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Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — This weekend’s gathering of Moms for Liberty has showcased how the group has moved toward fully embracing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his political messaging as November’s election draws closer. The group is officially a nonpartisan nonprofit that says it’s open to anyone who wants parents to have a

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A small plane carrying two people crashed into a row of townhouses Saturday morning near Portland. The crash set several homes ablaze. Authorities told KATU-TV that three people were dead following the crash, which occurred in a residential area of Fairview. That is about a 30-minute drive east of Portland. Gresham

Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Two candidates who combined received just over 1% of the vote in last week’s U.S. House primary in Alaska are set to advance to November’s ranked choice general election. The Division of Elections released results late Friday that would advance Republican Matthew Salisbury and Alaskan Independence Party chairman John

Associated Press/Report for America Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is suing the North Carolina State Board of Elections. The lawsuit filed in state court Friday accuses the board of violating his free speech rights by denying his request to get his name removed from state ballots. The board’s executive director said more than 1.7 million ballots

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fatman Scoop, the hip-hop artist who topped charts in Europe with “Be Faithful” in the early 2000s and later lent his distinctive voice and ebullient vibe to hits by artists including Missy Elliott and Ciara, died after collapsing on stage at a show in Connecticut, according to officials and

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A politically active western New York businessman has admitted to a multimillion-dollar pandemic loan fraud, and prosecutors have said some of the money went to the Democrat’s campaign coffer for an unsuccessful bid for a county office. Court records show Hormoz Mansouri pleaded guilty Friday to federal bank fraud and fraud

BOVINA, Miss. (AP) — Seven people were killed and dozens were injured in Mississippi after a commercial bus overturned on Interstate 20 on Saturday morning, according to the Mississippi Highway Patrol. Six passengers were pronounced dead at the scene and another died at a hospital, according to a news release. The bus was traveling west

Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A top court in the Dominican Republic has agreed to review a challenge to laws dating from the last century that criminalize gay sex involving members of the army and police force. It’s the first time in recent history that someone in the socially conservative Caribbean country

Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico during August are expected to rise slightly from July, officials said, possibly ending a streak of five straight monthly declines but the numbers are hovering near four-year lows. Authorities made about 54,000 arrests through Thursday, which, at the current rate, would bring

AP Sports Writer Columbus Blue Jackets officials could hardly believe their luck when they persuaded superstar Johnny Gaudreau to pass up larger markets and sign here two years ago. Ecstatic fans looked to “Johnny Hockey” to score goals and jump-start the fortunes of a struggling team that had reached the playoffs just six times in

LONDON (AP) — British police say two people who were critically injured in attacks while attending London’s Notting Hill Carnival this week have died. The Metropolitan Police force said 32-year-old Cher Maximen died early Saturday after being stabbed in the street on Aug. 25. A 20-year-old local man was arrested and charged with attempted murder,

Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Social media influencers, reality stars and TV personalities were among the guests as the Norwegian king’s eldest child, Princess Märtha Louise, married an American self-professed shaman on Saturday in a wedding ceremony following three days of festivities. The 52-year-old Märtha Louise and Durek Verrett, who claims to be a sixth-generation

AP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — Jude Law plays an FBI agent investigating the violent crimes of a white supremacist group in “The Order,” which premiered Saturday at the Venice Film Festival. An adaptation of Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt’s nonfiction book “The Silent Brotherhood,” Nicholas Hoult plays Robert Jay Mathews, the charismatic leader

By JULIA FRANKEL, SAMY MAGDY and SAM METZ JERUSALEM (AP) — A campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus has begun, the Health Ministry said Saturday, as Palestinians in the Hamas-governed enclave and the occupied West Bank reeled from Israel’s military offensives. Meanwhile, Israel’s military late Saturday

Five people have been killed by Russian shelling in the town of Chasiv Yar as Moscow’s troops push ahead in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. Regional Gov. Vadym Filaskhin says the shells struck a high-rise building and a private home on Saturday. He urged the last remaining residents in the front-line town to leave. A further

Associated Press For more than a year, religious organizations have lobbied Congress and the Biden administration to fix a sudden procedural change in how the government processes green cards for religious workers, which threatens the ability of thousands of them to continue to minister in the United States. The Catholic Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey,

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man has been charged with aggravated assault in an alleged glass bottle attack on two Jewish students on the University of Pittsburgh campus. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Saturday that the 52-year-old suspect is also charged with simple assault, reckless endangering, resisting arrest and harassment. He’s accused of running up and hitting

Associated Press COLFAX, N.C. (AP) — In the race to succeed term-limited North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, Democrat Josh Stein and allies have dominated the airwaves and internet with attacks on Republican Mark Robinson. Robinson is trying to push back with a statewide tour and his own commercials. Robinson is the lieutenant governor and Stein

Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China and the Philippines have accused each other of causing a collision between their two vessels in the latest flareup of tensions over disputed waters and maritime features in the South China Sea. The Chinese coast guard spokesperson said a Philippine ship maneuvered and “deliberately collided” with a Chinese

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A U.N. spokesman says the United Nations will continue to engage all stakeholders in Afghanistan including the Taliban, even though they issued a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public and severed ties with the U.N. mission. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric in New York defended the United Nations Assistance Mission