grave concern” at the deteriorating political and security

By TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press An expert says the combination of heat and humidity would have quickly created life-threatening conditions inside the packed, un-airconditioned tractor-trailer where dozens of immigrants were found dead this week. It’s unclear how long the immigrants had been inside the trailer, but Jennifer Vanos, an assistant professor in climate and health

By SUMMER BALLENTINE and JIM SALTER Associated Press A large Missouri hospital chain briefly stopped providing emergency contraception amid confusion over whether the state’s abortion ban could put doctors at risk of criminal charges for providing the medication, even for sexual assault victims. St. Luke’s Health Kansas City said in a statement Wednesday that it

MENDON, Mo. (AP) — Authorities on Wednesday identified the four people killed when an Amtrak passenger train collided with a dump truck earlier this week in rural Missouri, saying two were from Kansas and two were from Missouri. The truck driver, 54-year-old Billy Barton II, of Brookfield, Missouri, died in Monday’s collision, the Chariton County

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge has ruled that former President Donald Trump is no longer in contempt of court. Judge Arthur Engoron said Wednesday that Trump has met conditions required to lift the sanction following a legal battle. Engoron had declared Trump in contempt April 25

By JULIE WATSON and FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The two cousins returned to the tiny, hardscrabble hamlet they grew up in in southern Mexico about two weeks ago to say goodbye in what has become a rite of passage for generations of migrants from their remote, impoverished mountainous region in Oaxaca

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A former University of Southern California soccer coach who took bribes in exchange for helping unqualified kids into the school was sentenced Wednesday to six months in home confinement after cooperating with authorities investigating the college admissions scandal. Prosecutors had not been seeking home confinement or

By HALELUYA HADERO NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is limiting how many emergency contraceptives consumers can buy, joining other retailers who put in place similar caps following the Supreme Court decision overruling Roe v. Wade. A company spokesperson confirmed Amazon’s temporarily cap of three units per week went into effect on Monday. The company did

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY, JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The lone survivor of a team of Islamic State extremists who terrorized Paris in 2015 was convicted Wednesday of murder and other charges and sentenced to life in prison without parole for the deadliest peacetime attacks in French history. The special terrorism

By The Associated Press When the U.S. Supreme Court in June overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that established a right to abortion, it sparked legal changes and court challenges in states nationwide. In some states, there are multiple bans and multiple lawsuits in play, keeping the landscape unsettled. And further legislation could soon

By JAY REEVES and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A team searching the basement of a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim who initiated the hunt want