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Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A U.S. military watchdog says Navy officials lacked sufficient understanding of the risks of maintaining massive fuel storage tanks on top of a drinking water well at Pearl Harbor where spilled jet fuel poisoned more than 6,000 people. The Defense Department’s inspector general says this inadequate awareness came even though

LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty if an Idaho white supremacist gang member is convicted of killing a man while he was on the run. He was sentenced to life last month after shooting officers in a plot to help his friend escape from prison. KHQ-TV reports Nez Perce County

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito’s brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has died after her health deteriorated recently. She was 101. Japan’s Imperial Household Agency says she died Friday at a Tokyo hospital. It did not announce the cause of death, but Japanese

Associated Press/Report for America BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana House lawmakers have postponed a vote on a key plank in Gov. Jeff Landry’s tax reform package. It has raised questions about whether the bill has enough support to pass. The bill would add sales tax to dozens of services such as lawnmowing, getting tattoos

Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Firefighters in Kentucky’s largest city have rescued a person trapped under rubble at a construction site. Fire officials say a construction worker fell into a void and some debris fell on top of him on Thursday just before noon on Thursday. The worker spoke with rescuers but couldn’t move.

Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has chosen North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to lead the Interior Department. The two-term Republican governor of the sparsely populated state has taken a business-oriented approach to his tenure. He’s pushed income tax cuts, technology upgrades, reduced regulations and changes to higher education governance and

AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s economy eked out an annual rate of 0.9% growth in the July-September quarter as consumer spending held up. Government data showed Friday that the world’s fourth-largest economy grew 0.2% in the fiscal second quarter, marking the second straight quarter of expansion. Seasonally adjusted gross domestic product, or GDP,

Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — The high-profile Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima has thrust one of the world’s least popular presidents into the limelight. It’s not just that Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has never before rolled out the red carpet for powerful leaders like U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Associated Press PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump met Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago club with Argentine President Javier Milei, the first foreign leader to meet with the president-elect since his victory in last week’s election. The meeting was confirmed by a person who insisted on anonymity to discuss an event that hadn’t yet been

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it has tested exploding drones designed to hit targets and leader Kim Jong Un called for accelerating their mass production. The demonstration came as the United States, South Korea and Japan held combined military exercises in nearby waters. North Korea’s state media published photos Friday

Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Australian government’s plan to ban children from social media to protect them from harm has won almost universal political support. But keeping them off social media looks far more difficult in practical terms. Experts in technology and child welfare called the 16-year age limit “too blunt” to work