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Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey judge has ruled that smoking will be allowed to continue in Atlantic City’s casinos. Friday’s decision by Superior Court Judge Patrick Bartels represents a major victory for the city’s nine casinos, most of which are winning less money from in-person gamblers than they did before

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers are moving to halt proceedings in his New York hush money criminal case and postpone next month’s sentencing indefinitely while he tries to have a federal court intervene and potentially overturn his state conviction. In a letter to the trial judge made public Friday, Trump’s lawyers

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The city of Los Angeles will pay $9.5 million to settle a lawsuit by relatives of a woman fatally shot by LA police during a shootout with a gunman at a Trader Joe’s store six years ago, the family’s attorneys said Friday. The father and brother of 27-year-old Melyda Corado sued

MOULTRIE, Ga. (AP) — A south Georgia man has died after he was bitten by a police K-9 during a pursuit last week. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into the death of Kevin Kennedy. Investigators say the chase began when a state trooper saw Kennedy driving a four-wheeler and tried to pull him

AP Technology Writer Artificial intelligence researchers said Friday that they have deleted more than 2,000 web links to suspected child sexual abuse imagery from a dataset used to train popular AI image-generator tools. The research dataset — called LAION — is a huge index of online images and captions that’s been a source for leading

The Associated Press/Report For America TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — The University of Alabama shuttered the offices of the Black Student Union and a queer resource center last week in compliance with a state law that bans public universities from allocating resources to diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Leaders of the Black Student Union and Queer

Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The family of a man who was hit and killed by an SUV on a Colorado interstate after a sheriff’s deputy shocked him with a Taser has reached a $5 million settlement in his death. Government officials and lawyers for the family of Brent Thompson announced the agreement with Larimer

U.S. regulators have cleared a third updated COVID-19 vaccine for this fall, shots made by Novavax Inc. Already, Pfizer and Moderna are shipping shots modified to better match more recent strains of the ever-evolving coronavirus. Those doses can be used in adults and children as young as 6 months. Friday, the Food and Drug Administration

Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil has divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians had difficulty and doubts about navigating other social media in its absence. The shutdown of Elon Musk’s platform started early Saturday, making it largely inaccessible on

Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s top election official says organizers have gathered enough signatures to get the issue of legalizing medical marijuana on the November ballot. It’s the third time Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana have made the attempt. The group came close in 2020 after meeting signature requirements. But the state Supreme Court

KITTERY, Maine (AP) — Authorities have released autopsy results for three bodies recovered from a home, a car’s back seat and a river between New Hampshire and Maine. Police identified a man accused of fatally shooting his wife and their 8-year-old son before being shot to death by police on the Interstate 95 bridge. He

Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Ethiopia is increasingly concerned over a defense deal signed earlier this month between Egypt and Somalia, two countries that Addis Ababa is embroiled in disputes with amid rising tensions in the Horn of Africa region. Details of the deal have not been made public but Ali Abdi Aware, the

Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — It was another day of war in Gaza, another day of what 19-year-old Palestinian TikTok star Medo Halimy called his “Tent Life.” As he often did in videos documenting life’s mundane absurdities in the enclave, Halimy on Monday walked to his local internet cafe — rather, a tent with Wi-Fi

Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Republican state representative in central Florida has been indicted on felony forgery charges related to her role in running her family’s private Christian school in Orlando. Carolina Amesty, 29, turned herself in to authorities at the Orange County Jail on Thursday and was booked on four

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against Rudy Giuliani are asking a court to award them the cash-strapped former New York City mayor’s apartment and other property as they ramp up efforts to collect on the staggering debt. Lawyers for Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye”